Member Monday Profiles

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Every Monday, we’re highlighting a new member of the G4 Alliance! With more than 80 members working in over 160 countries around the globe, our members are operating, researching, advocating, and innovating to achieve our collective vision of a world where everyone, everywhere has access to safe surgery and anaesthesia care.


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Member Profile: Safe Surgery Initiative

This #MemberMonday, we’ll hear from: Julian Gore-Booth, CEO of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA)

When did you begin?
In 1955 the first World Congress of Anaesthesiologists was held at Scheveningen in the Netherlands and at the end of the Congress the WFSA was formed. At this Congress, only 26 societies were represented, with another 16 Societies observing. Since then, the WFSA has grown to 135 Member Societies from 145 countries around the world.

Mission/Vision
Our vision is universal access to safe anaesthesia, and our mission is to unite anaesthesiologists around the world to improve patient care and access to safe anaesthesia and perioperative medicine.

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Member Profile: Safe Surgery Initiative

This #MemberMonday, we’ll hear from Keith Miles, Executive Director, from Safe Surgery Initiative!

Organization Details: Safe Surgery Initiative is a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

When did you begin?
In 2009 on the coast of Benin, standing on the deck of Mercy Ship Africa, Willie Miles looked out on the horizon as hundreds of people lined up to received surgical care. It was a transformative moment for him. A moment that would be the genesis for the creation of the Safe Surgery Initiative. What started off as a two-week mission became a lifelong passion to help the disadvantaged peoples of the world received life-saving surgical care.

Now he wasn’t a surgeon, a doctor, or a nurse. He wouldn’t be the one performing life-saving surgery that restored sight, or corrected disabilities. But what he could do is make sure the people performing these surgeries had the best surgical tools at their disposal. As a Clinical Instrument Repair Consultant, he manage surgical instruments inventories and refurbished those instruments. He could make sure the instruments cut, bit, grasp, and function to the surgeon’s expectation. Reducing the risk of instrument malfunction during surgery. That’s how SSI supports the global efforts of surgical mission teams, charities and hospitals. These organizations provide medical care to the disadvantaged peoples of the world and SSI provides instruments of mercy to help them perform surgeries.

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