Abhijit Lele
United States
Abhijit Lele (United States)
Abhijit Vijay Lele, MBBS, MD, MSCR, FNCS, CPHQ. Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurological Surgery
Director, Neurocritical Care Service and Neurocritical Care Quality Improvement, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
I am a board certified neurointensivist and neuroanesthesiologist, currently serving as the Director of the Neurocritical Care Service at the University of Washington. My work focuses on quality improvement and I am the immediate past-chair of the quality section of the Neurocritical Care Society, and I am currently serving as the Chair of the Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. I have been a recipient of the presidential citation from Neurocritical Care Society on three occasions, and have been awarded teaching awards from the Anesthesiology and neurology residents.
Amy Quek
Singapore
Amy Quek (Singapore)
Dr Amy Quek is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National University Hospital and holds the academic rank of Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lim School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She graduated from National University of Singapore and obtained her Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. She completed Neurology Advanced Specialist Training at the National University Hospital, and Neuroimmunology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, USA.
Dr Quek’s clinical and research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory neurological disorders, including autoimmune encephalitis, multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica, as well as the interpretation of neural autoantibodies.
Anis Siham
Malaysia
Anis Siham (Malaysia)
Dr Anis graduated with Bachelor in Medicine and Bachelor in Surgery (MBBS) in 2002 and Master in Paediatrics in 2010 at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She started her professional training in Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU) at University Malaya Medical Centre, Institute of Paediatrics Kuala Lumpur and National Heart Institute (IJN) Malaysia from 2012 till 2014. She continued her training in PICU in Birmingham Children’s
Hospital, United Kingdom from November 2014 till May 2015.
She came back to Malaysia in 2015 and became the head of Paediatric Department in University Technology MARA (UiTM) from 2015 till 2020 as an associate professor. Dr Anis’s major interests are in PICU registry, paediatric early warning score (PEWS), PICU rehabilitation, high flow nasal cannula and mechanical ventilation. She is the national education committee for PICU and is involved in courses for example PICU Masterclass, PICU BASIC and Ultrasound course
(PERCUSS).
She has won various awards for invention and innovation which includes developing a simple CPAP device to be used in the United Nation camps in Cox Bazaar, Bangladesh; a Malaysian PICU registry, electronic PEWS and Bike on Bed (PICU rehabilitation device). She has setup PHDU service in Hospital Selayang under the ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ between UiTM and Ministry of Health in January 2017.
Dr Anis was also the lead for Clinical Skill Simulation Centre UiTM from 2019-2022. She developed new teaching and learning methods using Virtual and Augmented Reality, workplace- based assessment for medical students and ultrasound to aid learning. She is also responsible for the sub-specialty, postgraduate and allied health training. Dr Anis has also created collaborative links for simulation training with the National University of Singapore and Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Apart from that, Dr Anis is also an active researcher and was certified under the ‘UK Harvard Clinical Research Course’ in 2016. She is also active as the member of Malaysian Paediatric Intensive Care Society and the editor of the manual for Malaysian Paediatric Life Support for provider and instructor.
She is an active trainer for paediatric life support courses. Among her other interests are community outreach medical programmes including developing the children safety programme, humanitarian missions for the underprivileged in Malaysia as well as in other countries.
As a paediatric intensivist, Dr Anis is very committed to the well-being of her patients and practises family oriented PICU services offering treatment with firm clinical evidence. She is currently working in Sunway Medical Centre.
Arun Bansal
United Kingdom
Arun Bansal (United Kingdom)
Pediatric Critical Care in India. He has been a main guide to more than 40 MD (Pediatrics) students and 15 (DM-Pediatric Critical Care) students. He has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has written more than 50 chapters in books and is a section editor in 3 books. His areas of interest are Neuro-critical care, ARDS, Nutrition, Simulation and Sepsis. He has completed more than 25 intra-mural projects and 8 extra-mural funded projects. Currently, he is the PI of 2 ongoing funded projects and one multi-centric project. His research papers have won many awards, both nationally and internationally. American Society of Critical Care Medicine honored him with Fellowship of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) in February 2018 and Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health with FRCPCH in March 2019. He successfully organized the 2nd Asian Congress of Pediatric Intensive Care in Chandigarh, India in Nov 2017. Dr. Bansal has been invited as a guest faculty at many National and International Conferences. Dr. Bansal was invited as a Visiting Professor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), USA and Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, USA in 2018 and in 2019. He was the General Secretary from 2020-22 and the Chairperson-Elect 2024 of the Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter of India. He is also the Dean of Indian College of Pediatrics 2024-25. He is the editorial board member of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Journal, and Associate Editor of Journal of Pediatric Critical Care. He was the member of International Scientific Committee of 11th Congress of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) 2022 and the 30th International Pediatric Association Congress 2023. He is currently the International Scientific Committee member of the 12th Congress of the WFPICCS 2024.
