Candidates for Upcoming Elections - AACPD

2025 AACPD Council Candidates

Listed Alphabetically by Last Name

Candidate for President-Elect

Candidates for Secretary

Candidate for President-Elect

Susan M. Martinelli, MD, FASA
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

I have been privileged to serve in anesthesiology residency program leadership at the University of North Carolina since 2009—first as an APD for 11 years and now as Program Director for the past five years. This work has been the greatest source of my professional joy, though it comes with no shortage of challenges. Through it all, the AACPD community has been an invaluable source of support, friendship, and knowledge. I have been grateful for the opportunity to give back first as a Council Member for 2 years and currently as the organization’s Secretary.

Being a clinician educator has been the focus and passion of my career. Beyond my work with the AACPD, I have served as the Educational Advisory Board Chair for the Association of University Anesthesiologists and currently as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Education in Perioperative Medicine. Within the ACGME, I am the Vice Chair of the Anesthesiology Review Committee. My longstanding engagement with the Society for Education in Anesthesia has included Board membership, active committee participation, and chairing multiple meetings.

The AACPD has been central to my professional identity, shaping my approach to leadership, education, and advocacy for residency training. If elected President-Elect, I will continue to champion initiatives that strengthen our members, support our programs, and advance our shared mission. It would be a privilege and an honor to serve this remarkable community in this role.

Candidate for Secretary

Stephen R. Collins, MD, MSc
University of Virginia School of Medicine

The SAAAPM annual meeting is the best meeting of the year for educators who lead, manage, and teach within anesthesiology departments and training programs. I want to learn from and work with the members of SAAAPM and AACPD and to serve, both within the membership and in enriching our specialty and preparing residents for it.

I am a Virginia native, a graduate of The College of William and Mary and University of Virginia School of Medicine, and current Program Director of UVA’s Anesthesiology Residency Program. I am a national board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology and have interests in medical and resident education. I am married to an endocrinologist and am the father of two wonderful daughters.

Collaboration is fundamental to advance the core vision and goals of the SAAAPM organization. I want to continue to build relationships with residency program leaders and foster the goals of the AACPD and medical educators within our specialty. As Secretary within the AACPD Council, I will advance the interests of members and trainees and strive to build on the success of our shared mission.

Candidate for Secretary

Maurice F. Joyce, MD, EdM, FASA
Tufts Medical Center

I am writing to express my strong and enthusiastic interest in serving in the role of AACPD Secretary. I am an Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and serve in the role of Vice Chair for Education (since 11/2024) and Residency Program Director (since March 2021). In addition to my role as Vice Chair for Education and PD, I am also an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and direct the medical student clerkships in addition to serving as the Chair-elect of the medical school curriculum committee. Prior to my time at Tufts, I served in the role of Associate Program Director of the Brown/Rhode Island Hospital Anesthesiology Residency program (2017-2020), where I helped to start the residency program there.

The AACPD and SAAAPM have been invaluable resources for me in my journey in program and educational leadership. More specifically, I have found the annual meeting to be the most valuable and productive meeting that I attend each year in terms of collaboration, idea generation, and professional development. I have advanced training in education and bring this perspective in the design of educational programming for the adult learner audience, and more importantly in encouraging the use of evidence-based best practices within the content of this programming. Outside of the SAAAPM, I have the honor of serving as a board examiner and question author for the ABA, serving on the Education Advisory Board of the AUA, and serving on the Program Directors Advisory Group of the ASA; thus I can bring the perspectives of these peer organizations and hopefully continue to build upon collaboration with these groups.

Given the immense amount that the SAAAPM and AACPD has contributed to my professional development as an educational leader in Anesthesiology, it would be an incredible privilege to give back to the organization and assist in moving both the organization and anesthesiology education forward through this role. I look forward to the potential opportunity to contribute to the AACPD Council through the role of Secretary and greatly appreciate your consideration of my candidacy.

