Looking to the Future Scholarship Program

Since 2006, 490 scholarships have been awarded to underwrite expenses for attendance at the STS Annual Meeting and to provide mentorship to aspiring cardiothoracic surgeons.

Scholarships include complimentary registration for the STS 54th Annual Meeting, January 27-31, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, FL, a 3-night stay at an STS-designated hotel, participation in exclusive events, and reimbursement of up to $500 in related travel expenses.

Qualified applicants include general surgery residents and medical students training in the U.S. or Canada who 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 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 recipients of an AATS Member for a Day scholarship, a STSA Brooks Scholarship, or a WTS scholarship). Please note previous Looking to the Future Scholarship recipients are not eligible; however, previous applicants are encouraged to re-apply.

A list of the 2018 scholarship recipients can be found below. Applications for the 2019 scholarship will open in mid-August 2018.

If you have questions, contact Rachel Pebworth, Affiliate Manager, Awards and Operations.

Medical Student Recipients

Esteban Aguayo UCLA/CDU School of Medicine	Hayden Leeds Oregon Health and Science University
Michael Basin Keck School of Medicine	Mitchell Milanuk University of Nebraska Medical Center
Juan Caceres University of Michigan Medical School	Jack Mizelle Boston University School of Medicine
Nicholas Cavanaugh Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine	Ian Monroe University of Toledo College of Medicine
Sarah Chen University of California, Davis	Morgan Moroi Penn State College of Medicine
Paul Delle Wayne State University School of Medicine	Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako Yale School of Medicine
Kathleen Doyle Emory University School of Medicine	Jacqueline Olive Baylor College of Medicine
Malak Elbatarny Queen's University	Felix Orelaru Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
James Etheridge Eastern Virginia Medical School	Chelsea-Ann Patry University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Dwight Harris The University of Kentucky	Joel Ramirez University of California, San Francisco
Sarah Hill Northeast Ohio Medical University	Benjamin Smood University of Alabama at Birmingham
Melissa Koci Medical University of South Carolina	Rosalie Sterner Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Aravind Krishnan Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Anirudh Vinnakota Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Connor Kriz Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University	Linh Vuong Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Samantha Landino Harvard Medical School	John Wright University of Louisville

General Surgery Resident Recipients

Alicia Bonanno Oregon Health and Science University	John Monu University of Washington
Darren Bryan University of Chicago	Andrew Nagy University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Michael Cain Medical College of Wisconsin Affilliated Hospitals	Alexander Nissen San Antonio Military Medical Center
James Clark University of California, Davis	Rio Nomoto Tufts Medical Center
Erin Corsini Baylor College of Medicine	Kunal Patel Medical University of South Carolina
Michael Dacey UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine	Lam Pham University of Mississippi Medical Center
Justin Drake University of Tennessee Health Science Center	Joseph Reza Florida Hospital
Sarah Eapen Summa Health	Robert Roether Spectrum Health/Michigan State University
Rahul Handa Washington University in St. Louis	John Vossler University of Hawaii
Mickey Ising University of Louisville	Niluka Wickramaratne Virginia Commonwealth University
Michael Jarrett University of Colorado	Aaron Williams University of Michigan Health System/Michigan Medicine
Jahnavi Kakuturu Saint Mary's Hospital	Brittney Williams University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nick Levinsky University of Cincinnati	Stanley Wolfe Allegheny General Hospital
Kimberly Linden Cooper University Hospital	Joshua Yoon George Washington University
Vanessa Miller University of Alabama at Birmingham	Xue Zeng University of Texas Southwestern

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.