Benjamin Ng
Malaysia
Benjamin Ng (Malaysia)
Dr.Benjamin Ng Han Sim is currently a consultant neurologist and head of unit, working at the Neurology Unit of Sibu Hospital, Sarawak.
He obtained his Doctor of Medicine with first class honours from Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
He was the best undergraduate medical student for his batch and was conferred the Vice Chancellor Gold Medal award in 2010.
In the year 2014, he was awarded the membership Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom and served as a general physician in various hospitals in Malaysia. Three years after that, he was inducted as a member of the Malaysia Academy of Medicine and passed both specialty certificate examination in Acute Medicine and Neurology. In the year 2022, he was conferred as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London.
Dr.Ben has completed his neurology fellowship training in 2022. He has done his clinical epilepsy fellowship at the Westmead Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre at Sydney, Australia in 2021. He is inducted as an International Sleep Disorders Specialist by the World Sleep Society in 2023. Early this year, he was awarded international sleep credentials; RPSGT and CCSH, by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists, United States of America; making him the first neurologist in Malaysia to have this recognition.
He is also an active member for international societies, namely, the America Academy of Neurology and European Academy of Neurology. Notably, he is one of the founding members for the Functional Neurology Disorder (FND) Society. His interest is in the field of epilepsy, functional neurology disorder, neuro-infection (Rabies) and recently, with the addition of sleep medicine. He has numerous publications in this area of interest.
Besides clinical work, Dr Ben is also an adjunct lecturer for the Segi College Sibu Campus. He would take students for tutorials, bedside teaching and clinic attachment on a part time basis.
Cheah Saw Kian
Malaysia
Cheah Saw Kian (Malaysia)
Dr. Cheah is presently a Senior Lecturer, Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Intensivist at Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, UKM, Malaysia.
She graduated with an MD from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and attained her Master’s in Anaesthesiology (UKM) in the year 2011. She went on her clinical training in Intensive Care Medicine as her subspeciality and attained European Diploma in Intensive Care (EDIC).
She is actively involved in various research, publication activities, and clinical teaching for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She has published more than 20 articles as a corresponding and co-authors, particularly in the field of intensive care medicine. Her special interests are in the field of sepsis and neurocritical care.
Chidananda Swamy M N
India
Chidananda Swamy M N (India)
Education:
1980-1985- MBBS, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
1993 -1996 – MD (Anaesthesiology) Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, India
1998 – 1999 – PDCC(Neuroanaesthesia), National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Deemed University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
2008 – Fellowship in Transplant Anaesthesia – Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, South Korea,
2008 – MBA (Health Care Services), Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
Feb 2022- PGDMLE (Post Graduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics) – National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, India
Feb 2024 – Fellow of the ‘Academy of Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care (FNANC)’ of Academy of Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care under the aegis of Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care
Professional Experience:
1987-1992 – Medical Officer, Indian Air Force (IAF).
1996 -1999 – Senior Resident Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India.
June 2000 – July 2004, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, JJM Medical College, Davangere, India.
July 2004 – Sept 2007 – Reader/Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, JJM Medical College, Davangere, India.
Sept 2007– Mar 2014 – Senior Consultant, Neuroanaesthesia and HPB and Transplant Anaesthesia and Critical Care, BGS Global Hospitals, Bangalore.
Mar 2014 to Mar 2020 – Senior Consultant, Neuroanaesthesia and Neurocritical Care, SAKRA World Hospitals, Bangalore.
Present (Mar 2020 till date) – Consultant and Head Neurocritical Care, Brunei Neuroscience, Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre, Brunei Darussalam.
