15 – 17 August 2025
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Prof Mohd Basri Mat Nor
Professor Dato’ Mohd Basri bin Mat Nor is a Consultant Intensivist and Professor at the Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and the Head of the Intensive Care Unit at Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre, Kuantan, Pahang. His research interests span clinical nutrition in the critically ill, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) of antimicrobials, and sepsis biomarkers. He has secured multiple competitive research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, industry partners, and international collaborators.
Professor Basri served two terms as President of the Malaysian Society of Intensive Care, reflecting his leadership and contributions to the development of critical care medicine in the country.
He is also a senior examiner for the Master of Medicine (M.Med) in Anaesthesiology examinations and the Ministry of Health’s Intensive Care Subspecialty Exit Examination, playing a vital role in shaping future specialists in the field.
Mr Peter Lai Chi Keung
Peter Lai is a Nurse Consultant in the Department of Adult Intensive Care in the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong. He started his career in the ICU in 1995. He received intensive care nursing training in Hong Kong and the USA and subsequently sub-specialised in burn and extracorporeal life support nursing. He is one of the pioneers who established burn and ECLS nursing service in the adult ICU of Queen Mary Hospital. His main clinical work and practice interests are on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, resuscitation, and end-of-life care. He is the immediate past Co-chair of the Education Committee of Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO), and is currently a member of the Guideline Subcommittee of ELSO.
Dr Forbes McGain
Dr Forbes McGain is the Director of the Footscray Hospital ICU, and an Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Physician at Western Health, Melbourne. Dr Forbes is also the Associate Dean of Sustainable Healthcare at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences. He is a clinician researcher with broad interests and publications spanning from healthcare sustainability to ICU multicentre clinical trials, and to COVID-19 patented inventions. Dr Forbes remains keenly involved in teaching intensive care and anaesthesia for junior doctors and students, as well as being engaged in all sorts of environmental sustainability efforts.
Dr Andrea Christoff
Dr Andrea Christoff is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand. She has completed a fellowship in Safety and Quality with the International Society for Quality in Health Care and is dually trained in emergency medicine and critical care.
Dr Christoff is a senior staff specialist and the medical director of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Her areas of developed expertise include quality and safety, resuscitation science, and neurocritical care.
She is the primary site investigator for pediRES-Q.org, an observational multi-centre cohort study with an aim to characterise the quality of CPR and post-cardiac arrest care delivered to children, improving survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes through collaborative research.
Dr Adrian Wong
Dr Adrian Wong completed his training in anaesthesia & intensive care in 2014 and is a Consultant and Clinical Lead at King’s College Hospital, London.
He is an examiner for the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine. He was the ex-chair of the Social Media and Digital Content Committee of the ESICM and the Course Director of the GENIUS Ultrasound course. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Fluid Academy and sits on the Board of Directors of WINFOCUS.
Within critical care, he has an interest in the use of point-of-care ultrasound to guide fluid management, especially around venous congestion and organ perfusion, and human factors in the time-critical environment of the ICU. His other research interest includes clinical governance and safety, medical education, and burnout/well-being.
A/Prof Kimberley Haines
Associate Professor Kimberley Haines is a NHMRC Emerging Lead Fellow in the Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, at The University of Melbourne. Associate Professor Haines is also the Physiotherapy Research Lead and Senior Critical Care Physiotherapist at Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria. She is an emerging national and international leader in the field of critical care survivorship with methodological expertise in patient and family engagement, co-design, and qualitative research in vulnerable cohorts. She currently leads the icuRESOLVE research programme that is focused on advancing the science of peer support and post-ICU care.
Associate Professor Haines holds several leadership positions including Chair of the Emerging Researchers Group for the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, Co-Chair of the ANZICS Patient and Family Engagement Working Group, and Co-Chair of the Critical and Acute Illness Recovery Organisation’s (CAIRO) Evaluation Committee.
