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15 – 17 August 2025
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15 – 17 August 2025
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Ms Winnie Chong
Ms Winnie has been a practicing speech therapist at Singapore General Hospital since 2015, where she currently serves as head of department. She specialises in respiratory care, working with patients who experience swallowing and communication disorders. Her expertise extends to managing patients with advanced needs, particularly those requiring tracheostomy and chronic ventilation support. Her clinical practice spans both critical care inpatient and outpatient settings, where she conducts specialised diagnostic assessments including videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFS) and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluations of swallowing (FEES). She provides expert opinion on the management of swallowing and communication disorders in multidisciplinary tracheostomy and chronic ventilation team discussions. Ms Winnie actively mentors fellow speech therapists in the best practices for complex respiratory cases. Combining her clinical expertise with a patient-centred approach, she remains dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for patients requiring specialised care.
Ms Melinda Lim
Ms Melinda Lim is a Principal Speech Therapist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where she has worked since 2008. She specialises in supporting patients with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties, including those with tracheostomies or who are ventilator-dependent, across intensive care to home settings.
Committed to early intervention, Ms Melinda advocates for restoring speech and communication using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices, including the Tobii Eye Gaze system. Her work empowers patients with communication challenges to regain their voice and play an active part in their care.
Ms Melinda is also an active member of the hospital’s tracheostomy workgroup, where she collaborates with other healthcare professionals to enhance tracheostomy care. She contributes to the development of clinical guidelines, staff training, and quality improvement initiatives, helping to drive better outcomes for patients. With over 15 years of experience, Ms Melinda brings dedication, innovation, and a patient-centered approach to her practice, making a lasting impact on the individuals and communities she serves.
Ms Faridah Hanim Binte Shamsuddin
Ms Faridah Hanim Binte Shamsuddin is a Principal Respiratory Therapist in Singapore General Hospital with a specialty in Adult Critical Care (RRT-ACCS). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Therapy from Indiana University and a Master of Science in Respiratory Care from Boise State University.
Ms Faridah has extensive experience in high-acuity settings, where she provides quality respiratory care to critically ill patients. Her advanced credentialing in critical care highlights her proficiency in managing complex ventilator cases and her commitment to clinical excellence. She also spends a portion of her clinical time managing patients who require chronic ventilation services on discharge.
Beyond her clinical role, Ms Faridah is passionate about RT development and management. She serves as a member on various national and cluster-level RT workgroups where crucial discussions and insight are shared in efforts to better and grow the Respiratory Therapy profession locally. This involvement translates to an improvement effort in both patient outcomes and RT team performance.
Ms Anura Tamar Peters
Ms Anura Tamar Peters is a Principal Respiratory Therapist in Tan Tock Seng Hospital and is the founding Respiratory Therapist with the Home Ventilator and Respiratory Therapy Services (HVRSS). She is also part of the Respiratory Therapy team supporting the first Ventilator Rehabilitation Unit (VRU) in Singapore at the Integrated Care Hub. With her interest in long-term ventilation and the learning opportunities afforded to her, the HVRSS team has been instrumental in expanding its scope island-wide to patients, providing the necessary care, rehabilitation, and education, establishing the standard of care in the community for patients requiring long-term respiratory support.
Ms Amanda Lee Xin Hui
Ms Amanda Lee Xin Hui is a respiratory therapist working in a public general hospital in Singapore. With over six years of experience, she provides care for patients requiring both acute and chronic ventilatory support across the ICU, high dependency, and general ward settings. She is also an integral member of the multidisciplinary team managing tracheostomy patients within the hospital.
Prof Yasuhiro Kuroda
Prof Yasuhiro Kuroda is a graduate of Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Japan, specialising in anesthesiology, intensive care, and emergency medicine. His research interests include neurointensive care, the effects of narcotics on cerebral circulatory metabolism, the pathogenesis of acute subdural hematoma, and postoperative brain injury after cardiac surgery. He is a visiting professor at Kagawa University School of Medicine and Director of the ER Emergency Center at TMG Asaka Medical Center in Saitama, Japan.
He is the President of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the President of the Japanese Society of Brain Death and Brain Resuscitation. An RCT on the effect of hypothermia in ECPR has started enrollment in Japan. Platform studies in the three domains of early hypothermia, body position, and analgesics for post-cardiac arrest syndrome are under preparation, and these will be international collaborative studies with Asian countries. He has received a grant from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) under the research project “Research to contribute to the education of medical personnel regarding organ donation in Japan from 2024,” and have prepared a manual for legal brain death determination and a manual for intensive care of patients with irreversible total brain dysfunction.
Prof Shih Chi Ku
Prof Shih-Chi Ku serves as the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Units and the Respiratory Care Center at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) in Taipei, Taiwan. With over 20 years of experience as an attending physician in the Medical ICU, he specialises in respiratory medicine and critical care. As a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at National Taiwan University College of Medicine, his research focuses on pulmonary infections, sepsis epidemiology, obstructive airway diseases, and medical education. He has long served as the Deputy Director of the Internal Medicine residency training program at NTUH and has led the development and instruction of high-fidelity simulation training in critical care for many years.
Prof Le Duc Nhan
Prof Le Duc Nhan graduated with a Master’s degree in Medicine specialising in Intensive Care in 2007 from Hanoi Medical University. He subsequently completed advanced training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA. In 2012, he earned a Doctorate in Medicine, also specialising in Intensive Care, from Hanoi Medical University. His doctoral thesis was titled: “Studying the effectiveness of the ‘open lung’ strategy and the ARDS NETWORK strategy in mechanical ventilation of patients with ARDS.”
Prof Le has been working in the Intensive Care Unit at Da Nang Hospital since 1999, contributing to numerous research projects in areas such as ARDS, CVVH, ECMO, mechanical ventilation, sepsis, and stroke. He has presented his work at both national and international conferences in the field of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine.
In addition to his clinical and research roles, he is actively involved in education, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervising second-degree specialists, residents, and Master’s students. He has also contributed to the translation of specialised texts in respiratory and emergency medicine.
He currently serves as Vice President of the Vietnam Association of Critical Care Emergency Medicine and Toxicology (VNACCEMT), President of its Central Vietnam branch, Vice Dean of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy – Da Nang, and Director of Da Nang General Hospital, Vietnam.
Prof Ho Geol Ryu
Prof Ho Geol Ryu is a surgical intensivist with an anesthesiology background, currently serving as the Department Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, Korea.
He received his critical care training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and went on to receive a MPH degree at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His current research interests are the early detection of deterioration with artificial intelligence and deep learning models.
Dr Erwin Pradian
Dr Erwin Pradian, MD, SpAn-TI(K), Subsp.TI(K), Subsp.An.R(K), M.Kes is a specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care, holding dual subspecialties in intensive care and regional anesthesia. He earned his medical degree, specialist certification, master’s degree, and doctorate from Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung. He currently serves as a faculty member at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, and Universitas Padjadjaran.
