APAC Critical Care Summit
Dr. Erwin Pradian
Dr. Erwin Pradian
Dr. Erwin Pradian (Anesthesiologist Intensivist)
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
Faculty of Medicine Padjadjaran University
Dr. Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Indonesia
President of Indonesian Society Of Intensive Care Medicine
Job History
Sept 2022 – Now : President of Indonesian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISICM)
January 2020 – Sept 2022 : Vice President II of Indonesian Society of Critical Care Medicine
2016 – January 2020 : General Secretary of Indonesian Society of Critical Care Medicine
2014 – January 2020 : Head of Intesive Care Unit in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital
2011 –2014 : Head of Study Anesthesiology Program Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy HasanSadikin Hospital / Medical School of Padjadjaran University
2004 – now : Staff of Department Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy Hasan Sadikin Hospital / Medical School Padjadjaran University
Education
2016 Graduated Ph.D
2010 Graduated Regional Anesthesia Consultant
2007 Graduated Intensive Care Consultant
2004 Graduated Master of Basic Medicine
2004 Graduated Anesthesiologist
1994 Graduated General Practitioner
Prof. Gee-Young Suh
Prof. Gee-Young Suh
Professor Gee-Young Suh is a pulmonary and critical care physician working at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea. He severed as the Director of ICU of Samsung Medical Center for 16 years and in 2013, he became the Chair of Department of Critical Care Medicine first clinical department dedicated to critical care in South Korea. He is one of the primary investigators of Korean Sepsis Alliance and is currently serving the President of Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine and as member of Council of World Federation of Intensive. His research interests include sepsis, derecruitment-associated lung injury, ICU rehabilitation, ECMO, and rapid response system.
Dr. Jose Melanio Grayda
Dr. Jose Melanio Grayda
JOSE MELANIO T. GRAYDA, MD
INTERNAL MEDICINE, CARDIO-CRITICAL CARE
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF STO. TOMAS
Doctor of Medicine, 1994
DELOS SANTOS MEDICAL CENTER
Residency Training (Internal Medicine), 1999
PHILIPPINE HEART CENTER
Fellowship in Adult Cardiology & Critical Care Medicine, 2003
MASTERAL:
MASTER IN MANAGEMENT MAJOR IN HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
Philippine Christian University
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS :
PHILIPPINE HEART CENTER
DELOS SANTOS MEDICAL CENTER
MANDALUYONG CITY MEDICAL CENTER
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP :
Fellow, Philippine College of Physicians
Fellow, Philippine College of Cardiology
Fellow, Philippine Society of Critical Care Medicine
PRESENT POSITIONS : Medical Specialist II,
Department of Ambulatory, Emergency and Critical
Care, Philippine Heart Center
Board Member, Phil. Society of Critical Care Medicine
Board Member, Heart Failure Society of the Philippines
Prof. Moritoki Egi
Prof. Moritoki Egi
Prof. Moritoki Egi
Professor, Department of intensive care and anaesthesiology, Kyoto University
Dr. Egi is a professor of department of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine in Kyoto University hospital, Japan. Dr Egi graduated from Okayama University in 1999. Following residency and trainee in anesthesiology and intensive care, he was clinical research fellow in department of intensive care, Austin hospital. Dr. Egi received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Okayama University.
He has published more than 100 peer review articles and served as principal investigator of Japan-Korea Intensive Care Study group (JAKOICS). He is served as executive director of Japanese society of intensive care medicine (JSICM) and member of official committees in, Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine, Japanese society of anesthesia and Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
A/Prof. Mark Nicholls
A/Prof. Mark Nicholls
Dr Nicholls is the President of ANZICS, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. He is a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Associate Professor Nicholls trained as a Respiratory and Lung transplant specialist before commencing training in Intensive Care. He is a Senior Intensive Care and ECMO retrieval Specialist at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. St Vincent’s Hospital is a designated trauma hospital, Heart and Lung Transplant Unit and an ECMO referral hospital.
He has professional interests in recognising and managing deteriorating patients, ECMO, and resource-limited intensive care. He is a member of the ANZICS Global Health Initiative, supporting international colleagues, especially in resource-limited intensive care units. He has worked and taught in Papua New Guinea and Tanzania. In PNG, he is developing the Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Intensive Care in partnership with colleagues at the Port Moresby General Hospital and the University of Papua New Guinea. Until the pandemic, he assisted in Tanzania with Open Heart International.
Dr. Min-Cheng Chan
Dr. Min-Cheng Chan
Dr. Ming-Cheng Chan is currently the Director of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Taichung Veterans General Hospital and an associate professor at the Medical School of National Chung-Hsing University. He obtained his medical degree from National Yang-Ming University in 1995 and a Ph.D. degree in physiology 2016. He received clinical pulmonary and critical care medicine training at Taichung Veterans General Hospital. He also had a one-year training as a research fellow focused at basic research of acute respiratory distress syndrome at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. His research interests focus mainly on mechanical ventilation, acute respiratory failure, and sepsis. He also serves on a board of directors in the Taiwan Society of Critical Care Medicine (TSCCM) and Asia Ventilator Forum (AVF).
Dr. Naranpurev Mendsaikhan
Dr. Naranpurev Mendsaikhan
Dr. Naranpurev Mendsaikhan
President of the Mongolian Intensive Care Society.
(Born 1 January 1975) is an Intensive care physician, and
Lecturer of Critical care and Anesthesiology Department of Mongolian National University of Medical Science.
Current position is a Chief Medical Director of Mongolia Japan Hospital of Mongolian National University of Medical Science.
She devotes time to the postgraduate training in emergency and intensive care physicians and develops the training curriculums of human resources of critical care.
She has great experience in emergency response for Covid-19 outbreak in critical care for human resources training, and supply. During the recent pandemic, she worked as a consultant physician and trainer of mechanical ventilation at Mongolian Ministry of Health.
Education:
- Bachelor degree– China Medical University, Shenyang, China–1999
- Residency training – Mongolian Central Clinical Hospital No.1– 2001
- Master degree– Chine Medical University, Shenyang, China – 2005
- PhD – Mongolia National University of Medical Science – 2017
- Language skill: Mongolian, Chinese, English, Russian, French
Prof. Nguyen Gia Binh
Prof. Nguyen Gia Binh
Prof. Nguyen Gia Binh, Ph.D., M.D.
President
Vietnam National Association of Emergency, Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Toxicology
Prof. Nguyen Gia Binh, Ph.D., M.D. is a leading expert in the field of resuscitation in Vietnam. He has been dedicated in this profession for more than 40 years now. He used to hold the position of Director of Intensive Care Unit of Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi) for many years. In the recent fight against COVID-19, Prof. Nguyen Gia Binh, Ph.D., M.D., in the role of Head of the Consultation Group for Severe COVID-19 Patients, working closely with his associates, has made significant contributions in developing the treatment regimens. In addition, he was also elected President of the Vietnam National Association of Emergency, Intensive Care Medicine and Clinical Toxicology. He is currently participating in the development of the paramedic system in Vietnam.
A/Prof. See Kay Choong
A/Prof. See Kay Choong
Dr Kay Choong SEE is a Senior Consultant Respiratory Physician and Intensivist at the National University Hospital in Singapore. He holds several appointments, including the role of Associate Designated Institutional Official for the National University Health System Residency Program and President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine in Singapore. Dr See’s expertise lies in critical care ultrasonography, artificial intelligence, medical education, and healthcare quality improvement.
He actively contributes to medical education as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and as the Postgraduate Education Director at the Department of Medicine, National University Hospital.
Prof. Shital Adhikari
Prof. Shital Adhikari
Prof. Shital Adhikari is working in Chitwan Medical College, Teaching Hospital in Pulmonary and Critical Care unit since 2015. He is the professor and PG Coordinator.
Dr. Adhikari is currently serving as the President of Nepalese Society of Critical Care Medicine (NSCCM). He is leading the different training programs in critical care services- BASICs for ICU, Acute Care Ultrasound, ARDS training etc. in the country. He is also the editor of official journal of Nepalese Respiratory Society (NRS).
Prof. Dr. Shital Adhikari, MD (Internal Medicine), DM (pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine), FRCP (Edin)
Prof. Sheila Nainan Myatra
Prof. Sheila Nainan Myatra
Prof. Sheila Nainan Myatra MD, FCCM, FICCM
Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, INDIA.
Sheila Myatra is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine, working at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India. She is the President of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM). She is the Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). She is the Immediate Past President of the All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA).
She is a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SCC) Research Committee and COVID guidelines committee and a 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).
