Candidates for Upcoming Elections - AACPD

2024 AACPD Council Candidates

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Candidate for Councilor

Candidate for Councilor

Eric D. Brumberger, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine

I am an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine where I completed my residency training as well as a non-ACGME accredited fellowship in thoracic and regional anesthesiology. I spend most of my clinical time in the orthopedic and thoracic operating rooms as well as in the labor and delivery suite.

This is my second application to be on the SAAAPM Council, and with 14 years of experience running Cornell’s large residency program, serving as Program Director since 2016, I have had countless encounters with GME, hospital and medical college C-suites, Human Resources, legal, the ACGME/RC, the NRMP, and the ABA. In this time, I have faced the gamut of Graduate Medical Education leadership challenges and successes: the struggling resident (mental health, competency, professionalism), substance abuse in a trainee, faculty coaching, a recent successful permanent complement increase, an ACGME Self-Study, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. I served on the ASA’s Global Humanitarian Outreach Committee, continue to serve on the NYSSA’s Committee on Academic Anesthesiology, and am an Associate Member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists.

My academic interests and contributions include promotion of positive culture change in academic medicine and graduate medical education through well-being training and community, global health education and electives, and innovative educational programs such as a veterinary anesthesiology elective and an executive consultant anesthesiology rotation.

SAAAPM has been invaluable in helping me develop in my role as Residency Program Director. I have been a member of the AACPD for over a decade and I am excited about the prospect of taking on a leadership role as an AACPD Council Member. Engagement with SAAAPM has provided me immense professional growth, networking, and support and I am eager to give back to the organization through leadership service.

Candidate for Councilor

Jack Buckley, MD
UCLA Medical Center

I have been involved in residency leadership for the last 11 years including 7 years as an APD and then the last 4 years as the Core Residency Program Director at UCLA Medical Center.  We are one of the larger residency programs with 27 residents per class including our interns.  I have participated in every annual meeting of the SAAAPM in the last 11 years and I have found this organization to be the most valuable resource for those of us in residency leadership positions.  I would like to elected to a Councilor Position for the SAAAPM to help continue to strengthen the organization and be a resource for my fellow program directors.

I currently serve as the Chair of the ASA Program Director Advisory group in addition to being a member of the Committee on Residents and Medical Students for the ASA.  I serve as a member of the Trainee Engagement Committee for the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC) and as an Education Committee member for Society of Head and Neck Anesthesia (SHANA). I have been an ABA Oral Board Examiner for the last 8 years and as a group leader for the ABA OSCE Exam Writing Committee.  I have been invited to give lectures at SAAAPM, SEA and ASA national meetings on topics relevant to those of us in residency leadership positions.  My hope is these various experiences will allow me to become a valuable member of the SAAAPM leadership and I would appreciate your support in being elected to this important position.

Candidate for Councilor

Marianne Chen, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine

I am excited to submit my candidacy for a position on the AACPD leadership council. I have been on faculty at Stanford University Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine since 2014 and have been involved in both medical student and residency education leadership. I am the Program Director of our anesthesiology residency program, combined internal medicine-anesthesiology residency program, and combined pediatrics-anesthesiology residency program. My career thus far has been shaped by my passion for enhancing the training and education of anesthesiology residents as well as developing and mentoring faculty with similar medical education interests and passions.

I remember fondly my very first SAAAPM meeting when I was an associate program director. It was a combination of feeling awe for all the amazing educators and leaders I met (with some imposter syndrome!), relief that our resident issues were similar to many programs across the country, and inspiration to bring back ideas from the meeting to further improve our residency program. The SAAAPM annual meeting has continued to be my favorite and most impactful meeting each year and I feel very honored to be a member of this community. As a program director, I have also benefitted from the AACPD mentorship program, program director manual, and townhalls discussing important topics especially related to recruitment. SAAAPM and AACPD have provided me with so much support as a program director and I’d like to be on the council to further the ideas, innovations, and programming to better serve its members, ensuring that we collectively advance the specialty of anesthesiology and our training programs.

