Dear All,
As the President of the Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists (ASPA), it is my great pleasure to graciously welcome you to our ASPA website. The ASPA has been conceived by the initiative idea of Agnes Ng and her colleagues from the Kandang Kerbau (KK) Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, and has later on established by the collaboration and cooperation of its members from countries across Asia in 1999. Its mission is to provide a forum for the paediatric anaesthesiologists Asian wide to have a great opportunity to exchange their mutual interests and experiences, as well as sharing recent advance knowledge concerning the subject matter.  Furthermore, the ASPA has encouraged all the members across Asia to work together in order to set up relevant problem management in a daily clinical practices and to update issues which affect strongly on practices.  Moreover, its mission is to collaborate closely with societies or academic institutions of paediatric anaesthesiologist worldwide to proliferate accomplishment of safe and quality anaesthetic care up to the global standard to the population in our regions.

Since its inception, the ASPA has held its scientific meeting regularly on a-two-year basis. The venue of the meeting has been voluntarily rotated among the societies of its member countries. In 2010 the ASPA collaborated with the Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia  in New Zealand and Australia (SPANZA) in holding a joint scientific meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand. This has also marked the advancement and collaboration of the work of our ASPA. At present time, our ASPA has been stronger than ever in its performances and expanding in the elevated number of members across the globe.

At each scientific meeting there is a General Assembly of the ASPA where its Executive Committee has been elected from participating members among Asian countries.
I would like to take this opportunity to humbly invite those who are interested in activities of the ASPA to register as a member and join our scientific meeting to develop the quality of our care and services in paediatric  anaesthesia. I do hope, our ASPA website will be fruitful and appropriate platform for communication academically and socially among our members to share the valued and distinctive experiences. 

Best wishes and kind regards,

Ruenreong Leelanukrom
Associate Professor in Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine
Chulalongkorn University