The Harold Griffith Lecture

The Harold Griffith Lecture is the only named plenary at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists.

It honours the first President of WFSA, Dr Harold Griffith from Canada, who served from 1955 to 1960, taking office at the first WCA held in Scheveningen, Netherlands in 1955.

Opening feature from the WCA2024 Harold Griffith Lecture celebrating the legacy of Dr Griffith

Previous Harold Griffith lecturers have included Tore Laerdal and Atul Gawande (2016, Hong Kong); Christina Maslach and Edna Adan Ismail (2021, virtual); and Jannicke Mellin-Olsen and Kevin Fong (2024, Singapore).

The Harold Griffith Lecturer for 2026 will be announced here in early 2025.