Dr Erwin has held various key positions, including Head of the Intensive Care Unit and Head of the Study Program at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran. He is also the current President of the Indonesian Society of Intensive Care Medicine (PERDICI) for the 2022–2025 term. He actively contributes as a speaker and instructor in numerous national and international scientific events.
Dr Erwin holds registered intellectual property rights (HAKI) for his innovations in the use of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) in paediatric patients and primary care settings.
A/Prof Suthat Rungruanghiranya
A/Prof 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 the University of Miami, Florida. His main interests in the field of critical care include management of sepsis, VAP, and critical care in the elderly. Since 2004, he has 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 the Clinical Critical Care journal in 2021. He also served as the chief editor of textbooks and manuals of TSCCM. Currently, he has been appointed President of the TSCCM. He received national awards, including the Outstanding Junior Internist Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand in 2014, the Outstanding Civil Officer Award from the Royal Thai Government in 2017, and was appointed as Masterly Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Thailand in 2024.
Prof Hemanshu Prabhakar
Dr Hemanshu Prabhakar, MD, PhD, FSNCC (Hon): Professor in Neuroanaesthesiology and Neurocritical 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 national and international societies such as SNACC, NCS, ISNACC, SNCC.
He is an Honorary Fellow of Society of Neurocritical Care (SNCC) and a recipient of the AIIMS Excellence Award 2012 for notable contribution in academics. He has more than 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.
Prof Ary Serpa Neto
Prof Ary Serpa Neto is an intensivist at Austin Health and Director of Intensive Care Research at the same institution. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University (ANZIC-RC) and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on mechanical ventilation, renal and metabolic dysfunction in critical illness, and methodological innovation in clinical trials. Prof Serpa Neto leads national and international research programmes and serves as Chief Investigator on several multicentre clinical trials and NHMRC/MRFF grants. He is Deputy Editor of Critical Care & Resuscitation and Associate Editor of Critical Care Science. He has played key roles in global guideline development and multidisciplinary collaborations across Brazil, Europe, and Australia. In addition to his research, he is actively involved in postgraduate supervision and international education in intensive care.
Ms Leong Shiaw Yi
Ms Leong Shiaw Yi currently serves as an Assistant Nurse Clinician in a multidiscipline Intensive Care Unit in Ng Teng Fong General Hospital. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and has been practicing in the field since 2013.
Since 2018, Ms Leong has been actively involved in ICU Outreach Nursing with Automated Code Red Alert. In this pivotal role, she extends critical care expertise beyond the confines of the ICU to general ward patients. Her responsibilities include early identification and care escalation for high-risk patients, ensuring seamless transitions between wards and the ICU. This initiative has been instrumental in enhancing patient safety and care quality across the hospital.
In 2024, Ms Leong expanded her professional scope by collaborating with the Nursing Informatics team on the VitalScout Project. This innovative project aims to establish new workflows in general wards, implementing continuous monitoring parameter devices for the early detection of deteriorating patients. Her involvement in this project demonstrates her commitment to leveraging technology to improve patient outcomes and streamline healthcare delivery.
Ms Leong’s professional focus lies in enhancing patient outcomes through expert critical care nursing and the strategic implementation of ICU outreach initiatives. Her presentation will draw focus upon her wealth of practical knowledge and insights gained from her years of service in critical care, ICU outreach nursing programs, and healthcare innovation initiatives.
Dr Wong Yu Lin
Dr Wong Yu Lin is a dually accredited specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. After obtaining her basic MBBS degree, she completed her Master of Medicine (Anaesthesia) in Singapore and gained fellowship with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). She later subspecialised in Intensive Care Medicine, receiving accreditation in Singapore.
Dr Wong currently serves as the ICU Committee Chairperson at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. She also chairs the hospital’s Brain Death Workgroup and the Organ Transplant Improvement Programme.
Her clinical interests lie in sedation and delirium management in the ICU, as well as palliative care in critically ill patients. She has been awarded research grants for various ICU projects, including ICU diaries, virtual reality rehabilitation, non-verbal communication tools, and palliative care integration in the ICU setting. She is currently embarking on platelet mapping studies in NICU patients on antiplatelet therapy presenting with intracranial haemorrhage.
Her publications include work on Singapore SPICE: Sedation Practices in ICU Evaluation, Sedation Intensity in the First 48 Hours of Mechanical Ventilation, Integrating Palliative Care in Neurosurgical ICU, Physiological Changes during Prone Positioning in COVID-19 ARDS, and Challenges in Adapting Existing Hyperacute Stroke Protocols for COVID-19 in Singapore.
Dr Tu Tian Ming
Dr Tu Tian Ming is currently a Neurologist in private practice at Mount Elizabeth Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital. He has a particular interest in Acute Ischemic Stroke, with a particular focus on Hyperacute Stroke Care. Prior to leaving for private practice, he spent 12 years at the National Neuroscience Institute at Tan Tock Seng Hospital Campus. He was also the Head of Neurology Service at Changi General Hospital, where he also co-chaired the hospital’s stroke services.
Dr Tu previously completed his fellowship at Duke University, USA, from 2015 to 2016 which was awarded by the National Medical Research Council, Ministry of Health Singapore.
Dr Rahul Costa-Pinto
Dr Rahul Costa-Pinto is an intensive care specialist at Austin Hospital in Melbourne. He obtained his medical degree from Monash University and completed intensive care fellowships at the Alfred and the Royal London hospitals. His research interests relate to vasopressor therapies in critically ill patients, and other non-clinical interests include medical education and the role of simulation in safety and quality improvement. He is chair of the hospital’s Resuscitation Committee and convener of Austin Health’s “The MET Course,” which focuses on team leadership and human factors principles in managing deteriorating patients on the ward.
Dr Luz Frances Lyn Valoria-Escalante
Dr Luz Frances Lyn Valoria-Escalante is currently a clinical fellow in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the National University Hospital in Singapore, with aspirations to bring meaningful change upon her return to the Philippines. She concurrently serves as a consultant in the Department of Anaesthesiology at Davao Regional Medical Center and at the Medical Mission Group Hospital in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
Dr Valoria-Escalante completed her residency training in Anaesthesiology at Davao Regional Medical Center and earned her medical degree from West Visayas State University – College of Medicine in Iloilo City, Philippines.
Beyond her professional commitments, she embraces her many roles as a mother, wife, daughter, and doctor. She finds joy in nature, adventure, music, books, good food, and warm-hearted company.
