Presented by the graduating class to a faculty member who best shared their concerns and addressed their needs.
1989 Margaret DeVore, 2003 James Mayfield, 2004 Manuel Castresana, 2005 Wayne Lawson, 2006 Stevin Dubin, 2007 Ivan Florentino-Pineda, 2008 William Hammonds, 2009 M Castresana, 2010 Mary Arthur, 2011 M Arthur, 2012 James Heyman, 2013 J Heyman, 2014 Sanjay Dwarakanath, 2015 M Arthur, 2016 W Lawson, 2017 M Castresana, 2018 Mohamed Gaber, 2019 Ankit Jain and Vikas Kumar, 2020 Chad Parvus-Teichmann, 2021 Efrain Riveros-Perez, 2022 Caryl Bailey, 2023 C Bailey, 2024 E Riveros-Perez, 2025 C Bailey
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 W Lawson, 2013 Sanjay Dwarakanth, 2014 James Heyman, 2015 Anterpreet Dua, 2016 Edward Foley and Mohamed Gaber, 2017 Vikas Kumar, 2018 Efrain Riveros-Perez, 2019 M Gaber, 2020 Chad Parvus-Teichmann, 2021 E Riveros-Perez, 2022 E Riveros-Perez, 2023 M Gaber, 2024 M Gaber, 2025 Mamta Chura
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, 2025 Xiaodong Hua
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, 2025 Larry May
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 M Drinkwater, 2018 Adam McIntyre-Smith, 2019 Muhammad Salman Janjua, 2020 Bryan Renken, 2021 Julio Medina, 2022 Miriam Mokhtar, 2023 Philip Jung, 2024 Jacob Boudreaux, 2025 Cameron Ernst
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 J Medina, 2024 Dhruti Diwan, 2025 Oscar Dudzinski
2025 Philip Jung
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, 2025 Okola Ulrica Tull
2018 Nicolas Avila, Alex McNally, Justin Motthagi; 2019 Michael Beshara, Ashish Sakharpe, Ahmed Mohamed; 2020 Rafael Lombardi, Mayank Mehrotra, Luiz Moreira Costa, Prathik Mudaliar, Miguel Plaza Lloret; 2021 Jasmeen Kaur, Daniel Sweeney, Samuel Yetzer; 2023 Javier Polania Gutierrez, Benz Sawhney; 2024 Tyler Cook, Tyler Lipscomb, Karim Makar, Avinash Rayavarapu, Ankit Soni; 2025 Bibiana Avella Molano, Robert Gibbons, Daniel Schneider
Recognizes residents who scored in the top 1% of those sitting for the ABA In-Training Examination
2019 Michael Beshara and Ashish Sakharpe; 2020 M Beshara and Thomas Epps; 2021 M Beshara, A Sakharpe, Miguel Plaza Lloret, 2022 M Plaza Lloret; 2023 Jasmeen Kaur, 2025 Bibiana Avella Molano
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)
2019 Muhammad Salman Janjua (last year this was awarded)
2022 Bao-Ling Adam, Laurie Caldwell, Eakins; 2023 Ronald Chapman, Dawn Shinault, Shannon Tharin; 2025 Efrain Riveros-Perez
2003 Travon Wright
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, 2025 Samantha Fraime