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Welcome to SOAP!
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Celebrating Over 150 Years of Obstetric Anesthesia
The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) was founded in 1968 to provide a forum for discussion of problems unique to the peripartum period. SOAP is comprised of anesthesiologists, obstetricians, pediatricians, and basic scientists who share an interest in the care of the pregnant patient and the newborn.
Video courtesy of Anesthesia Illustrated
Membership
A membership in SOAP is an opportunity to meet people who share your interests, and to stimulate improvements in health care for pregnant patients.
Benefits of SOAP Membership
- Learn new skills, techniques, and methods of safe care
- Access the SOAP directory of members, previous meeting files, newsletters, and supplements
- Access American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology documents
- Reduced subscription rates to Obstetric Anesthesia Digest, IJOA, Anesthesia and Analgesia
- Reduced registration fees for SOAP sponsored meetings
- Meet others in OB anesthesia practice for advice and counsel
Upcoming Meetings
The 2013 Sol Shnider, M.D. Obstetric Anesthesia Meeting
March 14-17, 2013
Grand Hyatt Hotel
San Francisco, California
SOAP 45th Annual Meeting
April 24-28, 2013
Caribe Hilton
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship
The Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship was approved by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 2011. At Anesthesiology 2011 in Chicago an informal meeting of Obstetric Anesthesiology Program Directors and other interested parties was held in order to review the process for applying for, and receiving ACGME accreditation for fellowship programs. The following PowerPoint presentations were made and discussed by those in attendance.
SOAP Fellow Blog
A SOAP fellow blog has been created as a means for Fellowship Program Directors to share thoughts and ideas as the initial Program Information Forms (PIFs) are submitted to the ACGME.
Please contact Dr. Michael Froelich at Froelich@uab.edu if you would like to be added to the blog.
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President’s Welcome Letter
 Perhaps I should not disclose this but I attended my first SOAP meeting in 1989. I have not missed a meeting since. I distinctly remember how welcomed I felt and how awed I was by the lively discussions people had both in and out of the general session. I was a little intimidated those first few meetings but the warmth and encouragement SOAP members demonstrated to me and other young physicians brought many of us into active roles within the society. Nowadays, SOAP meetings have taken on the sense of family for many. The enjoyment of seeing each other after a year’s hiatus, the discussions over management decisions and sharing of new ideas all smack of a reunion-style gathering, but with better behavior. Thus, I was three years ago, and remain today, truly humbled and honored to have won your confidence and thus be starting my time as your president.
As I write this at the beginning of the 44th Annual Meeting, I would like to thank our meeting host, Dennis Shay, MD, for proposing Monterey and putting in so much of the ground work. I also wish to thank Karen Hurley, our Executive Director, for all of her hard work as she has come to learn about our society and is now overseeing the SOAP meetings. We are all fortunate to have had the thoughtful direction of Maya Suresh, MD as our president, and the foresight of Robert D’Angelo, MD as our immediate past president who initiated much of SOAP’s strategic plan and will be retiring from the Board. We owe them both a deep debt of gratitude for all they have done for the society.
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Sincerely,
McCallum Hoyt, M.D., M.B.A.
SOAP President
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