The Indian Association of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists is the coming together of dedicated professionals in the field of Paediatric Anaesthesia, with the aim of improving safety standards and providing a platform for sharing views and information. This association was formed in March 2006 at Mumbai. The first president was Dr SnehalataDhayagude and the first Secretary was Dr.BharatiKulkarni. Over these past 16 years, the association has grown in strength and now has over 880 life members. The association also started annual conferences in the sub-specialty of paediatric anaesthesia and 14 Conferences were held successfully till 2023 with the latest being in Feb 2023 at Coimbatore.

The on-going aim of the association shall be to make paediatric anaesthesia safe for all children. The association shall strive to have basic infrastructure and guidelines in place for all places where children are anaesthetised, thus ensuring safety. It will also strive to improve knowledge and skills of those practicing this sub-specialty by conducting periodic conferences and local CMEs.

To improve training standards in Paediatric Anaesthesia, the society started a 'Post-doctoral Fellowship' training programme of one year in the year 2014.There are 10 institutes which are successfully running this programme and more than 60 IAPA Fellowship have been awarded after successful conduct of fellowship examinations biannually..

Also senior paediatric anaesthesiologists were awarded Hon. Paediatric fellowship certificate by IAPA.

The society has been steadily working on creating guidelines in paediatric anaesthesia with the National experts in Paediatric Anaesthesia. Till now 8 guidelines have been created.

The Association also have a biannual newsletter which started in 2016 and successfully taken out 13 Newsletter till Feb 2023.