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President’s Message to Member societies : December 2024

Dear Colleagues,
This has been a year of incredible challenges but also wonderful opportunities for WFSA and indeed the wider world. We will be sharing our 2024 annual report in early January but in the meantime, I would like to highlight a few things I am particularly proud of this year:
  • The 18th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists held in Singapore in March with over 5000 in-person participants. Many thanks to all of you who made this such a success. The abstracts from WCA2024 have now been published as a supplement to Anesthesia & Analgesia and can be accessed here.
  • Turning the regional Santa Cruz Declaration on Patient Blood Management into a global movement and a declaration which so far 78 Member Societies, 5 Regional Sections  and 11 global partner organisations have signed. Please continue to reach out to lauren.hyland@wfsahq.org if your Society would like to support this.
  • Our ongoing robust engagement with the World Health Organizationincluding active participation in technical fora such as the Acute Care Action Network and Global Alliance for Care of the Injured, and impactful advocacy on behalf of our global anaesthesiology family at WHO Regional Committees.
  • World Anaesthesia Day 2024 with the theme of ‘Workforce Well-being’ generated excellent online engagement with participation from colleagues in 120 countries and over 5,200 social media posts.
  • Continued delivery of our training courses and Fellowships, alongside an increased emphasis on webinars on topics ranging from well-being to critical and intensive care. I am also pleased to report excellent engagement with our WCA2026 webinars, held monthly under the leadership of the Scientific Track Co-Chairs for Marrakech.

I have had a busy travel and meeting schedule during the last six months. As well as ANESTHESIOLOGY 2024 in Philadelphia and several WHO expert meetings, I have attended Member Society and regional conferences in South Africa, Tunisia, and Morocco. Many thanks to colleagues in these countries for their hospitality. I have also participated virtually in multiple conferences and other events, including the Brazilian, Lebanese and Turkish Societies’ meetings. It’s always an honour to be invited to a conference as WFSA President and be able to represent our global family.

Congratulations to the Mauritanian Society for being the latest society to join WFSA this November. Our Federation now has 142 Member Societies representing anaesthesiologists in 151 countries worldwide.

As this year draws to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on our global anaesthesiology family and the amazing work you are doing around globe. Our thoughts are especially with those working in areas of conflict and unrest.

I hope that the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 will be happy and safe for you all. I look forward to meeting many of you in the new year, and to sharing the excitement as we get closer to the 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists being held in Morocco in April 2026.

Best wishes
Professor Daniela Filipescu
WFSA President

 

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  • Limited to 300 words
  • Formatted using the following sections headers: Purpose, Background/Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
  • Do not include figures, tables or references.
  • Accepted abstracts will be presented as oral or electronic poster presentations.

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