Awards & Grants

Research Grants:

Beginning in 2009, SAM has awarded grants of $5000 towards original research

2009 Davide Cattano, M.D.

2010 Richard Cooper, M.D. Direct and video laryngoscopy in four airway manikins: a comparative study

Corina Lee, Co-investigator. Results presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the Society for Airway Management in Chicago, IL, September 2010. Report in Press, to be printed in the Journal of Clinical Anesthesia

2011 Tracy Straker, M.D. The Use of an Online Procedure Logbook to Monitor Training among Anesthesiology Residents.

Samuel Metz and Alla Krayman, co-investigators. Results presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society for Airway Management in Scottsdale, AZ, September 16, 2011

2011 William Rosenblatt, M.D. Trial of the Ventrain EVA transtracheal oxygenator in an large animal model

Seth Manoach MD and Lorenzo Paladino MD, co-investigators and co-authors. Results presented at the 2011 annual meeting of the Society for Airway Management in Scottsdale, AZ, September 2011

Distinguished Service Award:

Each year the Society for Airway Management awards the Distinguished Service Award (DSA). The award goes to an individual who has worked to forward to mission of the Society as well as other endeavors  in airway management education . The award is made by the SAM-DSA committee, which is composed of the three immediate SAM presidents and the three most recent DSA winners. The committee has the option to not award a DSA. Each year the award is presented at the annual meeting.

2006 Andranik Ovassapian, M.D., (Patriarch Award)
2006 Lorraine Foley, M.D.
2007 Anthony Sanchez, M.D.
2008 Richard Aghababian, M.D.
2009 D. John Doyle, M.D.
2010 William Rosenblatt, M.D.

Resident Trainee Travel Awards

2010
Richard E. Galgon, M.D.
Jeffrey Keck, M.D.
Andrew Germanovich, M.D.
Alexander Bautista, M.D.
2011
Twain Russell, M.D.
Enohumah Osagie Kingsley, M.D.
Ivan Parra-Sanchez, M.D.
Bilal Ahmad, M.D.