Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars (eSAS) is a society led by trainees, for trainees. eSAS partners with and is supported by a number of leading anesthesiology organizations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER), the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), and the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA).

The Executive Council consists of junior faculty, fellows, or residents. Each member is elected by the previous executive council and serves a term of 2 years. The Advisory Council is composed of a group of senior academic anesthesiologists who lend their advice and experience to further the careers of young investigators.

Co-Presidents

Dr. Kathryn Rosenblatt

Dr. Kathryn Rosenblatt, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She serves as program director of the neurosurgical anesthesia fellowship and director of outreach. She earned her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, her MD from St. George’s University, completed anesthesiology residency at SUNY Upstate, and completed fellowships in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care at Johns Hopkins, along with an MHS in Clinical Investigation at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on multimodality neuromonitoring and cerebral autoregulation to improve outcomes in sepsis-associated encephalopathy and perioperative brain injury. She is a FAER Mentored Research Training Grant recipient and founding director of the Johns Hopkins Cerebral Autoregulation in Sepsis Research Group.

Dr. Michael Devinney

Dr. Michael Devinney, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (Critical Care Medicine) at Duke University. He completed the University of Wisconsin MSTP (PhD 2013, MD 2015) and the Duke ACES residency and critical care fellowship before joining the Duke faculty. He practices as an intensivist and anesthesiologist and studies mechanisms of postoperative and ICU delirium using cerebrospinal fluid proteomics, sleep EEG, cognitive testing, and delirium assessment. His work has been supported by FAER, the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and NIA GEMSSTAR and K23 awards.

Co-Vice Presidents

Dr. E. Railey White

Dr. E. Railey White, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and an attending anesthesiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a BS in chemistry at the University of Kentucky and completed the MD/PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University (PhD in chemical biology), followed by anesthesiology residency at Penn. Her laboratory studies molecular mechanisms of general anesthesia, including isoflurane binding in mitochondrial complex I and propofol analogues such as propofluor. She is a FAER Research Fellowship Grant, Mentored Research Training Grant, and Transition to Independence Grant recipient and holds an NIH R35 from NIGMS.

Dr. Cameron Bosinski

Dr. Cameron Bosinski, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Rochester and Attending Anesthesiologist at Strong Memorial Hospital. His research focuses on the mechanisms of volatile anesthetics, gap junction physiology, and neuromonitoring/EEG using translational models including C. elegans. As a FAER Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellow, he studied electroencephalography in the Kelz/Proekt laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted research on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in the Auerbach lab. He completed his anesthesiology residency in the research track at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, working with Dr. Christopher Connor. Dr. Bosinski is an active IARS contributor as a writer for The Daily Dose and is co-Vice President of Early-Stage Anesthesiology Scholars. He has presented his work on anesthesia mechanisms and gap junctions at multiple IARS Annual Meetings and serves on ASA committees related to neuroanesthesiology. He is committed to mentorship, clinical excellence, and fostering global engagement in anesthesiology education and research.

Secretary

Dr. S. Kendall Smith

Dr. S. Kendall Smith, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis, with appointments in the Divisions of Clinical and Translational Research and Critical Care. She received her MD and PhD in molecular and integrative physiology from the University of Kansas and the Stowers Institute, then completed the Duke ACES anesthesiology residency and a critical care fellowship at Duke. Her research examines how circadian-clock disruption contributes to postoperative delirium and other critical-care syndromes in older adults. She is a former IARS Mentored Research Award recipient, co-leader of the Acute and Critical Illness Working Group of the WashU Center for Biological Rhythms and Sleep, and holds education leadership roles in the WashU residency and critical care fellowship.

Regional Representatives

Dr. Lauriane Guichard

Southern Representative

Dr. Lauriane Guichard, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her MD at UNC, completed anesthesiology residency at the University of Michigan, and completed consecutive fellowships in critical care medicine and adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology at Duke. Her research examines post-intensive care syndrome and whether chronic pain, mood, and memory symptoms after cardiac surgery and critical care represent nociplastic pain. She is a 2025 FAER Mentored Research Training Grant recipient and received the AUA Junior Faculty Best Clinical Research Abstract Award.

Dr. Megan Rolfzen

Midwest Representative

Dr. Megan Rolfzen, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and an NIH T90 research fellow. She earned her BA summa cum laude at Augustana University and her MD with high distinction at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, then completed anesthesiology residency and an adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship at UNMC. She is board certified in advanced perioperative echocardiography and adult cardiothoracic anesthesiology. Her research focuses on perioperative behavioral health, pain, and clinically relevant outcomes, including the impact of mental illness and substance-use disorders on cardiac surgical mortality. She previously received a Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists In-Training Grant.

Dr. Saul Siller

Northeastern Representative

Dr. Saul Siller, MD, PhD is a clinical fellow in anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine / Yale New Haven Hospital. He completed undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Spanish and the Medical Scientist Training Program at Stony Brook University, where he studied airway ciliated cell differentiation with Ken-Ichi Takemaru. He completed anesthesiology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital and is board certified in anesthesiology. His research interests include how gene regulation affects vascular development and pathology.

Dr. Connor Brenna

Canadian Representative

Dr. Connor Brenna, MD is an anesthesiology resident in the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and a PhD candidate in Physiology at the University of Toronto, training in the Clinician Investigator Program in the Orser laboratory. His research examines the sustained neuropsychiatric effects of anesthetic drugs, including nitrous oxide modulation of GABAA receptor signaling. He is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar, a British Journal of Anaesthesia editorial fellow, and a recipient of the 2024 Ontario’s Anesthesiologists Resident Award.

Dr. Alexandria Page

Western Representative

Dr. Alexandria Page, MB BChir is at the University of California, San Francisco. Her published work focuses on critical-care metabolism and nutrition, including prone positioning in non-intubated hypoxemic respiratory failure, measurement of catabolism, energy balance and ICU length of stay, and ketogenic feeding in the critically ill.

Immediate Past Presidents

Allison Janda, MD (University of Michigan)
Daniel Rubin, MD, MS (University of Chicago)