A $100,000 matching gift challenge has been issued! See your donation's impact double by donating today!

All donations will help to achieve a long-term goal of establishing a new, endowed MRTG for clinical investigators, named the Drs. Ximena and Daniel Sessler Mentored Research Training Grant. Each individual donor will be acknowledged in the overall list of FAER donors, as well as the list of donors contributing to this new fund.

To donate to this matching gift challenge, select Step Up for FAER under the Donate Now section of FAER's online donation page.

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Like any specialty, research is fundamental to the future of anesthesiology. Research that often might not be possible without ensuring that early career investigators have the support and guidance they need to build their skills and preliminary data for subsequent grant applications. This sentiment sits at the very core of FAER's efforts to develop the next generation of physician-scientists in anesthesiology.

Drs. Ximena and Daniel Sessler, inspired by the importance of FAER's mission, have issued a $100,000 matching gift challenge to FAER, titled Step Up for FAER. Their hope is that by stepping up themselves with such a generous gift, others will in turn be inspired to step up their support to FAER as well. Your contribution will be matched 1:1 up to $100,000, and will help establish a named endowed Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG) focused on clinical investigators.

“Anesthesiology's rising stature is based on two foundational principles: enhancing the scientific base that underpins the care of our patients and educating the future generations of practitioners who will continue to advance the science and practice of our discipline. At the heart of these advances lies FAER which is devoted to these missions. All of us have been touched directly by FAER, or indirectly through research and career development it has provided for so many aspiring academic anesthesiologists.” Daniel I. Sessler, MD

Donors

Thank you for stepping up and donating to help meet this matching gift challenge! To follow is a list of donors to this matching gift challenge.

