The International Anesthesia Research Society awarded four promising, young investigators with $600,000 worth of new 2014 IARS Mentored Research Awards. Among them, the IARS grants program awarded Dr. Rene Przkora of UTMB $150,000 in grants for his work on anesthesia used in hip joint replacement surgeries. “Preconditioning of Older Patients Undergoing Hip Joint Replacement Surgery” is Przkora’s awarded project, which explores the role of anesthesiology in relation to hip replacement surgery from the preoperative period through to the surgery’s end, a project that IARS considers to be an important step in strengthening the specialty as well as supporting the surgical-home concept. Przkora focused on this theme in his research in response to the fact that joint replacement surgery is becoming more common and not only performed in the case of cancer or cardiovascular diseases.