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 and has several publications to her credit. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Myatra+S&sort=date
Dr. Shanti Rudra Deva
Dr. Shanti Rudra Deva
Dr. Shanti Rudra Deva
Consultant Intensivist
Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Malaysia
Dr. Shanti Rudra Deva is currently working as consultant Intensivist in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Kuala Lumpur Hospital. She heads a 30 bedded intensive care unit in the department. Currently also heading the Intensive Care training programme in the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. She has special interest in infection control, nutrition in the critically ill and end-of life care. Currently runs the end-of-life care and critical care nutrition workshop under the Malaysian Society of Intensive Care. She is also one of the founding members of the Malaysian Society of Intensive Care and currently the president of society
A/Prof. Suthat Rungruanghiranya
A/Prof. Suthat Rungruanghiranya
Suthat Rungruanghiranya is a pulmonologist and intensivist working at Srinakharinwirot university (SWU) medical center in Thailand. He received his residency training and fellowship in Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at University of Miami, Florida. His main interests in the field of critical care include management of sepsis, and VAP. Since 2004, he established the standard of critical care service at SWU, and other hospitals in the area. He has served as the chief editor of the Thai Society of Critical Care Medicine (TSCCM) Archives since 2008, which was later extended and renamed as Clinical Critical Care journal in 2021. He also served as chief editor of textbooks and manuals of TSCCM. Currently, he has been appointed President-Elect of the TSCCM. He received national awards, including the Outstanding Junior Internist Award from Royal College of Physician of Thailand in 2014, and the Outstanding Civil Officer Awards from Royal Thai Government in 2017.
Dr. Wong Wai Tat
Dr. Wong Wai Tat
Dr Wai-Tat WONG
Associate Professor of Practice
Department of Anaethesia and Intensive Care
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Centre for Bioethics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr Wai-Tat WONG is a specialist in internal medicine and critical care medicine. He is now working in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, and the Centre for Bioethics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He provides clinical service as a consultant in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Prince of Wales Hospital. He is responsible for undergraduate teaching in acute medicine, anaesthesia, communication skills, professionalism and medical ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK. He has been working on research projects related to medical education, clinical ethics, end-of-life care in ICU, mechanical ventilation and infectious diseases. Dr Wong has been serving the Hong Kong Society of Critical Care Medicine as honorary secretary since 2022.
Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA)
Dr. Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan
Dr. Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan
Dr. Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan
Consultant, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai and Honorary Senior Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Bharath Kumar is an intensive care doctor and clinician-researcher based out of Chennai, India. Bharath’s research is broadly focused on improving outcomes from critical illness for patients in LMICs and specifically in evaluating treatments through registry-embedded investigator-initiated clinical trials. Bharath serves as the National Lead for the Indian Registry of IntenSive care and has previously worked as a Consultant to the COVID-19 Clinical Management Team of the World Health Organization.
Prof. Chairat Permpikul
Prof. Chairat Permpikul
Chairat Permpikul MD.
Current position:
Chairman, Department of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
President (elected) The Royal College of Physicians of Thailand
Chairman of International Conference, the Thai Society of Critical Care Medicine.
I am an intensivist in the Medical ICU, Siriraj Hospital. Apart from my administrative works, my research interest is sepsis, especially in fluid therapy, vasopressors, monitoring and post sepsis care. Also, I am working on ICU standards and quality improvement. In 2019, my study on the early use of norepinephrine in sepsis (CENSOR trial) was published and was awarded locally and nationally. During the past years, I was chosen to be the president elected of the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand. This gives me a chance to work with leading internists to improve quality of training and research in Medicine and Critical Care.
A/Prof. Naomi Hammond
A/Prof. Naomi Hammond
A/Prof Naomi Hammond is an intensive care nurse researcher who holds a part-time role as the Intensive Care Clinical Research Manager at Royal North Shore Hospital Sydney, Australia; Critical Care Program Lead at The George Institute for Global Health as well as NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow, Conjoint Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales; Editorial Board Member for Australian Critical Care Journal, Chair of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Research Advisory Panel, Senior Research Fellow with Sepsis Australia.
Naomi’s main research interests include fluid resuscitation, sepsis, fever management, knowledge translation and implementation research, health economics, long-term outcomes post critical illness. She has experience supervising and mentoring medical trainees, nursing staff, PhD, Masters and medical students in the clinical and academic environment and extensive clinical trials operational management experience including finance, regulatory processes, personnel, project and program management in a clinical and NGO environment.
Dr. Robert Sinto
Dr. Robert Sinto
Dr. Robert Sinto is an academic and medical staff of Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Universitas Indonesia – Cipto Mangunkusumo National Hospital, and a current DPhil student of Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. In addition to his tropical/ infectious diseases clinical practice and teaching, he is actively involved in numerous international research collaboration focused on antimicrobial resistance infections and stewardship in limited resources health care facilities. In coordination with the Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, he is currently leading a national study to improve understanding of current state of nation-wide antimicrobial stewardship program implementation in Indonesian hospitals.
Dr. Simon Finfer
Dr. Simon Finfer
Professor Finfer was a founding member and is a past-Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. His research is focussed on the design and conduct of robust high quality RCTs that will improve outcomes for critically ill patients; trials he has led include SAFE, NICE SUGAR and PLUS.
Professor Finfer has authored over 250 peer reviewed papers with 20% of those in the highest-ranking medical journals. He has served as a guest editor for the New England Journal of Medicine and is currently an editor of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care and the Critical Care Section Editor of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.
Dr. Vu Quoc Dat
Dr. Vu Quoc Dat
Dr. Vu Quoc Dat
Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University
Vice head, Department of Tropical Diseases, Hanoi Medical University Hospital
Dr Vu Quoc Dat is an infectious disease clinician and lecturer at the Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University, Viet Nam. He completed the Career Development Fellowship with the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and undertook his PhD training at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam. He has expertise in clinical management of severe or life-threatening infections, zoonotic diseases, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and the capacity of health care systems in response to sepsis in resource-constrained settings.
Neurocritical Care Society (NCS)
Dr. Gene Yong Sung
A/Prof. Gene Yong Sung
Dr. Sung is the President of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care. He is a founding member and past-president of the international Neurocritical Care Society (with members from over 50 different countries). He also helped start two other professional societies and has had leadership positions at the American Heart Association, National Stroke Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Academy of Neurology.
He is the past-director of Neurocritical Care and Stroke at the University of Southern California (USC). He has trained at the Universities of Minnesota and Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, he received his first faculty appointment.
His research interests are improving neurocritical care and outcomes of stroke and traumatic brain injury. He has led a global effort to standardize the determination of brain death.
Dr. Gentle Sunder Shrestha
Dr. Gentle Sunder Shrestha
Dr. Gentle Sunder Shrestha, MD, FACC, EDIC, FCCP, FSNCC (Hon), FNCS
Associate Professor
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Shrestha is the neurointensivist practicing at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, a tertiary level teaching hospital of Nepal. After completing MD in Anesthesiology, he completed fellowship in Neurocritical care from University of Toronto. He is the first from the country to obtain European Diploma in Intensive Care, Fellow of Neurocritical Care Society and Honorary Fellowship of Society of Neurocritical Care, India. He is the current chair of the Asian Oceanic chapter of NCS and is one of the Board of Directors of NCS. He has close to 200 peer reviewed publications in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has contributed multiple book chapters and has attended many national and international conferences as resource person. He has conducted multiple workshops on ENLS and point-of-care ultrasound as a course director. His filed of interest are neurocritical care, point-of-care ultrasonography and neuroanesthesiology.
Prof. Hemanshu Prabhakar
Prof. Hemanshu Prabhakar
Dr. Hemanshu Prabhakar, MD, PhD, FSNCC (Hon): Professor in Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
He received his training in neuroanaesthesia and completed his PhD in the same institute.
Active member of several international societies such as SNACC, NCS, SNCC.
He is Honorary Fellow of Society of Neurocritical Care (SNCC)
He is recipient of the AIIMS Excellence Award 2012 for notable contribution in academics.
He has > 350 publications in national and international journals to his credit.
He is on the Editorial board of Indian Journal of Palliative care, Nepalese Journal of Critical Care Medicine and is Past Executive Editor of the Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care.
Review author for The Cochrane Collaboration.
Reviewer of several National and International journals.
Past Secretary of Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care [ISNACC]
Past Secretary of Society of Neurocritical Care [SNCC]
President of Society of Neurocritical Care [SNCC]
Featured in Limca Book of Records 2019, as ‘Prolific writer on Neuroanesthesiology’
Editor of 26 books on the subject.