A/Prof Emma Ridley
Emma Ridley is an Associate Professor, National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow, and heads the Nutrition Programme at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. With over 15 years of experience in critical care nutrition research, Emma completed her PhD in 2018. Emma focuses on long-term nutrition interventions for the critically ill and is internationally recognised for her expertise (ranked in the top 1% on Expertscape for multiple critical care and clinical nutrition topics). She has over 125 peer-reviewed publications and has secured over $16.8 million in research funding, including $5.8 million from the CIA. Emma is the CI-A on the recently completed INTENT trial and was awarded a $1.49 million MRFF 2022 grant titled “A national platform for improving quality of nutrition care for critically ill adults and children”. Emma also practices as a clinical dietitian at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
Dr Nuttha Lumlertgul
Dr Nuttha Lumlertgul is a consultant at the Excellence Centre of Critical Care Nephrology, Division of Nephrology, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She completed her fellowship in Internal Medicine and Nephrology in Thailand, then went on to complete her critical care fellowship at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
She is an expert in Critical Care Nephrology, in particular Acute Kidney Injury and Extracorporeal Organ Support in Intensive Care Units. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research papers in this area, including the recent ‘Acute Kidney Injury’ Seminar published in The Lancet, 2025. She has also authored several books on critical care nephrology. Dr Lumlertgul is an advocate for equity in the workforce for Nephrology and Critical Care.
Dr Goh Chong Tien
Dr Goh Chong Tien is currently a Paediatric Intensivist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. He trained initially in Paediatrics in Malaysia before completing his training in Paediatric Intensive Care in Sydney. He is currently the chair of the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care Registry Clinical Advisory Committee as well as a member of the ANZICS CORE management committee. His interests include the use of Extracorporeal Therapy in the ICU and big data in healthcare. He is currently working on capturing and analysing high-frequency physiological signals in critical care patients.
Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson
Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson is a PhD-trained, Certified Practising Speech Pathologist at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow. She holds an Honorary Clinical Specialist Speech Pathologist appointment at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Critical Care Division at The George Institute for Global Health, and is an Affiliate of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Additionally, she serves as the Education Committee Chair for the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative.
With over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience in tertiary hospitals, Dr Freeman-Sanderson works in international and interprofessional research teams focused on optimising functional communication and swallowing outcomes for critically ill patients. She is currently leading a research programme focused on enhancing communication function across the critical care continuum.
Prof Yeh Yu-Chang Tony
Prof Yeh’s research centers on critical care medicine with particular emphasis on microcirculation, sepsis, blood purification, and extracorporeal life support. His clinical expertise also covers therapeutic sedation and analgesia, delirium management, kidney transplantation, medical data science, and generative artificial intelligence. He has been instrumental in developing the NTUH Centre of Microcirculation Medical Research (NCMMR) and the NTUH Smart Emergency and Critical Care group (NSECC), and he played a key role in establishing Taiwan CORE, a national critical care database.
Prof Yeh’s scholarly contributions include over 70 peer-reviewed publications, and he has actively participated in more than 170 national and international academic conferences.
Prof Ruth Kleinpell
Prof Ruth Kleinpell is currently the Associate Dean for Clinical Scholarship, Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academics, Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing Education, and Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She is certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and has over 25 years of clinical experience in the ICU and acute care settings. She has received federal and foundation grant funding to conduct research related to outcomes after critical illness, patient and family-centered care, and the role of the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and APRN outcomes.
She serves as a Visiting Professor for the National University of Singapore, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies for the Advanced Practice Nursing Programme. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the National Academies of Practice, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.
Prof Jason Roberts
Prof Jason Roberts is the Director of the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy for Health and Medical Sciences.
He is a Clinical Pharmacist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where he is also the Interim Director of the Herston Infectious Diseases Institute (HeIDI). He leads the Centre of Research Excellence RESPOND which aims to develop optimised antibiotic dosing regimens to improve patient outcomes and minimise the emergence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Prof Graeme MacLaren
Prof Graeme MacLaren is a Director of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care at the National University Hospital and an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the National University of Singapore. Prof MacLaren trained in both adult and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine and has a Master’s degree in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His principal academic interests are Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and Infection in Critical Illness. He has been deeply involved with the world’s largest ECMO society, the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO), for over a decade. He served as the inaugural Chair of its Asia-Pacific Chapter and, in 2023, became the first president in the society’s 35-year history to be elected from outside the USA.
