Looking to the Future Scholarship Program

Since 2006, 550 Looking to the Future scholarships have been awarded to underwrite expenses for attendance at the STS Annual Meeting and provide mentorship to aspiring cardiothoracic surgeons.

The following scholarship recipients will receive complimentary registration for the STS 55th Annual Meeting and Tech-Con 2019 in San Diego, a 3-night stay at an STS-designated hotel, reimbursement of up to $500 in related travel expenses, an assigned mentor for one-on-one insights, and the ability to participate in exclusive events at the Annual Meeting.

2019 Medical Student Recipients

Shahnur Ahmed Wayne State University	Emily Kragel Brody School of Medicine
Imad Aljabban Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine	Arvind Kumar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Junedh Amrute Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	Dustin Lieu Keck School of Medicine
Brian Ayers University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry	Brian Lim Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bernice Badu Medical College of Wisconsin	Iris Liu University of California, San Francisco
Sandeep Bharadwaj Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine	Tom Liu Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Matthew Brown Georgetown University School of Medicine	Brian Lo The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ashley Choi Duke University School of Medicine	Kara McClain University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Carlos Cuenca Rutgers New Jersey Medical School	Umang Parikh Baylor College of Medicine
Kevin Cyr Stanford University School of Medicine	Sarah Rudasill David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Carolyn Dubeau Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University	Shivani Shah Harvard Medical School
Theresa Elder Central Michigan University College of Medicine	Erik Stiles Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Thais Faggion Vinholo Yale University School of Medicine	Morgan Walgren University of Nebraska Medical Center
Akash Fichadiya University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine	Gregory Wasserman NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine
Max Frenkel University of Wisconsin, Madison	Pong Xiong University of California, Davis

2019 General Surgery Resident Recipients

Ruth Ackah The Ohio State University	William Phillips Northwestern University
Rebecca Carr Sinai Hospital of Baltimore	Rahul Rajeev University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Kimberly Ellis Lahey Hospital and Medical Center	Benjamin Resio Yale New Haven Hospital
Dana Ferrari-Light New York Presbyterian, Queens	Sriganesh Sharma University of Michigan
Christian Frye Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital	Kimberly Shemanski University of Southern California
Andrew Hallett Thomas Jefferson University Hospital	Elan Sherazee University of California, Davis
Travis Hull Massachusetts General Hospital	Thomas Shin Cleveland Clinic
Rachel Kim Temple University	John Skendelas Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Martin Kosztowski University of Iowa	Kelly Stahl Penn State General Surgery Residency
Dana McCloskey Cooper University Hospital	Bailey Su University of Chicago
Brett Melnikoff University of Alabama, Birmingham	Alejandro Suarez-Pierre Johns Hopkins University
Philicia Moonsamy Massachusetts General Hospital	Karthik Thangappan University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Nicholas Oh University of California, Los Angeles	Matthew Wingo NYP - Weill Cornell Medicine
Ramola Panchal University of Mississippi Medical Center	Salman Zaheer Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Deven Patel Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Qualified applicants for the LTTF Scholarship Program include general surgery residents and medical students who are training at an institution in the United States or Canada and are considering a career in cardiothoracic surgery. The primary goal of the scholarship is to provide mentorship for the best and brightest of these applicants in the hopes of encouraging them to pursue CT surgery. Priority will be given to applicants who have not attended a national cardiothoracic surgery meeting or received another CT surgery meeting scholarship (such as the AATS Member for a Day scholarship, STSA Brooks Scholarship, or WTS scholarship). Please note that previous Looking to the Future Scholarship recipients are not eligible; however, previous applicants are encouraged to re-apply.

The following are eligible to apply:

Medical students training at an institution in the United States or Canada;
Clinical PGY1, PGY2, or PGY3 general surgery residents training at an institution in the United States or Canada; and
General surgery residents on dedicated research time who have not started their PGY4 clinical year training at an institution in the United States or Canada.

In addition to completing an online application, applicants will be asked to upload a current CV and a letter of recommendation signed by his or her Program Director or cardiothoracic surgery mentor. (Medical students may upload a letter of recommendation from an active faculty member at their medical school). Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Information on applying for the 2020 Scholarship will be posted later this year. Please contact Rachel Pebworth with any questions.

From left: LTTF Scholarship recipients Ace St. John
and Alyssa Flores with Elizabeth A. David, MD and
Rishindra M. Reddy, MD at the STS Annual Meeting
in January 2017.

Learn more about the experiences of two 2017 LTTF Scholarship winners.