Faculty Awards

Margaret B DeVore, MD, Residents' Choice Award

Presented by the graduating class to a faculty member who best shared their concerns and addressed their needs. 

1989 Margaret B DeVore, 2003 James Mayfield, 2004 Manuel Castresana, 2005 Wayne Lawson, 2006 Stevin Dubin, 2007 Ivan Florentino, 2008  William Hammonds, 2009 Manuel Castresana, 2010 Mary Arthur, 2011 Mary Arthur, 2012 James Heyman, 2013 James Heyman, 2014 Sanjay Dwarakanath, 2015 Mary Arthur, 2016 Wayne Lawson, 2017 Manuel Castresana, 2018 Mohamed Gaber, 2019 Ankit Jain and Vikas Kumar, 2020 Chad Parvus-Teichmann, 2021 Efrain Riveros-Perez, 2022 Caryl Bailey, 2023 Caryl Bailey, 2024 Efrain Riveros-Perez

Jack B Williams, MD, Award of Excellence in Anesthesia Education

Presented to a faculty member who has shared the residents' educational concerns and addressed their needs.

2003 Irfan Azeem, 2004 Audrey Alleyne, 2005 Heidi Handel, 2006 John Molinaro, 2007 John Whiteley, 2008 Wayne Lawson, 2009 Ivan Florentino-Pineda, 2010 Robert O'Bannon, 2011 Nina de Vilmorin, 2012 Wayne Lawson, 2013 Sanjay Dwarakanth, 2014 James Heyman, 2015 Anterpreet Dua, 2016 Edward Foley and Mohamed Gaber, 2017 Vikas Kumar, 2018 Efrain Riveros-Perez, 2019 Mohamed Gaber, 2020 Chad Parvus-Teichmann, 2021 Efrain Riveros-Perez, 2022 Efrain Riveros-Perez, 2023 Mohamed Gaber, 2024 Mohamed Gaber

 

Resident Awards

Robert D Dripps, MD, Memorial Award

Presented to a graduating resident who consistently exceeds expectations in patient care, scholarly pursuits, and demonstrating professional standards and ethical principles.

1996 Dennis George, 1997 James Allinger, 1998 Cooper Hagerty, 1999 Don Smith, 2000 George Ferrera, 2001 Olga Lazar, 2002 Paige King, 2003 Susan Eagle, 2004 Martin Evans, 2005 Nathan Lewis, 2006 Shannon Roden, 2007 Benjamin McCurdy, 2008 Patrick Goodman, 2009 Jing Liu, 2010 Anuj Aryal, 2011 Thomas Gallen, 2012 Vikas Kumar, 2013 Shelly Norris, 2014 John Blackburn and William Thomas Jr, 2015 Mark Banks, 2016 Andrew Friskey, 2017 Robert Scott Medearis, 2018 Andy Truong, 2019 Akbar Herekar, 2020 Chinar Sanghvi, 2021 Ashish Sakharpe, 2022 Ryan Nicklas, 2023 Jasmeen Kaur (also received the MCG Walter J Moore Outstanding Housestaff Award), 2024 Dhruti Diwan

Robert S Crumrine, MD, Award

Honors a resident who best exemplifies the characteristics of an anesthesiologist during his or her first clinical anesthesia year.

2002 Kenneth Smith, 2003 Martin Evans, 2004 Keith Johnson, 2005 Benjamin McCurdy, 2006 Travis Ansley, 2007 Kuiran Jiao, 2008 Damon Reynolds, 2009 Joseph Lee Rawlings, 2010 Stephen Wells, 2011 Ellen Abellana, 2012 John Blackburn and Kevin Graham, 2013 Sean Crane, 2014 David Fritz, 2015 Michael Drinkwater, 2016 Timothy Del Rosario, 2017 Adam McIntyre-Smith, 2018 Osvaldo Barrientos, 2019 Michael Beshara, 2020 Prathik Mudaliar, 2021 Julio Medina, 2022 Dhruti Diwan, 2023 Philip Jung, 2024 Tyler Cook

Resident Educator of the Year

Presented to the resident who has best served as an ambassador and mentor to the medical students who rotate through our service.