Prof Chiara Robba
Prof Chiara Robba is a Consultant and Professor in Neurocritical and General Intensive Care at Policlinico San Martino, Genova. She worked for many years at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and she got a PhD in Neuroscience focusing on Neuromonitoring. She was the Chair of the Neuro Intensive Care section of the ESICM and also the Deputy Editor of ICM.
Her research interests are mainly Neuromonitoring, Autoregulation, and Mechanical Ventilation.
Ms Melissa Ankravs
Ms Melissa is the Senior ICU Pharmacist and Lead for Critical Care Pharmacy Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Australia). She is also the immediate past Chair and current Member of the Critical Care Leadership Committee for Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha), as well as a regional representative for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS CTG) and Allied Health and Pharmacists Working Group. As an Honorary Senior Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of Critical Care at Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melissa is reviewing the delirium management of critically ill patients.
Dr Maya Dewan
Dr Maya Dewan is a board-certified Paediatric Critical Care Physician, Clinical Informatician, and the Division Director of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati Department of Paediatrics and holds appointments in the Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, as well as the James M. Anderson Center for Healthcare Excellence. Her research, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, integrates human-centered design, usability studies, predictive analytics, and strategic use of the electronic health record. She applies the implementation of science to drive sustainable improvements in Paediatric Critical Care.
Dr Dewan is an active member of the American Heart Association and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation where she serves on the Paediatric BLS and BLS taskforces respectfully. She earned her MD and MPH from the University of Pennsylvania, completed her Paediatrics Residency and Critical Care Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and obtained a graduate certificate in Clinical Informatics from Oregon Health & Science University.
Prof John Laffey
John Laffey is a Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Galway, and Galway University Hospitals in Galway, Ireland. He is the Director of Clinical Research Governance at the University of Galway and the Ireland West-Northwest Healthcare area. He is a research chair-elect at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and senior pulmonary editor at Intensive Care Medicine Experimental. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the immediate past chair of the Irish Critical Care Trials Group.
He has published more than 400 papers and was a joint leader of the LUNG SAFE And WEAN SAFE studies. Past roles include Chair of the Irish Critical Care Trials Group and Section Chair of the Translational Biology Section at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
His research focuses on improving outcomes in the critically ill and in patients undergoing major surgery, as well as understanding the mechanisms underlying lung and systemic organ injury. He has a longstanding interest in the therapeutic potential of cell therapies for critical illnesses. Other interests include the epidemiology of ARDS and weaning from mechanical ventilation. He has extensive experience in early-phase and later-phase clinical trials.
Dr Shum Hoi Ping
Dr Shum Hoi Ping serves as the Chief of Service for the Department of Intensive Care at the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Hong Kong. He embarked on his medical journey after graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 1998.
Following his graduation, Dr Shum pursued training in Internal Medicine, leading to his fellowship in Nephrology, Advanced Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.
In 2018, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Hong Kong. Dr Shum’s research primarily focuses on the application of extracorporeal blood purification techniques, the study of septic acute kidney injury, and the management of infectious diseases.
Throughout his career, Dr Shum has contributed to over 130 publications related to critical care, nephrology, and infectious diseases. He currently holds the position of immediate past Chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Critical Care Medicine, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Programme Director of Critical Care Medicine at Hong Kong College of Physicians.
Dr Moritoki Egi
Dr Moritoki Egi is a Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Kyoto University Hospital, Japan. Dr Egi graduated from Okayama University in 1999. Following residency and trainee in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, he was a clinical research fellow in the Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital. Dr Egi received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Okayama University.
His research focuses on the clinical epidemiology and outcomes of critical illness, especially in acute blood glucose control, body temperature control in critical illness, postoperative delirium, mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure, and fluid management in acutely ill patients. He has published about 140 peer-reviewed articles. His research is funded primarily by grants-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan. He has served as the principal investigator of the Japan-Korea Intensive Care Study group (JAKOICS). He also served as a member of the official committees in the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine, Japanese Society of Anesthesia, and Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
Dr Lee Zheng Yii
Dr Lee Zheng Yii is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is also a visiting scientist in two German institutions: the Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Berlin, and University Hospital Würzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Würzburg. He has more than 40 publications in high-impact journals on topics related to critical care nutrition.
