This is TopMedTalk's first in a our series 'Women in Anaesthesia': a celebration of the women who drive academic research and perioperative practice around the world. Inspired by the British Journal of Anaesthesia's March edition of the same name this series will profile some of the women who take frontline roles in our profession, all of them contributors to TopMedTalk.

Angela Bader features on TopMedTalk here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/perioperative-medicine-summit-2019-1-03-angela-bader/

Carolyn Johnston features here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-2018-12-the-importance-of-cpet-and-nela/

Ramani Moonsinghe's interview in this piece will be released next week but if you'd like to hear one of her other appearances go here: https://www.topmedtalk.com/ebpom-highlight-1-03-sprint-national-anaesthesia-project-snap/

Presented by Desiree Chappell.

The British Journal of Anaesthesia article, which inspired this series, is here: https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(20)30003-9/fulltext