Dr Kung Sui-Sum
Dr Kung Sui-Sum is the attending neurointensivist and neurosurgeon in the department of neurosurgery of the Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU) affiliated Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. He graduated from the faculty of medicine at KMU in 1994. Then, he is board certified in Taiwan neurosurgery (2002) and critical care medicine (2004). Currently, he is actively involved in several associations as the executive board member, including the Taiwan Neurotrauma and Critical Care Society, Taiwan Society of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, and the Taiwan Neurocritical Care Society. The research focus is neuromonitoring, temperature control, and analgosedation in acute brain injury and neurosonology.
Dr Gary Leong Wei Kean
Dr Gary Leong is an anaesthesiologist and current Head of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Beaufort Hospital – a lead cluster hospital which provides inpatient and outpatient services to one of the rural districts in Sabah, Malaysia.
He graduated with a medical degree from Monash University in 2011, before subsequently pursuing his specialist training and obtaining a Master of Anaesthesiology from University of Malaya in 2024. He currently oversees the provision of anaesthesia and perioperative services in the operating theatre, as well as critical care services in the newly operational High Dependency Ward (HDW). He is passionate about adopting a holistic and multidisciplinary approach when it comes to patient care.
Dr Rohit D’Costa
Dr Rohit D’Costa is an intensive care specialist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Medical Director at DonateLife Victoria. He has an interest in clinical ethics, having recently completed a Master of Bioethics. Dr Rohit sits on the Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society – Death and Organ Donation Committee. He’s also Chair of the Clinical Governance Committee – Lions Eye Donation Service, and a member of the Organ and Tissue Authority’s Transplant Advisory Group.
Dr Ho Vui Kian
Dr Ho Vui Kian is an Anaesthesiologist and Intensivist, and his location of employment is purely at the mercy of the roster maker.
He was Head of the Department for Intensive Care Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital from 2017 to 2023, and is currently Head of Department for Surgical Intensive Care, Singapore General Hospital. He is also the Programme Director for the new Singapore Integrated Programme for Intensive Care Medicine.
Dr Vui Kian completed 1 year of Intensive Care Medicine training at the Alfred Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) under a Singhealth Health Manpower Development Plan Fellowship, where he had fun doing cases involving trauma, burns, resuscitation and crisis resource management, critical care rehabilitation, point-of-care Echocardiography, ECMO, difficult airway and medical simulation, and these remain his areas of interests today.
Dr Kristy Fu
Dr Kristy Fu is a dually accredited Paediatric Intensivist with a special interest in Neurocritical Care, working in the National University Hospital, Singapore. After completing her paediatric critical care training in Singapore, she also worked in Boston Children’s Hospital as an international fellow subspecialising in Neurocritical Care. She is also a passionate medical educator, teaching healthcare professionals regularly, and is involved in the planning of medical education curriculum as an Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
A/Prof Chia Yew Woon
A/Prof Chia Yew Woon is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist, 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 Intensive Care Unit, 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 Residency Advisory 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 Post-Cardiac Arrest and Survivorship (PCAS) Workgroup, President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Singapore), Board Member of the Chapter of Cardiologists and Chapter of Intensivists in the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and Adjunct Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
A/Prof Ashwin Subramaniam
A/Prof Ashwin Subramaniam is a dual-trained Intensive Care Specialist and General Physician with a strong interest in clinical frailty, perioperative medicine, and big data research. He holds public appointments at Monash Health (Dandenong Hospital) as the ICU Research Lead and at Epworth Hospital as a Senior ICU Consultant. He previously served as the ICU Director at The Bays Private Hospital (2018–2024) and as Head of the Acute Medical Unit at Frankston Hospital. Ashwin completed his PhD at Monash University, “Quantifying the impact of frailty in critically ill patients,” and holds adjunct positions with Monash University’s Peninsula Clinical School and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre. He has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and five textbook chapters.
He serves on the editorial board of Critical Care and Resuscitation and is an Associate Editor for BMC Emergency Medicine. A dedicated educator and mentor, he has led initiatives such as Chair of the Victorian Intensive Care Network and co-founded the Critical STEPS courses. A/Prof Ashwin is also a formal project assessor for the College of Intensive Care Medicine. Outside of medicine, he is an avid cricketer and tennis player, bringing balance and energy to both his clinical and academic pursuits.
Prof Stephan Ehrmann
Prof Ehrmann was trained as a critical care physician in Tours, France, and performed several parts of his training abroad: University of Heidelberg, Germany; Hospital Sant Pau Intensive Care Unit, Barcelona, Spain. He completed a PhD thesis in a laboratory focusing on respiratory and cell mechanics at the Paris-Est University, Paris, France. He focused his research on aerosol delivery to critically ill patients, performing large-scale observational studies and surveys on current practice, pharmacokinetic studies in animals and patients. Specifically, he developed in vitro, in vivo, and clinical research on aerosol delivery during nasal high flow therapy and coordinated one of the largest multicentric trials on prophylactic inhaled antibiotic therapy in intubated patients. He also coordinated international consensus work on aerosol therapy in critically ill patients.
Prof Poh Pei Fen
Prof Poh Pei Fen is a Nurse Clinician at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore, with a research focus on post-intensive care syndrome in paediatrics (PICS-p) and family-centred outcomes following critical illness. Prof Poh has led a longitudinal cohort study on paediatric ICU survivors and their families. Her work integrates clinical expertise with research, with special interests in family-centred care, ethnic and cultural dimensions of health, and transitional care after critical illness.
Prof Marlies Ostermann
Marlies Ostermann is a Professor of Intensive Care and Nephrology at Guy’s & St Thomas Hospital in London. Her academic and clinical interests relate to all aspects of critical care nephrology, sepsis, and extracorporeal organ support in critically ill patients.
She is President Elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Director of Research of the Intensive Care Society UK, Co-Chair of the KDIGO AKI guideline, and a member of the guideline panel of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.
Prof Jose Pascual
Prof Jose Pascual is a Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery, specialised in trauma and critical care, who has a special interest in shock and head injury. He is the Section Chief for Surgical Critical Care for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. His research interests are shared in translational and basic science investigations where he evaluates, through intravital microscopy, the real-time microcirculation of the pia in live rodent brains after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). He seeks to learn how a variety of insults, including head injury, shock, and sepsis, affect the brain and systemic microcirculation and how different management strategies influence these changes. This basic science work is translated into several clinical projects, both retrospective and prospective, evaluating the effects of different neuroprotective agents and strategies in multi-injured and TBI patients across the Penn SICUs, the TSICU, and NeuroICUs. He serves in multiple national and international research groups seeking to improve outcomes in polytrauma and traumatic brain injury patients, as well as studying the immunomodulating effects of different resuscitation fluids and management strategies in different forms of shock.
