Overview
The Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship is an ACGME-accredited program that incorporates 12 months of extensive clinical expertise in both peripheral and neuraxial blocks, as well as the management of acute pain conditions. Trainees will become adept at a wide range of single shot and continuous regional techniques. Fellows develop independence over a period of months before assuming a broader role supervising junior residents.
Objectives
Our fellowship adheres to the consensus guidelines for training determined by the directors of Regional Anesthesia Fellowship Group and the ACGME requirements for training in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine.
Clinical Experience
Our regional anesthesia service performs over 3,000 peripheral and neuraxial blocks per year, both inside and outside the operating rooms. All our regional faculty members have extensive clinical experience or have completed fellowship training in regional anesthesia or pain management. Rotations are organized in 4-week blocks and include the following:
- Inpatient regional service at NYP/WCMC: 14 weeks
- Ambulatory regional service at DHK Ambulatory Center, NYP/WCMC: 10 weeks
- Regional service at NYP/Columbia: 6 weeks
- Inpatient acute pain service at NYP/WCMC: 12 weeks
- Chronic pain service at NYP/WCMC: 2 weeks
- Orthopedic trauma operating room experience at NYP/WCMC: 4 weeks
- Elective - Any of the above or regional service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: 4 weeks
- Vacation: 4 weeks
During their training, our fellows have the unique opportunity to rotate at several world-class institutions, including NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center (NYP/WCMC), the David H. Koch ambulatory surgery center, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (NYP/CUMC) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Fellows can expect to gain expertise in the following procedures:
- Upper extremity blocks and catheters - Interscalene, supraclavicular, infraclavicular, costoclavicular, axillary, including distal nerve blocks
- Lower extremity blocks and catheters - Femoral, lateral femoral cutaneous, sciatic, popliteal, saphenous, iPACK
- Truncal blocks - Lumbar plexus, paravertebral, TAP, rectus sheath, quadratus lumborum, PEC, serratus anterior, erector spinae, transversus thoracis muscle plane (TTMP) and pecto-intercostal fascial plane
- Airway blocks for fiberoptic intubation
- Ultrasound and nerve stimulator techniques
- Neuraxial blocks, including thoracic epidurals
- Acute pain management procedures
- Management of acute pain in the chronic pain patient
- Exposure to pediatric regional procedures
- Exposure to chronic pain management procedures
Didactics/Scholarly Activities
Didactics
In addition to a formal lecture series and web-based curriculum, fellows participate in:
- Formal Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) course and training
- APPLIED exam review course (including OSCEs)
- Multidisciplinary conferences
- A monthly journal club and difficult case conference
- Simulation training in our SAIL lab
- Formal quality and patient safety training and project
Scholarly Activities
Fellows are required to participate in scholarly activities, which may include clinical research projects, presentations at national meetings, Grand Rounds presentations, dedicated academic time, the potential to participate in a clinical experience abroad with our global health program, or teaching initiatives with the residents and medical students. Individual projects must be approved by the fellowship director and the departmental leadership. At a minimum, 15% of a fellow's scheduled time will be earmarked and protected for academic pursuits.
Medical Student Teaching
Fellows are invited to participate in medical student teaching and outreach. Our division holds quarterly ultrasound anatomy workshops for interested medical students. Our goal is to introduce anesthesiology early in the preclinical years in a way that provides the students with useful information and clinical correlates to their studies.
How to Apply
Application
Accepting RAAPM applications starting: January 6, 2025 via SF Match (see below)
Application deadline: March 15, 2025
Applicants will have to register with and apply to our program through the SF Match website. SF Match will be the central site involved in processing applications, accepting rank lists, processing of the match itself, as well as providing post-match vacancy matching.
Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship with SF Match Portal
Application Process
1. Application Portal opens January 6, 2025
2. Locate program(s) of interest using the ASRA Fellowship Directory
3. Register as an applicant to Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine (RAAPM) Fellowship on SFMatch.org
4. Complete the RAAPM application documents within the SF Match system
5. Locate program(s) of interest using the ASRA Fellowship Directory
6. Programs will set up interviews once applications are received via SF Match portal
7. Note all pertinent deadline dates for your application cycle on SF Match or the ASRA RAAPM Fellowship page
8. Submit rank list before deadline date: June 2, 2025 at 12pm.
9. In some cases, you may be eligible to commit to a program with an exception agreement, after registration on SF Match. These agreements are initiated by the program director and not the applicant.
10. Obtain match results on date published by SF Match: June 9, 2025 at 9am.
Please email ITE scores and any other supporting documents to regional@med.cornell.edu
Other Information
Number of Positions: 2
Call: No in-house call
Salary 2024-2025: $113,500
Book allowance: $900
Conference Reimbursement: $2,000
NYPH Visa Rules for Foreign Applicants
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) will only accept foreign nationals (FNs) into this GME program who secure J-1 nonimmigrant classification, which is administered by ECFMG (Educational Commission for Foreign Graduates) or are otherwise authorized to work for the program duration without sponsorship by NYPH. NYPH will not sponsor any candidate for an H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or any other status to participate in this program. In very limited circumstances, the NYPH will support O-1 sponsorship for FNs who qualify based on their extraordinary ability. In these instances, however, the FN will be required to pay for and use the services of an NYPH-approved immigration legal provider who first will provide an opinion to NYPH that you are eligible for the O-1 classification and, if NYPH agrees to support the petition, then prepare and file an O-1 petition on your behalf.
Fellowship Leadership

