FAER’s Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowships (MSARF) program provides funding to support medical students over a summer in focusing on anesthesiology research, training in scientific methods and techniques, and learning how to incorporate research into a medical career.
Jump to List of 2026 MSARF Participants
Host site applications for the 2027 MSARF Program open September 15, 2026.
Student applications for the 2027 MSARF Program open December 15, 2026.
The summer fellowship provides medical students with an eight-week research experience within an academic anesthesiology department. During the fellowship, students participate in research, training and clinical anesthesia activities. In addition, medical student summer fellows have the opportunity to make a scientific presentation at the ASA's ANESTHESIOLOGY® annual meeting.
Learn more about the MSARF Summer Program
Applications for the AMSRF Program will open in 2027.
FAER is pleased to offer the AMSRF Program, available to students who have previously taken part in the MSARF Summer Program.
To access MSARF resources, including recorded video panels and Q&A sessions from experts in the world of anesthesia research, please visit our MSARF Program Virtual Resources Page.
MSARF Program Virtual Resources
Below is a list of the medical students selected for the MSARF program in 2026.
| Student Name | Host Institution | Mentors |
| Selma Adu-Gyamfi | University of Maryland School of Medicine | Martin Lipinski, PhD |
| Gaurang Amonkar | Massachusetts General Hospital | Timothy Gaulton, MD |
| Hannah Anderson | University of Colorado | TBD |
| Anwesa Basa | Ohio State University Medical Center | Ling-Qun Hu, MD, and Suren Soghomonyan, MD PhD |
| Stephen Batter | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic | Stacie Deiner, MS, MD |
| Nyah Biegler | Saint Louis University | TBD |
| Angeline Blancia | The University of Iowa | Loren Smith, MD, PhD |
| Kelly Brennan | University of California, San Francisco | Julien Cobert, MD |
| Alec Brennan | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Ashish K. Khanna, MD, MS |
| Vivianna Camarillo Guenther | The University of Chicago | TBD |
| Martin Capriles | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Praveen Dubey, PhD |
| Lexi Chen | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Daniel Katz, MD |
| Ryan Davis | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | Eric Cheon, MD |
| Maria Deng | University of Colorado | Tobias De La Garza Eckle, MD, PhD |
| Kristen Duong | University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center | Amir L. Butt, MD, MPH |
| Aidan Eldridge | University of Pittsburgh | Senthil Sadhasivam, MD, MPH, MBA, FASA |
| Rebecca Flack | University of Washington | Tonya Palermo, PhD |
| Vainavi Gambhir | The Hospital for Special Surgery | Stephanie Cheng, MD |
| Colton Gardner | The University of Utah | Christian Guay, PhD |
| Kendra Gilreath | Mayo Clinic Rochester | Matthew Warner, MD |
| Arravintha Gobinathan | University of Pittsburgh | Benedict Alter, MD, PhD |
| Anvitha Gogineni | Ohio State University Medical Center | Ling-Qun Hu |
| Kavindu Gunaratna | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Daniel Katz, MD |
| James Henderson | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | TBD |
| Simon Hoffman | Medical College of Wisconsin | Keri Hainsworth, PhD |
| Howard Hong | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | TBD |
| Madison Irish | University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center | Salim Hayek, MD, PhD |
| John Janosevic | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | Hanae Tokita, MD, and Kara Barnett, MD |
| Julia Japo | Massachusetts General Hospital | Katarina Ruscic, MD, PhD |
| Sophia Kalanski | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA | Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD |
| Sarah Kaunfer | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | TBD |
| Shahbaz Khan | The Hospital for Special Surgery | Daniel Maalouf, MD, MPH |
| Samuel Kho | University of California, San Francisco | Jarret Weinrich, PhD |
| Sarah Kim | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Aftab Ahmad, PhD |
| Jenny Kim | Stanford University | Larry Fu-nien Chu, MD, MS |
| Divya Konduru | University of Michigan | TBD |
| Alexander Ky | University of Nebraska | TBD |
| Levi Lauren | Medical College of Wisconsin | TBD |
| Dorian Lawson-Qureshi | Columbia University | May Hua, MD |
| Yunshu Li | Duke University School of Medicine | Leah Acker, MD, PhD |
| Joseph Lipschitz | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Ryan Wang, MD |
| Brandon Liu | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Alyssa Zhu, MD |
| Jenny Liu | The University of Chicago | Junaid Nizamuddin, MD |
| Jacqueline Lu | University of Rochester | Andrew Wojtovich, PhD |
| Pramati Madugula | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) | Ulrike Hoffmann, MD, PhD |
| Caleb McBride |
University of Michigan |
TBD |
| Cindy Mei | University of Washington | Li Li, MD, PhD |
| Giovanni Mella-Velazquez | Emory University | Anna Woodbury, MD |
| Anvita Mishra | The University of Iowa | Julia Bohannon, PhD |
| Htet Ng | Weill Medical College of Cornell University | TBD |
| Nathan Nguyen | Washington University in St. Louis | Sunny Lou, MD, PhD |
| Alex Parker | Saint Louis University | TBD |
| Misha Patel | IU School of Medicine | Fletcher A. White, PhD |
| Shanay Patel | Saint Louis University | TBD |
| Gabriela Pierobon Mays | Medical College of Wisconsin | Christopher Fadumiye, MD |
| Joshua Preece | The University of Utah | Kai Kuck, PhD |
| Pranav Ramesh | Wake Forest University Health Sciences | TBD |
| Jayden Ramirez | Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Julia Bohannon, PhD |
| Rohan Reddy | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | TBD |
| Daniel Reep | The University of Utah | Kai Kuck, PhD |
| Mark Saad | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Emmett Whitaker, MD |
| Mason Sakamoto | Columbia University | Gebhard Wagener, MD |
| Rylan Schmanski | University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center | Kenichi Tanaka, MD, MSc |
| Pooja Shah | Washington University in St. Louis | Bradley Fritz, MD |
| Paras Shah | University of Kansas Medical Center | Andrea Chadwick, MD, MSc |
| Shayaan Shaik | The University of Chicago | Zheng Xie, MD |
| Lucy Shang | Stanford University | TBD |
| Aliyah Siddiqui | Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences | Yuan-Xiang Tao, MD, PhD |
| Shadt Skawratananond | Stanford University | Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD |
| Zachary Smith | Medical College of Wisconsin | TBD |
| Haley Smith | Mayo Clinic Arizona | Carmen Gurrieri, MD |
| Caleb Steeby | Ohio State University Medical Center | TBD |
| Cole Stodola | Medical College of Wisconsin | TBD |
| Ivo Su | Vanderbilt University | Matthias Riess, MD |
| Stacey Tang | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic | Stacie Deiner, MS MD |
| Christine Tat | Oregon Health & Science University | Zheyan Jenny Chen, MD, PhD |
| Brent Thiel | Medical College of Wisconsin | Arthur Segurado, MS, MD |
| Ariella Tsfoni | University of Virginia | TBD |
| Aditi Velgekar | Boston Children's Hospital | TBD |
| Shania Wang | The Hospital for Special Surgery | Oliver Panzer, MD |
| Mingyang Yuan | Penn Medicine | Emily MacKay, DO |
Curated by: BH
Last updated by: BH
Date of last update: July 10, 2026
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