Prof Jose Pascual’s research interests also include the dissemination of critical illness management education utilising high fidelity simulation. In the last 5 years, this has become heavily weighted out of the Simulation center and into the regular clinical hospital beds, spearheading the now monthly flash (unscheduled), bedside, in-situ simulations that are lead and hosted by different groups across the health system (HUP, PPMC) across cardiac, heart & vascular, medical, neuro, trauma and surgical critical care units. Results of this education have been presented at national meetings, and several have been published in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Tan Xue Li
Dr Tan Xueli is the Principal Music Therapist and Music Therapy Lead at the Rehabilitation Department at St. Luke’s Hospital. For close to 30 years, Dr Tan worked as a music therapy clinician, researcher, author, editor, and faculty member in the United States, Norway, and Singapore. She was a Presidential Fellowship Scholar at the School of Music, University of Iowa (USA) from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, she received the President’s Commendation Award for her service to the American Music Therapy Association.
An award-winning researcher, Dr Tan’s areas of specialisation included medical music therapy, pain management, psychology of music, and cultural humility and responsiveness in clinical practice. Dr Tan had published in both music therapy and medical journals and previously served on the editorial boards of four music therapy scientific journals: Journal of Music Therapy, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, and Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy. Dr Tan currently also serves on the Programme Advisory Board for the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). She is the current President of the Association for Music Therapy (Singapore).
Dr Nicola Ngiam
Dr Nicola Ngiam graduated from the National University of Singapore and subsequently attained higher academic qualifications in the Masters of Medicine in Paediatrics (NUS) and MRCPCH (UK). She received postgraduate training in the field of Paediatric Critical Care at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She is currently the Director of the Standardised Patient Programme, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, as well as a senior consultant in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Health System. She is involved in developing paediatric palliative care services at NUHS.
She is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education for healthcare professionals in the field of paediatrics and communication skills. She has a special interest in standardised patient training, teaching of communication skills, the use of simulation-based teaching methods and medical humanities.
Dr Joel Lim Kian Boon
Dr Joel Lim Kian Boon is a Consultant in the Children’s Intensive Care Unit (CICU) in the Department of Paediatric Subspecialties, in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH). His clinical interests are in Cardiac Intensive Care, Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Survivorship. He is the co-lead for Let’s Move’EM, KKH CICU’s own PICU Liberation programme, which was established in April 2021 and focused on early mobilisation, delirium prevention, and enhancing family-centered care. He recently completed his paediatric cardiac intensive care fellowship in Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts, USA, in July 2024 and is currently working on advancing the use of critical-care POCUS and improving peri-operative care for cardiac patients in the CICU.
Dr Jason Phua
Dr Jason Phua is a respiratory physician and intensivist practising 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.
Dr Benjamin Khoo
Dr Benjamin Khoo is a nephrologist who is passionate about critical care nephrology and practises in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He has had the opportunity to complete a fellowship at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, under the mentorship of Ron Wald.
Asst Prof Lim Shir Lynn
Asst Prof Lim Shir Lynn is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist at the National University Heart Centre Singapore and holds appointments with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke-NUS Medical School. She leads the national In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Workgroup and is a member of the National Post-Cardiac Arrest and Survivorship Workgroup as well as the Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study. She is the founding Director of the Clinical Trials Unit of NUHCS and the inaugural lead of the Early Phase Mechanistic Clinical Trials Platform of the CArdiovascular DiseasE National Collaborative Enterprise (CADENCE), a national clinical translational programme set up in February 2023, which aims to synergise cardiovascular research and technology capabilities across Singapore. She is also an Associate Editor of Resuscitation.
Aligned with her clinical subspecialty of critical care cardiology, her research focuses on acute cardiac conditions such as cardiac arrest and cardiogenic shock. Her overarching goal as a clinician-scientist is to improve the long-term outcomes of critically ill cardiac patients through the use of biomarkers and mechanistic early-phase clinical trials during the acute phase, as well as the use of novel strategies, knowledge translation, and clinical implementation in improving survivorship.
A/Prof Chong Shu Ling
A/Prof Chong Shu-Ling is a Senior Staff Physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She led a multicentre prospective observational study in Asia (Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Medicine Asian Network, PACCMAN) and Latin America (Red Colaborativa Pediátrica de Latino America, LARed). The study team sought to use comparative effectiveness research (CER) methodology to compare the use of 3% hypertonic saline and 20% mannitol and their association with the clinical outcomes of mortality and functional outcomes (including discharge Paediatric Cerebral Performance Category {PCPC} scale and 3-month Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended – Peds {GOS-E Peds}). Further interrogation of this TBI dataset has yielded publications on vulnerable patient subgroups (child abuse), metabolic risk factors (hyperglycaemia and dysnatraemia), and resource limitations (low- and low-middle income status), and their association with TBI mortality and morbidity. A/Prof Chong’s areas of interest include early identification of infants and children at risk of Acquired Brain Injuries (ABI), as well as long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with ABI.
Prof Yahya Shehabi
Prof Yahya Shehabi is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at Monash University and the University of New South Wales. He is a senior clinical academic and an experienced clinical trialist with an extensive track record in leading multinational large-scale RCTs.
He is the lead architect of the Sedation Practice in Intensive Care Evaluation (SPICE) research programme, culminating with SPICE III and the ongoing SPICE IV trials. Through his research and publications, Prof Shehabi is an acknowledged international authority on sedation and delirium management. His research interests include biomarkers of kidney injury and nephroprotection after cardiac surgery.
Prof Mervyn Singer
Prof Mervyn Singer is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London, UK. His major research interests include sepsis, infection, tissue oxygenation, and the development of novel diagnostics and therapeutics. He co-chaired the Sepsis-3 Definitions International Task Force and previously chaired the International Sepsis Forum. Prof Singer also serves as the Sepsis Topic Adviser to NICE and is an Emeritus Senior Investigator with the NIHR.
Mr Paul Mouncey
Paul is the Co-Director and Clinical Trials Unit Director at the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC) in the UK. Paul is an epidemiologist with over 20 years’ experience of conducting multicentre randomised clinical trials, initially in Cancer, but at ICNARC, focused on adult and paediatric critical care.
Paul is the Joint-Chief Investigator for the UK-ROX trial – a highly challenging trial within the critical care setting, using extensive data collected routinely by the national clinical audit for critical care (Case Mix Programme) database in 16,500 patients and 100 sites. Paul led the development of the NIHR-funded PIVOTAL adaptive platform trial evaluating multiple interventions in paediatric critical care. He sits on the REMAP-CAP International Trial Steering Committee and leads the Global Data Coordination Centre at ICNARC.
Dr Takanari Ikeyama
Dr Takanari Ikeyama is the Chief of the Center for Paediatric Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at Aichi Children’s Health and Medical Center, Japan.
For over 10 years, he and his team have been dedicated to providing high-quality paediatric acute care at Aichi Children’s, serving a population of 7 million. The center admits approximately 700 patients to the paediatric ICU annually, manages over 150 inter-facility transports, performs 200–250 paediatric cardiac surgeries, and handles 15–20 ECMO cases each year.