Dr. Ji Man Hong
Dr. Ji Man Hong
Ji Man Hong, MD, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Neurology at Ajou University. Dr. Hong is working as a member (educational section) of board of
directors of the Korean Neurocritical Care Society (KCS). He is currently running the NICE (NeurocrItical Care Essence) academy program of KCS. Dr. Hong’s
research interests are to improve patients’ clinical outcomes in malignant ischemic stroke management and is focused on various neuroprotection to improve
patients’ clinical outcomes. His research interests include also Moyamoya disease, Cerebral Hemodynamics, Neurocritical Care, Global Cerebral Ischemia, Cerebral Blood Flow, and Vascular Physiology.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tBPnIZ4AAAAJ&hl=en
Dr. Jo Ann Soliven
Dr. Jo Ann Soliven
Dr. Jo Ann Soliven
Founder and President
Brain RESCUE Organization of the Philippines
Dr. Soliven is a graduate of Internal Medicine and Adult Neurology training programs at The Medical City in Metromanila. She took Vascular/Stroke Clinical and Research Fellowship training at the National Neuroscience Institute – Singapore General Hospital Campus; (Nov 2014 – Nov 2015), was a visiting Fellow for Neurocritical Care at Baylor College of Medicine-CHI St Luke’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA; with rotation at the Neurosurgical ICU, Mt Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, New York) in 2016.
She later organized the Brain RESCUE (Responders and Educators to Strengthen Care for neurologic Emergency/Critically-ill patients), a global partner of NCS, doing hands-on education and assistance of hospitals in several provinces for establishment of stroke and neuro-ICUs.
A member of both global executive and regional Philippine committees of Mission Thrombectomy of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology, her current works include the establishment of a Hub and Spoke model for Stroke and Neurocritical Care for better access to such services.
Dr. Karpil Zirpe
Dr. Karpil Zirpe
Dr Zirpe is Head, Dept. Neuro Critical Care at Ruby Hall clinic ,Pune. He is Past president of Neuro Critical Care Society of India (SNCC) and Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), Mumbai. He was Council member of World Federation of Societies of Intensive & Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM). He was conferred with Fellowship of Indian College of critical care medicine (FICCM) in 2013 and Fellowship of American College of critical care med. (FCCM) in 2016 by society of critical care medicine (SCCM). He was conferred with Fellowship of College of Neuro critical care medicine (FSNCC) by Society of neuro critical care ,India (SNCC) in 2021. He has published 70+ research articles published in National and International PubMed index journals and written 30+ chapters in various books. He is editor of 15+ books in critical care medicine. He has delivered 350+ lectures at various national and international conferences.
Prof. Maria Isabelita C. Rogado
Prof. Maria Isabelita C. Rogado
Maria Isabelita “Belle” C. Rogado is a graduate of San Juan de Dios College of Nursing. She earned her Masters of Arts in Nursing at the La Concordia Graduate School and took Management Development Program from Asian Institute of Management. Currently, Mrs. Rogado is pursuing a doctorate degree in Nursing Science at St. Paul’s University of the Philippines.
Prof. Rogado has the Division Chief of Nursing Education of the Philippine Heart Center (1996 – 2005); Vice President of the Division of Nursing of St. Luke’s Medical Center – Quezon City (2005 – 2008) and Chong Hua Hospital (2014 – 2015).
Prof. Rogado is currently an active member of the Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC); the Professional Regulatory Board of Nursing initiatives, on the Nursing Law Amendments, Roadmap 2030, member of the Nursing Career Progression Council, and module writer and coach for the National Nursing Core Competency Standards.
Prof. Rogado was recognized as the 2017 Presidential Awardee given by the NCS, 2014 Presidential Awardee of the Society of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine of the Philippines, and Most Outstanding Alumnus of. Maryhill Academy.
Currently she holds the following position:
President, Critical Care Nurses Association of the Philippines
Vice-President, Philippine Neurocritical Care Society.
Vice-President, World Federation of Critical Care Nurses
Prof. Rogado is a faculty at the Arellano Graduate School of Nursing handing the Medical – Surgical Post-graduate curriculum.
Prof. Masao Nagayama
Prof. Masao Nagayama
MASAO NAGAYAMA MD, PhD, FAAN, FACP, FNCS
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION
Professor, Department of Neurology
International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW) Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
American College of Physicians (ACP) Japan Chapter
Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) and Chair of the NCS Asian and Oceanian Chapter (2019-2021)
Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC)/Secretary General
Japan Society of Neurological Emergencies and Critical Care (JNE)
Medical Safety Promotion Organization (MSPO)
SPECIALTY
Critical Care Neurology especially of Stroke, Status epilepticus, NeuroICU, and Brain death
Medical safety, especially Crisis management
Medical English education, Medical ethics
OTHERS
Member, Academic Consortium on Emergency Medical Service and Disaster Medical Response
Plan during the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020
Chair, Japanese Society of Neurology Metropolitan Regional Meeting in 2020
Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School
Prof. Sarah Livesay
Prof. Sarah Livesay
Dr. Sarah Livesay is an Advanced Practice Nurse and Professor of Nursing at Rush University College of Nursing. As an Associate Dean of the College, Dr. Livesay oversees one of the largest APRN Programs in the United States. Dr. Livesay is an expert in stroke and neurocritical care topics. She is the current elected President of the Neurocritical Care Society, a multiprofessional international organizations serving clinicians working in the specialty and patients with neurocritical care diagnoses.
Dr. Saurabh Anand
Dr. Saurabh Anand
Present Designation: Chief: Department of Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care
Present Affiliation: Artemis Hospital, Gurugram.
Major Achievements (Honours, Awards, Publications):
He is a recognized faculty in Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care (ISNACC)& Neurocritical care society of India(NCSI)
Presently he is the Program Director for the Post- Doctoral Fellowship (PDF) Course in Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care(affiliated to the ISNACC and NCSI) at Artemis Hospital. Receieved Heathcare Today Excellence award in 2018 for best Neuroanaesthetist and Neurointensivist. Also receieved Chairman’s Award in 2018 from ISCCM (Delhi-NCR)
He has been actively working to establish Neurocritical Care as a distinct Subspeciality in India. Course director for Acute neurocare course.
He has conducted exclusive Live Workshops on Transcranial Doppler in 2017 and 2018, the first of its kind, at National level.
He has presented his work on “USG in Nerurocritical care” in Japan 2019.Presented his work on TCD in Korea 2018.
Publications: He has to his credit 15 Publications in Peer reviewed journals. Just recently published a review article on Hyperperfusion Syndrome in Carotid Revascularisation
Area of Interest: TCD, BP management in stroke, Acute Neurocare course
Prof. Susan Yeager
Prof. Susan Yeager
Susan Yeager works as a Professional Practice Specialist and Neurocritical Care Nurse Practitioner at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio USA. She received her Bachelor in Science and Nursing from Capital University and her Master’s in Science in Nursing from The Ohio State University. After working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist for 10 years, she got her second Master’s degree as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner from Wright State University and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from The Ohio State University. Throughout her career, she has worked in a variety of clinical settings which have included medical surgical, surgical trauma step down, open heart recovery, emergency departments, cardiac/surgical/medical/trauma and interventional critical care. This experience, and her work as a flight nurse, laid the foundation for her Trauma and Neurocritical care CNS and ACNP roles. She previously served on the American Association of Critical Care Nursing and World Federation of Critical Care Nurses Board of Directors, served two terms on the Neurocritical Care Society Board of Directors and is the current Treasurer for the Neurocritical Care Society.
Dr. Wong Yu-Lin
Dr. Wong Yu-Lin
Dr Wong Yu-Lin
Senior consultant
Department Anaesthesiology Intensive Care and Pain medicine (AICPM)
Dr Wong is dually accredited for anaesthesia (MMed Anaesthesia Singapore) and (ANZCA Australia), followed by Intensive Care Medicine Subspecialty accreditation (ICM Singapore).
She is currently the ICU Committee Chairperson and Neuroscience director in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, in addition to chair of the hospital Brain death Workgroup and Organ Transplant Improvement Programme.
Dr Wong has an interest in sedation and delirium in ICU and Palliative care in ICU.
She had research grants for ICU projects including ICU diary, virtual reality rehabilitation in ICU, palliative care in ICU, and non verbal communication tools in ICU. Currently, they will be embarking on Platelet mapping studies for NICU patients on antiplatelet therapy who present with ICH.
Publications include Singapore SPICE: sedation practices in ICU evaluation in Singapore, Sedation Intensity in the first 48 hours of mechanical Ventilation, Integrating Palliative Care in Neurosurgical ICU, Physiological Changes during Prone posiyioning in COVID-19 Acute respiratory Distress syndrome, challenges in adapting exisiting hyperacute stroke protocols in Singapore for COVID-19.
