Faculty
The people who will teach you.
Our faculty teach daily in the operating room. Residents have direct access to them, get feedback the same day, and keep the same mentors across all three years.

Steven C. Yap, MD, MBA
Program Director & Chairperson
Residency: Columbia University / New York-Presbyterian (Virginia Apgar Scholar)
Fellowships: Pain Medicine; Major Vascular and Transplant Anesthesia (Columbia)
Interests: Artificial intelligence in medicine, pain medicine, vascular and transplant anesthesia, resident education

Anna Roth, MD
Assistant Program Director & Director of Acute Pain
Residency: Cornell University / New York-Presbyterian
Fellowship: Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesia (Montefiore Einstein)
Interests: Acute pain management, regional anesthesia, perioperative care, resident teaching
Core Faculty
Suman Agrawal, MD
Residency: Maimonides
Fellowship: Obstetric Anesthesia (SUNY Stony Brook)
Artem Babayan, MD
Residency: Maimonides
Kailash Chandwani, MD
Residency: University of Arkansas
Fellowship: Pain Medicine (Case Western)
Isaiah Florence, MD
Residency: SUNY Downstate
Fellowship: Pain Medicine (SUNY Downstate)
Rekha Hotwani, MD
Residency: Maimonides
Zenia Kaul, MD
Residency: NYU / Maimonides
Ram Manchandani, MD
Associate Chairperson
Residency: Maimonides
Yuriy Pechenyy, MD
Residency: Penn State
Koteswararao Popuri, MD
Residency: Brookdale
Javaun Porter, MD
Residency: Mount Sinai
Richa Sharma, MD
Residency: Columbia University
Fellowship: Regional Anesthesia (Cornell)
Hari Shetty, MD
Residency: Maimonides
Course directors at partner institutions
Michael Fitzsimons, MD
Cardiac Anesthesia Course Director
Harvard – Massachusetts General Hospital
Gregory Kerr, MD, MBA, FCCM
Critical Care Course Director
Columbia University · Fellowship: Critical Care (Emory)
Scott Watkins, MD
Pediatric Anesthesia Course Director
Vanderbilt · Fellowship: Pediatric Anesthesia
Our residents
Meet the class.
Class of 2029

Tyler Rogers, MD
University of Nevada

Peter Middleton, DO
Des Moines University

Tyler Rogers, MD
University of Nevada
Class of 2030

Brandon Lokshin, DO
Touro College

Josephine Yalovitser, MD
University of Vermont

Jacob Won, DO
Liberty University