Intersociety Relationships and Collaboration

Collaboration continued with our 53 component societies, 14 affiliated subspecialty societies, and 13 international societies.

  • ASA and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine co-founded the Pain Medicine Coalition to communicate with one voice on issues of concern in the pain community.
  • The Society for Airway Management and the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia were approved as Affiliated Subspecialty Societies of ASA.
  • Provided subspecialty-focused content, including six collaborative episodes of ASA’s podcast Central Line and a joint webinar on quality assurance with the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
  • Partnered with the United Nations Global Surgery Learning Hub (SURGhub) to include four patient safety courses on their platform, a valuable resource for global surgery education, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Successfully hosted 12 ASA Charitable Foundation Global Scholars from low- and middle-income countries at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2024.

2 members of the Pain Medicine Coalition.
Screen grab of SurgHub website.
Portrait of ASA Global Scholars.

Date of last update: February 21, 2025