Tiffany Tedore, MD
Program Director, Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology

Shelby Badani, MD, MS, MSPH
Associate Program Director, Regional Anesthesiology & Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship
Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Contact:
Marlene Augustine
Fellowship Program Coordinator
Department of Anesthesiology
Weill Cornell Medicine
525 East 68th Street, Box 124
New York, NY 10065
Phone: 212-746-2785
Email: maa2010@med.cornell.edu
Email: regional@med.cornell.edu
Faculty
Tiffany Tedore, MD, Program Director
Shelby Badani, MD, MSPH, MS, Associate Program Director
Eric Brumberger, MD
Justin Chung, MD
Rohan Jotwani, MD, MBA
Deirdre Kelleher, MD
Shona Lee, MD
Matthew Murrell, MD, PhD
Mohammed Piracha, MD, MBA, MSc
John Rubin, MD
Zack Turnbull, MD, MBA, MS
Marissa Weber, MD
Robert Wong, MD
Current Fellows

Younghoon Nicolas Moon, MD
2024-2025

Sharon Sun, MD
2024-2025
Former Fellows 2023-2024

Neil Borad, MD
2023-2024
Current: NYP/WCMC
Residency: NYP/WCMC

Nicolas Salvatierra, MD, MBA
2023-2024
Current: NYP/WCMC
Residency: NYP/WCMC
Former Fellows

Nikhil Mikkilineni, MD
2022-2023
Current: Boston Medical Center
Residency: Boston Medical Center

Richa Sharma, MBBS
2022-2023
Current: Integrated Anesthesia Associates working with Hartford Hospital & Hospital of Central CT
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Justin Chung, MD
2021-2022
Current: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Vanessa Ng, MD
2021-2022
Current: University of Chicago Medicine
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Matt Kauffman, MD
2020-2021
Current: Princeton Anesthesia Services, Penn Medicine
Residency: Brigham & Women's Hospital

John Rubin, MD
2020-2021
Current: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Ryan Lippell, MD
2019-2020
Current: Stamford Anesthesiology Services, Stamford Hospital; Stamford, CT
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Hannah Lin, MD
2019-2020
Current: Long Island Physicians, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medicine
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Melvin La, MD
2018-2019
Current: UCSF
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Ashley Wells, MD
2018-2019
Current: Veterans Affairs New York Harbor; Brooklyn, NY
Residency: Mt. Sinai, New York, NY