Candidate for Councilor

Stephen R. Collins, MD, MSc
University of Virginia Health

Dr. Stephen Collins has served on the faculty of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Virginia for the last 14 years. He is a Virginia native and a graduate of the College of William and Mary and University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed an internship at Yale New Haven Hospital and anesthesiology residency training at the University of Virginia. He has a long history of residency program leadership, serving as an Associate Residency Program Director for 6 years and Program Director for the last 2 years. He has been the recipient of multiple Departmental teaching awards and a University-wide teaching award, the Master Educator Award. He is a member of the UVA Academy for Excellence in Education and serves on the Education Innovation Committee. 

Dr. Collins joined the Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine in the Core Program Director Division 8 years ago. He serves as an American Board of Anesthesiology APPLIED examiner. He is published in the areas of innovative educational strategies, clinical assessment, and resident recruitment. He is committed to helping mentor and train the next generation of anesthesiologists. His career goals align directly with the goals of the SAAAPM to represent academic anesthesiology departments, serve as an educator in a supportive forum with emphasis on leadership and mentorship, work as a liaison to enhance academic research, education, and clinical care, and communicate effectively within and from the anesthesiology community. His mission is to bring his passion for education as well as his desire to serve others to this Association and position with the aim to improve and foster education and training for all residents. 

Candidate for Councilor

Steve Gibson, MD, PhD
TidalHealth Anesthesiology

Dr. Steve Gibson is a Cardiac Anesthesiologist, and he is also Program Director of the new Anesthesiology Residency at TidalHealth, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Dr. Gibson grew up in Baltimore, then went to college at the University of Virginia. In Philadelphia, he earned a combined MD and PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. After an intern year at the University of Maryland, Dr. Gibson went to Johns Hopkins for his Anesthesiology residency. He remained at Hopkins for one year afterward, as an attending physician and research fellow, and then another year for a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia.

After Hopkins, Dr. Gibson worked at the University of Oklahoma, as an attending Cardiac Anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor. He then returned to Maryland to serve as a civilian Anesthesiologist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a.k.a. The President’s Hospital. At Walter Reed, Dr. Gibson was Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, until 2023 when he moved to TidalHealth to begin their Anesthesiology Residency Program.

Dr. Gibson has had the privilege of teaching medical students and residents throughout his career. From building and running a new residency program, to developing a strategy for approaching Oral Boards questions ("The Gibson Matix"), he strives to perpetuate and innovate in the development of our field and its practitioners. He is always glad to be learning and sharing among colleagues of SAAAPM and the AACPD and believes he will serve these organizations honorably and greatly as a Councilor.

Candidate for Councilor

Shannon M. Grap, MD, FASA
Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Shannon Grap is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center & Children’s Hospital in Hershey, PA.  She is the Core Residency Program Director, and transitioned to this role in 2022 after serving as the Associate Residency Program Director for five years.  Dr. Grap has extensive experience in both graduate and undergraduate medical education, and has earned the Graduate Certificate in Adult Education with Health & Medical Sciences through the Penn State University.  Early in her career, she served for five years as the Director of Curriculum Integration and member of the Curriculum Leadership Team, under the direction of the Associate Dean of Medical Education at the Penn State College of Medicine.  Additionally, Dr. Grap was the Director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Anesthesiology for 9 years, prior to transitioning to Residency Program Director.  Dr. Grap has special interest in the transition of learners from Undergraduate Medial Education to Graduate Medical Education, as well as the integration of learning during residency training, including that of the clinical base and clinical anesthesiology rotations.  Her clinical responsibilities are primarily as a pediatric anesthesiologist, and she also participates in the perioperative care of adult and obstetric patients.  Dr. Grap is a well-rounded and enthusiastic educator, who would like to serve as a Council Member of the AACPD to help advance educational initiatives for residency training and disseminate ideas within both anesthesiology and other medical specialties.  

Candidate for Councilor

Benjamin T. Houseman, MD, PhD, FASA
Memorial Healthcare System

Benjamin is the founding Program Director of a new anesthesiology Residency Program in the Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, FL.  This program graduated its first residency class in 2024 with a 100% written board exam board pass rate and has now matched two residents into fellowship training (Harvard MGH – cardiothoracic anesthesia, Yale – regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine). 