He is one of the editorial board members of the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, and Nutrition: The International Journal of Applied and Basic Nutritional Science. He is also the lead coordinator of the “Critical Care Nutrition Systematic Review,” which served as one of the most important resources for critical care nutrition guidelines. He has obtained more than MYR 1.8 million in international grants for his research in critical care nutrition. He is a life member of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Malaysia (PENSMA) and an ordinary member of the Malaysian Dietitians’ Association (MDA).
Prof Yugeesh Lankadeva
Prof Yugeesh Lankadeva is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Fellow and a National Heart Foundation Future-Leader Fellow and leads the Critical Care Research Department at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. His research aims to understand the pathophysiology of brain and kidney injury arising from sepsis and cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. Armed with this knowledge, he hopes to develop novel diagnostics and therapeutics to improve patient-centred health outcomes.
Professor Lankadeva has over 70 publications in high-impact medical journals. The quality and clinical relevance of his work have been acknowledged by the award of more than $30 million in competitive research funding. His discoveries have translated to 10 clinical trials across Australia, Europe, US, and Asia.
He is an inventor with 3 patents and has received over 30 prestigious career awards. Professor Lankadeva currently holds appointments as Chief Scientific Officer of PanAscea Pty Ltd, Managing Director of Credos-Biotech Pty Ltd, Senior Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, and Senior Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital.
Prof Sheila Nainan Myatra
Sheila Myatra is a Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, working at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India (largest cancer centre in Asia). She is the Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the Immediate President of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM). She is the Past President of the All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA).
She is a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) 2025 Guidelines and SSC Research Committee, and the Steering Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA). She is among the 14 international airway experts on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) difficult airway guidelines and the PUMA guidelines (Project for the Universal Management of the Airway). Her research interests include hemodynamic monitoring, airway management, and sepsis. She has developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring, called the “tidal volume challenge” (CCM 2017).
She was awarded the prestigious 2023 ESICM Honorary Membership at ESICM Lives in Milan and the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) Honorary Membership in 2022. Awarded FCCM (American College of CCM) and FICCM by ISCCM. She delivered the William C Shoemaker Honorary Lecture at SCCM 2023 in San Francisco, USA. She serves on the Editorial Board of several journals including Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Journal of Critical Care, Critical Care Science, Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, Indian Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (past Editorial Board member). She has several publications to her credit.
Prof Sandroni Claudio
Prof Sandroni Claudio is a professor of Intensive Care at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy. He is responsible for post-cardiac arrest management in a 19-bed Intensive Care Unit and conducts research on hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury (HIBI) and post-resuscitation care.
Since 2013, Prof Sandroni has been leading an expert group reviewing evidence on the severity of HIBI. This work informed the 2015 and 2021 Post-Resuscitation Care Guidelines from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC).
Within the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Prof Sandroni participates in the continuous evidence evaluation process that ILCOR conducts to disseminate evidence-informed resuscitation science and treatment recommendations in the World. He serves as a member of the ILCOR Advanced Life Support (ALS) task Force and the Science Advisory Committee.
Prof Sandroni is the past Chair of the Trauma and Emergency Medicine (TEM) Section of ESICM and a member of the Editorial Board of Intensive Care Medicine, and Resuscitation, official Journals of ESICM and ERC, respectively. He is a fellow of the ERC and the American Heart Association.
To date, Prof Claudio Sandroni authored 225 publications, cited 15,794 times. His h-index is 55 (source: Scopus).
Prof Rinaldo Bellomo
Prof Rinaldo Bellomo is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University and Co-director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre. He has produced more than 1900 PubMed-cited publications and is the most published biomedical investigator in the history of Australian medicine. Since 2006, he has been the most published intensive care investigator in the world (more than 100 per annum for the past 10 years).
Prof Paul Young
Prof Paul Young is an intensive care specialist and clinical researcher from Wellington, New Zealand. He is the Co-clinical Leader at Wellington Hospital ICU and a Deputy Director at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand. His research interests include everything related to intensive care medicine. He has almost 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals including more than 20 in the world’s highest-impact medical journals (the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Lancet). He is the Chief Investigator for the Mega-ROX trial, a 40,000-participant randomised clinical trial evaluating oxygen therapy regimens in ICU patients who require unplanned life support. The Mega-ROX trial will finish recruitment in the 2nd half of 2025 and is currently enrolling around 1000 patients per month in 130 ICUs in 14 countries. Paul’s research is supported by funding from the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
Prof Carol Hodgson
Prof Carol Hodgson is a clinical trialist with particular expertise in long-term outcomes after critical illness. She leads as the Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre, which aims to ensure research is implemented and translated into healthcare to improve patient outcomes. She is the Head of the Division of Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Deputy Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University. She has worked in ICU at Alfred Health for over 25 years where she is a Specialist Physiotherapist.
