2024 Annual Meeting Honorees

Congratulations to our 2024 Annual Meeting honorees, including research competition winners, award recipients, grant recipients, and Centers of Excellence designees! Below is a summary in case you missed the awards ceremony. We encourage you to share congratulations on social media using #SOAPAM2024.

Gertie Marx Research Competition

  • First Place: Heather Acuff, MD, PhD, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States
  • Second Place: Michael Furdyna, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
  • Third Place: Erin Dengler, MD, University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, United States

Best Research Paper Competition

  • Jessica Ansari, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, United States
  • Marcelle Crowther, MBChB (UP), DA (SA), DipObs (SA), FCA, MMed (UCT), Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Best Case Reports Competition (Top 10)

  • Saheb Dhillon, MD - MetroHealth/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
  • Sara Dryden, MD - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
  • Sara Feldman MD - Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
  • Shonna Gaskin, MD - University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States
  • Allison Mootz, MD - Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
  • Jacob Nieb, MD - McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
  • Ann Norris, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
  • Paige Oates, MD -SAUSHEC Anesthesiology, Houston, TX, United States
  • Brian Waldman, MD - Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  • Michael Wen, MD - Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Award Recipients 

Distinguished Service Award: Brendan Carvalho, MD - Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Teacher of the Year Award (More than 10 Years): Clemens Ortner, MD  - Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 
Teacher of the Year Award (Less than 10 Years): Emily Sharpe, MD - May Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Diversity & Inclusivity Award: Cesar Padilla, MD - Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 
Research in Education: Pervez Sultan, MD, FRCA, MBChB, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, United States
Frederick P. Zuspan Award: Ehab Natsheh, MD, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
SOAP & Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Patient Safety Award: Michael J. Furdyna, MD - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

SOAP/Kybele International Outreach Grant 

  • Stephanie Woodward, MD - Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
  • Jordan Francke, MD, MPH - Harvard University/ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Diversity & Inclusivity Mentored Grant 

  • Anusha Reddy, MD & Chantal Pyram-Vincent, MD, MPH - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
  • Claudia Sotillo, MD & Pervez Sultan, MBChB, FRCA, MD - Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Center of Excellence Designees
The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) is pleased to announce the following institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs have attained the prestigious SOAP Center of Excellence (COE) designation:

  1. Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center - Charlotte, NC
  2. Hospital e Maternidade Santa Maria São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
  3. MetroHealth Medical Center - Cleveland, OH
  4. Oregon Health & Science University - Portland, OR
  5. Prisma Health Upstate-Greenville Memorial Hospital - Greenville, SC
  6. St. Luke’s University Health Network – Anderson Campus - Bethlehem, PA

The following institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs have renewed the prestigious SOAP Center of Excellence (COE) designation initially granted in 2019:

  1. British Columbia Women's Hospital - Vancouver, BC
  2. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
  3. Kaiser Permanente, Women & Children's Hospital - Roseville - Roseville, CA
  4. Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN
  5. Medical College of Wisconsin - Froedtert Birth Center - Milwaukee, WI
  6. Missouri Baptist Medical Center - St. Louis, MO
  7. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) - Little Rock, AR
  8. University of Maryland Medical Center - Baltimore, MD
  9. University of Utah - Salt Lake City, Utah
  10. Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Nashville, TN

The COE designation was awarded March 31, 2024, to the institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs listed above and will remain valid for four years. Designees will reapply during the 2027 cycle for renewal in 2028.

The following institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs have renewed the prestigious SOAP Center of Excellence (COE) designation initially granted in 2018:

  1. Albany Medical Center - Albany, NY
  2. University of Washington - Seattle, WA

The COE designation was awarded March 31, 2024, to the institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs listed above and will remain valid for four years. Designees will reapply during the 2026 cycle for renewal in 2027.