Prof. Yingying Su
Prof. Yingying Su
Prof. Yingying Su, MD, PhD
Neurocritical Critical Care, Department of Neurology
Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University (National Brain Injury Evaluation Quality Control Center, National Center for Neurological Disorders and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases)
Address: No. 45, Changchun Street, Xicheng District, Beijing 100053, China
Tel: 0086-010-83198730 Fax: 0086-010-83198730 E-mail: suyingying@xwh.ccmu.edu.cn
Past President of Brain Injury Evaluation Quality Control Center of National Health Commission
Past President of Neurocritical Care Committe of the Chinese Society of Neurology (NCC/CSN)
Past President of Neurocritical Care Committe of China Neurologist Association (NCC/CNA)
Dr. Alex Psirides
Dr. Alex Psirides
Alex is co-director of the ICU in Wellington, New Zealand, medical director of the Aeromedical Retrieval Service, and Chair of the national Critical Care Advisory Group to the Ministry & Te Whatu Ora. He trained in London, Australia and New Zealand and has been involved in the design and implementation of hospital rapid response systems in several countries. He led the New Zealand Health Quality & Safety Commission’s national ‘Deteriorating Patient’ programme for 5 years. This led to national roll-out of an evidence-based Early Warning Score, a standardised vital signs chart, a patient & family escalation system and a national Shared Goals of Care approach to ensure treatment was both wanted and warranted. His career highlight remains providing intensive care to a chimpanzee in Wellington Zoo. He lives in Wellington with his wife, two daughters and a dog. Since new ownership, he is wasting much less time on Twitter.
A/Prof. Andrea Kwa
A/Prof. Andrea Kwa
Andrea Kwa is currently a Pharmacy Clinician Scientist, and also a faculty with Duke-NUS Dept of Emerging Infectious Diseases. She specializes in critical care medicine, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance research. Her pet research topics in infectious diseases/ antimicrobial resistance are:
1) elucidation of multiple antibiotics in combination against extreme drug resistant gram-negative bacilli in an one compartment static in-vitro model or a dyamic in-vitro pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic two-compartmental model simulating fluctuating clinically achievable antibiotic concentrations
2) population pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of antimicrobials
3) molecular diagnostics in bacterial/fungal diseases and anti-fungal/anti-bacterial resistance, 4) risk factors and outcomes via statistical modelling
5) health services research involving antimicrobial stewardships
6) Phage Therapy for difficult-to-treat infections.
To-date, she has authored more than 120 publications, more than 150 presentations and secure nearly 50 research grants (as PIs or Co-Is). She is a section editor with International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (JIF 15).
Prof. Andrew Udy
Prof. Andrew Udy
Andrew is a full-time intensive care clinician and researcher at The Alfred ICU, Melbourne. He completed his undergraduate medical education at the University of Auckland, followed by ICU training in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. After award of Fellowship, Andrew worked as a consultant for many years in Queensland, while also completing a PhD in antibiotic pharmacokinetics. His major academic interests include optimised drug prescribing in the critically ill, haemodynamic management in severe sepsis, acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapy, management of SAH and TBI, and critical care nutrition. Andrew is involved in critical care research internationally as an Executive Member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group (CTG). He also a keen educator; instructing on many ICU courses, and is Chair of the Neurocritical Care Special Interest Group, CICM. Andrew is Co-Deputy Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care – Research Centre, Monash University.
Dr. Ashish Khanna
Dr. Ashish Khanna
Dr. Ashish K Khanna is an associate professor of anesthesiology and vice-chair of research with the department of anesthesiology, section on critical care medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He is also a member of the Wake Center for Biomedical Informatics, a core faculty for the Center for Healthcare Innovation, and the Wake Forest Hypertension and Vascular Research Cardiovascular Science Center. He serves as the inaugural director for the Perioperative Outcomes and Informatics Collaborative (POIC) a large perioperative outcomes collaborative research program that is staffed with several research nurses, fellows, technicians, students, data scientists and administrative staff and is a center of excellence for clinical trials across specialties. In addition, he is a major regional director for the Outcomes Research Consortium based out of the Cleveland Clinic.
Dr. Khanna is currently incoming chair for the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) committee on critical care medicine, and also sits as a past chair for the abstract review subcommittee on critical care medicine and is a member of the educational track subcommittee for critical care medicine. He is heavily engaged with the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and currently past-chair for the research section, is on the steering committee for the anesthesiology section and vice-chair for the Discovery research network, along with being a program co-chair for the 2023 congress. He is on the board of directors for the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) and the American Society for Enhanced Recovery & Perioperative Medicine (ASER).
His research interests include prediction of post-operative respiratory and cardiac events on the regular nursing floor using wearable monitoring, use of large datasets for perioperative outcomes research, effects of hypotension in critically ill patients and use of novel vasopressors in shock states in the ICU. He is a previous FAER-MRTG awardee, and a Wake Forest CTSA KL2 recipient for his work on wireless wearable monitoring. Total extramural funding includes support from corporate sponsors and federal sub-awards to the tune of approximately 10 million dollars (2015 to date).
Dr. Khanna has more than a 150 peer reviewed papers, two dozen book chapters, editorials, invited non-peer reviewed articles, and has been invited to talk about this work at prestigious national and international forums. From 2015-2017, Dr.Khanna led the Angiotensin II in High Output Shock (ATHOS3) trial and the publication of this work in the NEJM. This work translated to the US FDA approval of this novel vasopressor for management of broad indications of high output shock and is currently being used across the United States in critically ill patients. He is a founding member for the BrainX group, which collaborates, educates, and conducts research, helps with innovation and development of new ideas centered around big data analytics.
A full list of relevant publications can be seen at:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=7FW4mKEAAAAJ&scilu=&scisig=ADuiNO0AAAAAZCuKTD1EA6j9DqYug0djm5UuOFA&gmla=ABEO0YqRimk5BquWJ8Idguoa8bA3aro-gw1bdN9GqBZSzum2h37_IMI-_Y1wNcRuQfk2n8nSbGFGFLNawvhcDrQUn9sLAoh35I5l5Bg&sciund=9973756456511414716
Wake Forest POIC program:
https://school.wakehealth.edu/departments/anesthesiology/perioperative-outcomes-and-informatics-collaborative
Wake Forest Anesthesiology Research:
https://school.wakehealth.edu/departments/anesthesiology/anesthesiology-research
Dr. Atsushi Kawaguchi
Dr. Atsushi Kawaguchi
Atsushi Kawaguchi graduated from Osaka University School of Medicine in 2003, and after training in pediatrics, completed a clinical fellowship in pediatric critical care at Shizuoka Children’s Hospital in Shizuoka, Japan, and then at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, until 2012. In 2018, he received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Alberta, School of Public Health.
Since 2021, he has taken a role of a professor at St. Marianna University School of Medicine as well as a director of the PICU. He has been involved in a variety of research programs in epidemiology, pediatrics and pediatric critical care. In particular, one of his research focuses has been on respiratory monitoring and clinical decision-support systems in critical care. He is collaborating with various partners on new modalities of respiratory monitoring and sensing. He is also conducting several basic and clinical studies on high flow nasal and nebulization therapy in critically ill children.
He is also leading a large international epidemiologic study of prolonged mechanically ventilated children in the PICU.
Dr. Ben Gelbart
Dr. Ben Gelbart
Ben Gelbart is a paediatric intensive care specialist at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, visiting intensivist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and an honorary fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Ben is completing his PhD at the University of Melbourne, which focused on fluid accumulation and investigated whether oedema can be quantified in critically ill children. Ben is an active member and previous vice chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric study group. As a clinician researcher Ben has led and collaborated on multicentre randomised trials within the Paediatric Study Group.
Dr. Briseida Mema
Dr. Briseida Mema
Dr. Briseida Mema
Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Dr. Briseida Mema, MD, FRCPSC, MHPE is a staff physician in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at SickKids Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mema is the Program Director for the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Training Program at the University of Toronto and has received several awards for teaching excellence as a trainee and faculty. She is a Clinician Educator, and her interests include skills teaching through simulation, transfer of learning from simulation to clinical context and assessment. She was the recipient the University of Toronto Medical Humanities Education Grant in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and she leads a Medical Humanities curriculum for trainees and faculty in Intensive Care to support the lifelong journey of the Professional Identity Transformation.
Prof. Carol Hodgson
Prof. Carol Hodgson
Professor Carol Hodgson is 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, Melbourne, Australia. She has held NHMRC funding throughout her career, including as a current Investigator Fellow (2020-2024). Professor Hodgson is a clinical trialist and she leads international multicentre trials for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group. She is a Specialist Physiotherapist in Intensive Care at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, with particular expertise in long-term functional recovery after critical illness. She sits on the Executive and Scientific Committee of the International ECMO Network (ECMONet), the Guidelines Leadership Group for National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce and is a Council Member of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists (InFACT). She was recently awarded fellowship to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and made an honorary member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
Dr. Chan Yeow
Dr. Chan Yeow
Dr. Chan Yeow (Singapore)
Senior Consultant, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
Director, Home Ventilation and Respiratory Support Service
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Dr Chan Yeow graduated from National University of Singapore , Faculty of Medicine ( now known as Yong Lu Lin School of Medicine) in 1994 . He completed Anaesthesiology training in 2003. He underwent a fellowship in Intensive Care Medicine in Melbourne, Victoria in 2004 ( at both the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, and The Alfred). He obtained the European Diploma of Intensive Care in 2006.