His team also plays a crucial role in stabilising critically ill children at referring hospitals by deploying medical staff, including paediatric intensivists, via helicopter.
In addition to clinical care, his team is actively engaged in research and has initiated several projects involving artificial intelligence.
His key areas of interest include resuscitation science, ECMO, team training, tele-simulation, and quality improvement.
Dr Shahridan Bin Mohd Fathil
Dr Shahridan Mohd Fathil obtained his MBBS from the University of Malaya in 1996. He underwent anaesthesia training initially in Malaysia, and then in Ireland and England, and completed a Regional Anaesthesia Fellowship in Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He was a consultant and later senior consultant with Alexandria and Ng Teng Fong General hospitals, and also a clinical senior lecturer with the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine before his move to Gleneagles Medini.
His passions are ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia and point-of-care ultrasound.
He was the past convenor for the special interest group in regional anaesthesia, College of Anaesthesiologists, Academy of Medicine, Malaysia and is a member of the executive committee for the Society of Critical and Emergency Sonography, Malaysia.
He has been on humanitarian relief work in post-natural and complex disaster missions in Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Iraq, Bangladesh and recently in Gaza in 2024 with Mercy Malaysia.
Dr Jessica Dean
Dr Jessica is a dual-qualified Intensivist and admitted Lawyer, with a special interest in complex decision making. She has completed research theses in the development of moral competency in intensive care clinicians and the law and ethics surrounding informed consent. She is passionate about medicolegal research and teaching and is a law tutor in Health Law at Monash University.
She has more than a decade of varied Board experience, with a particular interest in governance and risk, and has held previous roles in health policy and advocacy, clinical governance and quality, and audit and risk.
In 2017, she was a State Finalist for Young Australian of the Year for her work in health advocacy.
Ms Audrey Lee
Ms Audrey Lee is a Senior Physiotherapist with over a decade of experience, specialising in critical care. Since 2014, she has focused on the management of critically ill patients in the ICU, with interests in physiotherapy interventions beyond early mobilisation and the long-term impacts of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS).
She holds a Master’s degree in Physiotherapy from University College London (UCL), completed in 2018–2019. Ms Audrey is passionate about expanding the physiotherapist’s role in the ICU and advocating for evidence-based, patient-centred approaches across the continuum of care.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the lead physiotherapist at Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), supporting care delivery in both ICU and general wards. Ms Audrey is actively involved in clinical education and pathway development to build advanced practice capabilities in critical care physiotherapy.
Prof Nick Watts
Prof Watts is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine, leading NUS’s efforts to accelerate the transition to net-zero and resilient healthcare systems across the world.
Prior to NUS, he worked as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the NHS, where he spearheaded the national health system’s efforts to deliver low-carbon healthcare across the country. He is a medical doctor, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians’ Faculty of Public Health, and has worked as the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown and the Global Climate and Health Alliance.
Dr Jared Louis Andre D’Souza
Dr Jared Louis Andre D’Souza is a clinician specialising in Intensive Care Medicine and Internal Medicine with a passion for bioinformatics. With over a decade of experience in the healthcare industry, Jared has made contributions to patient care, medical education, and healthcare technology implementation. He was involved in the implementation of Next Generation Electronic Medical Records for NUHS, beginning with the rollout at Jurong Health Campus, followed by National University Hospital, Alexandra Hospital, and National University Polyclinics.
His dedication and excellence have been recognised through several prestigious awards, such as the COVID-19 Resiliency Medal from the Republic of Singapore Government and a Certificate of Appreciation for his contributions to the setup and operations of COVID-19 Community Care Facilities. He was instrumental in obtaining HIMSS 7 EMRAM certification for Jurong Health Campus, and his efforts in medical informatics were acknowledged with the HIMSS Davies Award in 2020 for his work on diagnosis-related group (DRG) and coding at Jurong Health Campus. In his role as Deputy Group Chief Medical Informatics Officer (NUHS), he has overseen the business continuity processes and helped in the establishment of a decentralised reporting framework and is currently involved in the push for mobility tools and genomics.
His interests include implementation science, pharmacogenomics, clinical decision support, and explainable artificial intelligence.
Dr Corrine Balit
Dr Corrine Balit is the Medical Director of Paediatric Intensive Care Services at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales. Following her training in Australia, she spent several years working at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada in Paediatric Critical Care where she developed her clinical interest in analgesia and sedation practices in PICU. She is also passionate about leadership within the PICU and holds several leadership positions, including Co-chair of the Paediatric Intensive Care Advisory Group in NSW and Chair of the Paediatric Examination Committee for the College of Intensive Care Medicine, Australia.
Dr Aiko Tanaka
Dr Aiko Tanaka is a specialist in intensive care medicine at the University of Fukui Hospital in Japan. She is also a Visiting Academic Staff at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
Dr Tanaka has a background in anesthesiology and emergency medicine and is motivated to conduct research related to patient outcomes in critical care. The focus of her research is based on clinical studies on the management of patients with mechanical ventilation, including optimal strategies for weaning from mechanical ventilation.
Asst Prof Geoffrey Sithamparapillai Samuel
Asst Prof Geoffrey S Samuel is a Senior Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and has been the Head of Department since 2022.
With formal training in both musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation, he brings a comprehensive approach to restoring function in patients recovering from complex injuries and illnesses. His particular interest lies in ICU-related rehabilitation, focusing on early functional recovery, post-ICU syndrome, and the transition of care from critical care to community reintegration.
Asst Prof Geoffrey works closely with allied health professions, intensivists, and surgeons in managing spasticity, optimising mobility, and planning targeted interventions such as diagnostic nerve blocks and post-ICU rehabilitation. He leads the multidisciplinary team in the SGH rehabilitation ward with the intent of maximising patients’ functional recovery through teamwork and innovation. He is actively involved in service development, education, and capacity expansion to meet the growing demands of rehabilitation medicine in acute and post-acute care settings.
Prof Mohd Basri Mat Nor
Professor Dato’ Mohd Basri bin Mat Nor is a Consultant Intensivist and Professor at the Kulliyyah of Medicine, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), and the Head of the Intensive Care Unit at Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre, Kuantan, Pahang. His research interests span clinical nutrition in the critically ill, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) of antimicrobials, and sepsis biomarkers. He has secured multiple competitive research grants from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, industry partners, and international collaborators.
Professor Basri served two terms as President of the Malaysian Society of Intensive Care, reflecting his leadership and contributions to the development of critical care medicine in the country.
He is also a senior examiner for the Master of Medicine (M.Med) in Anaesthesiology examinations and the Ministry of Health’s Intensive Care Subspecialty Exit Examination, playing a vital role in shaping future specialists in the field.
