SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
Invited Speakers
PLENARY
Luciano GATTINONI
Luciano GATTINONI
Luciano GATTINONI
Current position
Guest Professor Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
University of Göttingen – Germany
He is currently working as Gastprofessor at the University of Göttingen (Germany).
He invented the “Extracorporeal CO 2 Removal” and promoted the "baby lung" (1980's) and mechanical power concepts (2016). He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia, and Intensive Care, the European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis and acid base disorders. He has published more than 400 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and was awarded with the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology, the American Society of Critical Care Medicine and the European Society of Intensive Care and the French Society of Intensive Care.
Kenneth MAK
Kenneth MAK
Kenneth MAK
Associate Professor Kenneth Mak is Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health Singapore. In this role, he oversees the provision of all health services in Singapore.
Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, Associate Professor Mak has been heavily involved in our national efforts to control the outbreak in Singapore. As Director of Medical Services in MOH, he advises the Multi-Ministry Taskforce as well as other governmental agencies in crafting our overall strategy for managing the outbreak and oversees our public health response to combat spread of COVID-19 in our community. Associate Professor Mak is a familiar face as he has appeared regularly in the media conferences of the COVID-19 Multi-Ministry Taskforce.
Associate Professor Mak was previously Deputy Director of Medical Services (Health Services Group) in MOH from 2015 to end-2019. He worked closely with the Regional Health Systems and healthcare institutions in Singapore on care integration as well as on Singapore’s long-term healthcare transformation strategy.
Associate Professor Mak was trained as a general surgeon with subspecialty interests in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, as well as in trauma surgery. He maintains his clinical practice as a Senior Consultant surgeon in the Department of Surgery, at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore.
Jason PHUA
Jason PHUA
Jason Phua
Dr Jason Phua is a consultant intensivist and respiratory physician with the Fast and Chronic Programmes in Alexandra Hospital and the Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in National University Hospital, both hospitals being part of the National University Health System, Singapore. He is past President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Singapore), the Deputy Chair of the National Intensive Care Unit Repository (NICUR), the Chair of the Asia Ventilation Forum (AVF), the Secretary of the Asian Critical Care Clinical Trials (ACCCT) Group, and the Chief Executive Officer of Alexandra Hospital.
Paul Anantharajah TAMBYAH
Paul Anantharajah TAMBYAH
Paul Anantharajah TAMBYAH
Paul Anantharajah Tambyah completed his infectious diseases training at the University of Wisconsin under Dr Dennis Maki (one of the pioneers of critical care medicine!). Since returning to Singapore more than 20 years ago, he has been involved in a number of national and international committees including being founding head of the Division of ID, NUH, Assistant Dean (Education) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and past President of the Society of Infectious Diseases (Singapore). He is currently President of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection and President-elect of the International Society of Infectious Diseases. His main research interests are device associated infections and emerging infectious diseases.
Andrew UDY
Andrew UDY
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 the Secretary of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group (CTG). He also a keen educator; instructing on BASIC, ALS, ECMO, ENLS and EMST courses, and is Chair of the Neurocritical Care Special Interest Group, College of Intensive Care Medicine. Andrew is Co-Deputy Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care – Research Centre, Monash University.
SPEAKERS
Sean BAGSHAW
Sean BAGSHAW
Sean BAGSHAW
Dr. Bagshaw is a Professor and Chair, of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Alberta. He trained at the University of Calgary (Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Master of Science Epidemiology) and the Austin Hospital (Critical Care Nephrology) in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Bagshaw is supported by a Canada Research Chair in Critical Care Nephrology. He has research expertise in clinical epidemiology, clinical trials and health services research. His research focuses on acute kidney injury, vulnerable populations (e.g., elderly, frail), ICU organization and capacity. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers, numerous book chapters, and peer-reviewed for over 30 medical journals. Dr. Bagshaw is a member of several organizations including the Canadian Critical Care Society, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, and the Acute Disease Quality Initiative.
