New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus Program

Program Identity & Fit

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell's anesthesiology residency is a university-based, quaternary-care program whose identity is built around a formalized physician-scientist pipeline (the Van Poznak Anesthesiology Research Scholarship) offering up to nine months of protected research time, tri-institutional mentorship with Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Cornell Tech, and a documented track record of scholars securing FAER/NIH training grants. Clinical training spans a tertiary academic medical center plus subspecialty rotations at MSK and HSS, with named strengths in regional anesthesia/acute pain, chronic pain, critical care, neuroanesthesia, big-data outcomes research (Center for Perioperative Outcomes), and a distinctive global health division with a dedicated fellowship and fieldwork in India and Rwanda. The program explicitly recruits MD-PhDs and clinician-scientists intending academic careers, and structures career trajectories through PGY5-6 research or clinical fellowship years with substantial protected time, signaling that it values residents who arrive with an articulated research identity or global-health/human-rights commitment rather than solely clinical excellence. Its scale (86 residents, 20 categorical positions) and named pathways (Van Poznak, Global Health Track) reflect an institution oriented toward producing subspecialty fellows, independent investigators, and academic leaders rather than generalist community anesthesiologists.