Mr Peter Lai Chi Keung
Peter Lai is a Nurse Consultant in the Department of Adult Intensive Care in the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong. He started his career in the ICU in 1995. He received intensive care nursing training in Hong Kong and the USA and subsequently sub-specialised in burn and extracorporeal life support nursing. He is one of the pioneers who established burn and ECLS nursing service in the adult ICU of Queen Mary Hospital. His main clinical work and practice interests are in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, resuscitation, and end-of-life care. He is the immediate past Co-chair of the Education Committee of Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO), and is currently a member of the Guideline Subcommittee of ELSO.
Dr Forbes McGain
Dr Forbes McGain is the Director of the Footscray Hospital ICU, and an Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Physician at Western Health, Melbourne. Dr Forbes is also the Associate Dean of Sustainable Healthcare at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences. He is a clinician researcher with broad interests and publications spanning from healthcare sustainability to ICU multicentre clinical trials, and to COVID-19 patented inventions. Dr Forbes remains keenly involved in teaching intensive care and anaesthesia for Junior Doctors and students, as well as being engaged in all sorts of environmental sustainability efforts.
Dr Andrea Christoff
Dr Andrea Christoff is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand. She has completed a fellowship in Safety and Quality with the International Society for Quality in Health Care and is dually trained in emergency medicine and critical care.
Dr Christoff is a Senior Staff Specialist and the Medical Director of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Her areas of developed expertise include quality and safety, resuscitation science, and neurocritical care.
She is the primary site investigator for pediRES-Q.org, an observational multi-centre cohort study with an aim to characterise the quality of CPR and post-cardiac arrest care delivered to children, improving survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes through collaborative research.
Dr Adrian Wong
Dr Adrian Wong completed his training in anaesthesia & intensive care in 2014 and is a Consultant and Clinical Lead at King’s College Hospital, London.
He is an examiner for the European Diploma of Intensive Care Medicine. He was the ex-chair of the Social Media and Digital Content Committee of the ESICM and the Course Director of the GENIUS Ultrasound course. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Fluid Academy and sits on the Board of Directors of WINFOCUS.
Within critical care, he has an interest in the use of point-of-care ultrasound to guide fluid management, especially around venous congestion and organ perfusion, and human factors in the time-critical environment of the ICU. His other research interest includes clinical governance and safety, medical education, and burnout/well-being.
A/Prof Kimberley Haines
Associate Professor Kimberley Haines is a NHMRC Emerging Lead Fellow in the Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, at The University of Melbourne. Associate Professor Haines is also the Physiotherapy Research Lead and Senior Critical Care Physiotherapist at Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria. She is an emerging national and international leader in the field of critical care survivorship with methodological expertise in patient and family engagement, co-design, and qualitative research in vulnerable cohorts. She currently leads the icuRESOLVE research programme that is focused on advancing the science of peer support and post-ICU care.
She also holds several leadership positions, including Chair of the Emerging Researchers Group for the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group, Co-Chair of the ANZICS Patient and Family Engagement Working Group, and Co-Chair of the Critical and Acute Illness Recovery Organisation’s (CAIRO) Evaluation Committee.
A/Prof Emma Ridley
Emma Ridley is an Associate Professor and National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Fellow. She leads the Nutrition Programme at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. With over 15 years of experience in critical care nutrition research, Emma completed her PhD in 2018. She focuses on long-term nutrition interventions for the critically ill and is internationally recognised for her expertise (ranked in the top 1% on Expertscape for multiple critical care and clinical nutrition topics). She has over 125 peer-reviewed publications and has secured over $16.8 million in research funding, including $5.8 million from the CIA. She is the CI-A on the recently completed INTENT trial and was awarded a $1.49 million MRFF 2022 grant titled “A national platform for improving quality of nutrition care for critically ill adults and children”. She also practices as a clinical dietitian at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.
Dr Nuttha Lumlertgul
Dr Nuttha Lumlertgul is a consultant at the Excellence Centre of Critical Care Nephrology, Division of Nephrology, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She completed her fellowship in Internal Medicine and Nephrology in Thailand, then went on to complete her critical care fellowship at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
She is an expert in Critical Care Nephrology, in particular Acute Kidney Injury and Extracorporeal Organ Support in Intensive Care Units. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research papers in this area, including the recent ‘Acute Kidney Injury’ Seminar published in The Lancet, 2025. She has also authored several books on critical care nephrology. Dr Lumlertgul is an advocate for equity in the workforce for Nephrology and Critical Care.
Dr Goh Chong Tien
Dr Goh Chong Tien is currently a Paediatric Intensivist at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney. He trained initially in Paediatrics in Malaysia before completing his training in Paediatric Intensive Care in Sydney. He is currently the chair of the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care Registry Clinical Advisory Committee as well as a member of the ANZICS CORE management committee. His interests include the use of Extracorporeal Therapy in the ICU and big data in healthcare. He is currently working on capturing and analysing high-frequency physiological signals in critical care patients.
Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson
Dr Amy Freeman-Sanderson is a PhD-trained, Certified Practising Speech Pathologist at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow. She holds an Honorary Clinical Specialist Speech Pathologist appointment at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, is an Honorary Senior Fellow in the Critical Care Division at The George Institute for Global Health, and is an Affiliate of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) at the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Additionally, she serves as the Education Committee Chair for the Global Tracheostomy Collaborative.
With over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience in tertiary hospitals, Dr Freeman-Sanderson works in international and interprofessional research teams focused on optimising functional communication and swallowing outcomes for critically ill patients. She is currently leading a research programme focused on enhancing communication function across the critical care continuum.
Prof Yeh Yu-Chang Tony
Prof Yeh’s research centers on critical care medicine with particular emphasis on microcirculation, sepsis, blood purification, and extracorporeal life support. His clinical expertise also covers therapeutic sedation and analgesia, delirium management, kidney transplantation, medical data science, and generative artificial intelligence. He has been instrumental in developing the NTUH Centre of Microcirculation Medical Research (NCMMR) and the NTUH Smart Emergency and Critical Care group (NSECC), and he played a key role in establishing Taiwan CORE, a national critical care database.
Prof Yeh’s scholarly contributions include over 70 peer-reviewed publications, and he has actively participated in more than 170 national and international academic conferences.
Prof Ruth Kleinpell
Prof Ruth Kleinpell is currently the Associate Dean for Clinical Scholarship, Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academics, Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing Education, and Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She is certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and has over 25 years of clinical experience in the ICU and acute care settings. She has received federal and foundation grant funding to conduct research related to outcomes after critical illness, patient and family-centered care, and the role of the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and APRN outcomes.
She serves as a Visiting Professor for the National University of Singapore, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies for the Advanced Practice Nursing Programme. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Critical Care Medicine, the National Academies of Practice, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.
Prof Jason Roberts
Prof Jason Roberts is the Director of the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Leadership Fellow at The University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy for Health and Medical Sciences.
