President's Message - 2026
On behalf of the CAS Board of Directors and the National Office, thank you for continuing to advance Canadian anesthesia care through your membership with us. I am delighted to announce that the renewal period for 2026 is now open!
2025 has been an incredibly productive year for the Society, with January marking the launch of our new five-year Strategic Plan. This roadmap lays out specific, measurable priorities—defined through member input. We’ve achieved remarkable progress in less than a year and can’t thank you enough for your support.
Our member advocacy work in 2025 has included engaging provincial leadership. These discussions focused on strategies to improve anesthesiologist recruitment and retention, increase OR efficiency by maximizing the ACT model, and embracing green anesthesia best practices. In addition, we’ve created the CAS Anesthesia Taskforce to provide leadership and strategic guidance on key issues affecting the practice of anesthesiology in Canada.
To complement our advocacy work, this summer we introduced a new section of the CAS website that provides patients and their loved ones with anesthesia education and increases visibility of health human resource (HHR) issues in our profession. In the coming months our upcoming public awareness communications campaign will spotlight anesthesiologists’ vital role in Canadian healthcare.
Expanding CAS’ continuing medical education (CME) remains a central priority. We were very pleased to resume our widely attended Pinnacle Rounds and launch the CAS SAMBA Ambulatory Anesthesia Collaborative Rounds to enhance the knowledge and skills of ambulatory anesthesia professionals. We’re currently on track to deliver more than 20 education activities (rounds, webinars and CPD modules), which offer over 18 Section 1 credits and 16 Section 3 credits to support your MOC requirements—almost all of which are free for or exclusive to members. As always, we encourage you to explore topics that directly impact the future of our specialty through your year-round subscription to Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.
Our 2025 Annual Meeting in St. John’s, Newfoundland was truly memorable. Highlights included: the inaugural Ace It! A Prep Course for the Royal College Exam which aimed to support residents in successfully passing the written and oral exams, and expanded Section 3 opportunities with the Friday CAS Expert Insights sessions. Planning for the 2026 CAS Annual Meeting in Ottawa is well underway, we invite you to save the date: June 5-7, 2026.
As you renew, please consider donating to our CAS foundations: the Canadian Anesthesia Research Foundation (CARF) and the CAS International Education Foundation (CASIEF). Both organizations do incredible work to support Canadian anesthesia research via our Research Program and deliver life-saving care to patients in under-resourced countries who desperately need it. Donation options will be included with your renewal form in the Member Portal.
Finally, I’d like to sincerely thank our phenomenal CAS section and committee members for their tireless dedication. Whether you’ve been a member for years or are brand new to CAS, your feedback and ideas about how we can better serve our community are invaluable, and I invite you to share them with me directly at [email protected] or with the National Office at [email protected].
I look forward to another successful year with you as a part of the CAS community.
Dr Giuseppe Fuda
CAS President