Arnoley S. Abcejo, MD
Hassan Aboumerhi, MD
Leah C. Acker, PhD, MD
Michael Adjei, MD
Aalok V. Agarwala, MD, MBA, FASA
Edward Alatorre
Meredith A. Albrecht, MD, PhD
Brenton S. Alexander, MD
Alya Ali, MD
Paul D. Allen, MD, PhD, and Merilyn Allen
Wei-Lin Allen, MD
James A. Allinger, MD, and Ellen Allinger, CAA
Seth Aly, MD
Daniel An, DO
Megan Graybill Anders, MD
Corrie Anderson, MD, and Virginia E. Williams II
Kyle J. Anderson, MD
Joseph F. Antognini, MD, FASA
Zarah Antongiorgi, MD
Eric Appelgren, MD, and Rebecca Appelgren, MD
Mark J. Arcario, MD, PhD
Donald E. Arnold, MD, FACHE, FASA, and Tamara Ehlert, MD
Amanda E. Arnzen, MD
Carlos A. Artime, MD
William Aultman, MD
Rafi Avitsian, MD, FASA
Michael J. Avram, PhD, and Mary Anne Avram
Syeda Zahra B. Gardezi, MD, MB, BS
Patricia R. Bachiller, MD
Juli Bai, PhD
Kristy Z. Baker, MD
Mercedes Baltazar
Alicia B. Barclay, MD
Karsten Bartels, MD, PhD, MBA
Matthew Barthel, MD
Maria Bauer, MD
Victor C. Baum, MD
GE HealthCare
Katherine Beattie, MD
Karl E. Becker, MD, MBA, FACA, and Gail G. Becker
Richard Beddingfield, MD
Robert F. Bedford, MD, FACA
Jay Bell, CRNA
Adriano Bellotti, MD
Honorio T. Benzon, MD, FACA, FASA
Charles B. Berde, MD, PhD
Richard J. Berens, MD
Brad Bernstein, MD
Alexander Berry-Rieser, MD
Frederic T. Billings IV, MD, MSc
Joshua A. Bloomstone, MD, MSc, FASA, SSGB
Envision Healthcare
Carolina Blotte, MD
James M. Blum, MD
Sarah Bodin, MD
Martin S. Bogetz, MD
M.G. Boltz, MD
Christina S. Boncyk, MD, MPH
Michael L. Bottcher, MD, FASA
Jan Boublik, MD, PhD
Charles D. Boucek, FACA, MD, FASA
Stephanie Bowen, MD
Patricia Bradshaw
Jason Brainard, MD
Ansgar Brambrink, MD, PhD
John S. Bramhall, MD, PhD
Jeffry B. Brand, MD, FACA
Robert W. Brandt, MD
Tricia Eisenstein Brentjens, MD
Aleena Bubb, MD
Brenda A. Bucklin, MD, FASA
DeMarcus Burke
Ruth E. Burstrom, MD, and Niels N. Chapman, MD
Kristen Burton, MD
Robin M. Cabaniss Boland
Brian Cacioppo, MD
Mya Cahana
Matthew W. Caldwell, MD
Zachary Campbell, PhD
Tekuila R. Carter, MD
Davide Cattano, MD, PhD, FASA
Jauhleene Chamu, MD
Jacques W. Chelly, MD, PhD, MBA
David M. Chelnick, BS
Catherine L. Chen, MD, MPH, and Justin Chen
Craig Chen, MD
Frederick W. Cheney, MD, FACA
Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD
Anne D. Cherry, MD
Susan Chortkoff, MD
Philip Chung, MD
Mete Civelek, PhD
David J. Clark, MD, PhD, and Rae Lee Clark
Douglas Alastair Colquhoun, MPH, MSc, MBChB
Lois A. Connolly, MD, FACHE, FASA
Paul H. Cooke, MD
Leanne M. Cornel
Sarah Cortez
Joseph F. Cotten, MD
Stephen C. Cotton, MD
Douglas B. Coursin, MD
Gregory Crosby, MD, MS
C. Michael Crowder, MD, PhD
Deborah J. Culley, MD
Michelle C. Curtis, MD
Sara Curtis, MBA, CAE, SPHR
Robert A. Daniel, MD
Jeanine D'Armiento, MD, PhD
Vanessa Davies, CAA
J. Andrew Day, MD
Marcelo Gama de Abreu, MD
Marilyn K. Dearmond, MD
Magdelaine Deeby, MD
Janaki Degen, MD
Amelie Delaporte, MD
David Delzell, MD
