Safety & Quality Committee
The Safety and Quality Committee promotes the highest standards of safety and quality in anaesthesia globally, providing support across the full range of WFSA programmes.
Key Committee Aims:
- Foster safe and high-quality anaesthesia practice in all WFSA Member Societies.
- Maintain, disseminate, and advocate for WHO-WFSA International Standards for Safe Practice in Anaesthesia
- Ensure effective communication in innovative practices, having considered the financial and social constraints that may prevent their adoption by all Member Societies.
- Develop partnerships with other organisations that share our values regarding safety and quality.
- Seek new methods to implement safe practices throughout the world.
- Seek funding and support for WFSA activities relating to safety and quality, and work to expand those activities.
- Promote, support, and organise activities for World Patient Safety Day (17 September).
2024-2026 Safety and Quality Committee Activities:
- Strengthening collaboration with Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
- Advocacy for Perioperative Patient Blood Management (P-PBM)
Additional Resources:
Members of the Safety and Quality Committee:
Chair | |
Erlinda Dela Cruz Oracion | Philippines |
Deputy Chair | |
Le Shen | China |
Africa and the Middle East | |
Edwin Lugazia | Tanzania |
Samia Madi-Jebara | Lebanon |
Naima Yusuf | Tanzania |
Asia | |
Apurb Sharma | Nepal |
Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands | |
Airton Bagatini | Brazil |
Jorge H Rubio | Colombia |
Europe | |
Hilal Ayoglu | Turkey |
Benedikt Preckel | Netherlands |
Jonas Wrigstad (Co-opted) | Sweden |
North America | |
Beverley Orser | Canada |
Elizabeth Rebello | USA |
Karen C. Nanji | USA |