Welcome to the Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists (ASPA) website. As I assume office as the President of the ASPA it is my duty to outline that since the inception of our society in the year 1999, ASPA has been trying to foster the growth of safe and quality paediatric anaesthetic care in our region and assist with professional development of its members through high quality academic meetings. From the inaugural ASPA meeting in Singapore meetings have now been held at Cebu - Philippines, New Delhi - India, Singapore, Vellore – India, Pattaya – Thailand and Ho Chi Min City – Vietnam. Apart from disseminating up to date knowledge on current developments in paediatric anaesthesia the ASPA meetings are also a forum to discuss problems and share experience in providing anaesthesia to children under diverse circumstances that are unique to our region. I also hope, through this website, you will be able to contact colleagues to discuss or seek their opinion about a clinical problem that you may be facing in your practice. It is also ASPA’s mission to collaborate with paediatric anaesthesia societies from around the world to share experience and propagate the culture of providing safe and quality anaesthetic care to children. ASPA is now actively collaborating with SPANZA (Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia in New Zealand and Australia) to organize a combined meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand (2-5th September, 2010). The combined meeting, which will be the largest paediatric anaesthesia meeting to be held in New Zealand, promises to be a special event where state of the art science and problems unique to providing paediatric anaesthesia in less privileged locations will be discussed. I welcome you to join ASPA, register for its meetings and through our website network with specialists who provide anaesthetic care for children in our region and from around the world. I look forward to you joining us and seeing you in person at one of our meetings.

Sincerely
Manoj K Karmakar MD, FRCA, DA(UK), FHKCA, FHKAM
President Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists

Address:
Associate Professor, Director of Paediatric Anaesthesia
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
Shatin, New Territories
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2632 1311/2735