Message from Dr. Abramowicz, current Program Director
Our residency program has a long and illustrious history. Accredited in 1969 with WMC as its primary training site, the program’s sponsoring institution was NYMC. In 2018, Westchester Medical Center, massively bigger, and by then, the flagship hospital of a large network, took over the responsibilities as sponsoring institution. Along with the institution, the program has grown and now has 52 accredited categorical positions.
WMC Anesthesiology is what I call a “complete program” – our residents are exposed to the whole spectrum of both adult and pediatric interventional, obstetrical and surgical medical care, which includes: trauma, burn and solid organ transplant, ECMO and the whole range of mechanical circulatory assist devices, as well as a comprehensive non-OR anesthesia exposure, including mechanical thrombectomy for stroke, radiation therapy, and complex interventional cardiology.
I have had the privilege of serving as the Program’s PD since August 2016 with a hiatus of 14 months as APD. I am immensely proud of the program’s evolution, its reputation and standing and most of all, of our current residents and the 100+ graduates who are working and thriving in more than 10 States as Diplomates of the American Board of Anesthesiology generalists and fellowship-trained subspecialists.
It is time I pass the torch to a new PD and focus on my responsibilities as V-Chair of Education. We took our time, convened a committee of faculty, residents and administrators of GME, and interviewed many qualified applicants from throughout the nation. We are very excited to announce the new PD-designee, Dr. Samit Ghia, an accomplished cardiac anesthesiologist and enthusiastic GME leader. Dr. Ghia will take over as PD in October 2026.
A. Elisabeth Abramowicz, MD, FASA
Residency Program Director
Westchester Medical Center
Professor of Anesthesiology
Vice Chair of Education
New York Medical College
Message from Dr. Ghia to the WMC GME Committee, the Program and the 2027 Match applicants
It is with profound excitement and honor that I assume the role of Program Director for this truly distinguished residency program. I look forward to fulfilling my responsibility of educating, training, and developing the next generation of anesthesiologists. Indeed, it was this program’s robust educational and clinical foundations that drew me to this role, and I hope that the prospective trainees and program applicants will discover the same immense possibilities here for your own growth and development.
Dr. Samit Ghia
Cardiac Anesthesiologist
Residency Program Director starting October 2026
Westchester Medical Center
Virtual Open House
Westchester Medical Center
Anesthesiology Residency Program
Virtual Open House
Date: August 25th, 2026
Time: 6:00pm-7:20pm
Program Overview
The Clinical Anesthesiology (CA) resident training takes place at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) in Valhalla, NY, the main rotation site, and two community hospitals: Good Samaritan Hospital (GS) in Suffern , NY and Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital (MHRH) in Poughkeepsie, NY (for total of 3 months over four years of training). Both hospitals are administratively a part of WMC. The MHRH experience includes a no-call rotation/no weekend/no holiday rotation at our Poughkeepsie site, while the GS experience includes a month each of OB Anesthesia and Cardiac Anesthesia CA-3 residents also can complete an elective rotation in obstetric anesthesia at Mt. Sinai and Morningside West Hospital in Manhattan.
Program Curriculum
How to Apply
This program participates in NRMP and accepts applications only through ERAS.
In the 2027 Match, we offer 13 positions in the Categorical Track – 2157040C0 – with a start date of July 1, 2027.
Medical Students: a complete application consists of
- ERAS Common Application Form
- Medical school transcript
- Official USMLE transcript with Step I (or Pass) and Step II CK scores (Students at Osteopathic Medical Schools should also submit their COMLEX scores)
- Dean’s letter (MSPE)
- Personal Statement – please include information about you that the other elements of the application do not relay. This helps us decide whether you could be successful in the Anesthesiology Residency at Westchester Medical Center.
- At least three letters of recommendation from clinical faculty who have direct (best) or composite knowledge of the applicant’s performance. We do value letters from Anesthesiologists.
Applicants who are already in training MUST provide a letter of recommendation from the current Program Director.
All attempts will be made to schedule the interview on a date that is convenient for the selected candidate. Applicants will have protected time to interact with our residents in a break-out session.
Off-cycle applicants are considered only if there is a vacancy posted on the AAMC’s FindAResident website.
