Who We Are Funding

Since 1986, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) has funded more than $63 million in research grants and programs. Below is a list of our 2026 grant recipients.

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2026 Grant Recipients

Kathleen Gifford Bickel, MD, PhD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Baron Chanda, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Wayland W. L. Cheng, MD, PhD
Tertiary Mentor: Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, PhD
Structural Basis of the Allosteric Regulation of Pacemaker Ion Channel Activity by Trip8

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri 

George Cortina, MD, PhD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Ru-Rong Ji, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Daniel Reker, ScD
Tissue-Specific Membrane Determinants of Local Anesthetic Entry and Sodium Channel Access

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Mona Hedayat, MD
Research in Education Grant
Primary Mentor: Robina Matyal, MD
Secondary Mentor: Feroze Mahmood, MD, FCPS, FASE
Tertiary Mentor: John D. Mitchell, MD
Virtual Reality-Based Training to Enhance Intraoperative Situational Awareness and Critical Decision-Making in Anesthesiology

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Julie Hwang, MD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Maya Mikami, MD, PhD, MPH
Secondary Mentor: Charles W. Emala Sr., MS, MD
Asthma, Sex, and Anesthetic Brain Vulnerability

Columbia University
New York City, New York

Megan L. Rolfzen, MD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, MBA
Secondary Mentor: Afton L. Hassett, PsyD
Tertiary Mentor: Chad Brummett, MD
Additional Collaborators: Michael L. Burns, PhD, MD; Peter Nagele, MD
Leveraging the Perioperative Encounter to Identify New-Onset Postoperative Depressive Symptoms in Surgical Patients

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Daniel Rubin, MD, MS
Transition to Independence Grant
Impact of Functional Activity Strength Training on Disability After Surgery

The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Anjan Saha, MD, PhD
APSF-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM
Secondary Mentor: Charles W. Emala Sr., MS, MD
AirLInC – Airway and Laryngoscopy Institutional Collaborative

Columbia University
New York City, New York

Additional Grant Information

• FAER Grant Instructions
• Transition to Independence Grant Instructions
• APSF-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG) Instructions
• Download the list of all FAER funded grant recipients (1973-2021) (PDF).

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Questions?

Contact the FAER office at (630) 912-2554 or FAER@faer.org.