Timothy BUCHMAN
Timothy BUCHMAN
Timothy BUCHMAN
Dr Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, FACS, FCCP, MCCM has four decades of bedside experience caring for septic patients. A general surgeon, intensive care doctor and virologist, he is currently Senior Advisor, IPA to the Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Dr. Buchman’s other current roles include Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Biomedical Informatics at Emory University, where he founded the Emory Critical Care Center. Dr. Buchman is past president of the Shock Society, of the Society for Complex Acute Illness and of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the latter being the largest organization of critical care professionals in the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Critical Care Explorations. He is also a member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute. He also serves as site director of the military-civilian partnership, Surgical Critical Care Institute. Dr. Buchman’s current research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence to predict which patients in the intensive care unit will become septic.
Hugh CAIRNS
Hugh CAIRNS
Hugh CAIRNS
Hugh Cairns qualified at Guy’s Hospital and trained in renal medicine in London. He has been a consultant nephrology at King’s College Hospital since 1995 and currently is lead consultant for the Peritoneal Dialysis programme. King’s College Hospital is a busy teaching hospital in south London and had a large number of COVID-19 patients requiring ventilation and renal support during the peak of the epidemic in the UK. The number of patients had the potential to overwhelm the normal hospital capacity for both ITU beds and renal replacement therapy.
Louis CHAI
Louis CHAI
Louis CHAI
Dr. Louis Chai is Senior Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician and Associate Professor in the University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore, as well as Principal Investigator, Opportunistic Infections Group, Division of Infectious Diseases, NUHS. Dr Chai’s interests lie in opportunistic and atypical infections in immunocompromised hosts, patients with altered immunity and host-pathogen interaction. These are also the themes of his research group. He remains deeply entrenched at the bedside in providing clinical service for general infectious diseases and internal medicine. Dr Chai is funded by the National Medical Research Council of Singapore and the National University Health System.
CHIONH Chang Yin
CHIONH Chang Yin
CHIONH Chang Yin
A/Prof. Chionh is the Chief of Renal Medicine in Changi General Hospital, Singapore. His area of sub-specialty interest is in Acute Kidney Injury and Critical Care Nephrology. He had also spent time as a research fellow in San Bortolo Hospital in Italy, which was one of the early forerunners in Critical Care Nephrology. He has contributed book chapters and research articles in various publications and continues to be active in research and medical device development.
Jasmine CHUNG
Jasmine CHUNG
Jasmine CHUNG
Dr. Jasmine Chung is Consultant with the Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
She received her undergraduate medical training in Melbourne, completed her post-graduate training in Singapore General Hospital in Infectious Diseases. She later went on to complete a one year fellowship at Duke University Hospital in Transplant Infectious Diseases in 2017, under the Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Fellows Exchange Programme Award.
In addition to the general infectious diseases consults, she also consults on the transplant infectious diseases service and is Director of the antimicrobial stewardship unit at SGH.
Hüske–Kraus DIRK
Hüske–Kraus DIRK
Hüske–Kraus DIRK
Dr. Dirk Hüske-Kraus has been intensively engaged in research around alarm fatigue and alarm management, recently concluding a government funded project (“AlarmRedux”) on the topics of measuring alarm system quality, safely reducing avoidable alarms and novel ways to signal alarms. He has conducted successful projects to fight alarm fatigue in several European countries.
Other areas of interest:
• Environmental factors, in particular light and noise, in healthcare settings
• Design for Patient and Staff Safety
• Computational Linguistics for Medical Documents
Jigeeshu DIVATIA
Jigeeshu DIVATIA
Jigeeshu DIVATIA
Jigeeshu Divatia is Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain at the Tata Memorial Centre, a tertiary cancer centre in Mumbai, India. He is the Past Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Anaesthesia , and Past-President of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, and and of the All-India Difficult Airway Association. His major interests include perioperative care, airway management, haemodynamic monitoring, sepsis and end-of-life care. He has over 130 publications has been an invited speaker at several national and international meetings
Moritoki EGI
Moritoki EGI
Moritoki EGI
Dr. Egi is an associate professor of department of anesthesiology and intensive care medicine in Kobe 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.
