New NZSA Life Members
Nominated by the NZSA Executive Committee and approved at the 2025 NZSA Annual General Meeting, 14 November.
Congratulations, Associate Professor Paul Baker and Professor Brian Anderson.
Associate Professor Paul Baker
A nomination for Associate Professor Paul Baker was received in January. He has been a member of the NZSA for over forty years. His nomination highlighted Associate Professor Baker’s significant achievements – notably his activities in adult and paediatric difficult airways management and airway education. He was a founding consultant anaesthetist at Starship Children’s Hospital. And in 2014, his MD, awarded by the University of Auckland, was paediatric-based and centred around improving the quality and safety of airway management.
Professor Brian Anderson
The Society received a nomination for Professor Brian Anderson in March. He has been a member of the NZSA for over thirty-five years. His nomination documented his significant academic, educational and clinical contributions to the field of anaesthesia in Aotearoa. In particular, his contributions to paediatrics, also, as one of the founding consultants at Starship hospital and one of the two doctors who established the hospital’s ICU. Professor Anderson was awarded a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to paediatrics and anaesthesia in 2024.
NZSA Life membership is awarded to recognise members of the Society who have made long-term outstanding contributions to Anaesthesia in New Zealand, and/or the NZSA. They are nominated by the Executive Committee and, as we are doing today, elected as Life Members at a General Meeting of the Society.
