Annual Meeting Awards

Kosaka Best Abstract Awards

Award Details

The Kosaka Best Abstract Awards are awarded to the top scoring abstracts submitted to the IARS Annual Meeting in three categories: Clinical Research, Basic Science, or Scholars.  Three (3) Top Finalists will be selected in each category and present during the Kosaka Best Abstract Session (5 minute talk, 3 minute Q&A, 5 slide max). The finalists will receive a $50 prize and one winner from each category will receive $500.

Kosaka Clinical and Basic Science award winners will receive complimentary registration and a $1,000 travel stipend to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting, May 1-3, 2026 in Montreal, Canada.

The Kosaka Best Abstract Awards are supported by the Japan Society for Clinical Anesthesia (JSCA) and the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). The founder of the JSCA, Dr. Futami Kosaka, started a cooperative relationship with IARS in 1990 and developed the foundation for today’s Kosaka Best Abstracts Session.

Eligibility Requirements

The abstract:

  • Must be submitted to the IARS Annual Meeting.
  • Must be submitted in Clinical Research, Basic Science or Scholars.

The presenting author indicated in the abstract submission:

  • Will receive the prize.
  • Is not required to have an active IARS Membership.
  • For the scholars category, author must be junior faculty member within the first six years of faculty appointment at the instructor or assistant professor level.

The abstract must be presented during the Kosaka Best Abstracts Session at the IARS Annual Meeting.

Prize

Top Finalists will receive:

  • $50 gift certificate and a certificate of recognition at the Annual Meeting

One winner from each category will receive:

  • $500 and a plaque after the IARS Annual Meeting

The Basic and Clinical Winners will receive a complimentary registration to the following year’s Annual Meeting and a $1000 travel stipend should they attend.

Past Winners

View the entire list of past Kosaka Award winners here.

IARS International Outreach Travel Grant

Award Details

Travel grant awards are now available from $1,000 and up to $5,000 to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting, presented by IARS and SOCCA, March 20-23, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The IARS International Outreach Travel Grant supports scientists globally and will grow the richness and diversity of background, location and expertise at the IARS Annual Meeting. These IARS travel grants are designed specifically for individuals located in low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income countries who are involved in research related to anesthesia. The IARS travel grants aim to make it possible for individuals, who would not otherwise be able to participate in the meeting, to access the wider global anesthesiology community through meaningful engagement at our leading-edge annual meeting.

View full details about this opportunity.

GRANT DEADLINES:

  • September 2024: Travel Grant submission site opens.
  • November 3, 2024: Travel Grant submissions due, 11:59 pm EST.
  • December 2024: Travel Grant applicants received submission status notification.
Prize

The travel grants will provide a stipend from $1,000 and up to $5,000 U.S. to awardees based on the economic classification of their country of origin as defined by The World Bank. 

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must:

  • Be a current IARS member,
  • Be located in a low-income, lower-middle-income or upper-middle-income country,
  • Have submitted an abstract to the 2025 Annual Meeting,
  • Be an early-career or mid-career investigator,
  • Be pursuing a career that involves research,
  • Be conducting research related to anesthesiology or perioperative medicine, and
  • Be connected directly or collaboratively to an anesthesia department.

Junior Faculty Travel Awards in Pediatric Anesthesia or Perioperative Medicine (supported by Y.S.Prakash)

Award Details

The Junior Faculty Travel Award in Pediatric Anesthesia is awarded to the top scoring abstract in the area of pediatric anesthesia by an early-stage faculty in an academic anesthesiology department within the first six years of faculty appointment at the instructor or assistant professor level. The awardee will receive a $500 prize and a certificate.

The Junior Faculty Travel Award in Perioperative Medicine is awarded to the top scoring abstract in the area of perioperative medicine by an early-stage faculty in an academic anesthesiology department within the first six years of faculty appointment at the instructor or assistant professor level. The awardee will receive a $500 prize and a certificate.

Eligibility Requirements

The abstract:

  • Must be submitted in the areas of pediatric anesthesia or perioperative medicine.
  • Must be presented as a poster presentation during the meeting.

The presenting author indicated in the abstract submission:

  • Must be an early-stage faculty in an academic anesthesiology department within the first six years of faculty appointment at the instructor or assistant professor level.
  • Will receive the prize.
Past Winners

Congratulations to the 2024 Winners

Perioperative Medicine: Identification of Frailty from Clinical Notes Among Surgical Patients Using Large Language Models

YingQiu K Zhou, MD, University of California San Diego

Pediatric Medicine: Effects of different anesthetics on the esophageal contractile response during functional lumen imaging probe topography

Erin Toaz, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Prize
  • $500 and certificate after the Annual Meeting