His research focuses on the clinical epidemiology and outcomes of critical illness, especially in acute blood glucose control, body temperature control in critically illness, postoperative delirium, mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure and fluid management in acute ill patients. He has published about 100 peer review 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 principal investigator of Japan-Korea Intensive Care Study group (JAKOICS). He also served as member of official committees in Japanese society of intensive care medicine, Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine, Japanese society of anesthesia and Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
GU Meduri
GU Meduri
GU Meduri
Gianfranco Umberto Meduri is Professor of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis. Dr. Meduri received his medical degree from the University of Padua (Italy) and completed his pulmonary and critical care training at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Meduri first reported on the use of noninvasive ventilation in patients with acute respiratory failure (Chest 1989) and was instrumental to the widespread standardization and implementation of this technique. At the UTHSC, Dr. Meduri directed the Memphis Lung Research Program conducting translational research focused on pathogenetic mechanisms involved in activation and regulation of systemic and pulmonary inflammation during the natural progression of ARDS and in response to prolonged low-to-moderate dose glucocorticoid treatment. Dr. Meduri conducted multiple trials investigating glucocorticoid treatment in ARDS and severe community-acquired pneumonia.
Sai Praveen HARANATH
Sai Praveen HARANATH
Sai Praveen HARANATH
Dr Sai Praveen Haranath is a pulmonary and critical care physician working at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India and is also a founding member of the Apollo eAccess program which provides teleICU services around India. He graduated from Madras Medical College and then went to the US. Over 15 years in America he specialized in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and is American Board Certified in these fields. He also obtained a Masters in Public Health degree. He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and active on several of their committees and is Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council of Global Governors of the ACCP. He is a member of the Membership Committee of this prestigious organization as well as their Board of Regents and Chest Foundation Board of Trustees. He returned to India in 2011 to pursue his lifelong desire to raise the standard of Indian and global healthcare through the ethical practice of excellent medicine. He has been interested in managing tobacco and smoking addiction for several years and was also selected to attend the Johns Hopkins Global Tobacco Leadership Program in 2016. He also does ongoing remote monitoring and supervision of patients in critical care units in the US and several rural areas of India. Innovation and creation of value in healthcare technology is a daily mission and he currently mentors several healthcare startups. Dr Sai Praveen Haranath is a committed and passionate champion for the practical delivery of ethical healthcare. His prior experiences in rural, community and academic medical centres in the US and prior work at The Permanente Medical Group/Kaiser Permanente in the San Francisco area, his teleICU experience and his current position as Lead Physician, Apollo eAccess TeleICU service through Apollo Hospitals make him part of the pioneers in this field.
HO Vui Kian
HO Vui Kian
HO Vui Kian
Dr Ho Vui Kian is an Anaesthesiologist and Intensivist at Singapore General Hospital, and Sengkang General Hospital, where he is also Head of Intensive Care Medicine. His interests include trauma, burns, resuscitation and crisis resource management, disaster management, critical care rehabilitation, point-of-care ultrasonography, difficult airways and medical simulation.
Jason KATZ
Jason KATZ
Jason-KATZ
Jason N. Katz MD, MHS is a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University in Durham, NC. He is the healthcare system director for Cardiovascular Critical Care, the co-director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, and co-director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program. He is board-certified in Cardiovascular Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation. He holds editorial positions for several journals including the Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation, the European Heart Journal, and the European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care. Dr. Katz has helped to galvanize the field of Critical Care Cardiology with teammates from around the world. His research focuses on optimal care delivery within the contemporary Cardiac ICU, the management of cardiogenic shock, and the effective employment of temporary and durable mechanical support technologies.
Manish KAUSHIK
Manish KAUSHIK
Dr Manish Kaushik, completed his training in Nephrology at Singapore General Hospital, following which he joined the Department of Renal Medicine at SGH in 2010. He was awarded a Health Manpower Development Program scholarship for one year, in Critical Care Nephrology and Cardiorenal syndromes, to further his skills at International Renal Research Institute, San Bortolo Hospital Vicenza, Italy under supervision of Professor Claudio Ronco. He is currently working as a Senior Consultant Nephrologist at SGH and is the Director of the Critical Care Nephrology service and Fellowship in Critical Care Nephrology at SGH. He is actively involved in teaching at all levels and holds position of Adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke National University Singapore Graduate Medical School and Clinical Senior Lecturer with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr Manish Kaushik is an active member of various international nephrology and intensive care medicine societies and involved in research in critical care nephrology.
