2025 Global Scholars

Funded in part by the ASA Charitable Foundation, the Global Scholars Program brings young, emerging leaders of our specialty from low-resource settings to the ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting. Discover their perspectives about the practice of anesthesiology in places where basic monitoring, blood banking, and other resources are lacking. The scholars will have an opportunity to learn about the newest developments in the specialty and build a network of international colleagues with whom they can collaborate for years to come.

2025 SPA Global Scholars

In collaboration with the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, SPA Global is focused on improving anesthesia care for children worldwide. Despite recent advances in the accessibility and affordability of surgery for children in low- and moderate-resource areas, a large need for short-term service activities in many areas of the world remains. Skills in pediatric anesthesia are particularly well-suited to meet these needs when paired with thoughtful service platforms in close cooperation with local health systems.

2025 WFSA/PATA Global Scholars:

In 2018, in partnership with the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), the Paediatric Anaesthesia Training in Africa (PATA) Collaboration was established to improve the quality of pediatric anesthesia training in Africa. The PATA leadership team currently represents eight African countries, ensuring that PATA’s efforts are ingrained into the African educational ecosystem. PATA’s initial objective is to expand pediatric anesthesia fellowship opportunities for anesthesiologists in Africa to develop more African leader-educators in pediatric anesthesia.

The selected scholars will present as part of the Medically Challenging Cases, on Saturday, October 11 | 12:45-2:45 p.m. and Sunday, October 12 | 9:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m. focusing on the practice of anesthesiology and patient safety in very different environments.