At IARS, we believe cutting-edge research is essential to improving patient care, shaping clinical practice and empowering the next generation of anesthesia leaders. We don’t just fund studies, we cultivate innovation, mentorship and scientific excellence around the globe.

“The IARS is willing to take a bet on new studies and important questions that larger funding agencies, like the NIH, are very unlikely to bet on.”— Past award recipient

“[The IMRA] has allowed me to further anesthesiology presence in critical care research and specifically, critical care nephrology. Anesthesiology has a vital role to play in critical care research and needs to have more investigators at the forefront of the research.”– 2017 IARS Mentored Research Recipient Jamie Privratsky, MD, PhD

“[My IMRA-funded research project] is something I’m very, very proud of, not just because we had good preliminary data to put into the project, but because of the funding it just spun out a lot of studies that were very unbiased, but high-quality studies, that we had a real joy to write up and submit to journals. They were all very successful.”– 2015 IARS Mentored Research Award Recipient Laura Cornelissen, Msci, PhD

“This [IMRA-funded] study will really help us identify not only how many patients don’t get back to their preoperative level, but how do we predict who that is, and that will help us design interventions to make sure that patients can get back to their functional status that they were at before, if not better. It really helps change the paradigm of postoperative outcome assessment and makes it more patient-centered. This study plays a very important part of that. And so in and of itself, it’s probably a small part, but it will definitely lead to bigger and greater things that will improve patient care.”– 2018 IARS Mentored Research Award Recipient Interview: Karim Ladha, MD