 Dr. Houseman grew up in rural Illinois and worked on the family duck farm for much of his childhood.  He completed his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Harvard University and an MD PhD in chemical biology at the University of Chicago.  Following residency in anesthesiology and perioperative care at the University of California – San Francisco, he took a position as assistant professor in residence where he began an NIH and FAER-funded research program using targeted inhibitors of the PI3K family to modulate the innate immune response following injury.  He transitioned his anesthesiology career to Kaiser Permanente following unexpected family challenges and eventually became chief of anesthesia at two Kaiser facilities in Oakland and Richmond, California. During his tenure as chief, he moved clinician teams into a new hospital, developed educational programs for staff, doubled the size of the department, and developed specialized teams in thoracic anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia and critical care.

The opportunity to begin a residency training program near family in Florida enabled Dr. Houseman to combine his skills as an educator with those as an operational leader.  In particular, he is interested in community-based faculty development and fostering collaborations between university and community systems that provide graduate medical education. Since he started this role, he has been an active member the SEA research committee, the ASA Program Director Advisory group as well as the National Clinician Advisory Committee and the National Clinician Educator Committee for Envision Physician Services. 

Candidate for Councilor

Maurice F. Joyce, MD, EdM, FASA
Tufts Medical Center

I am an Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and have been serving in the role of Residency Program Director since March 2021. Prior to my time at Tufts, I served in the role of Associate Program Director of the Brown/Rhode Island Hospital Anesthesiology Residency program (2017-2020), where I helped to start the residency program there. The AACPD and SAAAPM have been invaluable resources for me in my nascent journey in program leadership. More specifically, I have found the annual meeting to be the most valuable and productive meeting that I attend in terms of collaboration, idea generation, and professional development. As a relatively new Residency Program Director and relatively recent graduate, I feel I will bring a unique perspective to the AACPD Council. I have advanced training in education and bring this perspective in the design of educational programming for the adult learner audience, and more importantly in ensuring the delivery of evidence-based best practices within the content of this programming. I also have the honor of serving on the Education Advisory Board of the AUA and the Program Directors Advisory Group of the ASA, thus I can bring the perspectives of these peer organizations and hopefully continue to build upon collaboration with these groups.

I look forward to the potential opportunity to contribute to the AACPD Council through the role of a Councilor and greatly appreciate your consideration of my candidacy. If I can provide any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Candidate for Councilor

Bryan Mahoney, MD, FASA
Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai

Thank you for considering my candidacy for a position on the AACPD council. As a program director for 10 years, I have been an AACPD member for the same period attending every (in-person or virtual) meeting in that span. I remember having my attention torn between news about the presidential election returns and the 2020 meeting (I believe Biden was announced in the middle of the afternoon session….).

I am a Florida Gator who attended the Mount Sinai School of Medicine for my undergraduate medical education, internship in internal medicine, and anesthesiology residency training. I completed a fellowship in obstetric anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and then followed my wife to Columbus Ohio where she completed her fellowship in public health, and I joined the faculty at OSU. While there, I helped their simulation program become the first in the state endorsed by the ASA for MOCA training. In 2014, I was asked to take over the residency training program for the St Luke's and Roosevelt Department of Anesthesiology (now Mount Sinai Morningside and West). I was the youngest PD in the nation at that time (not so much anymore). This has been the most thrilling period of my life, facing the challenges, highs and lows of mentoring talented young physicians. Over these 10 years, I have served in committee head or board leadership roles in the American Society of Anesthesiologists, New York State Society of Anesthesiologists, Society for Education in Anesthesia, and Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology.

My goal in serving the AAACPD is to bring my experience and hard-won insights into the most dynamic period our field has faced (in GME and beyond) in decades. I will be taking part in the panel on resident unionization as I have led a unionized residency for over 10 years. I am extremely invested in seeing a strong future for our field through responsible stewardship of our training program landscape through organizations like the SAAAPM. Many of us are dealing with staffing crises negatively impacting our departments and training programs due to a lack of responsible stewardship and foresight in the years preceding the pandemic, We can do better.