Ramanathan KOLLENGODE
Ramanathan-KOLLENGODE
Ramanathan KOLLENGODE
Dr. K. R. Ramanathan is an adult cardiac intensivist at the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit at the National University Heart Centre in Singapore as well as the program director for the ICU fellowship program at National University Hospital. He received his specialty training in cardiac anesthesiology in India and was trained in intensive care medicine in Brisbane, Australia.
He completed his Masters in Clinical Ultrasound from the University of Melbourne and has been awarded honorary fellowship by the American College of Chest Physicians for his contributions to critical care.
Dr. Ramanathan has expertise in the management of patients on mechanical cardiac support in the ICU and his research interests include post-operative care and extracorporeal support.
Audrey LEE
Audrey LEE
Audrey LEE
Ms Audrey Lee is a Senior Physiotherapist currently working in critical care. She has 6.5 years of clinical experience with interest in respiratory physiotherapy management for patients with respiratory diseases and in critical care. Audrey has contributed significantly to the early mobilisation of critically ill patients in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Audrey is also involved in the development of on-call physiotherapy services for patients who require urgent physiotherapy review. Beyond clinical practice, Audrey actively seeks opportunity for the development of physiotherapy management in the critical care setting. She is the leading physiotherapist at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) in the current pandemic. Her latest research is a case series on physiotherapy interventions in patients with COVID-19.
LEE Jan Hau
LEE Jan Hau
LEE Jan Hau
Dr. Lee Jan Hau is a Senior Consultant at the Children’s Intensive Care Unit at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. He holds the academic rank of Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. After completing his undergraduate and postgraduate training in Singapore, he completed his advanced fellowship in pediatric critical care at Duke Children’s Hospital, Durham, United States. He has been actively involved in the setting up collaboration with the Asia region via the Pediatric Acute & Critical Acute Medicine Asian Network (PACCMAN). He is currently the chairperson for PACCMAN and was the organizing chairperson for the 9th Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care Societies in 2018.
Dr. Lee’s clinical and research interest focus on:
- Pediatric critical care epidemiology
- Pediatric critical care nutrition
- Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome
Charles LEW
Charles LEW
Charles LEW
Charles Lew is a principal dietitian from Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) who specializes in critical care nutrition support. He completed a PhD at Flinders University, and has published a number of papers related to his thesis. Charles’ research interest includes nutritional assessment and nutrition support in the critically ill. He is the co-chair of the Allied Health Research Panel of NTFGH, and the treasurer of the Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (Singapore)(SingSPEN). He will also be an associate faculty of the Singapore Institute of Technology bacholar degree programme for Dietetics and Nutrition.
LING Li Min
LING Li Min
LING Li Min
Dr Ling Li Min is an Infectious Diseases physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases(NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital(TTSH), Singapore. Dr Ling is the founding lead of the TTSH ICU Multi-Disciplinary ID and the Haematology-ID services. Since January 2020, she has been actively involved with the care COVID-19 patients in both ICUs and general wards. She is a co-investigator for the Adaptive Covid-19 Treatment Trials(ACTT-1,ACTT-2, ACTT-3) and is also the lead for the COVID-19 Immunomodulatory Clinical workgroup at TTSH.
Jayashree MURALIDHARAN
Jayashree MURALIDHARAN
Jayashree MURALIDHARAN
Professor and Chief Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Units at the Advanced Pediatrics Centre, PGIMER Chandigarh. This is the pioneer Level III academic PICU of India. She has intensive care experience of 25 years. Her research interest includes diabetic ketoacidosis, antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship, fluids and electrolytes, triage, healthcare associated infections, quality improvement initiatives, capacity building and training of nurses. She assisted in curriculum planning of the first DM Pediatric Critical Care Course (post-doctoral) at PGI. She has about 125 papers to her credit, both in International and National journals which include 20 chapters in books. She was recently ranked second among world influential researchers in specialty of Pediatric Critical Care in the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) journal October 2019 issue based on the number of RCT’s published. Currently she is the Asian Representative of World Federation Pediatric Critical Intensive Care Societies (WFPICCS). She is the Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), Pediatric Section of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISSCM), and Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter of Indian academy of Pediatrics (I.A.P).
