2025 Annual Meeting Honorees

Congratulations to our 2025 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 #SOAPAM2025.

Gertie Marx Research Competition

  • First Place: Jordan Francke, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
  • Second Place: Yongxin Liang, MD, Women and Children's Hospital, Qingdao University
  • Third Place: Maria Patrocinio, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Best Research Paper Competition

  • Jessica Ansari, MD, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, United States

Best Case Reports Competition (Top 10)

  • Jordan Abrams, MD- Stanford University
  • Emily Eruysal, MD- New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Nikke Bowerman, MD- Medica University of South Carolina
  • Rebecca Boothe- Mayo Clinic
  • Sierra Trost- University of Minnesota
  • Kresimir Ukalovic, MD, FRCPC- BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
  • Jasmine Kim, MD – University of Michigan
  • Jacob Nieb, MD –McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University
  • Paul Francois, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Travis Cuddy, MD- Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Award Recipients 

Distinguished Service Award: Medge Owen, MD - Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA
Mentoring Excellence Award - Manny Vallejo, MD - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Teacher of the Year Award (More than 10 Years): Brinda Kamdar, MD - Massachusetts General Hospital, Lexington, MA, USA 
Teacher of the Year Award (Less than 10 Years): Jessica Ansari, MD - Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Diversity & Inclusivity Award: Chawla LaToya Mason, MD, FASA - University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA 
Research in Education: Borislava Pujic, MD, UCCV, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Novi Sad, Serbia
Frederick P. Zuspan Award: Heather Acuff, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
SOAP & Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Patient Safety Award: Alexander Butwick, MBBS, FRCA, MS - UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA 

SOAP/Kybele International Outreach Grant 

  • Arran Seiler, MD - University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT, USA
  • Kimberly Mendoza, MD, PhD, MPH - University of Colorado, CO, USA 

Diversity & Inclusivity Mentored Grant 

  • Jordan A. Francke, MD, MPH & Sebastian M. Seifert, MD - Harvard University/Brigham and Women's Hospital

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. Maternity Hospital- Ministry of Health Kuwait - Kuwait
  2. Memorial Regional Hospital - Hollywood, FA
  3. NHAC - Hoag Hospital Irvine - Irvine, CA
  4. NHAC - Hoag Hospital Newport Beach - Newport Beach, CA
  5. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center - Los Angeles, CA
  6. St. Luke's International Hospital - Tokyo, Japan
  7. University of California San Diego - San Diego, California

The following institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs have renewed the prestigious SOAP Center of Excellence (COE) designation initially granted in 2020:

  1. Clínica Universitaria Bolivariana - Columbia
  2. George Washington University - Washington DC
  3. Loma Linda University - Loma Linda, CA
  4. Long Island Jewish Medical Center - Queens, NY
  5. Mother Baby Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Minneapolis Anesthesia Partners - Minneapolis, MN
  6. National Center for Child Health and Development - Japan
  7. Sidra Medicine - Doha, Qatar
  8. Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento - Sacramento, CA
  9. Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY
  10. University of California, Davis Health - Sacramento, CA 
  11. University of Alabama at Birmingham - Birmingham, AL
  12. University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  13. Yale University - New Haven, CT

The COE designation was awarded March 31, 2025, to the institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs listed above and will remain valid for four years. Designees will reapply during the 2028 cycle for renewal in 2029.

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

  1. University of Michigan Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital - Ann Arbor, MI

The COE designation was awarded March 31, 2025, to the institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs listed above and will remain valid for four years. Designees will reapply during the 2028 cycle for renewal in 2029.

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

  1. NYU Langone Health-Tisch Hospital - New York, NY
  2. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center - San Francisco, CA

The COE designation was awarded March 31, 2025, to the institutions and obstetric anesthesia programs listed above and will remain valid for four years. Designees will reapply during the 2028 cycle for renewal in 2029.