Pediatric anesthetic meetings and conferences

World Paediatric Anaesthetic meetings (held in relation to World Congress of Anesthesiologists) In 1984, David Steward (in Figure 1, front row) and Seizo Iwai ( Figure 2) organized a meeting of pediatric anesthetists in Manila during the World Congress of Anesthesiologists. Following the meeting, there was a dinner at which John Zorab, then Secretary of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), told the audience that if they wanted to set up a Paediatric Committee in the WFSA, they should request to do so immediately. A show of hands at this informal occasion showed a majority but not unanimous approval (because no aims and objectives had been defined for the committee). It was established at the WFSA Executive meeting the next day. Eventually, a multiauthored WFSA handbook on Pediatric Anesthesia, initiated by David Steward and finalized by Anneke Meursing, was produced some years later. 1 Speakers at World Paediatric Anaesthesia Meeting in Melbourne, following the World Congress of Anesthesiologists in Sydney, April 1996. Front: M. Rawicz (Poland), C. Riquelme (Chile), A. Meursing #(the Netherland), D. Steward* (Canada); 2nd: C. Cote (USA), P. Limoges (Canada), G, Goresky* (Canada), F. Berry (USA); 3rd: C. da Silva(Brazil), P. Kempthorne (NZ), J. Moray (USA), D. Baines (Australia), F. Veckymans (Belgium); 4th: M. Yamashita, (Japan), P. Morris (UK), D. Hatch (UK), M. Marx (Uruguay), K. Brown* (Australia); 5th: S. Rajev (Russia), J. Overton (Australia), D. Pawar (India), I. Mackenzie (Australia). *Organized World Paediatric Anaesthetic meetings. #Organized 1st and 2nd FEAPA congresses.2 Seizo (Jake) Iwai from Kobe, Japan.