Prof Alexandre T. Rotta
Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM is a Professor of Paediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, NC. He is the Chief of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Executive Co-Director of the Paediatric and Congenital Heart Center at Duke University Medical Center/ Duke Children’s Hospital. Prof Rotta is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care and is a former Chair of the Paediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is Senior Co-Editor of the current edition of the “Fuhrman and Zimmerman Pediatric Critical Care Medicine” textbook and has published extensively in the field of paediatric critical care. His academic interests include acute respiratory failure, advanced modalities of respiratory support, cardiac intensive care, bronchiolitis, and critical asthma, and medical emergencies in commercial aviation.
Dr Zhang Zhongheng
Dr Zhongheng is a Chief Physician, Associate Professor, and Distinguished Researcher. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Emergency Medicine at Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Dr Zhongheng’s research programme is focused on advancing precision treatment for critically ill adults, aiming to address the significant heterogeneity observed in critical illnesses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and multi-organ failure. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Intensive Care Medicine, and eClinicalMedicine. He has received several research grants from the National Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China.
Dr Olive Pei Ee Lee
Dr Olive Lee is a paediatric intensivist trained in Malaysia and the United Kingdom. Her passion is advancing paediatric intensive care in Malaysia, to help the critically ill children receive the care they need.
She obtained her fellowship in paediatric critical care in Malaysia and Birmingham Children’s Hospital, with a special interest in incorporating point-of-care ultrasound in intensive care management. She is one of the few paediatric intensivists in Malaysia actively involved in training doctors point-of-care ultrasound.
Her other interests include the education and training of junior paediatric doctors with a focus on managing paediatric emergencies.
She is passionate about research, her focus being the management of sepsis and extracorporeal therapy. She participated in various studies and published several peer-reviewed articles in paediatric critical care.
True to her “less is more” approach in intensive care, she aspires to develop a holistic intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting, to demonstrate that every sick kid can still be managed in resource-poor centres.
Dr Glenn Eastwood
Dr Glenn Eastwood is the Intensive Care Research Manager at the Austin Hospital and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Through teamwork and collaboration, he is one of Australia’s most experienced and successful Intensive Care nurse researchers.
Dr Eastwood was the Chief Principal Investigator of the NEJM published Targeted Therapeutic Mild Hypercapnia After Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest randomised controlled trial (TAME Cardiac Arrest Trial). He holds a Research Doctorate (PhD) from Deakin University in research dedicated to oxygen therapy for patients at risk of respiratory dysfunction. His research program is focused on the impact and outcome of gas management (oxygen and carbon dioxide) in critically ill patients and he has published widely in this area.
Dr Dileep Raman
Dr Dileep Raman is the Co-founder and Chief of Healthcare at Cloudphysician, a company revolutionising healthcare delivery through technology-augmented solutions. He leads clinical excellence, overseeing clinical operations and product innovation.
With a mission to empower both patients and providers, Dr Dileep focuses on integrating technology designed for real-world constraints. Under his leadership, Cloudphysician has secured three patents and continues to innovate in healthcare technology focusing on domain-specific computer vision models.
He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Texas Tech University, USA, serving as Chief Resident, and later trained as a Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he also served as Chief Fellow.
In 2015, he returned to India with his co-founder to build Cloudphysician, driven by a vision to enhance healthcare quality and provider experience through cutting-edge solutions.
A/Prof Mark Plummer
A/Prof Mark Plummer is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow and Head of Research and Innovation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital ICU. He was the scientific convenor for the APICS meeting in 2022 and is thrilled to be back in Singapore. His research interests include dysglycaemia, neurocritical care, sepsis and developing clinically relevant pre-clinical models of critical illness.
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