Mark Dershwitz, MD, PhD, and Renee Dershwitz, MD
Christina D. Diaz, MD, FAAP, FASA
Lena E. Dohlman-Gerhart, MD, MPH
Joseph J. Dominguez, MD, FASA
Karen B. Domino, MD, MPH, and Gene L. Brenowitz, MD
Sujana Dontukurthy, MD
Joseph W. Dooley, MD
Michelle A. Douglass, MD
Marie-Francoise Doursout, PhD
John Drago, MD, JD
Elizabeth T. Drum, MD, FASA
Michael Duan, MD
Andra Duncan, MD, MS, FASE
Joe Durfey, MD
U.S. Anesthesia Partners
Julianna Ebert and Frank Daily
Roderic G. Eckenhoff, MD, and Maryellen F. Eckenhoff, PhD
Marc Eiseman, MD
James C. Eisenach, MD, and Patricia Eisenach
Geir Ivar Elgjo, MD, PhD
Brett J. Elmore, MD
Holger K. Eltzschig, MD, PhD
Christopher Fadumiye, MD, FASA
Brenda Fahy, MD
Nauder Faraday, MD
Jerome Federspiel, MD, PhD
Janis Ferrell, MD
Patrick Filip, MD
James H. Fitzpatrick, MD
Peter R. Fletcher, MD
Pamela Flood, MD, MA, and Steven L. Shafer, MD, FASA
Jacob Flores
Nicholas Flores-Conner, MD
Wayne A. Foran, MD
Michael P. Ford, MD
Joseph F. Foss, MD, BS, FASA
Jan Fraessdorf, MD, PhD
Elizabeth A. Frost, MD
Eilon Gabel, MD
Richard E. Galgon, MD, MS
Maribel P. Galiano-Goll, MD
Paul D. Gallo, MD
Sweeta D. Gandhi, MD
Meera Gangadharan, MD, FAAP, FASA
Elena Garrido, MD, PhD
Nischal Gautam, MBBS
John F. Geiser, MD
Becca Genyk
Ethan Genyk
Renuka M. George, MD, FASA
Steven J. Gerschultz, MD
Hayley Gershengorn
James S. Gessner, MD, and Mrs. James Gessner
Mariya A. Geube, MD
Laurent G. Glance, MD
Joshua D. Goldner, MD
Glenn S. Gollobin, MD, and Mrs. Gollobin
Sylvia Gomez, SHRM-CP
Laura S. Gonzalez, MD
Diane Gordon, MD
Martin V. Grady, MD
Brynn Graham
Tanith M. Graham, MD
Timothy P. Graham, MD
Brian Greathouse, MD
Andrew A. Greenberg, MD
Eric P. Greenblatt, MD, and Mercedes P. Jacobson, MD
Joel G. Greenspan, MD
George A. Gregory, MD
Isabel Griffith
Michael A. Gropper, MD, PhD
Thomas Gulvezan, MD
Ramakrishna Gumidyala, MD
Mary Ann Gurkowski, MD, FASA
Carmen Gurrieri, MD
Akshatha Gururaja Rao, MD, MBBS
Sara Guzman-Reyes, MD, FASA
Carin A. Hagberg, MD, FASA
Harriet A. Hamer, MD, FASA
Donna Hammond, PhD
Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, and Carol Hannenberg, MD
Jennifer M. Hargrave, DO, FASA
Bram Harris
Darren Harris
Ronald L. Harter, MD, FASA, and Kathy Harter
Manal I. Hassan, MD, PhD
David Hastie, MD
Maya Jalbout Hastie, MD, EdD
Daniel E. Headrick, MD
Stephen O. Heard, MD
James Hecker, MD, PhD
Hugh C. Hemmings Jr., MD, PhD, FRCA
Olivia Henry
Robert M. Herenstein, MD, PC
Jacquelin Herrera
Scott Laboratories
Rebecca S. Himmelwright, MD
George M. Hoffman, MD
Harriet W. Hopf, MD, FASA
Karl H. Horsten Jr., MD
Eric M. Humphreys, MD
James W. Ibinson, MD, PhD
Franz Igler, MD
Brian M. Ilfeld, MD, MS
Caleb H. Ing, MD
Oliver Isik, MD
Jeffrey S. Jacobs, MD, MBA, FASA
Paul Jacobs, DO
Francis M. James III, MD, FACA
Michael Lucas James, MD, FAHA
Tatiana Jamroz, MD
Alyssa Janousek, MD
Ryan Jense, MD
Yandong Jiang, MD, PhD
Nerlyne Jimenez, MD
