The Anesthesia Foundation provides loans to anesthesiology residents of up to $7,500 at no interest if repaid within six months of completing training. In 2025, 35 residents received $269,500 in loans; 30 former loan recipients completed repaying their loans totaling $225,000; and 25 of the loans were repaid before maturity without incurring any interest charges. The Anesthesia Foundation received many notes of gratitude for the assistance provided and continues to make new loans as the need increases, with many residents struggling with big city rents, inflation, family pressures, and program restrictions on moonlighting.
The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) is an organization with volunteers who work tirelessly to achieve their vision “that no one shall be harmed by anesthesia care.” Foundation activities are focused on research, education, and communication. Every year APSF hosts a Stoelting Consensus Conference addressing a major patient safety issue. In 2026 the theme will be “Optimizing the Patient’s Perioperative Journey: SOS!” APSF has also created a technology education initiative, a new webpage dedicated to preventing and treating surgical fires, and finally, a new initiative on patient engagement. All can be accessed on the APSF website.
The ASA Charitable Foundation (ASACF), in collaboration with the ASA Committee on Global Health, is focused on improving global perioperative safety and outcomes, especially in under-resourced areas. The ASACF’s key initiative, the Global Scholars Program, supports the development of young physician anesthesiologist leaders with limited resources by providing the opportunity to participate in the ANESTHESIOLOGY® annual meeting and an observership at a U.S. hospital. In 2025, the ASACF hosted seven scholars in San Antonio, Texas. The ASACF also provided funding in 2025 to the Lifebox Foundation for the ASA Resident Lifebox Challenge, supporting Lifebox’s mission to make pulse oximeters and portable capnometers widely available in regions where they previously were scarce or absent.
The mission of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology (WLM) is to "Advance Anesthesiology by Preserving and Sharing our Legacy and Knowledge." In 2025, the WLM expanded its educational and scholarly impact through the continued production of original video content for the John W. Pender Living History of Anesthesiology series, the publication of quarterly historical articles in the ASA Monitor, and the support of WLM Fellows conducting research within the collections. In parallel, the WLM began planning for a comprehensive fundraising campaign, strengthening its development infrastructure to support future growth.
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) awarded $2,930,000 in grant funding to 13 anesthesiologists— including the inaugural SPA-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG)—and increased funding for its MRTGs to $300,000. The Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship (MSARF) saw 80 medical students matched to 45 host institutions—the largest number of annually sponsored students in the program’s history. FAER expanded on the MSARF program with the Advanced Medical Student Research Fellowship, and celebrated two student fellows as the new program’s inaugural participants. During the 2025 Academic Giving Competition, 38 academic anesthesiology departments raised $407,782, a record high for the competition and enough to fund multiple grants.
Date of last update: February 21, 2026