Candidate for Councilor

Crystal M. Manohar, MD, MBA, FASA
UT Health San Antonio

My name is Crystal Manohar, and I am interested in applying for an AACPD Council position. By way of background, I completed my undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and went to medical school at the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University in Chicago. I completed my anesthesia residency and critical care fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2014-2020, I served as an active-duty Critical Care Anesthesiologist in the Air Force stationed at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. During my active-duty time I participated in a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic in 2016 and deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan in 2018. I completed a master’s in business administration degree through Baylor University in May 2020. 

After separating from the military, I joined the University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA) Department of Anesthesiology in July 2020 as an Associate Professor and Residency Associate Program Director. I became the UTHSA Anesthesiology Residency Program Director in November 2022. I became the Vice Chair of Education in July 2024 for the UTHSA Department of Anesthesiology. I have an interest in academics, graduate medical education, critical care medicine, resident education, feedback, and mentorship. 

I became a partial term AACPD Council member in January 2024 and have immensely enjoyed my time in this group and opportunities for growth, collaboration and contribution. Specifically, I have enjoyed contributing to planning of the 2024 SAAAPM Annual meeting and am excited to moderate a session about “Good Advice from Your Peers” wherein I have volunteered to give a presentation about “Supporting our Military Trainees” and helped recruit speakers to discuss community academic partnerships as well as balancing wellness and professionalism. I have also learned a lot from the AACPD surveys about signaling and helped share that information at state and local levels. I look forward to continuing this important work. 

My original interest in the AACPD Council was to learn more about academic medicine, specifically graduate medical education in anesthesiology, and how to better medical student, residency, and fellowship education. I wish to continue to positively contribute to these endeavors as well. As a program director, I believe I can share valuable resident feedback from our program as well as successful changes we have implemented (i.e., intern academic hour, simulations, evaluation systems, peer mentorship groups, faculty development, Women in Anesthesiology program, etc.) I embrace the opportunity to grow professionally and contribute nationally. I am a member of multiple professional societies and seek to collaborate with colleagues in areas of education and research. I sit on three committees for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) including the Committee on Academic Anesthesiology, the Committee on Critical Care and the Committee on Obstetric Anesthesia with the intent to learn from my peers and implement national solutions locally. I am also a board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology and a member of the ABA Objective Structured Clinical Examination Committee. In these roles, I have gained valuable insights into what content is being tested, assist with creating exam material and understanding how programs across the country are preparing their graduates to become clinically proficient anesthesiologists and board certified. I believe my traits of dedication, self-motivation, strong communication and being a hardworking teammate will be well applied in this position to help advance SAAAPM and our specialty. Thank you for your consideration. 

Candidate for Councilor

Travis Markham, MD, FASA
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine.  I have completed my medical school, residency, and Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology fellowship all within this institution.  I served as an Assistant Residency Program Director for nearly 3 years and have served as the Residency Program Director at this institution since January 1, 2020.  Additionally, I served as the Director of Medical Student Education which encompassed overseeing all medical student rotations to home and visiting students related to Anesthesiology until 2023. In 2021, I was inducted into the Academy of Master Educators at our institution.  Currently, I serve as Vice-Chair for ASA Committee on Residents and Medical Students, Co-Chair on the TSA Committee on Resident and Medical Student Education, and Executive Committe for the Texas Gulf Coast Anesthesia Society.  

Candidate for Councilor

Timothy W. Martin, MD, MBA, FASA, FAAP
University of Florida College of Medicine

Dr. Tim Martin is Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, FL.  He also serves as Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology and has served as the core Anesthesiology Residency Program Director since 2016.  Dr. Martin has been engaged in resident and fellow education throughout his career in three separate large institutions.  He previously served on the faculty and medical staff of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) for many years, where he was Chief of Pediatric Anesthesiology at ACH for nearly 20 years and Vice Chair for Education of the UAMS Department of Anesthesiology.  Dr. Martin began his medical career with 10 years of active duty service in the United States Air Force, and completed 24 years of service in the United States Air Force Reserve. Dr. Martin retired from the United States Air Force Reserve in 2004 at the permanent rank of Colonel.