He is a Clinical Pharmacist at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, where he is also the Interim Director of the Herston Infectious Diseases Institute (HeIDI). He leads the Centre of Research Excellence RESPOND which aims to develop optimised antibiotic dosing regimens to improve patient outcomes and minimise the emergence of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Prof Graeme MacLaren
Prof Graeme MacLaren is a Director of Cardiothoracic Intensive Care at the National University Hospital and an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the National University of Singapore. Prof MacLaren trained in both adult and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine and has a Master’s degree in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His principal academic interests are Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and Infection in Critical Illness. He has been deeply involved with the world’s largest ECMO society, the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO), for over a decade. He served as the inaugural Chair of its Asia-Pacific Chapter and, in 2023, became the first president in the society’s 35-year history to be elected from outside the USA.
Prof Chiara Robba
Prof Chiara Robba is a Consultant and Professor in Neurocritical and General Intensive Care at Policlinico San Martino, Genova. She worked for many years at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and she got a PhD in Neuroscience focusing on Neuromonitoring. She was the Chair of the Neuro Intensive Care section of the ESICM and also the Deputy Editor of ICM.
Her research interests are mainly Neuromonitoring, Autoregulation, and Mechanical Ventilation.
Ms Melissa Ankravs
Ms Melissa is the Senior ICU Pharmacist and Lead for Critical Care Pharmacy Services at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Australia). She is also the immediate past Chair and current Member of the Critical Care Leadership Committee for Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha), as well as a regional representative for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS CTG) and Allied Health and Pharmacists Working Group. As an Honorary Senior Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of Critical Care at Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melissa is reviewing the delirium management of critically ill patients.
Dr Maya Dewan
Dr Maya Dewan is a board-certified Paediatric Critical Care Physician, Clinical Informatician, and the Division Director of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati Department of Paediatrics and holds appointments in the Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, as well as the James M. Anderson Center for Healthcare Excellence. Her research, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, integrates human-centered design, usability studies, predictive analytics, and strategic use of the electronic health record. She applies the implementation of science to drive sustainable improvements in Paediatric Critical Care.
Dr Dewan is an active member of the American Heart Association and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation where she serves on the Paediatric BLS and BLS taskforces respectfully. She earned her MD and MPH from the University of Pennsylvania, completed her Paediatrics Residency and Critical Care Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and obtained a graduate certificate in Clinical Informatics from Oregon Health & Science University.
Prof John Laffey
John Laffey is a Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Galway, and Galway University Hospitals in Galway, Ireland. He is the Director of Clinical Research Governance at the University of Galway and the Ireland West-Northwest Healthcare area. He is a research chair-elect at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and senior pulmonary editor at Intensive Care Medicine Experimental. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the immediate past chair of the Irish Critical Care Trials Group.
He has published more than 400 papers and was a joint leader of the LUNG SAFE And WEAN SAFE studies. Past roles include Chair of the Irish Critical Care Trials Group and Section Chair of the Translational Biology Section at the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.
His research focuses on improving outcomes in the critically ill and in patients undergoing major surgery, as well as understanding the mechanisms underlying lung and systemic organ injury. He has a longstanding interest in the therapeutic potential of cell therapies for critical illnesses. Other interests include the epidemiology of ARDS and weaning from mechanical ventilation. He has extensive experience in early-phase and later-phase clinical trials.
Dr Shum Hoi Ping
Dr Shum Hoi Ping serves as the Chief of Service for the Department of Intensive Care at the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Hong Kong. He embarked on his medical journey after graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 1998.
Following his graduation, Dr Shum pursued training in Internal Medicine, leading to his fellowship in Nephrology, Advanced Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.
In 2018, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Hong Kong. Dr Shum’s research primarily focuses on the application of extracorporeal blood purification techniques, the study of septic acute kidney injury, and the management of infectious diseases.
Throughout his career, Dr Shum has contributed to over 130 publications related to critical care, nephrology, and infectious diseases. He currently holds the position of immediate past Chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Critical Care Medicine, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Programme Director of Critical Care Medicine at Hong Kong College of Physicians.
Dr Moritoki Egi
Dr Moritoki Egi is a Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Kyoto University Hospital, Japan. Dr Egi graduated from Okayama University in 1999. Following residency and trainee in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, he was a clinical research fellow in the Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital. Dr Egi received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Okayama University.
His research focuses on the clinical epidemiology and outcomes of critical illness, especially in acute blood glucose control, body temperature control in critical illness, postoperative delirium, mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure, and fluid management in acutely ill patients. He has published about 140 peer-reviewed articles. His research is funded primarily by grants-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan. He has served as the principal investigator of the Japan-Korea Intensive Care Study group (JAKOICS). He also served as a member of the official committees in the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine, Japanese Society of Anesthesia, and Japanese Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
Dr Lee Zheng Yii
Dr Lee Zheng Yii is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is also a visiting scientist in two German institutions: the Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Berlin, and University Hospital Würzburg, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency and Pain Medicine, Würzburg. He has more than 40 publications in high-impact journals on topics related to critical care nutrition.
He is one of the editorial board members of the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, and Nutrition: The International Journal of Applied and Basic Nutritional Science. He is also the lead coordinator of the “Critical Care Nutrition Systematic Review,” which served as one of the most important resources for critical care nutrition guidelines. He has obtained more than MYR 1.8 million in international grants for his research in critical care nutrition. He is a life member of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Malaysia (PENSMA) and an ordinary member of the Malaysian Dietitians’ Association (MDA).
Prof Yugeesh Lankadeva
Prof Yugeesh Lankadeva is a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Fellow and a National Heart Foundation Future-Leader Fellow and leads the Critical Care Research Department at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. His research aims to understand the pathophysiology of brain and kidney injury arising from sepsis and cardiac surgery requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. Armed with this knowledge, he hopes to develop novel diagnostics and therapeutics to improve patient-centred health outcomes.
Professor Lankadeva has over 70 publications in high-impact medical journals. The quality and clinical relevance of his work have been acknowledged by the award of more than $30 million in competitive research funding. His discoveries have translated to 10 clinical trials across Australia, Europe, US, and Asia.
He is an inventor with 3 patents and has received over 30 prestigious career awards. Professor Lankadeva currently holds appointments as Chief Scientific Officer of PanAscea Pty Ltd, Managing Director of Credos-Biotech Pty Ltd, Senior Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, and Senior Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital.
Prof Sheila Nainan Myatra
Sheila Myatra is a Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, working at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India (largest cancer centre in Asia). She is the Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the Immediate President of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM). She is the Past President of the All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA).
She is a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) 2025 Guidelines and SSC Research Committee, and the Steering Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA). She is among the 14 international airway experts on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) difficult airway guidelines and the PUMA guidelines (Project for the Universal Management of the Airway). Her research interests include hemodynamic monitoring, airway management, and sepsis. She has developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring, called the “tidal volume challenge” (CCM 2017).