In 2009, he was appointed the Director of the Home Ventilator Service, which was renamed the Home Ventilation and Respiratory Support Service subsequently. This service currently receives mainstream MOH funding, and is the only de facto adult complex home ventilation service in Singapore.
The HVRSS team underwent a team fellowship in Paris ( L’Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere) and Paris ( the Royal Brompton Hospital) in 2010. The team has hosted numerous visiting experts, and has conducted courses in chronic ventilation locally and in the region.
The HVRSS team currently looks after more than a hundred and eighty complex ventilation users, and has cumulatively looked after more than four hundred ventilation users. In 2022, the team was awarded the Service Delivery Excellence Award of the Public Sector Transformation Awards 2022.
Prof. Chen De-Chang
Prof. Chen De-Chang
DE-CHANG CHEN, MD.
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
197 Ruijin Second Road, Shanghai, 200020, P.R China
Present Appointment
Professor & Doctoral tutor
Director of Department of Critical Care Medicine
Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Organizations
- Chairman, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Chinese Medical Association
- Vice Chairman, Society of extracorporeal life support, Chinese Physicians’ Association
- Standing committee member, Professional Committee of Critical Illness, Chinese Association of Pathophysiology
- Vice chairman, National Professional Committee of Microbial Toxin, China
- Expert committee member, Quality Control and Evaluation Center of Critical Care Medicine, the Ministry of Health
- Chairman, Society of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Medical Association
- Chairman, Society of extracorporeal life support, Shanghai Physicians’ Association
- Editor in Chief, Journal of Intensive Medicine
Education & Experience
1981-1986 MD. The Second Military Medical University
1986-1994 Resident Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
1994-1999 Assistant Professor Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
1999-2004 Associate Professor Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
2004-2016 Professor Department of Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital
2017- Professor Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Achievements
Dr. Chen,s main field of research is the management of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. He especially focuses on gut microflora therapy, prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal function failure in critically ill patients.
He has been responsible for 14 national grants including 7 National Science Foundation of China and 4 Shanghai academic projects. Up to date, he has awarded a second-class Shanghai Science and Technology Award and a second-class Military Science and Technology Award. He has published over 150 original articles and didactic reviews in peer-reviewed journals.
Representative Publication
- Efficacy and safety of Paxlovid in severe adult patients with SARS-Cov-2 infection: a multicenter randomized controlled study. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2023 Apr;33:100694.
- Association of gut microbiota with COVID-19 susceptibility and severity: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study. J Med Virol. 2023 Apr;95(4):e28734.
- Lipopolysaccharide induced intestinal epithelial injury: a novel organoids-based model for sepsis in vitro. Chin Med J (Engl). 2022 Sep 20;135(18):2232-2239.
- Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for patients with severe COVID-19: a retrospective multicentre study. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Oct;27(10):1488-1493.
- Expert consensus on the use of human serum albumin in critically ill patients. Chin Med J (Engl). 2021 Jul 20;134(14):1639-1654.
- Corticosteroid treatment in severe COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. J Clin Invest. 2020 Dec 1;130(12):6417-6428.
- Prevalence and impact of acute renal impairment on COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Crit Care. 2020 Jun 18;24(1):356.
- Low-dose intravenous plus inhaled versus intravenous polymyxin B for the treatment of extensive drug-resistant Gram-negative ventilator-associated pneumonia in the critical illnesses: a multi-center matched case-control study. Ann Intensive Care. 2022 Aug 8;12(1):72.
- Estimation of the reproductive number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the probable outbreak size on the Diamond Princess cruise ship: A data-driven analysis. J Infect Dis. 2020 Apr;93:201-204.
Risk Factors and Molecular Epidemiology of Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections With Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A Multicenter Study in China. J Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 16;221(Suppl 2):S156-S163.
Adj. A/Prof. Chia Yew Woon
Adj. A/Prof. Chia Yew Woon
A/Prof Chia Yew Woon
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
A/Prof Chia Yew Woon is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Intensivist and Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He is one of the few physicians who are dually trained and accredited in both Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, having completed his fellowship in The Alfred Hospital ICU, a quaternary referral centre in Australia.
He has a strong interest in haemodynamic monitoring, mechanical circulatory support, post-cardiac arrest management and critical care ultrasonography, in which he has been leading educational efforts both locally and in the region. He is also the Singapore National Investigator for a number of multi-centre trials in Cardiac Critical Care. On the educational front, he is the coordinator for undergraduate medical education in Cardiology and also serves in the Internal Medicine Residency Programme, Cardiology Senior Residency Programme and Intensive Care Medicine Subspecialty Training Committee for post-graduate medical training and has been awarded the Best Teacher and Top Ten Teacher Awards on many occasions.
He is currently Chair of the Singapore National Targeted Temperature Management Workgroup, Vice-President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Singapore), Board Member of the Chapter of Intensivists and Adjunct Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Prof. Chien-Hua Huang
Prof. Chien-Hua Huang
Chien-Hua Huang, MD, PhD
Chairman and Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
National Taiwan University Medical College and Hospital
Dr. Huang got his medical doctor in Medical College of National Taiwan University. After completing the residence training of internal medicine and fellowship training of cardiovascular medicine, Dr. Huang received full resident training of emergency medicine in National Taiwan University Hospital. Dr. Huang then entered Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine and got his doctorate degree. He received a grant supporting post-doctorate research in Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His major research interests include acute cardiac care, resuscitation and post-cardiac arrest care including targeted temperature management. Dr. Huang has more than 150 publications including clinical and laboratory studies. He receives awards from the fields of academic research, team work management and administrative works in these years. His recent interests focus on high quality post-cardiac arrest care to improve the clinical management and outcome for cardiac arrest.
Dr. Cristelle Chow
Dr. Cristelle Chow
Dr Cristelle Chow is a consultant general paediatrician with the Department of Paediatrics at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She is also the director of Children’s Complex and Home Care Services, a multidisciplinary service that provides coordinated care for children with chronic medical illnesses resulting in multiple organ dysfunction and medical technology dependence.
Prof. Daryl Jones
Prof. Daryl Jones
Professor Daryl Jones
Daryl graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1996 and is an Intensive Care Specialist at Austin Health.
Daryl is also a honorary Professor at Monash University, and at the University of Melbourne and has previously been an advisor to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in healthcare.
He has completed a Doctor of medicine in aspects of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) and has also completed a PhD on the RRT that assessed the characteristics and outcomes of patient who are reviewed by the RRT, and details of resource utilization of the MET in ICU-equipped hospitals throughout Australia.
Daryl is the medical director of critical care outreach at the Austin Hospital and is the past president of the international society for Rapid Response Systems.
He has an interest in the role of RRTs in the recognition of and response to sepsis in ward patients, and improvement of governance of sepsis in hospitals.
Prof. David Pilcher
Prof. David Pilcher
David is an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. His interests include ICU outcome monitoring, severity of illness assessment, organ donation, lung transplantation and ECMO. He trained in respiratory, general and intensive care medicine in the United Kingdom and Australia.
He is the Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (CORE). He is a medical advisor to DonateLife in Victoria. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine – Monash University, the Vice-President of ANZICS and recently stepped down as Clinical Lead for the Safer Care Victoria Critical Care Clinical Network.
He has co-authored 350 publications including papers in New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association, has written six book chapters, supervised nine PhD students and received over $20 million in competitive and government grants since 2000 but what he really enjoys doing when not in the ICU, is burying himself deep in data with biostatisticians, data scientists and clinicians.
A/Prof. Debbie Long
A/Prof. Debbie Long
Debbie Long is an Associate Professor, Paediatric Nursing at the Queensland University of Technology. Her research program focuses on sedation, delirium and PICU long-term outcomes and she is co-investigator on 3 large NHMRC studies. In 2018, she was the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship. Debbie is currently the chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Paediatric Study Group (PSG) Long Term Outcomes Group.
A/Prof. Ed Litton
A/Prof. Ed Litton
Associate Professor Edward Litton MBChB FCICM MSc PhD
Associate Professor Litton is an Intensive Care Specialist and Director of ICU research at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth. He is a NHMRC Research Fellow with research interests in anaemia and recovery after ICU, sepsis and the microbiome, cardiac surgery, sleep, and novel trial designs. He is a board director of the Intensive Care Foundation and Clinical Director of the ANZICS Critical Care Resources Registry.
