Message from Program Director
Thank you for your interest in the Anesthesiology Residency Program at Westchester Medical Center (WMC) in affiliation with New York Medical College (NYMC)! We are proud to provide unparalleled clinical training across all subspecialties by dedicated and experienced faculty in a supportive learning environment.
Westchester Medical Center is a busy Level 1 Trauma Center and major referral hospital for the entire Lower Hudson Valley. In 2025, 14,000 patients were transferred to Westchester Medical Center. It provides the full spectrum of surgical services, including:
- Robust liver, kidney, and heart transplant services
- The only Adult and Pediatric Burn Center for Eastern New York outside New York City
- A complex Neurosurgical service and Comprehensive Stroke Center
- The free-standing Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
- High-risk Obstetrics, including a SOAP Center of Excellence OB Anesthesia service
- A Cardiothoracic Surgery service, specializing in circulatory support, transplant, major aortic reconstructions, and robotic thoracic surgery
Over the course of training, our residents become adept at caring for patients of the highest acuity and complexity using the most advanced clinical tools and techniques available. Two months of training are spent at our affiliate site, Danbury Hospital in Danbury, CT, which augments the clinical experience at WWestchester Medical Center by providing exposure to the community hospital-level OB Anesthesia and Cardiac Anesthesia caseload. An additional two months are spent at MidHudson Regional Hospital (MHRH), a geographically separate part of Westchester Medical Center, located in Poughkeepsie, NY. The MHRH rotation serves as the program’s community anesthesia site, allowing the residents to care for the patients we serve closer to their homes. The department includes three anesthesia fellowships: Adult Cardiac Anesthesia, Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management, and Multidisciplinary Pain Management.
Anesthesiology residency training at Westchester Medical Center is fun, exciting, and fulfilling, but it is also stressful! The Program is truly dedicated to fostering and maintaining the well-being of its trainees. Work hours average 50-55 hours per week across all levels of training and residents working in the ORs are relieved at 5pm when not on call. We are able to honor most vacation requests and are accommodating of the use of sick and personal time. We have had many successful graduates, both male and female, who have had children during residency (somehow twins seem to be popular!) and fully support the needs of people with young families.
Our program’s mission and commitment are to care for patients regardless of their ability to pay, to improve the clinical outcomes and serve the health needs of our diverse patient population.
In the 2026 Match cycle, we are offering 13 PGY-1 positions. Our application review process is holistic and focuses on:
- Academic achievement, including success in clinical rotations
- Work and extracurricular activities
- Life experiences and evidence of resilience
- Scholarly productivity
Best of luck to all in the application season and 2026 Match!
A. Elisabeth Abramowicz, MD, FASA
Residency Program Director
Westchester Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
New York Medical College
Program Overview
The Clinical Anesthesiology (CA) resident training takes place at Westchester Medical Center (WMC), the main rotation site, and a community hospital in Danbury, CT (total of 2-3 months over the course of training). The Westchester Medical Center experience includes a no-call rotation/no weekend/no holiday rotation at our Poughkeepsie site. CA-3 residents also have the opportunity to 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 2026 Match, we offer 13 positions in the Categorical Track – 2157040C0 – with a start date of July 1, 2026.
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 all COMLEX I and COMLEX II 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
2025-26 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 (MidHudson 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, 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.
Danbury Hospital
Danbury Hospital is a large teaching community hospital in Danbury, CT. Most cases at Danbury are elective, and clinical services focus on standardized clinical pathways within the perioperative surgical home.
Typically, the first of the two required Obstetric and Cardiac Anesthesiology rotations are assigned at Danbury. Two residents rotate at Danbury every month. Because Danbury Hospital is 30 miles northeast of Westchester Medical Center, housing is provided for rotating residents onsite. The house provides individual bedrooms, a shared bathroom, a fully stocked kitchen, and ample parking.
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 with a special interest in OB Anesthesia an elective, four-week rotation on a very busy OB service with a mix of lower and higher complexity deliveries.