2003 Tim Malaney, 2004 Denis Trto, 2005 Richard Davis, 2006 Keith Johnson, 2007 Barry Barton, 2008 Brian Zeh, 2009 Joseph Lee Rawlings, 2010 Nicholas Coates, 2011 Stephen Anderson, 2012 John Blackburn, 2013 Mark Banks, 2014 Robert Lemon, 2015 Michael Drinkwater, 2016 Emily Kurokawa, 2017 Michael Drinkwater, 2018 Adam McIntyre-Smith, 2019 Muhammad Salman Janjua, 2020 Bryan Renken, 2021 Julio Medina, 2022 Miriam Mokhtar, 2023 Philip Jung, 2024 Jacob Boudreaux

Manuel Castresana, MD, Patient Advocacy in Critical Care

Presented to an anesthesia resident who has demonstrated exceptional selflessness, humility and competence in the care of the critically ill.

2021 Rafael Ramirez, 2022 Julio Medina, 2023 Julio Medina, 2024 Dhruti Diwan

Quality Improvement Award

Presented to a graduating resident who has contributed significantly to quality improvement initiatives.

2019 Akbar Herekar, 2020 Mamta Chura, 2021 Zahra Sykes, 2022 Ryan Nicklas, 2023 Daniel Sweeney, 2024 Rosa Lopez-Rincon

Top 10% on the ABA BASIC Exam

2018 Nicolas Avila, Alex McNally, Justin Motthagi; 2019 Michael Beshara, Ashish Sakharpe, Ahmed Mohamed; 2020 Rafael Lombardi, Mayank Mehrotra, Luiz Moreira Costs, Prathik Mudaliar, Miguel Plaza Lloret; 2021 Jasmeen Kaur, Daniel Sweeney, Samuel Yetzer; 2023 Javier Polania Gutierrez, Benz Sawhney

ITE Excellence

Recognizes residents who scored in the top 1% of those sitting for the ABA In-Training Examination

2019 Michael Beshara and Ashish Sakharpe; 2020 Michael Beshara and Thomas Epps; 2021 Michael Beshara, Ashish Sakharpe, Miguel Plaza Lloret, 2022 Miguel Plaza Lloret; 2023 Jasmeen Kaur 

Journal Club

2007 Barry Barton, 2008 Suzanne Turner, 2009 Damon Reynolds, 2010 Anuj Aryal, 2011 Miram Afridi, 2012 Michael Ford, 2013 William Thomas Jr, 2014 Mark Banks (last year this was awarded)

Research Excellence Award

2019 Muhammad Salman Janjua (last year this was awarded)

Exemplary Service 

2022 Bao-Ling Adam, Laurie Caldwell, Eakins; 2023 Ronald Chapman, Dawn Shinault, Shannon Tharin

Technical Service Choice Award

2003 Travon Wright

Medical Student Award

ZW Gramling Memorial Scholarship

Presented to a Medical College of Georgia student for outstanding academic performance, leadership, and passion for the anesthesia specialty. Chosen by anesthesia faculty.

2007 Joseph Lee Rawlings, 2008 Justin Rountree, 2009 Jeffrey Prinsell, 2010 Elizabeth Embury, 2011 Laura Gilbertson, 2012 Benjamin Judd, 2013 Jeffrey Mills, 2014 Colby Duckett, 2015 Blake Norman, 2016 Taylor Ziga, 2017 Erin Osteen, 2018 Sanjin Tankovich, 2019 Nitya Reddy, 2020 Ornella Oluwole, 2021 Stephanie Wahab, 2022 Aleena Bubb, 2023 Cameron Ernst, 2024 Farhan Lakhani