Dr. Elizabeth Wilcox
Dr. Elizabeth Wilcox
Dr. M. Elizabeth Wilcox MD PhD FRCPC ATSF
Dr. Wilcox is an Associate Professor within the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta and serves as the medical director of the Neurosciences ICU at the University of Alberta Hospital. Dr. Wilcox has a special research interest in long-term outcomes after critical illness with a specific focus on cognition and sleep. Having recently conducted a multicenter cohort study that evaluated the association of sleep and circadian rhythm on cognitive outcomes in ICU survivors, Dr. Wilcox was a member of a recent official American Thoracic Society (ATS) research statement on causes, consequences and treatments of sleep and circadian disruption in the ICU. In addition to her research interests, Dr. Wilcox is currently serving as the Program Chair for the Critical Care Assembly for the ATS 2023 International Conference.
Dr. Emily See
Dr. Emily See
Dr. Emily See is a Consultant Intensivist and Nephrologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, a Senior Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. She holds a Master of Medical Statistics degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Clinical Medicine from the University of Melbourne. Her clinical and research interests centre around acute kidney injury, continuous renal replacement therapy, and sepsis.
Dr. Faheem Khan
Dr. Faheem Khan
Dual qualified in Emergency medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. Current Head of Dept, Combined Intensive Care Department. Ng Teng Fong General Hospital,Singapore.
Aim to create a seamless and smooth patient care from Emergency medicine and wards to Intensive Care Department with the motto “Critical Care at Front Door” and “ICU Without Walls“.
My interest is in utilization of IT in improving the outcome in patient’s medical care.
Dr. Glenn Eastwood
Dr. Glenn Eastwood
Dr Glenn Eastwood is the Intensive Care Research Manager at the Austin Hospital. Through teamwork and collaboration, he is one of Australia’s most experienced and successful Intensive Care nurse researchers. He is the Chief Principal Investigator of the TAME clinical trial evaluating arterial carbon dioxide management following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Prof. Hayley Gershengorn
Prof. Hayley Gershengorn
Dr. Gershengorn is a Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine in the United States where she works as a medical intensivist. Her research program focuses on the allocation of ICU resources and the impact such allocation has on the outcomes of critically ill patients. In particular, she is interested in understanding how ICU staffing and practices which may be tied to staffing affect patient morbidity and mortality. Dr. Gershengorn is the Past Chair of the Internal Medicine Section for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Chair of the Women in Critical Care Working Group for the American Thoracic Society, and the inaugural Editor-in-Chief for the new open access journal, CHEST Critical Care.
Dr. Inderjit Singh
Dr. Inderjit Singh
Dr. Inderjit Singh was born and raised in Malaysia. After completing medical school at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dr. Singh pursued further training in the US. Dr. Singh completed training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center in NYC followed by a 2-year dedicated training in pulmonary vascular disease at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University in Boston. Dr. Singh currently serves as the director of the pulmonary vascular disease program at Yale. Dr. Singh’s research is focused on cardiopulmonary physiology in particular the interaction between the right ventricle and pulmonary circulation during exercise. The overarching goal of Dr. Singh’s research is to develop reliable hemodynamic and corresponding circulating biomarkers extracted during cardiopulmonary exercise testing that would help define early disease phenotypes and find use in clinical decision making process.
Dr. Intikhab Zafurallah
Dr. Intikhab Zafurallah
Dr Intikhab Zafurallah (Zaf)
Paediatric Intensivist, Birmingham children’s Hospital, UK
Fellowship training programme director for the pccm training programme
An international medical graduate from The Caribbean, trained in paediatrics/ picm in the Uk & Canadá (Sickkids) before taking up a consultant post in Birmingham, in 2014. Volunteers for children heart surgery charity work since 2010, completed over 120 trips, including international retrievals. Passionate about training & growing people in LMIC & the UK in paediatrics critical care.
Fun Fact: Fun thing- likes to travel to unusual communities & garden
A/Prof. Jason Phua
A/Prof. Jason Phua
A/Prof Jason Phua is a respiratory physician and intensivist practicing at Alexandra Hospital (AH) and National University Hospital (NUH), Chief Executive Officer of AH, and Deputy Chief Executive (Clinical Transformation) of the National University Health System (NUHS). He is the Chair of the Asian Critical Care Clinical Trials (ACCCT) Group and the Co-Chair of the National Intensive Care Unit Repository (NICUR). He previously served as the Head of the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at NUH, the President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SICM) Singapore, the Co-Chair of the National COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Committee, and the Chair of the Asia Ventilation Forum
Prof. Jean-Louis Teboul
Prof. Jean-Louis Teboul
- Professor of Therapeutics and Critical Care Medicine, at the University Paris-Saclay in France.
- Head of the Medical ICU of Bicêtre Hospital (AP-HP. University Paris-Saclay), France.
- Research interests in the field of hemodynamics of critically ill patients with developments of several tests to assess fluid responsiveness such as Pulse Pressure Variation and Passive Leg Raising and End-Expiratory Occlusion tests.
- 340 articles (referenced in Pubmed) and 154 book chapters/didactic articles.
The H index is 90 for Publish or Perish and 76 for Web of Science. - 1175 invited lectures including 969 in international conferences.
- Honorary Fellow Honor Award of the American College of Chest Physicians in 2007.
- Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) from January 1st 2019 to December 31st 2021
- Currently Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Intensive Care (IF 2021:318)
- Currently Editor-Chief of Journal of Intensive Medicine (created in 2020)
- Currently the Chair of the Congress Committee of the ESICM.
A/Prof. Jeff Singh
A/Prof. Jeff Singh
Jeffrey Singh received his MD from the University of Toronto and specialized in Internal Medicine, Adult Critical Care Medicine and Neurocritical Care, and received research training in clinical epidemiology.
Dr. Singh is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and previously served as site director of the Medical-Surgical and Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at the Toronto Western Hospital for over a decade. Dr. Singh also is also a Regional Medical Lead for Donation at Trillium Gift of Life Network, the organ donation organization of Canada’s most populous province.
His research interests involve the support of critically-ill patients with brain and spinal cord injuries, and the evolving area of organ donation science. He is currently conducting several studies to improve the approach, triage and support of potential organ donors.
Dr. John Glasheen
Dr. John Glasheen
John is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and a Specialist in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine. He works in aeromedical retrieval at LifeFlight Retrieval Medicine, and on the High Acuity Response Unit at Queensland Ambulance Service. John is also the Assistant Director of Education and Training at LifeFlight, and has a research background in emergency airway management.
Adj A/Prof. Koh Pei Lin
Adj A/Prof. Koh Pei Lin
Adj A/Prof Koh Pei Lin is a senior consultant in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore. She has dual paediatric sub-speciality accreditation in Paediatric Critical Care and Paediatric haematology-oncology. She was the previous head of the PICU from 2009 till 2017. Her research interests include haematological issues in the PICU and end-of-life issues in the PICU.
A/Prof. Kwek Tong Kiat
A/Prof. Kwek Tong Kiat
Dr Kwek is Senior Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine and Assistant Chairman, Medical Board (Clinical Development) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is also Senior Consultant to the Ministry of Health for the National Deceased Donor Programme in Singapore.
His clinical interests include neuroanaesthesia, neurocritical care, general intensive care and deceased organ donation.
Dr Kwek is Assistant Dean (Admissions) and Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in Singapore.
He is a regular Examiner for the local Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology) Part 1 and 2 examinations and External Examiner for the Primary Examination of the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists. He is an External Faculty and Examiner for the Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care Program at the University of Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia.
Dr. Lauren Ferrante
Dr. Lauren Ferrante
Dr. Ferrante is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, Director of the Operations Core of the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, and an attending physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her research program, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA), is centered at the interface of critical care medicine and geriatrics, with the overarching goal of understanding and improving the functional outcomes of critically ill older adults. Dr. Ferrante’s work has been recognized most recently with the Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science (2023) from the American Thoracic Society, where she also serves as Co-Chair of the Aging in Critical Care Interest Group and is the incoming Chair of the Critical Care Assembly Program Committee for the ATS 2024 International Conference .
A/Prof. Lee-Anne Chapple
A/Prof. Lee-Anne Chapple
Associate Professor Lee-anne Chapple is the Senior Critical Care Dietitian at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and a Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia. She leads the intensive care nutrition research program at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, conducting research that focuses on nutrition physiology during critical illness and early recovery. In particular, A/Prof Chapple has an interest in understanding protein delivery and utilisation to improve recovery for critically ill patients.
Ms. Lim Xin Ling
Ms. Lim Xin Ling
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Dr. Maksym M. Pylypenko
Dr. Maksym M. Pylypenko
Current Position:
Jan 2021 – till now Head of the Intensive Care and Anaesthesia Department at Romodanov Neurosurgery Institute, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
Sep 2022 – till now part-time Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery, Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care at Bogomolets National Medical University (18 h/month)
Mar 2009 – till now part-time Associate Professor of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Shupyk National Healthcare University of Ukraine (now, 18 h/month)
Oct 2011-Dec 2020 Anaesthesiologist at Kyiv Municipal Emergency Hospital, Ukraine
Nov 2004-March 2009 Assistant Professor of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (part time)
Feb 2002- PhD – Aspiranture in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (Research Fellowship, Thesis defence: 25.02.05) Kyiv Municipal Emergency Hospital, Ukraine
Sep 1999-Sep 2001 Clinical Ordinature in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care (Clinical Fellowship) Kyiv Municipal Emergency Hospital, Ukraine
1997-1999 Residence in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care – Kyiv Medical Academy of Post diploma training.