Chin Seng Gan
Malaysia
Chin Seng Gan (Malaysia)
Dr. Gan Chin Seng is a consultant paediatrician, a paediatric intensivist and a professor at Department of Paediatrics, University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur. Dr Gan joined University of Malaya since 2007. He has been working in paediatric ICU since then. He did two years of clinical fellowship in PICU at Birmingham Children Hospital in the UK from 2012 to 2014. He is He is the vice president of Paediatric Chapter of Malaysian Society of Intensive Care (MSIC) since 2023. He is also an active member of Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Medicine Asian Network (PACCMAN) since 2015 collaborating research work and sharing experience in the area of paediatric intensive care. His areas of expertise are in general paediatrics, paediatric & neonatal critical care in both medical and surgical related conditions, advanced paediatric resuscitation & organ stabilization, invasive & non-invasive mechanical ventilation. He is also a national trainer of PALS & MPLS courses. His research interest are: congenital diaphragmatic hernia, HIE, severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, hospital acquired infection, upper airway obstruction, severe bronchial asthma, paediatric sepsis and severe dengue
Faraz Shafiq
Pakistan
Faraz Shafiq (Pakistan)
Dr. Faraz Shafiq
Associate Professor and Director Neuro-Anaesthesia Services
The Aga Khan University
Pakistan
Dr Faraz Shafiq currently working as An Associate Professor at Department of Anesthesiology, The Aga Khan University Pakistan. It’s one of the biggest tertiary care, teaching hospital of the country. He is serving as a Director of Neuroanaesthesia services there. His area of expertise is the perioperative care of Neurosurgical patients with special interest in Anaesthetic management of patients requiring Awake Craniotomy and procedures like Deep Brain Stimulation.
Gene Sung
United States
Gene Sung (United States)
Dr. Sung is the immediate past-president of the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care. He is a founding member and past-president of the international Neurocritical Care Society. He also helped start two other professional societies and has had leadership positions at the American Heart Association, National Stroke Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Academy of Neurology.
He is the past-director of Neurocritical Care and Stroke at the University of Southern California (USC). He has trained at the Universities of Minnesota and Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, he received his first faculty appointment.
His research interests are improving neurocritical care and outcomes of stroke and traumatic brain injury. He has led a global effort to standardize the determination of brain death.
Guoping Lu
China
Guoping Lu (China)
Prof. Lu is deeply committed to children’s emergency and critical care and has established a standardized and systematic children’s critical care center at the leading level in China. At the same time, he has taken the lead in establishing a pediatric emergency medicine system of “inter-hospital transfer – emergency medicine – critical care medicine” in line with international advanced concepts. He is also devoted to building a cooperation program in pediatric critical care medicine, and promoting the development of regions with backward pediatric emergency and critical care technology.
Hari Krishnan
United Kingdom
Hari Krishnan (United Kingdom)
Dr Hari Krishnan MD, MRCPCH
Consultant Paediatric Intensivist
Birmingham Children’s Hospital & KIDS
United Kingdom
Hari Krishnan is a paediatric intensivist working at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK. He has an interest in data science, and neurocritical care. He is a clinical advisor for paediatric intensive care national audit (PICANet) and deputy chair of clinical advisory group of PICANet. He has published >40 papers in various journals. He is a peer reviewer for >10 journals. He is the lead author of the OUP textbook: Challenging concepts in Paediatric Critical Care. He runs the PICUJournalWatch website, and co-runs the PICCHub app.
Jia Yueh Chong
Malaysia
Jia Yueh Chong (Malaysia)
Originally from Kuala Lumpur, she obtained MBBS degree from the University of Malaya then completed the Masters in Paediatrics at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Following completion of the fellowship training programme in paediatric intensive care in 2019, she has been working as a paediatric intensivist in Hospital Tunku Azizah Kuala Lumpur. Her training includes some experience with the team in Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Neonatal and Paediatric Emergency Transport Service in New South Wales, Australia.
She involved in researches related to functional and neurodevelopmental outcomes of PICU admissions and particularly passionate on neurocritical and palliative care in PICU.
