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The multidisciplinary Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP) was named in 2010 and became an international society in 2013 under the umbrella of the International Surgery Society (ISS.) Originally founded in 2007 as the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group (BoSDWG), ASAP encompasses surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians and public health specialists dedicated to improving the delivery of surgical care, especially in low and middle income countries. The ASAP has grown from 12 original members of BoSDWG to 100 members, and communicates with a broader audience of more than 700 list serve participants. The BoSDWG was co-founded by Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH and Doruk Ozdigez, MD, MPH, originally convening a small group of colleagues committed to documenting the important role of surgery and safe anesthesia to global public health through the international literature. The initial working group included Haile Debas, MD (Surgery), Skip Burkle, MD (Public Health), Dean Jamison, PhD (Economist), Steve Bickler, MD (Surgery), Richard Gosselin, MD (Orthopedic Surgery), Charlie Mock, MD (Trauma Surgery), John Meara, MD (Surgery), and Robert Riviello, MD, MPH (Surgery) and represented many academic groups engaged in international surgical delivery. Central to the initial mission of the group was autonomy from any one university or organization, and collaboration with international groups and individuals representing the great unmet need of surgery and anesthesia in low and middle-income countries (LMICs.) The working group collaborated with the World Health Organization (Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care ), The (World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists ), The American College of Surgeons, (Operation Giving Back ), and the (International Surgical Society ). The (World Journal of Surgery ) became the official journal of the working group early in the group’s tenure, and has published an abundance of data and reports on rural and international surgery. The inaugural meeting of the BoSDWG was hosted by the University of Washington in 2008. Subsequent meetings were hosted by The American College of Surgeons, Operation Giving back in 2009 and Vanderbilt University in 2010. During the 2010 BoSDWG meeting in Nashville, TN, the group was renamed as the Alliance of Surgery and Anesthesia Presence Today with the support of Bob Isherwood, marketing guru and visionary author of World Changing Ideas. After 2010, the newly named ASAP continued to grow, including interest from medical students and residents, many of whom committed to completing surgical infrastructure surveys in LMICs. These surveys utilized the WHO Situational Analysis Tool,〔http://www.who.int/surgery/publications/s15986e.pdf〕 the (Surgeons Overseas Assessment of Surgical Need ) and the (Global Surgical Consortium ) Survey (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Vanderbilt University) and have contributed significantly to the body of evidence revealing important infrastructure needs in LMICs. To date, such surveys have been completed in 32 countries worldwide. Subsequent annual meetings of the ASAP were hosted by the University of California in San Diego in 2011, The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Melbourne, Australia in 2012, The International Society of Surgeons in Helsinki, Finland in 2013 (in conjunction with ASAP’s incorporation as an “integrated society” of the ISS), and by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in Singapore in 2014. In 2015 the ASAP annual meeting with be held during the World Congress of Surgery in Bangkok, Thailand and a 2016 meeting is tentatively planned for Kigali, Rwanda. The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence became the 6th Integrated Society of the International Society of Surgery on Aug 25, 2013. Under the leadership of Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, President, Steve Bickler, MD, Vice President, Kathleen Casey, MD, Secretary, Russell Gruen, MD, Treasurer, and David Watters, MD, acting Past-President, the first international, multidisciplinary society committed to surgery and safe anesthesia in LMICs is working to grow and continue the important work of advocating for improvements in delivery of surgical and anesthesia care. Collectively the members of ASAP have contributed more than 100 peer-reviewed articles to the global surgical literature and has become a voice for access to safe surgery and anesthesia in LMICs. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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