Sustainability Committee
The function of the Sustainability Committee is to engage with WFSA, other societies and peer medical associations around sustainability in anaesthesia. The healthcare industry has a disproportionally large environmental footprint that affects our communities and patients. The operating room is the largest consumer of resource and producer of waste in most hospitals.
Environmental health and sustainability is an issue that currently spans multiple WFSA committees and membership societies. The subject touches upon professionalism, practice management, leadership, ethics, public health, population health, equipment and facilities, medication management and scarcity of resources.
Key committee aims:
- Educate and promote environmental stewardship best practices, policies, and strategies among the membership of WFSA through the continuum of education and advocacy programs.
- Assist and guide WFSA leadership and administration on matters of corporate environmental sustainability best practices.
- Provide feedback via WFSA leadership to governmental and accreditation agencies regarding the environmental and potential population health impacts of regulatory mandates that influence anaesthesia practice.
- Convene groups for the development of policy statements and the evaluation of potential environmental health impacts of existing WFSA practices, policies, standards, and practice parameters, and provide feedback as appropriate.
- Evaluate and promote methods to optimize perioperative care and pain management in a changing environment
Committee Members
| Chair | |
| Jodi Sherman | USA |
| Deputy Chair | |
| Cliff Shelton | UK |
| Africa | |
| Nathalie Mejeni | Cameroon |
| Gwen Morgan | South Africa |
| Asia | |
| Pui San Loh | Malaysia |
| Xiangdong Chen | China |
| Simantika Ghosh | India |
| Australia, New Zealand and Pacific | |
| Forbes McGain | Australia |
| Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands | |
| Claudia Marquez Simões | Brazil |
| Christian Nilo Schultz | Chile |
| Europe | |
| Salome Meyer | Switzerland |
| Jane Muret | France |
| North America | |
| Vivian Hy Ip | Canada |
| Craig D. McClain | USA |
| Seema Gandhi | USA |