She was awarded the prestigious 2023 ESICM Honorary Membership at ESICM Lives in Milan and the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) Honorary Membership in 2022. Awarded FCCM (American College of CCM) and FICCM by ISCCM. She delivered the William C Shoemaker Honorary Lecture at SCCM 2023 in San Francisco, USA. She serves on the Editorial Board of several journals including Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Journal of Critical Care, Critical Care Science, Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, Indian Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (past Editorial Board member). She has several publications to her credit.
Prof Sandroni Claudio
Prof Sandroni Claudio is a professor of Intensive Care at the Catholic University School of Medicine in Rome, Italy. He is responsible for post-cardiac arrest management in a 19-bed Intensive Care Unit and conducts research on hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury (HIBI) and post-resuscitation care.
Since 2013, Prof Sandroni has been leading an expert group reviewing evidence on the severity of HIBI. This work informed the 2015 and 2021 Post-Resuscitation Care Guidelines from the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC).
Within the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Prof Sandroni participates in the continuous evidence evaluation process that ILCOR conducts to disseminate evidence-informed resuscitation science and treatment recommendations in the World. He serves as a member of the ILCOR Advanced Life Support (ALS) task Force and the Science Advisory Committee.
Prof Sandroni is the past Chair of the Trauma and Emergency Medicine (TEM) Section of ESICM and a member of the Editorial Board of Intensive Care Medicine, and Resuscitation, official Journals of ESICM and ERC, respectively. He is a fellow of the ERC and the American Heart Association.
To date, Prof Claudio Sandroni authored 225 publications, cited 15,794 times. His h-index is 55 (source: Scopus).
Prof Rinaldo Bellomo
Prof Rinaldo Bellomo is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Melbourne, Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University and Co-director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre. He has produced more than 1900 PubMed-cited publications and is the most published biomedical investigator in the history of Australian medicine. Since 2006, he has been the most published intensive care investigator in the world (more than 100 per annum for the past 10 years).
Prof Paul Young
Prof Paul Young is an intensive care specialist and clinical researcher from Wellington, New Zealand. He is the Co-clinical Leader at Wellington Hospital ICU and a Deputy Director at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand. His research interests include everything related to intensive care medicine. He has almost 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals including more than 20 in the world’s highest-impact medical journals (the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Lancet). He is the Chief Investigator for the Mega-ROX trial, a 40,000-participant randomised clinical trial evaluating oxygen therapy regimens in ICU patients who require unplanned life support. The Mega-ROX trial will finish recruitment in the 2nd half of 2025 and is currently enrolling around 1000 patients per month in 130 ICUs in 14 countries. Paul’s research is supported by funding from the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
Prof Carol Hodgson
Prof Carol Hodgson is a clinical trialist with particular expertise in long-term outcomes after critical illness. She leads as the Executive Director of Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre, which aims to ensure research is implemented and translated into healthcare to improve patient outcomes. She is the Head of the Division of Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Deputy Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University. She has worked in ICU at Alfred Health for over 25 years where she is a Specialist Physiotherapist.
Prof Alexandre T. Rotta
Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM is a Professor of Paediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, NC. He is the Chief of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Executive Co-Director of the Paediatric and Congenital Heart Center at Duke University Medical Center/ Duke Children’s Hospital. Prof Rotta is a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care and is a former Chair of the Paediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is Senior Co-Editor of the current edition of the “Fuhrman and Zimmerman Pediatric Critical Care Medicine” textbook and has published extensively in the field of paediatric critical care. His academic interests include acute respiratory failure, advanced modalities of respiratory support, cardiac intensive care, bronchiolitis, and critical asthma, and medical emergencies in commercial aviation.
Dr Zhang Zhongheng
Dr Zhongheng is a Chief Physician, Associate Professor, and Distinguished Researcher. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Emergency Medicine at Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Dr Zhongheng’s research programme is focused on advancing precision treatment for critically ill adults, aiming to address the significant heterogeneity observed in critical illnesses such as sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and multi-organ failure. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Intensive Care Medicine, and eClinicalMedicine. He has received several research grants from the National Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China.
Dr Olive Pei Ee Lee
Dr Olive Lee is a paediatric intensivist trained in Malaysia and the United Kingdom. Her passion is advancing paediatric intensive care in Malaysia, to help the critically ill children receive the care they need.
She obtained her fellowship in paediatric critical care in Malaysia and Birmingham Children’s Hospital, with a special interest in incorporating point-of-care ultrasound in intensive care management. She is one of the few paediatric intensivists in Malaysia actively involved in training doctors point-of-care ultrasound.
Her other interests include the education and training of junior paediatric doctors with a focus on managing paediatric emergencies.
She is passionate about research, her focus being the management of sepsis and extracorporeal therapy. She participated in various studies and published several peer-reviewed articles in paediatric critical care.
True to her “less is more” approach in intensive care, she aspires to develop a holistic intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting, to demonstrate that every sick kid can still be managed in resource-poor centres.
Dr Glenn Eastwood
Dr Glenn Eastwood is the Intensive Care Research Manager at the Austin Hospital and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Through teamwork and collaboration, he is one of Australia’s most experienced and successful Intensive Care nurse researchers.
Dr Eastwood was the Chief Principal Investigator of the NEJM published Targeted Therapeutic Mild Hypercapnia After Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest randomised controlled trial (TAME Cardiac Arrest Trial). He holds a Research Doctorate (PhD) from Deakin University in research dedicated to oxygen therapy for patients at risk of respiratory dysfunction. His research program is focused on the impact and outcome of gas management (oxygen and carbon dioxide) in critically ill patients and he has published widely in this area.
Dr Dileep Raman
Dr Dileep Raman is the Co-founder and Chief of Healthcare at Cloudphysician, a company revolutionising healthcare delivery through technology-augmented solutions. He leads clinical excellence, overseeing clinical operations and product innovation.
With a mission to empower both patients and providers, Dr Dileep focuses on integrating technology designed for real-world constraints. Under his leadership, Cloudphysician has secured three patents and continues to innovate in healthcare technology focusing on domain-specific computer vision models.
He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Texas Tech University, USA, serving as Chief Resident, and later trained as a Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he also served as Chief Fellow.
In 2015, he returned to India with his co-founder to build Cloudphysician, driven by a vision to enhance healthcare quality and provider experience through cutting-edge solutions.
A/Prof Mark Plummer
A/Prof Mark Plummer is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow and Head of Research and Innovation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital ICU. He was the scientific convenor for the APICS meeting in 2022 and is thrilled to be back in Singapore. His research interests include dysglycaemia, neurocritical care, sepsis and developing clinically relevant pre-clinical models of critical illness.
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