Zhaosheng Jin, MD
Lise Jinno
Roger A. Johns, MD, MHS, PhD
Brooks Johnson, MD
Stephanie B. Jones, MD, FASA
Maurice F. Joyce, MD, MEd, FASA
Cynthia Ju, PhD
Michael J. Jung, MD, MBA
Rishi Kadakia, MD
Philip L. Kalarickal, MD, MPH
Irfan S. Kathiriya, MD
Marta Kelava, MD
Scott D. Kelley, MD, FASA
Richard Kelly, MD, FASA
Max B. Kelz, MD, PhD, and Rachel Kelz, MD
Scott Kercheville, MD, FAWM, FASA
Maureen Keshock, MD, MPH, FASA
Al-Amin Khalil, MD
Samia N. Khalil, MD, FACA
Raina Khan, MD
Sandeep Khanna, MD, FASA
Vikram Khatri, MD, FASA
Azin Kheirandish, MD
Connor Kilpatrick, MD
Jin Young Kim, MD
James D. Kindscher, MD, FASA
Meredith Kingeter, MD
Michael P. Kinsky, MD
Matthew Kiok, MD, MPH
Amy Kjaer
Robert L. Kong, MD
Natalie Jane Koons, DO
Orkun Kopac, MD
Daryl J. Kor, MD
Karel Jan Kotrly, MD
Vesela Kovacheva, MD, PhD
Elliot Krane, MD, FAAP, FASA
Tom C. Krejcie, MD
Matthew J. Kremke, MBA
Scott Kriss, DO
Mirko Krolo, MD
Ayse O. Kula, MD
Rishi Kumar, MD
Lakshmi Kurnutala, MD
Andrea M. Kurz, MD
Arthur Lam, MD, RCPSC, FRCPC
James J. Lamberg, DO, FASA, CPPS
Ruth Landau, MD
Mary Landrigan-Ossar, MD, PhD, FAAP
Meghan B. Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM
Merlin D. Larson, MD
Nassim Lashkari, MD
Alisa Lee
David L. Lee, MD
James H. Lee, MD
Jeffrey Lee, MD
Jin Soo Lee, MD, PhD
Joyce Lee
UnCheol Lee, PhD
Akiva Leibowitz, MD
Elizabeth Leimer, MD, PhD
Jenna Leng
Michelle Leung, MD
Michael C. Lewis, MD, FASA
Yafen Liang, MD
Adam D. Lichtman, MD, FASA
Grace Lim, MD, MSc
Christopher J. Lingle, PhD
Steven S. Lipman, MD, FASA
Philipp Lirk, MD, MS
Steven J. Lisco, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Susan R. Lisman, MD
Alan Litman
Renyu Liu, MD, PhD
Kelley A. Logan, RN, BSN
David E. Longnecker, MD, and Charlene S. Longnecker
Marcos G. Lopez, MD, MS
Sergei Lopukhin, MD
Mirjana Lovrincevic, MD, and Igor Lovrincevic, MD
Lorraine Lubin, MD
Briana Lui, MD
Nora Lyang
Brian Mack, MD
Prasanthi Maddali, MD
David P. Maguire, MD
Feroze-ud-Din Mahmood, MD, FASE, FCPS
Syed Mahmood, MD
Rajendra H. Majithia, MD
Hemanckur Makker, MD
Vinod Malhotra, MD, FACA
Elizabeth B. Malinzak, MD, FASA
Mariel Manlapaz, MD
Amy Manzo, MD
Alan P. Marco, MD, MMM
Dorothea A. Markakis, MD
Travis Markham, MD, FASA
James D. Marks, MD, PhD
David P. Martin, MD, PhD, FASA, and Laura Martin
Matthew Masur, MD
Sadis Matalon, PhD, and Lee Ann Riesenberg, PhD, RN
Joseph P. Mathew, MD, MBA, MHSc
Trisha A. McGinnis, DO
Kathryn E. McGoldrick, MD, FASA, FCAI (Hon)
Eddrice M. McMullan, MD
Ashley McNeil
Lee D. Meeder, MD
Neel D. Mehta, MD
Nicholas Meier, MD
Oscar A. Mendez, MD
Marie-Louise Meng, MD
Andrew R. Milewski, MD
Keith Miller, DPhil, PhD
Sarah Milliken, MD
Andrea N. Miltiades, MD
Stacy Miltiades
Somya Mishra, MD, MPH
Aaron M. Mittel, MD
Alexandra Moauro, DO
Basanta Mohapatra, MD
J. Danny Muehlschlegel, MD, MSc, FASA, and Susanne Muehlschlegel, MD, MPH
Jeff T. Mueller, MD, FASA
Holly Ann Muir, MD