1991-1997 M.D. National Medical University
Publications:
Author of more than 150 scientific publications (3 full texts in English, 12 abstracts in English, and more than 100 full texts in Ukrainian, including 8 books, 5 guidelines).
More than 15 oral presentations in English.
Professional Associations:
European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC)
International Airway Management Society (IAMS)
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
Ukrainian Society of Anaesthesiology
Ukrainian Society of Infection Control (member of editorial of the board of scientific journal)
Ukrainian Society of Stroke (member of editorial of the board of scientific journal)
Clinical or Research Trainings and Fellowships:
More than 10 abroad fellowships (UK, Austria, Italy, Belgium, France, Poland, Germany, etc., more than 12 months in total)
Experience in international multicentre clinical trials: 3 trials as Principal Investigator and 5 trials as Sub-Investigator
Dr. Martin Zammert
Dr. Martin Zammert
Dr. Martin Zammert is currently the Chair or Surgical Critical Care at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington.
Dr. Zammert received his medical degree from the University of Ulm/Germany.
After initial training in anesthesia at the University of Tuebingen/Germany he completed anesthesia residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, followed by a fellowship in critical care medicine as well as a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia at the same institution.
Dr. Zammert joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and during his time served as the director of vascular anesthesia, the director of the cardiac surgery intensive care unit and as the interim associate chair of surgical critical care, before joining the Lahey Hospital and Medical center.
Dr. Zammert is board-certified in anesthesia, critical care medicine and advanced perioperative transesophageal echocardiography.
His interests are the intraoperative anesthesia management during surgery involving the aorta as well as the management of patients with mechanical circulatory support in the ICU.
Dr. Matthew Cove
Dr. Matthew Cove
Matthew Cove completed an Internal Medicine Residency in Portland Oregon and a Critical Care Fellowship in Pittsburgh. He moved to Singapore in 2012, where he works as a Critical Care Consultant. His clinical appointment includes providing consultant cover in the Medical Intensive Care and Surgical High Dependency Units at National University Hospital Singapore. His research interests include the development of novel extracorporeal ventilation support devices and patient-ventilator interactions, particularly in those with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Since arriving in Singapore, Matthew has received funding from the National Medical Research Council to develop a research lab focused on extracorporeal respiratory support research as well as conduct clinical trials. In addition, his clinical research team are currently participating in a large international study (REMAP CAP), investigating the best treatment options for critically ill patients with pneumonia and has funding for developing novel diagnostics for fever and sepsis.
Dr. Michael Pfeffer
Dr. Michael Pfeffer
Michael is the Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean for Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine. Michael oversees Technology and Digital Solutions (TDS), responsible for providing world class technology solutions to Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine, enabling new opportunities for groundbreaking research, teaching, and compassionate care across two hospitals and over 150 clinics. Michael also serves as Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine and Division of Hospital Medicine with a joint appointment in the center for Biomedical Research (BMIR).
Prior to joining Stanford Medicine, Michael served as Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer for UCLA Health Sciences. During his tenure, Michael was the lead physician for the largest single-day electronic health record go-live encompassing over 26,000 users and subsequently the Chief Medical Informatics Officer before becoming CIO.
Michael has served on the national HIMSS Physician Committee and as a HIMSS Stage 7 international site surveyor; and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on health IT. Michael was featured in Becker’s Hospital Review as 10 physician CIOs to know and 12 standout healthcare CIOs.
Michael graduated from Brown University with a degree in chemical engineering. He received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
Dr. Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
Dr. Mohammod Jobayer Chisti
Dr Mohammod Jobayer Chisti has been working in International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b) since March`1998. He is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Emergency Ward in icddr,b. He is the pediatric intensivist and was the Clinical Lead in ICU from 2012 to 2020. He has a particular interest in low cost innovative work and their scale up in resource limited settings in reducing under-five childhood mortality especially from pneumonia, PARDS, sepsis, diarrhea, and malnutrition. As a clinical researcher his further aim is to help his junior colleagues to be involved in innovative low-cost research work that can be translated in clinical services. It is important to note that as the recognition of distinguished contribution in tropical medicine and capacity building of his mentees he received Bailey K. Ashford Medal awarded by the ASTMH in their 71th annual meeting held in Seattle, USA in October, 2022. He has also received Australian Alumni Excellence Award for Research and Innovation in 2012, People`s Choice Award for Most Promising Childhood Pneumonia Innovation awarded by the Global Pneumonia Innovation Network in 2015, British Medical Journal, South Asia Award, in 2017, AMAH Siddiqui Memorial Award (national) in 2018 and Bangladesh Pediatric Pulmonology Forum Award (national) in 2020.
Dr. Monika Gulati
Dr. Monika Gulati
Dr Monika Gulati
Qualifications-MBBS, M.D. Anaesthesia (Delhi University), Fellowship of College of Critical Care Australia and New Zealand (FCICM, 2013).
Basic Instructor, Basic Nephrology and Mechanical ventilation Instructor, Supervisor of Training FCICM. Communication and Soft skills workshop creator
Areas of Interest: Training and Education, Communication, Simulation, End of Life Care, Post Intensive care Syndrome
Prof. Pan Chun
Prof. Pan Chun
Dr Chun Pan work as a doctor, and research is focused on mechanical ventilation strategies and pathogenesis of ARDS and prevention of MODS, for example, PEEP titration, lung protective ventilation, transpulmonary pressure guiding ventilation, ALI/ARDS animal model establishment, acute core pulmonale in ARDS.
A/Prof. Rahul Kumar
A/Prof. Rahul Kumar
A/Prof Rahul Kumar is currently Hepatology director and Consultant Gastroenterologist at Changi General Hospital, Singapore. He sub-specialises in liver diseases, complications of liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. He was trained in GI and Hepatology at SingHealth, Singapore and at the Royal Free Hospital and University College London.
He is a keen researcher, and his research interests include acute and acute on chronic liver failure, liver fibrosis, portal hypertension therapies and hepatocellular carcinoma. He has co-authored over 50 scientific papers in various high-ranking journals, most notable of which is the utility of TIPS in portal hypertension and ACLF. He is currently the associate editor of journal of clinical and experimental hepatology.
Dr. Ramanathan K. R.
Dr. Ramanathan K. R.
A/Prof Ramanathan is an Adult Cardiac Intensivist at the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS). He had his speciality training in Cardiac Anaesthesiology from India and is trained in Intensive Care Medicine from Brisbane, Australia. He is trained in the management of critically ill cardiac patients and has expertise in the management of patients with mechanical cardiac support in ICU.Dr. Ramanathan is a member of the National ECMO Workgroup at the Ministry of Health in Singapore. He currently is the Co-chair of the Scientific Oversight Committee and the Data Review Committee at the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization(ELSO), USA and leads the courses workgroup at the ECMO education Committee at the ELSO.
Prof. Sangeeta Mehta
Prof. Sangeeta Mehta
Dr. Mehta is a Critical Care Physician at Sinai Health System in Toronto, Canada. She completed medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Internal Medicine training at the University of Toronto, and Respirology and Critical Care training at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, and a Clinician Scientist in the Division of Respirology and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, at the University of Toronto; and Clinician Scientist in the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute. She has a strong record of research productivity, and has published more than 300 peer-review publications.
Dr. Mehta’s major research foci include 1) sedation, analgesia and delirium management; and 2) EDI in academic medicine, particularly relating to gender. She is EDI Chair of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. She leads a program of research in EDI; and collaborates nationally and internationally. She has contributed to Round Tables and the development of equity policies, and is invited to speak nationally and internationally on this topic.
Prof. Satoshi Nakagawa
Prof. Satoshi Nakagawa
Education: Graduated from Tohoku University in 1984.
Training: Pediatric Critical Care Training was done at National Children’s Hospital (Japan), Hospital for Sick Children (Canada), and Massachusetts General Hospital and New England Medical Center (USA),
Current position: Division Chief, Critical Care Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Japan
International Societies: Immediate Past President of World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS)
Dr. Siva Namachivayam
Dr. Siva Namachivayam
Siva Namachivayam is a full-time cardiac intensive care physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, fellow at the Department of Paediatrics & Critical Care, University of Melbourne and medical lead for cardiac ICU research at Royal children’s Hospital. He is currently the principal investigator of a randomised trial looking at the effect of early peritoneal dialysis after cardiac surgery and is involved in several multicentre registry based studies utilising data from the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care registry.
