Committees

FAER Committees are composed of dedicated volunteer members who are anesthesiologists and other professionals who are committed to advancing innovation and scientific discovery in our specialty.

Development Committee

FAER is working to ensure that research and innovation remain the bedrock foundation of our specialty. We are pursuing many research and education funding opportunities. Our Development Committee is the leader in these efforts. The volunteer members of the FAER Development Committee join members of the FAER Board to share ideas and advocate for the Foundation to their peers.

Richard Urman, MD, MBA, FASA Brigham and Women's Hospital Chair	Nikki Zapol, JD Partners Healthcare Vice-Chair	Steven J. Barker, MD, PhD, FACA Retired/Masimo
Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA, FASA U.S. Anesthesia Partners	Thomas J. Ebert, MD, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin	Pamela Flood, MD Stanford University Medical Center
Julie K. Freed, MD, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin	Simon Gelman, MD, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital	Eric Heinz, MD, PhD George Washington University
Muhammad Salman Janjua, MBBS Yale University	Robert Maniker, MD Columbia University	Linda J. Mason, MD, FASA Loma Linda University
Cyrus D. Mintz, MD Johns Hopkins University	Steven Shafer, MD Stanford University Medical Center	Paloma Toledo, MD, MPH Northwestern Medicine
Megha Vipani University of Virginia School of Medicine	Dora Westphal Fresenius Kabi Deutschland	Martin Westphal, MD, PhD Fresenius Kabi Deutschland

Finance Committee

The FAER Finance Committee is responsible for ensuring FAER maintains a sustainable business model and that success of grants can be quantified. Most importantly, the Finance Committee ensures that FAER can continue providing funding to early investigators for anesthesiology research.

Michael W. Champeau, MD, FASA Associated Anesthesiologists Medical Group Chair	Donald E. Arnold, MD, FASA Mercy Hospital St. Louis Vice-Chair	Rebecca A. Aslakson, MD, PhD, FAAHPM, FCCM Stanford University Medical Center
James C. Eisenach, MD Wake Forest University FAER President	Harriet W. Hopf, MD, FASA University of Utah Board Chair	Zeev Kain, MD, MBA University of California Irvine
Andrew Rosenberg, MD, FASA NYU School of Medicine

Grants Management Committee

The FAER Grants Management Committee is responsible for evaluating and recommending incoming grantees for funding.

Dolores Njoku, MD Johns Hopkins University Chair	Charles W. Emala, MD, MS Columbia University Vice-Chair	Roderic G. Eckenhoff, MD University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Roger A. Johns, MD, PhD, MHS Johns Hopkins University Board Chair-Elect	Daniel I. Sessler, MD Cleveland Clinic	Monica S. Vavilala, MD University of Washington