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World Patient Safety Day 2026: Optimising Care for Patients with NCDs

Categories: Patient safety
Language: English

This webinar is aligned with the WFSA Presidential Theme 2026–2028, ‘Anaesthesiology Along the Patient Pathway’, and the WHO World Patient Safety Day theme, ‘Safe Care for NCDs’. It focuses on the importance of optimising patients with noncommunicable diseases before surgery.

Faculty

Co-moderators:
– Dr. Hilal Ayoglu, Professor of Anesthesiology and an Intensive Care Specialist, Turkiye
– Dr. Vibhavari Naik, Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist, Basavatarakam Indo-AmericanCancer Hospital and the Basavatarakam Smile Train Center, India

Opening Remarks:
Dr Carolina Haylock Loor, President of the WFSA, Honduras

Speakers:
1. Dr Antonia Gama, Policy Lead at International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations (IAPO), Brazil
2. Dr Irina Papieva, Speaker on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland
3. Dr Rafael Pantoja, Anaesthesiologist at Clínica Iberoamericana and Clínica Portoazul, Colombia
4. Dr Bisola Onajin-Obembe, Anaesthesiologist affiliated with the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), and University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
5.Dr Benedikt Preckel, Consultant at the Department of Anesthesiology of Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands
6.Dr Le Shen, Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Anesthesiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH),​ China

Programme
– Welcome, introduction & housekeeping by co-moderators
– Introduction by Dr Carolina Haylock-Loor
– Talk 1: Patient perspective on pre-operative care, Dr Antonia Gama
– Talk 2: Speaker on behalf of WHO, Dr Irina Papieva
– Talk 3: Obesity and Surgery: Strategies for Preoperative Optimisation, Dr Rafael Pantoja
– Talk 4: Optimising Preoperative Preparation in Patients with COPD and Asthma, Dr Bisola Onajin-Obembe
– Talk 5: Preoperative Management of Patients with Diabetes: The Impact of Novel Antidiabetic Therapies, Dr Benedikt Preckel
– Talk 6: Getting It Right: Preoperative Management of Patients with Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, Dr Le Shen
– Q&A and discussion