Peter Nagele, MD, MSc
Jackie Narula, QA
Amanda J. Naylor, MD, MPH
Joseph M. Neal, MD
Ariana M. Nelson, MD
Mark D. Neuman, MD, MSc
Mark Newton, MD, FAAP
Fani Nhuch, MD, FRCPC
Greta Niemela, MD
Dolores B. Njoku, MD
Katie Normand, MD
Ann Norris, MD
Mark C. Norris, MD
Maziar Nourian, MD
Alexander J. Novak, MD
Alice O'Brien, MD
Onyi Onuoha, MD, MPH
Vikas N. O'Reilly-Shah, MD, PhD, FASA
Nathan Orgain, MD
Fredrick K. Orkin, MD, MBA
Barbara Orlando, MD, PhD, FASA
Charles W. Otto, MD, FCCM, and Carol Otto
Paul E. Otto, MD
Steven L. Outly, MD
Nathan L. Pace, MD, MStat
Udaya Padakandla, MD
Mansukhlal G. Padalia, MD, FACA
Pamela P. Palmer, MD, PhD
Susan K. Palmer, MD
Pratik Pandharipande, MD
Ameeka Pannu, MD
Paul V. Pantapalangkoor, MD, MS
Kari Pantol
Jerome Parness, MD, PhD
Avani Patel, MD
Kushang V. Patel, PhD MPH
Lars Paulsen, CPA
Robert A. Pearce, MD, PhD
John F. Pearson, MD
Bethany Tellor Pennington, PharmD, BCPS
Silvia E. Perez Protto, MD
Lee S. Perrin, MD
Kylie Peterson, MD
Mary Dale Peterson, MD, MSHCA, FACHE, FASA
Trevor Peterson
Luu Quang Pham, MD
May C. Pian-Smith, MD, MS
Annie Pinto, MD
Christopher James Plambeck, MD
David M. Polaner, MD
Paul Pomerantz, FACHE
Paul Potnuru, MD
Y.S. Prakash, MD, PhD, FASA, and Christina M. Pabelick, MD
Kane O. Pryor, MD
Daniel Pulsipher, MD
Robert V. Purtock, MD, PhD
Amreen Rahman, MD
Andrey Rakalin, MD
James P. Rathmell, MD, and Barbara A. Rathmell, MD
Rebekka Reinhardt, MD
J. Ryan Rentz, MD
James Rhee, MD, PhD
DeArrius Rhymes, MSBS
Bianca Rich, MD
Ria A. Richardson, MD
Matthias L. Riess, MD, PhD, FASA
Joseph B. Rinehart, MD, FASA
R. Michael Ritchey, MD
Eliot Ro, MD
Ryan Roney, MD
G. Alec Rooke, MD, PhD
Andrew D. Rosenberg, MD, FASA
Henry Rosenberg, MD, FACA
Lindsey Roth, CRNA
Danielle Roussel, MD
James R. Rowbottom, MD
John C. Rowlingson, MD, FACA
Kurt Ruetzler, MD, PhD, FAHA
Nicholas Russo, MD
Lynn M. Rusy, MD
Mon Saepharn
Cheryl Salmon
Aubrey Samost-Williams, MD
Steve Sams, MD, FASA
Warren S. Sandberg, MD, PhD, and Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg, PhD
Taran Sangari, MD
Adam Sapirstein, MD
Gabriel Sarah, MD, M.Ed
Dillon Schafer, MD
Samuel A. Schechtman, MD
Katie J. Schenning, MD, MPH, MCR
Mark Schlangel, MD, MBA, FASA
Mark S. Schreiner, MD
Kristopher Schroeder, MD, FASA, FASRA
Mark A. Schumacher, MD, PhD
Larry M. Segers, MD
Sudipta Sen, MD, FASA
Daniel I. Sessler, MD, and Ximena Valdes Sessler, MD
Jonathan L. Sessler, PhD
Sonali Shah, MD
Spandana Shahani, MD
Evan Shawler, MD
Shiqian Shen, MD, PhD
Phillip Sholes, MD
Bantayehu Sileshi, MD
Colby G. Simmons, DO, MBA
Jacqueline A. Simon, MD
Vinita Singh, MD
Connor Singrey, MD
Murali Sivarajan, MBBS, FACA, and Gouri Sivarajan, MD
Nikolaos J. Skubas, MD, FASE
Dynocardia, Inc
Bradford B. Smith, MD, FASA, FASE
Katie Snow
Ken Solt, MD
Jennifer Souh, MD
Lynn Spitler, MD
Roshni Sreedharan, MD, FASA
Srikanth Sridhar, MD, FASA
Jason Srnec, MD