She is involved in capacity building of healthcare providers at grassroot s mainly the primary and secondary levels of healthcare through sustained multi-faceted training in collaboration with NHM Madhya Pradesh ( State in India) and UNICEF. She along with her team, has developed a multi-faceted training module named ‘IMPACT’ (Integrated Module for Pediatric Acute Care Training) which is used for training the healthcare providers at grassroot levels. She is the Principal Investigator for the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Centre for Advanced Research in Pediatric Emergency Care, the objective of which is to strengthen peripheral hospitals, organization of services, database development, protocol development in pediatric emergency care and research on low cost interventions. She is the Chief Editor of the IAP-ALS Handbook, the indigenous course manual used in India for the Indian Academy Pediatrics – Advanced Life Support (IAP-ALS) training. She has been awarded the Fellow of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (FIAP 2018) and Fellow of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (FICCM 2019) for her contribution to the specialty of Pediatric Critical Care. She is currently the Chairperson of the Pediatric Department COVID 19 Committee which oversees the planning, organisation and management of COVID 19 infections in children
Chris NICKSON
Chris NICKSON
Chris NICKSON
Chris Nickson is an Intensivist and the Innovation Lead for the Australian Centre for Health Innovation at Alfred Health in Melbourne, as well as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Monash University.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He is the Lead for the ANZCEN Clinician Educator Incubator programme and is on the Board of Directors for the Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Foundation.
He has completed fellowship training in both intensive care medicine and emergency medicine, as well as post-graduate training in biochemistry, clinical toxicology, clinical epidemiology, and health professional education. He was awarded the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society’s Ramesh Nagappan Education Award in 2017 and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2018.
He is actively involved in leading the use of translational simulation to improve patient care and the design of processes and systems at Alfred Health and coordinates the Alfred ICU’s education and simulation programmes.
He is one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) and co-created LITFL.com, INTENSIVE, and the SMACC conference. On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
Jacqueline ONG
Jacqueline ONG
Jacqueline ONG
Dr Jacqueline Ong is currently head and senior consultant in the Division of Paediatric Critical Care, KTP-NUCMI, National University Hospital, Singapore. She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2003 and received her post-graduate paediatric training in the National University Hospital. She attained her Masters of Medicine (Paediatrics) and Membership in the Royal College of Paediatrics in 2007. She underwent further specialist training in the Division of Paediatric Critical Care, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada from 2011-2012. Dr. Ong was also the Chief Fellow of the Critical Care Fellowship Programme during the latter half of her time in Toronto. Her clinical interests include post-operative cardiac care, extra-corporeal life support and simulation teaching.
Marcus ONG
Marcus ONG
Marcus ONG
Prof Marcus Ong is a Senior Consultant, Director of Research, and Clinician Scientist, at the Department of Emergency Medicine in Singapore General Hospital. He is also the Director of Health Services Research Center (HSRC), Singhealth Services; Professor and Director, Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR), Duke-NUS Medical School. Prof Ong also serves as Medical Director, Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care (UPEC) and Senior Consultant, Ministry of Health, Hospital Services Division. Finally he is Chairman, Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS).
Prof Ong’s research studies focus predominantly on pre-hospital emergency care, medical devices, data science and health services research. His research has addressed issues such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), improving ambulance deployment, acute myocardial infarction care and emergency care. He is a leading researcher in Health Services Research and use of Data Science in Healthcare.
Prof Ong has obtained more than S$50 million in research grants for his studies, which include geospatial diseases mapping, clinical drug trials, resuscitation and cardiovascular sciences, pre-hospital emergency care, and biomedical engineering. He is the Principal Investigator for an international, multi-centre cohort study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across the Asia-Pacific. This clinical research network has published more than 36 articles in peer-reviewed journals since 2009. In total, Prof Ong has published more than 280 articles in international and local journals, such as Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Resuscitation, Annals of Emergency Medicine, etc.
Prof Ong has also patented inventions using Heart Rate Variability for risk prediction of acutely ill patients and cooling solutions for therapeutic hypothermia. The technology is currently being developed into bedside triage devices that can help in risk stratification of critically ill patients and he is Scientific Advisor for Global Healthcare, a start-up company providing medical cooling solutions.
