Do you know an ASRA Pain Medicine colleague who is doing great things under the radar? Nominate them for the Monday Member Spotlight!
Help us recognize members making a difference through clinical care, teaching, mentorship, research, community involvement, advocacy, and more.
Nominations are accepted year-round, and self-nominations are welcome. Priority will be given to members not previously featured in ASRA Pain Medicine activities.
2026
October
Dalia Elmofty, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Pain Fellowship Program Director
Resident/Fellowship Programs
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
September
Mikhail Goman, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
August
Suryakumar Narayanasamy, MBBS, MD, FASA
Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Associate Director for Anesthesia Imaging, Department of Anesthesiology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH
July
Raymond S. Joseph, Jr., MD
Anesthesiologist and Fellowship Director
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
Seattle, WA
June
Sukhman Shergill, MD
Instructor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Program Director, Chronic Pain Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
May
Iyabo O. Muse, MD, FASA
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Virginia School of Medicine/UVA Health System
Division Chief, Regional Anesthesia & Acute Pain Medicine
Charlottesville, VA
April
Christopher J. Li, MD, DABMA
Assistant Director of Perioperative Pain Management
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
March
Jody Cimbalo Leng, MD, MS
Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford Health Care
Director of Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
Stanford, CA
February
Kathryn Rea DelPizzo, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Management
Clinical Director of Pediatric Anesthesia
Hospital for Special Surgery
Clinical Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
2025
November
Stephen Rodriguez, MD
Associate Chief of Pain Medicine
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Bethesda, MD
October
Brian N. Vaughan, MD, FASA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
September
Pankti Acharya, DO, MPH
Anesthesiology Resident Physician
Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ
August
Bryant Tran, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
July
Che Antonio Solla, MD, MBA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University Anesthesiologists
UT Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
June
Jinlei Li, MD, PhD, FASA
Associate Professor
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
May
Pedram Aleshi, MD
Clinical Professor of Anesthesia
University of California
San Francisco, CA
April
Tiffany Tedore, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY
March
Walid Alrayashi, MD
Director of Regional Anesthesiology
Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
February
Brian F.S. Allen, MD, FASA, FASRA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
January
Swathi Rayasam, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Aurora, CO