Dr. Martin completed his undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Missouri—Kansas City and later completed requirements for the MBA degree at the University of Arkansas—Little Rock while practicing as a full time faculty member at UAMS in the 1990s.  He completed internship and anesthesiology residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center (now the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium), serving as a chief resident during his final year of residency.  He then completed a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Dr. Martin is a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) with subspecialty certification in pediatric anesthesiology, and also serves as a full (APPLIED) examiner for the ABA.  Dr. Martin has been an active participant in the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Program Director’s Advisory Group (PDAG) since its inception in 2020. He is the at-large board member of the national Pediatric Anesthesia Leadership Council (PALC), a standing committee of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA). He has contributed as an author or editor of a large number of journal articles, book chapters, article reviews, and professional presentations.  Dr. Martin is active in a number of professional organizations and has regularly provided volunteer support to a significant number of community organizations.

Candidate for Councilor

Sara E. Neves, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

I am happy to be considered for nomination to the AACPD council. I have attended SAAAPM meetings annually since I became an associate program director of the anesthesia residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center six years ago and have been an active member of AACPD since becoming program director in 2020. The AACPD exemplifies the mission of SAAAPM, specifically in creating and leading a supportive community in which to discuss and share ideas regarding training future anesthesiologists and in acting as liaison to organizations that impact our training programs. My participation in medical education-focused groups such as leading the Graduate Medical Education Committee at the Society for Education in Anesthesia and my participation on the ASA Committee on Residents and Medical Students highlights what is affecting our programs nationally; furthermore, my participation has created opportunities to collaborate with talented people who are working on the same problems.

My experience as a program director who began a tenure at the height of the COVID pandemic has given me insights into the challenges facing our programs and our trainees in this era. I want to leverage this knowledge to help find innovative and effective solutions to issues impacting all of our programs, including recruitment, remediation, professionalism, and program director support for academic advancement. The AACPD has helped me stay engaged in academic anesthesiology during what has been a challenging time professionally for many of us, myself included; I want to likewise inspire engagement of more of the academic anesthesiology community, especially new program leadership to strengthen and diversify academic anesthesiology.

I admire the AACPD’s ability to be the relevant decision-makers behind the future of our specialty—we have all experienced the satisfaction of contributing to discussion at the SAAAPM meeting that then effects change in the subsequent year, whether through implementing changes to the recruitment process or sharing best training practices that go on to become the standard. The AACPD’s collaborative approach inspires and supports program directors to promote the goals of academic anesthesiology in all our programs and I hope to have the opportunity to contribute to these efforts as a member of the AACPD council.

Candidate for Councilor

Junaid Nizamuddin, MD
University of Chicago

I would love to serve our specialty and our community of program leaders by serving in the role of AACPD council member. I’ve been a Program Director at the University of Chicago for 5 years and have led the residency through a multitude of challenges, overhauling the clinical and educational experience at a time of immense change. I’ve had to continually interface with the ACGME and the ABA on behalf of the residency, most recently securing a complement increase to grow our program. I have been active at the ABA as a question writer, exam committee member, and an Applied examiner, and have also been active in other national organizations, including the ASA, SOCCA and IARS and serve on the editorial board of A&A. If selected to serve on the Council, I am excited by the prospect of being able to give input and guidance to other bodies that are formulating change for residency training on a national level. It is a time of immense change: the AACPD took the lead on changing the landscape of the residency application process and will be tasked with giving input on other major issues on the horizon, including time-variable competency-based training. Being able to add my voice to those conversations is one of my biggest motivations in seeking to join the Council.

Lastly, I would relish the opportunity to be surrounded by exceptional educators and learn from the rich exchange of ideas, and to be able to mentor and advise new program directors as they set out on their own journeys.

Candidate for Councilor

Daniel Saddawi-Konefka, MD, MBA
Massachusetts General Hospital

Dan has served as the Program Director at MGH since 2017. He is an anesthesiologist and intensivist and completed a fellowship in medical education research. He has previously served on the AACPD Council, and has taken an active role in advocacy for Program Directors, with examples including communications, strategy sharing for virtual interviewing, and advocating for reasonable ACGME case log changes.