Resident Life
2026-27 Anesthesiology Residents
- Jenaye Burrows, MBBS – University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences, Jamaica
- Sarah Cunningham, MD – Albany Medical College
- Shawn D’Souza, MD – Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
- Caitlin Gaudio, MD – New York Medical College
- Mark Hans, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Aleksandr Harutyunyan, MD – New York Medical College
- Benjamin Hernried, MD – New York Medical College
- Lauren Major, MD – SUNY Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
- Norbert Smietalo, MD – New York Medical College
- Aaron Stolarov, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Tanay Vasavada, MD – SUNY Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine
- Rachna Vemireddy, MD – Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Nick Winokur, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Sohil Ardeshna, MD — University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Hong Fei Bao, MD — SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
- Cameron Chan, MD — CUNY School of Medicine
- David Gelston, MD — Emory University School of Medicine
- Dylan Holzgruber, MD — New York Medical College
- Michael Hui, MD — Boston University School of Medicine
- Ari Mermelstein, MD — New York Medical College
- Pranav Parsi, MD — CUNY School of Medicine
- Akshar Patel, MD — USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
- Matthew Peraica, DO — New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Shreya Raavicharla, MD — Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
- Jeremy Wadowski, MD — SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
- Yikun (Cathy) Zhang, MD — Albany Medical College
- Jahnvi Bansal, MD — Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
- Sara Buzel, MD — Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
- Phillip Dudley, MD — New York Medical College
- Daniel Haddad, DO — Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine
- Amran Hussain, MD — Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
- Jenson John, DO — New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Rahul Kataria, MD — University of Illinois College of Medicine
- Rafae Nasim, MD — Albany Medical College
- Brinda Patolia, MD — New York Medical College
- Katiana Philippe, MD — CUNY School of Medicine
- Michael Savallo, DO — New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Aron Sulovari, MD — University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Nick Yu, MD — Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
- Shuchi Gaur, MD — New York Medical College
- Bradley Hillyard, MD — University of Utah
- Eileen Hu, MD — Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Elizabeth Kim, MD — CUNY School of Medicine
- Matthew Lettieri, MD — SUNY Downstate
- David Lewis, MD — New York Medical College
- Michael Mackey, MD — Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
- Stefen Roth, DO — Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Egor Smirnov, MD — Saint Petersburg Pavlov State Medical University
- Julia Sokel, MD — SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
- Cordell Spellman, MD — Medical College of Wisconsin
- Vincent Tang, DO — New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Alexandra Vazquez, MD – CUNY School of Medicine
- Ailan Zhang, MD, PhD — Sun Yat-Sen University
What Recent Graduates Are Doing
About 40-50 percent of recent graduates have pursued a fellowship, with the remainder entering general practice in a variety of settings. Among our graduates who applied for fellowship, most have matched within their top three choices.
- Regional and Acute Pain at UC Davis, California
- Regional and Acute Pain at Stanford University, California
- Pediatric Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts
- Regional and Acute Pain, Westchester Medical Center, New York
- Chronic Pain, Case Western University, Ohio
- Cardio Thoracic Anesthesia, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
- Cardio Thoracic Anesthesia, New York University, New York
- Critical Care Anesthesia, University of Michigan, Michigan
- Critical Care Medicine (CCM) at Emory University, Georgia
- Pediatric Anesthesia at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California
- Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia (ACTA): University of California LA
- Critical Care: University of Florida
- Pain Management: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Pediatrics: University of Colorado
- Perioperative Medicine: Duke University
- Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management (RAAPM): Virginia Commonwealth University
- Pediatrics: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Critical Care: Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
- OB Anesthesia: The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
- ACTA/Critical Care: NY Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell)
- Neuroanesthesia: UCSF
- Critical Care: University of Michigan and Cedars Sinai Hospital, LA, CA
- RAAPM: Yale New Haven Hospital, CT
- Pediatric Anesthesia: Yale New Haven Hospital, CT and Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC
- Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (ACTA): The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
- ACTA/Critical Care: NY Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell)
- Pediatric Anesthesiology: UT Southwestern Dallas
- Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine: Westchester Medical Center
- Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology: U of Rochester, NY
- Pediatric Anesthesiology: U of Rochester, NY
- Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM): Dartmouth, NH and
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- OB Anesthesia – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- ACTA: The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
- Pediatric Anesthesiology: University of Michigan and Cincinnati Children’s
- Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM): U of CT/Hartford and UPMC, PA
- Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MA
- Critical Care: U of Pittsburgh (UPMC), PA
- Pain Management: Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY
- Pain Management: Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
- Pediatric Anesthesia: U of Pittsburgh and U of Iowa
- Critical Care: Brigham and Women’s, MA
- Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management: U of CT/Hartford
- OB Anesthesia: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA
- Pain Management: Johns Hopkins Medical Center, MD and The Mount Sinai Hospital, NY
- Pediatric Anesthesia: U of Michigan and Nemours Children’s, DE
- Northern NJ
- Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens/Bronx, Westchester County, NY
- Boston, MA
- Philadelphia, PA
- Bay Area, CA and Los Angeles, CA
- Denver, CO
- Miami, FL
- Dallas, TX
Our Clinical Locations
Westchester Medical Center
Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.
Westchester Medical Center has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR.
A Community Anesthesia site in Poughkeepsie, NY (Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital, a member of Westchester Medical Center Health Network) hosts two residents per rotation block who focus on joint replacement anesthesia and community pediatric anesthesia under fellowship-trained faculty.
Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art Westchester Medical Center Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that, when completed early in 2027, will span 162,000 square feet over five floors.
Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.
Good Samaritan Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital is a community hospital in Suffern, NY, located 23 highway miles from WMC. Most cases at GS are elective, and clinical services focus on excellent patient experience, rapid OR turnover and complication-free recovery.
Typically, the first of the two required Obstetric and Cardiac Anesthesiology rotations are assigned at Good Samaritan Hospital. Two residents rotate at GS every month.
Mount Sinai Morningside and West
Located on the Upper West Side of New York City, Mount Sinai Morningside and West provides our CA-3 residents who have a special interest in OB Anesthesia an elective, four-week rotation on a very busy OB service (about 6,000 per year) with a mix of lower and higher complexity deliveries.