Brett Stacey, MD
Bre Stafford, MD
M. Christine Stock, MD, FFCM, FCCP, and Stuart R. Stock, PhD
Joseph Stoeckl, MD
Charlotte Streetzel, MD
Astrid G. Stucke, MD
Wendy Suhre, MD
Pervez Sultan, MD, FRCA, MBChB
Maya S. Suresh, MD
Preetham J. Suresh, MD
Madiha Syed, MD
Liam Synan, MD, MBA
Helen Szeto, CRNA
Harry Tagalakis, MD
Gee Mei Tan, MD
Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA
Justinn Tanem, MD
Stephen Tapia-Ruano, MD
ToluLope Teniola, MD
W. Gabe Tharp, MD, PhD
Stephen J. Thomas, MD, FACA, FANZCA, FRCA, and Ellen Thomas
Katie Thompson
Oluwatoyin Thompson, MD
Samuel Tirer, MD
Michael M. Todd, MD
Paloma Toledo, MD, MPH
Ihab Y. Toma, MD
Chuanyao Tong, MD
Amanda Toye, MD
Carlos E. Trombetta, MD, FASA
Todd Troshynski, MD
Home Trostler
Mitchell H. Tsai, MD, MMM, FASA
Lawrence C. Tsen, MD
Alparslan Turan, MD
Soban Umar, MD, PhD
Gregory K. Unruh, MD, FASA
Emily A. Vail, MD, MSc
Wil Van Cleve, MD, MPH
Diagnoptics Technologies
Naveen Vanga, MD
Ana Eli Vasquez, CPC, PMP
Robert W. Vaughan, MD, FACA, and M. Sue Vaughan, RN, PhD
Bridget K. Vedder, MD
Matthew Velez
Megha Vipani, MD
Christopher M. Viscomi, MD
Alexander Vitin, MD, PhD
Keith M. Vogt, MD, PhD, FASA
Eric L. Vu, MD
Eduards J. Vucins, MD
Joyce A. Wahr, MD, and Dennis Wahr, MD
Brett J. Wakefield, MD
Erik Wang, MD
Mi Wang, MD
Christopher G. Ward, MD
David C. Warltier, MD, PhD
Erikka Washington, MD
Lucy A. Waskell, MD, PhD
Ronald Wasserman, MD, RCPSC
Liza Weavind, MBBCh, FCCM, MMHC
Margaret R. Weglinski, MD
Jarret Weinrich, PhD
Mark Weller, MD
Kristina Wessels, MD
Kelly West, MD
Lynn Westphal
Lois Wetmore, DVM, MS
Matthew K. Whalin, MD, PhD
Emmett E. Whitaker, MD, FAAP
Robert T. Wilder, MD, PhD
George Williams, II, MD, FASA, FCCM, FCCP
Nathan L. Williams, MD
Chelsea A. Willie, MD
John Wills, MD, FANZCA
Elizabeth Wilson, MD
Marcus Wilson, DO
Jimmy Windsor, MD
Cynthia A. Wong, MD, FASA
Sheila Wornum
Crystal C. Wright, MD, FASA
Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc
Melville Q. Wyche, MD, FACA
Zheng Xie, MD, PhD, FASA
Zhongcong Xie, MD, PhD, FASA
Jijun Xu, MD, PhD
Jingbo Yan, MSA, CAA
James R. Yawn, MD
Soojie Yu, MD
Xiaobing Yu, MD
Christine Zainer, MD
Erica Zanath, MD
Amber K. Zdanovec, MD
Jie Zhang, PhD
Kaiying Zhang, MD
Raymond A. Zollo, MD
Andrew Zura, MD, FASA

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About the Sesslers

Dr. Daniel Sessler is a longtime champion of anesthesiology research and developing those who conduct it. He is the Michael Cudahy Professor and Chair of the Department of OUTCOMES RESEARCH at the Cleveland Clinic.

Board certified in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology, Dr. Ximena Valdes Sessler is now retired and dedicates her time volunteering, including working as a docent at the Cleveland Museum of Art and tutoring at the Thomas Jefferson International Newcomers Academy.

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