In 2014, Prof Ong started a Data Science team at Singhealth Health Services Research Center and was appointed Head of Data Science at Singhealth. He is the Singhealth Co-Principal Investigator of the AI Singapore Grand Challenge addressing diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. He is considered a leading proponent of Data Science in Healthcare in Singapore.
Jose Emmanuel PALO
Jose Emmanuel PALO
Jose Emmanuel PALO
Dr. Jose Emmanuel Palo is a consultant intensivist at The Medical City, one of the largest private tertiary training hospitals in the Philippines. He is the Director of the Acute and Critical Care Institute that is composed of both emergency medicine and critical care services of that hospital. He is also the Philippine representative for the Asian Ventilation Forum and the Vice President of the BrainRESCUE Philippines, an affiliate of the Neurocritical Care Society.
PUAH Ser Hon
PUAH Ser Hon
PUAH Ser Hon
Dr. Puah Ser Hon is a Consultant Respiratory Physician and Intensivist working in the Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Department in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is currently the Programme Director for the National Health Group Respiratory Medicine Residency Programme and Clinical Director for the Respiratory Therapist services in Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
His field of interest includes obstructive airway diseases, bronchiectasis and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
PADMANABHAN Ramnarayan
PADMANABHAN Ramnarayan
PADMANABHAN Ramnarayan
Dr Padmanabhan Ramnarayan (Ram) is a Consultant Intensivist working at the Children’s Acute Transport Service (CATS) at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at St Mary’s Hospital in London. Over the past decade he has built a diverse portfolio of grant-funded research in the epidemiology of paediatric critical care and transport, biomarkers to detect bacterial infections and clinical trials of non-invasive respiratory support. He is currently leading an RCT comparing high flow nasal cannula therapy with CPAP. He has recently co-led a successful UK collaboration looking at COVID-19 and PIMS-TS in children. Ram is also the Honorary Secretary of the UK Paediatric Intensive Care Society and member of the PICANet Clinical Advisory Group.
SEE Kay Choong
SEE Kay Choong
SEE Kay Choong
Dr See is Head and Senior Consultant, Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Associate Designated Institutional Official, Residency Program, National University Health System, Singapore, and Vice-President, Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Singapore. His clinical and research interests include cardiopulmonary physiology, critical care ultrasonography, pleural disorders, smoking cessation, epidemiology and biostatistics, healthcare quality improvement and medical education.
SEWA Duu Wen
SEWA Duu Wen
SEWA Duu Wen
Dr Sewa Duu Wen obtained his medical degree from the National University of Singapore in 2003. He completed his specialty training in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, as well as Intensive Care Medicine in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
Dr Sewa’s areas of interest include advanced respiratory support for adult respiratory distress syndrome (e.g. ECMO), tracheostomy care, rapid response system, pulmonary hypertension and lung transplantation. In 2013 and 2015, he was twice awarded the Health Manpower Development Programme (HMDP) Award for training in intensive care medicine and lung transplantation at University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, and then at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK for training in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. He is currently the Director for Medical Intensive Care Unit in Singapore General Hospital and heads the respiratory ECMO support in the hospital.
In addition to his clinical services, Dr Sewa is passionate in medical education and is actively involved in teaching medical students, doctors and nurses. He is currently appointed as Clincal Assistant Professor in Singhealth DukeNUS Medical School. He has been awarded the RISE award for outstanding faculty in Singhealth Residency in 2016 and 2020. He is the clinical coordinator for critical care medicine in Duke-NUS Medical School as well as the programme director for the Fundamentals of Critical Care Support course in Singapore.
During the COVID19 pandemics, Dr Sewa has been leading the hospital’s ICU preparation and has published his experience in the management of COVID19 patients in several articles.
Addy TAN
Addy TAN
Addy TAN
Dr Addy Tan, MBBS, MMed , EDIC, is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Health System. He is also the Chief Examiner and Chair of the Intensive Care Medicine Examination Committee and member of the Intensive Care Medicine Training Committee, Ministry of Health.
