Teacher of the Year Award

The SOAP Teacher of the Year Award recognizes outstanding practitioners of obstetric anesthesiology who have demonstrated superior teaching, primarily of anesthesiology residents and fellows and secondarily of obstetricians, nurses, midwives, and the lay public.


 2025 Teacher of the Year Nomination Period 

Nomination Period Opens: December 2, 2024
Nomination Period Closes: January 2, 2025

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 Teacher of the Year Award Recipients 

2024 Clemens Ortner, MD (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Emily Sharpe, MD 
(Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2023 Bhavani Kodali, MD (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Jennifer Dominguez, MD 
(Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2022 Heather Nixon, MD (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
David Berman, MD (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2021 Brendan Carvalho, MBBCh, FRCA, MDCH (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Grace Lim, MD, MSc (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2020 Regina Y. Fragneto, MD (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Bryan P. Mahoney, MD (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2019 Manuel C. Vallejo Jr., M.D. D.M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Daniel Katz, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2018 Barbara M. Scavone, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Michaela K. Farber, M.D. M.S. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2017 Philip E. Hess, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Heather C. Nixon, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2016 Joy E. Schabel, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Katherine W. Arendt, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2015 Jose Carvalho, M.D., Ph.D., FANZCA, FRCPC (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Rebecca Minehart, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2014 Cynthia Wong, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Paloma Toledo, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2013 Curtis Baysinger, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Mark Rollins, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2012 May Pian-Smith, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Brendan Carvalho, MBBCh, FRCA, MDCH (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2011 Lawrence C. Tsen, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Moeen Panni, M.D. Ph.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2010 Sivam Ramanthan, M.D. (Over 10 Years of Experience Category)
Sabri Barsoum, M.D. (Less than 10 Years of Experience Category)
2009 Medge D. Owen, M.D.
2008 William Camann, M.D.