Interests: Neonatal cardiac population, biostatistics, long-term outcomes analysis, non-specific effects of vaccines.
He is particularly interested in collaborating with colleagues in the conduct of clinical trials and observational research to improve outcomes after neonatal cardiac surgery.
Dr. Sky Vanderburg
Dr. Sky Vanderburg
Sky Vanderburg, MD MPH is physician scientist with a passion for redesigning critical care to maximize clinical impact while reducing inequity and waste. Aside from his clinical duties as a pulmonologist & intensivist, his research portfolio at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) includes initiatives addressing pulse oximeter inaccuracies in patients with darker skin and reengineering respiratory support devices to conserve oxygen—both of which have launched clinical trials. He is a technical advisor for US Government (USAID) and WHO programs aiming to evaluate and improve oxygen delivery in resource-variable settings in the aftermath of COVID-19. He has advised startups and VC firms in the medical device and digital health industries, including devising and developing a non-invasive cardiac output monitor currently undergoing prototype validation. Sky lives with his wife and newborn son in San Francisco, where he revels in open-water swimming and the opera.
Dr. Soo Kok Wai
Dr. Soo Kok Wai
Dr Soo is a Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Intensivist at the Institut Jantung Negara (IJN), Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. He graduated with Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2005. He then began his medical career in Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang and remained there until his completion of Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH) in 2010. He joined Institut Jantung Negara in 2012 to begin training in Paediatric Cardiology and further subspecialising in Cardiac Intensive Care. He did a 1-year fellowship in Intensive Care with the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne in 2016. Since he was promoted as a consultant in IJN in 2018, he has been tasked to care for patients undergoing congenital heart surgeries and interventions from all age ranges, including new-borns to adult with congenital heart disease. He is keen on sharing his experience and knowledge with the medical community in the various local and international conferences.
Prof. Stephen Bernard
Dr. Stephen Bernard
Professor Stephen Bernard is an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred and the Victorian Heart Hospitals, Director of Intensive Care at Knox Private Hospital and Medical Advisor to Ambulance Victoria. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.
He has been a Chief Investigator in numerous clinical trials funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, the “EXACT” trial tested the reduction of oxygen early after resuscitation, “TAME” tested therapeutic hypercapnia after admission to ICU and “RINSE” tested pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia. In trauma patients, “PATCH” tested the role of tranexamic acid in patients with suspected bleeding. In patients with severe TBI, “POLAR” tested early therapeutic hypothermia and the “RSI” trial tested paramedic rapid sequence intubation. The “ICED” trial tested early therapeutic hypothermia in patients with complete spinal cord injury.
Dr. Steve Philpot
Dr. Steve Philpot
Dr Steve Philpot is an Intensive Care Specialist at Cabrini Hospital with a special interest in end of life care, organ and tissue donation, communication skills training, empathy in the workplace and health law.
He is the National Lead Trainer for the Organ and Tissue Authority, the Convenor of the communication training program for the College of Intensive Care Medicine, convenor of the Cabrini Health “Shared Decision Making” workshops, chair of the Cabrini Health End of Life Care Committee, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University.
He has recently completed a Masters of Health and Medical Law at Melbourne University. His other interests include playing guitar and piano, singing, walking his dogs, the Fremantle Football Club, and fiction writing.
Ms. Tan Herng Lee
Ms. Tan Herng Lee
Tan Herng Lee is a Senior Principal Respiratory Therapist at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s Children’s Intensive Care Unit. Herng Lee obtained her Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy from Indiana University in 2002 and her Master of Science in Respiratory Care Leadership from Northeastern University in 2016. Her interest is in pediatric mechanical ventilation.
Dr. Tan Thean Yen
Dr. Tan Thean Yen
Dr Tan Thean Yen
Senior Consultant, Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital
Singapore
Thean Yen Tan is a clinical microbiologist of indeterminate age. He received his medical training in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Having survived Irish food and weather, he moved to the United Kingdom, mainly to escape the Guinness. He eventually descended on the unfortunate inhabitants of Cardiff, Wales, where he completed his microbiology training, and learnt to cook Welsh rarebit (and Welsh rabbit). Returning to Asia in 2003, he was offered employment in Singapore, where he has since worked (and failed to learn to cook Katong laksa). His professional interests include antibiotic resistance, effective diagnostics, laboratory optimisation, quality improvement, and teaching. His unprofessional interests include food, walking and anything that isn’t work.
Ms. Toh Wen Ya
Ms. Toh Wen Ya
Ms Toh Wen Ya
Advanced Practice Nurse
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Toh Wen Ya is an advanced practice nurse (APN) working in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital multi-disciplinary intensive care unit with special interest in palliative care.
She has been an ICU nurse for 13 years and completed her Master of nursing in critical care in 2021. She had underwent in-house training with hospital palliative team prior to diving into piloting ICU lead palliative service.
Dr. Traci Ann Wolbrink
Dr. Traci Ann Wolbrink
Traci Wolbrink, MD, MPH, is a pediatric intensivist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Her academic interests include developing and studying innovative online educational strategies. She is Co-Director of OPENPediatrics (www.openpediatrics.org), an open access online learning program for healthcare professionals.
Prof. Vinay Nadkarni
Prof. Vinay Nadkarni
Professor Vinay Nadkarni MD, MS
Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA.
Dr Nadkarni is the President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine 2023, and a Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a former chair of the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, and has served as a board member of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. He is the founding director of the CHOP Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, the CHOP Academy for Resuscitation of Children, and the CHOP Pediatric Global Resuscitation Alliance.
Prof. Walter Eppich
Prof. Walter Eppich
Walter Eppich, MD, MEd, PhD, FSSH
Professor and Chair of RCSI SIM, the Centre for Simulation Education and Research
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland
With a clinical background in pediatric emergency medicine, Professor Eppich uses qualitative and mixed methods approaches to study topics related to interprofessional collaborative practice, team reflection, healthcare debriefing, and team adaptation. He earned a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University. He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and book chapters. In addition to his work in health professions education and healthcare simulation, Walter collaborates with team and organizational psychologists to study team processes both in and outside of healthcare. In 2018, he traveled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews to investigate how Antarctic research teams adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme environments. His research program seeks to delineate the contribution of workplace talk and team interactions to learning and performance.
Dr. Wes Ely
Dr. Wes Ely
E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, is an internist, pulmonologist, and critical care physician. Dr. Ely earned his MD at Tulane University School of Medicine, in conjunction with a Master’s in Public Health. He serves as the Grant W. Liddle endowed chair in medicine and is a physician-scientist and tenured Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also the Associate Director of aging research for the Tennessee Valley Veteran’s Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC) in Nashville TN. He is the founder and codirector of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, and a pioneer in the investigation of delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes, including dementia, in survivors of critical illness. Dr. Ely is the author of Every Deep-Drawn Breath, from which he’s donating 100% net proceeds to help COVID survivors and family members rebuild their lives.
Prof. Yap Hui Kim
Prof. Yap Hui Kim
Professor Yap Hui Kim
Emeritus Consultant, Dept of Paediatrics,
Head, Division of Paediatric Nephrology, Dialysis & Renal Transplantation,
Shaw-NKF-NUH Children’s Kidney Centre
KTP-National University Children’s Medical Institute
National University Hospital, Singapore
Professor, Department of Paediatrics
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Chair of Residency Advisory Committee for Paediatric Medicine, Joint Committee for Specialist Training, Ministry of Health, Singapore
Chief Examiner, Paediatric Medicine Exit Examination
Council Member, International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA)
Council Member, Asian Pediatric Nephrology Association (AsPNA)
Committee Member, International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD)
Research Interests:
Optimization of outcomes in children with chronic kidney disease
Immune mechanisms in glomerulonephritis
Immunogenetics of familial nephritis
Has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Has been awarded several grants from the National Medical Research Council totalling more than 1 million dollars.
Won various awards including the National Kidney Foundation Gift of Life Award in 1996, Faculty Research Excellence Awards in 2005 and 2008, the National Medical Research Council National Outstanding Clinician Award in 2008, the Healthcare Humanity Award in 2012, Outstanding Asian Paediatrician Award from the Asian-Pacific Paediatric Association in 2012, and the Lee Foundation NHG-NUHS Life Time Achievement Award in 2013.
Dr. Zheng-Yii Lee
Dr. Zheng-Yii Lee
Dr. Zheng-Yii Lee
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Malaya
Malaysia
Dr Lee is a dietitian and a post-doctoral research fellow from the Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He specialized in critical care nutrition and was trained under the supervision of Professor Daren Heyland. He is part of the Critical Care Nutrition team and currently the person in charge of the criticalcarenutrition.com systematic reviews. His research interests include, but are not limited to, energy, proteins, lipids, vitamin C, vitamin D, and probiotics in critical illness. He is also interested in muscle mass and physical function assessments in critically ill patients.