He graduated and completed anaesthesia training with the National University of Singapore and went on to complete the Fellowship Program in Critical Care with the University Health Network, University of Toronto , Canada, under the Ministry of Health, Health Manpower Development Program. His interests in medicine include nutrition for the critically ill, renal replacement therapy, ventilation and medical education.
Han Khim TAN
Han Khim TAN
Han Khim TAN
Interest in CRRT, MARS liver dialysis and blood purification in sepsis
Hui Ling TAN
Hui Ling TAN
Hui Ling TAN
A/Prof Tan is an anaesthesiologist and intensivist, trained in Singapore, UK and Australia. She is a senior consultant in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. She is currently the chair of the ICU Committee and the Assistant Chairman, Medical Board for Clinical Quality and Audit. As part of the team for the design and build of the ICU in the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, she has been involved with ICU planning for pandemics in the last 10 years.
TAN Qiao Li, Esther
TAN Qiao Li, Esther
TAN Qiao Li, Esther
Dr Tan Qiao Li, Esther is a consultant at Singapore General Hospital Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Her special interest include intensive care medicine and interventional pulmonology specifically in pleural diseases as well as medical education where she is a clinical assistant professor with the Duke-NUS Medical School. She was awarded the Singapore Ministry of Health Health Manpower Development Plan scholarship, for which she is currently on fellowship in Toronto, Canada with the Critical Care Program at the University Health Network and Sinai Health System.
Han TOH
Han TOH
Han TOH
I am currently working as a consultant in the department of Anaesthesiology in Woodlands Health Campus.
I completed my basic medical degree in 2009 from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. I then obtained my MMed (Anaesthesiology) in 2015 and completed my Anaesthesiology training in NHG in 2017. I have a special interest in airway and trauma care, will embark on a fellowship to Alfred Hospital in Melbourne next year to broaden my experiences. Currently, I am nested in Tan Tock Seng Hospital while awaiting the opening of Woodlands Health Campus
Dirk VARELMANN
Dirk VARELMANN
Dirk VARELMANN
After graduating from Medical School at the University of Bonn, I started as an anesthesia resident in 2002 at the University of Bonn, Germany. During that time, I pursued research on mechanical ventilation and gas exchange in critically ill patients with ARDS. I was awarded a doctorate degree in medicine (Dr. Med.) in 2004 for my dissertation on cardiopulmonary effects of augmented spontaneous ventilation.
After completing my anesthesia residency in 2007 at the University of Bonn, I stayed on staff until I joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, first as an obstetric anesthesia fellow in 2008. In 2009 I pursued fellowship training in critical care medicine.
Since 2010 I work as staff anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. While being on staff at BWH, I was able to complete a fellowship in cardiac anesthesia. Since 2015, my interest is focused on cardiac anesthesia and cardiac critical care. As an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School I have mentored multiple students, anesthesia residents, and anesthesia fellows. Mentoring residents and fellows lead to several abstracts that were presented at national and international meetings.
In the collaboration with the cardiac surgery department, we developed a pathway for Enhanced Recovery after Cardiac Surgery for our patients that require heart surgery. The changes we made in the intraoperative management, as well as in the ICU and on the regular ward lead to reduced length of stay and cost of care and with concomitant improve in outcomes.
Critical Care Medicine has always been my passion and although I’m primarily focused on cardiac critical care, I also had the opportunity to take care of patients with COVID-19 infections in the Special Pathogen Intensive Care Units. My previous experience with ARDS patients while working on my doctorate thesis has helped me to take care of those patients, for which we have very little specific therapeutic options other than supportive care.
Clarice WEE
Clarice WEE
Clarice WEE
Clarice Wee is an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) from Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore. She works in the combined High Dependency and Intensive Care Unit and her clinical responsibilities include assessing, diagnosing and treating critically ill patients throughout the hospital that she manages with the multidisciplinary team. She is part of the outreach team and leads the tracheostomy team in the General Ward, assessing suitability for weaning and ensuring safe care is provided for this group of patients.
She has a lead role in the development and training of APNs in the hospital, ensuring that future APNs receive adequate training in order to perform at the top of their license. She is involved in teachings at the National University of Singapore and is the course director for the Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care (BASIC) for Nurses course.
