{"id":23670,"date":"2025-12-18T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/?p=23670"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:30:04","slug":"spotlight-on-leadership-susie-martinelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/spotlight-on-leadership-susie-martinelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Leadership: Susie Martinelli, MD, FASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward A. Norfleet, MD &#8217;70 Distinguished Professor and Residency Program Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/directory\/susan-martinelli\/\"><strong>Susie Martinelli, MD, FASA,<\/strong><\/a> has long been recognized as a national leader in anesthesiology education. She is one of 12 distinguished Anesthesiology residency program leaders nationwide currently serving on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)\u2019s Anesthesiology Residency Review Committee (RRC). Dr. Martinelli has also served as the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA)\u2019s Educational Advisory Board Chair, an Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors (AACPD) Council member, and on the Society for Education in Anesthesia Board of Directors, among other national leadership posts. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2023\/11\/Susie-Martinelli.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2023\/11\/Susie-Martinelli.png 247w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2023\/11\/Susie-Martinelli-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNC Anesthesiology is pleased to recognize Dr. Martinelli\u2019s election and appointment to two positions in 2025 that reaffirm her place among leading decision-makers nationwide in the field of anesthesiology education. In July 2025, Dr. Martinelli was elected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acgme.org\/specialties\/anesthesiology\/review-committee-members\/\">Vice Chair of the ACGME Anesthesiology RRC<\/a> she serves on as a six-year appointee (2022-2028). \u00a0In November 2025, she was appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saaapm.org\/candidates-for-upcoming-elections---aacpd\">President-Elect of the Association of Anesthesiology Core Program Directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRELATED<\/strong> (Nov 2022): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/martinelli-named-one-of-12-leaders-in-anesthesiology-education-to-serve-on-acgme-residency-review-committee\/\"><strong>Susie Martinelli: Leadership in Anesthesiology Education at UNC and In the Field<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward A. Norfleet, MD &#8217;70 Distinguished Professor and Residency Program Director Susie Martinelli, MD, FASA, has long been recognized as a national leader in anesthesiology education. She is one of 12 distinguished Anesthesiology residency program leaders nationwide currently serving on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)\u2019s Anesthesiology Residency Review Committee (RRC). Dr. Martinelli &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/spotlight-on-leadership-susie-martinelli\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spotlight on Leadership: Susie Martinelli, MD, FASA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17488,"featured_media":18455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured-item":[],"class_list":["post-23670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spotlight on Leadership: Susie Martinelli, MD, FASA | Department of Anesthesiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/spotlight-on-leadership-susie-martinelli\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spotlight on Leadership: Susie Martinelli, MD, FASA | Department of Anesthesiology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edward A. 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