2024 Annual Meeting Award Winners

2024 Education Innovation Award

Jeanna Blitz, MD
Duke University School of Medicine

Angela Edwards, MD
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist


2024 Leadership Advisory Board Awards

IDEAL Award (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Acceptance, and Leadership Award)
Kokila Thenuwara, MBBS, MME, MHCDS; Albert Varon, MD, MHPE, FCCM, FASA
University of Iowa

Mentoring Award
Albert Varon, MD, MHPE, FCCM, FASA
University of Miami


2024 Membership Engagement Advisory Board Awards


Rising Star Award - Associate Member of the Year
Maurice Joyce, MD
Tufts Medical Center

Member of the Year Award
Keith Vogt, MD
University of Pittsburgh

Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital


2024 Scientific Advisory Board Awards
Junior Faculty Pediatric Anesthesia Research Award

The Use of Personalized Music to Decrease Pediatric Emergence Agitation: A Multicenter Pilot Study

Benjamin Sanofsky, MD, MSED

Junior Faculty Perioperative Medicine Research Award

Provider Uptake of Advanced Informatics Techniques to Improve Documentation of Co-morbidities in Surgical Admissions

Hannah Lonsdale, MBCHB

Junior Faculty Research Award for Clinical Science

Tau Protein and Gut Microbiota Correlation in Patients with Postoperative Delirium

Yiying Zhang, MD, PHD
Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital

Junior Faculty Research Award for Laboratory Sciene

Global Cerebral Ischemia Decreases Dendritic Spine Density, Enhances Microglial/Synapse Co-Localization in a Mouse Model of Cardiac Arrest

Jacob Basak, MD, PHD
The University of Colorado School of Medicine

Lisa Wise-Faberowski Resident Prize for Research Excellence Award

Association Between Mental Health Diagnoses and Mortality in Surgical Patients - A Retrospective Cohort Study

Megan Rolfzen, MD

Margarent Wood Resident Research Award

Opioid Consumption in the First 30 Days After Surgery: A Major Risk Factor for New Persistent Opioid Use

Brittany Ervin-Sikhondze, MD

Resident Travel Award

Differences in Pediatric Premedication Utilization Based on Race/Ethnicity. A Retrospective Observation Study at a Quanternary Pediatric Hospital

Danika Dorelien, MD