Announcing IAA’s Teacher of the year award recipients! Everyone at IAA is extremely proud of your continued dedication to excellence and commitment to teaching best practices to the next generation of anesthesia professionals. Please join us in congratulating our outstanding 2021 award recipients.

TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD – NURSE ANESTHESIA PROGRAM OF HARTFORD 2021

• Kenneth H. Wells, MD award – (Teaching Award)
  • Arun Uthayashankar, MD

TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARDS – – IAA/UCONN ANESTHESIA RESIDENTS 2021

• Thomas J. Martin, MD Award – (Overall Best Teacher Of the Year)
  • Arun Uthayashankar, MD
• Hartford Hospital Teaching Award
  • Dhamodaran Palaniappan, MD
• Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) Teaching Award
  • Michael Archambault, MD
• University of Connecticut (Uconn) Teaching Award
  • Kevin Shaw, MD
• Chairman’s Award
  • Thomas Yasuda MD
  • Joseph Gerace, DO
  • Stephen Panaro, MD

TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD – REGIONAL ANESTHESIA

• IAA Regional Anesthesia Fellowship at BJI/HH Teacher of the Year Award
  • Matt Mitchell, MD

RESIDENT AWARDS – IAA/UCONN ANESTHESIA RESIDENTS 2021

• Patrice Vinsard, MD, David Little, MD Award – (Distinguished Resident)
• Daniel Friedlander, MD, James Rouman, MD Award – (Junior Resident Award)
• Peter Lam, MD, Ralph Moore Tovell MD Award (Academic Excellence Award)
• Jamie Zorn, MD, Francis Hospital (Woodland Anesthesiology Associates) Teaching Award
• Jordan Scolaro, DO, Social Media Award
• Jane Wright, MHA, Chairman’s Award
• Jeffrey Gross, MD, Chairman’s Award

Dr. Matthew Mitchell wins Regional Anesthesia Teacher of the Year – IAA Hartford Division. This award is selected by the outgoing fellows to acknowledge outstanding education by a regional anesthesia faculty member of the IAA Regional Anesthesia Fellowship at BJI/HH. Thank you Dr. Mitchell for your continued commitment to providing outstanding teaching experiences for our IAA fellows.