The money is mainly devoted to the travel expenses, the hosting laboratory
taking in charge an access to meals and accommodation.

 The candidates
had to send an application form including letters of recommendation from their
Head of Department and the President of their National Society, and a
certificate of the hosting laboratory indicating its agreement to receive the
fellow and to bring assistance to perform her/his work.

 The applications
were sent to the Scientific Affairs Committee Chairman before October 1^st.
2011 and each of them were dispatched to two committee members for evaluation
and selection.

 The three
winners are

• Dr.Ruslan BALTAGA, born in 1975,
  assistant professor, working in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive
  Care, in Chisinau, Moldova. His project consists of   development of patient safety through implementation
  of new clinical tools in the Republic of Moldova. A safer practice has become a
  major public health priority in this country and a first attempt will be to
  disseminate the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. These tools based upon
  techniques of quality assurance and evaluation of professional practice has the
  aim to reduce a morbidity and mortality remaining at a high level in Moldova. The
  applicant will be trained to quality assurance and risk management at the
  Harvard School of Public Health and the research coordination will be insured
  by Dr. Atul Gawande, at the origin of the Lifebox programme.
• Dr. Angelina VAKHLYAEVA, born in
  1986, is currently research fellow in the Department of Anaesthesiology of the
  Saint Petersburg Medical Academy. Her project is to start a research centre on
  Malignant Hyperthermia in Saint Petersburg. At the present time there is no MH
  centre all over the Russia and the goal is to implement a laboratory able to
  provide means of MH diagnosis. The applicant will travel to Lille, France, to
  be trained in the Professor Krivosic’s laboratory, acting in this field since
  many years and recognised at the international level. Her application is
  supported by Professor Yuri Polushin, President of the Russian Federation of
  Societies of Anaesthesiology, and by Professor Konstantin Lebedinskyi.
• Dr. Yun-Tai YAO, born in 1978, has
  already a solid background in research and is involved currently in a programme
  on the organ protective effects of remote ischemic conditioning in CABG
  patients in the frame of Hospital Foundation for young doctors. The title of
  his project: Sevoflurane post conditioning and beta-blockers is the
  continuation of a research for his PhD thesis constituted by an experimental
  investigation on isolated rat hearts. His project is supported by Dr Wei Chao,
  associate professor of anaesthesia, from the Massachusetts Hospital, Harvard
  Medical School.
  
  

The WFSA Executive Committee has
decided to renew the Research Grants for next year and the Scientific Affairs
Committee expects that several candidates will send their application before
October 2012. This first promotion brings the demonstration of the WFSA
willingness to promote research for young doctors and exchanges between
nations.