Candidate for Secretary

Bryan Mahoney, MD, FASA
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I have been a member of the SAAAPM AAACPD since 2014 when I begin my role as the Residency Program Director at the Mount Sinai West and Morningside program. This year I have served as a council member and will be leading the popular "Everything you Wanted to Know" session at the upcoming 2025 SAAAPM meeting. I have been very active in the SEA serving as the chair of the Advancement of Technology in Education committee helping to update the website and bringing new content to members and now serve on the board. I have worked with your AACPD council members to create a joint SAAAPM/SEA workshop for new program directors to help those joining our distinguished club better find their footing in the new role. Over the years, I have established a relationship with many of those in residency program leadership throughout the nation and feel that I can leverage my skills and relationships to further the goals of the AACPD. Thank you for your support thus far, and I promise to continue working hard to help advance the interests of our profession and trainees.

Candidate for Secretary

Crystal M. Manohar, MD, MBA, FASA
UT Health San Antonio

My name is Crystal Manohar, and I am interested in applying for the AACPD secretary position. By way of background, I completed my undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and went to medical school at the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University in Chicago. I completed my anesthesia residency and critical care fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2014-2020, I served as an active-duty Critical Care Anesthesiologist in the Air Force stationed at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. During my active-duty time I participated in a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic in 2016 and deployed to Bagram, Afghanistan in 2018. I completed a master’s in business administration degree through Baylor University in May 2020.

After separating from the military, I joined the University of Texas Health San Antonio (UTHSA) Department of Anesthesiology in July 2020 as an Associate Professor and Residency Associate Program Director. I became the UTHSA Anesthesiology Residency Program Director in November 2022. I became the Vice Chair of Education in July 2024 for the UTHSA Department of Anesthesiology. I have an interest in academics, graduate medical education, critical care medicine, resident education, feedback, and mentorship.

My original interest in the AACPD Council was to learn more about academic medicine, specifically graduate medical education in anesthesiology, and how to better medical student, residency, and fellowship education. I wish to continue to positively contribute to these endeavors as well. As a program director, I believe I can share valuable resident feedback from our program as well as successful changes we have implemented (i.e., intern academic hour, simulations, evaluation systems, peer mentorship groups, faculty development, Women in Anesthesiology program, etc.) I embrace the opportunity to grow professionally and contribute nationally. I am a member of multiple professional societies and seek to collaborate with colleagues in areas of education and research. I sit on three committees for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) with the intent to learn from my peers and implement national solutions locally. I am also a board examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) and a member of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination Committee and Standardized Oral Exam Committee. In these roles, I have gained valuable insights into what content is being tested, assist with creating exam material and understanding how programs across the country are preparing their graduates to become clinically proficient anesthesiologists and board certified.

I became a partial term AACPD Council member in January 2024 and have immensely enjoyed my time in this group and opportunities for growth, collaboration and contribution. Specifically, I have enjoyed contributing to planning of the 2024 SAAAPM Annual meeting and moderated a session about “Good Advice from Your Peers” where gave a presentation about “Supporting our Military Trainees” and helped recruit speakers to discuss community academic partnerships as well as balancing wellness and professionalism. I have also learned a lot from the AACPD surveys about signaling and helped share that information at state and local levels. I also appreciate being able to bring guidance from our national meetings to be heard at the state level in Texas.

Enjoying this work immensely, I ran for a full term AACPD councilor position and was selected in November 2024. I believe my traits of dedication, self-motivation, strong communication and being a hardworking teammate have served the AACPD Leadership board well. My contributions thus far have strengthened my desire to continue to advance SAAAPM and our specialty by running for the incoming ACCPD secretary. I look forward to continuing this important work. Thank you for your consideration.

Candidate for Secretary

Emily Stebbins
The University of Vermont Medical Center

It is with enthusiasm that I seek consideration of a 2-year term for Secretary with the AACPD leadership team. I have attended seven AACPD meetings in my eight years as program director at the University of Vermont Medical Center. In 2024, I was selected to speak on resident unionization during the large group session. The AACPD meetings are one of the highlights as a program director, and I value the time spent learning and developing collaborative relationships with other meeting participants.

I am passionate about resident education. I have lead two Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA) chief resident leadership conferences and a serve as the current chair of the Graduate Education Committee of SEA. I am excited for the opportunity to develop a leadership role within the AACPD core team, as this group has made important contributions to our community. The AACPD involvement in recommendations for recruitment signaling and virtual interviewing has been remarkable. I strive to be a part of the change in the education of residents in our specialty.