Jocelyn Lim
Singapore
Jocelyn Lim (Singapore)
Dr Jocelyn Lim is currently a consultant in Paediatric Neurology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She graduated from National University of School, School of Medicine in 2006 and completed her paediatric specialist accreditation in 2016. She has a special interest in paediatric neuromuscular conditions and is currently leading the multi-disciplinary neuromuscular team. Jocelyn is also an adjunct instructor under the Paediatric Academic Clinical Program at Duke-NUS Medical School and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Her research interests include neuromuscular disorders and neuroimmunology.
Kristy Fu
Singapore
Kristy Fu (Singapore)
Dr Kristy Xinghan Fu
Consultant, Division of Paediatric Critical Care, Department of Paediarics, Khoo Teck Puat, National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, National University Health System
Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore
Singapore
Dr Kristy is a dually accredited Paediatric Intensivist with special interest in Neurocritical Care, working in 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 assistant professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore.
Laila Ab Mukmin
Malaysia
Laila Ab Mukmin (Malaysia)
I graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine in March 2003 and completed training in Anaesthesia & Critical Care at Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2011. In 2022, I have completed fellowship in Neuroanaesthesia & Neurocritical Care. Hospital USM is the neurosurgical referral centre for adult and paediatric population in the east coast of Malaysia treating various conditions such as traumatic brain injury, functional surgery such as awake craniotomy for tumour excision and deep brain stimulation, vascular surgery or intervention such AVM, clipping & coiling of aneurysm as well as neurocritical care for both haemorrhagic and ischaemic stroke patients. I am also a member of Kelantan Stroke Initiave. Beginning from this year, our anaesthesiology team provides anaesthesia and neurocritical care support for for ischaemic stroke patients undergoing EC-IC bypass surgery.
Lee Jan Hau
Singapore
Lee Jan Hau (Singapore)
Dr. Lee Jan Hau is a senior consultant in the Children’s Intensive Care Unit in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. He is an associate professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. His research interests include pediatric critical care epidemiology, pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome and critical care nutrition. He is founding chairperson of the Pediatric Acute & Critical Care Medicine Asian Network (PACCMAN).
Matthew Kirschen
United States
Matthew Kirschen (United States)
Matthew Kirschen is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, and Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is the Associate Director of Pediatric Neurocritical Care at CHOP. His research is focused on using multimodality neuromonitoring to detect and prevent brain injury in critically ill children, predicting recovery in children after severe acute brain injury, and the accurate diagnosis of brain death. Dr. Kirschen received his MD and PhD from Stanford University. He completed his pediatrics residency at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, followed by fellowships in both child neurology and pediatric critical care medicine at CHOP.
Mathieu van der Jagt
The Netherlands
Mathieu van der Jagt (The Netherlands)
Mathieu van der Jagt, MD, PhD, EDIC
Neurologist-intensivist
Associate professor of Intensive Care
Department of Intensive Care Adults
Erasmus MC – University Medical Center Rotterdam
The Netherlands
After my training in Clinical Neurology (2000-2005), I specialized in Intensive Care and obtained the European Diploma in Intensive Care in 2008. From 2008, I have been a staff physician at the ICU Department of Erasmus MC. At this department, I am principal investigator for acute brain injury research. My research has focused on traumatic brain injury, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and delirium and I have many international collaborations for these research areas. I was the PI for 2 clinical trials and local PI for many multicenter clinical trials in the area of neurocritical care and have been an invited speaker for most of the international conferences related to neurocritical care (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, EURONEURO, International Stroke Conference, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies, European Academy of Neurology, International NeuroTrauma Society).
Mohamad Hasyizan Hassan
Malaysia
Mohamad Hasyizan Hassan (Malaysia)
I am a neuroanaesthesiologist who has a particular interest in anesthesia for complex neurovascular surgery. I am also trained in cardiac anaesthesiology and am currently doing a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia at the National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur. As an academician and lecturer, I actively participate in international research, including STARGATE study, and hold national and university grants. I have a special interest in transcranial Doppler ultrasound and neurological biomarkers, e.g., S100β. I have published more than 40 articles in the indexed neuro and cardiac anesthesiology journals. My citation index is 121, and my H-index is 5.
Mohd Fahmi Lukman
Malaysia
Mohd Fahmi Lukman (Malaysia)
Graduating with a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Medicine (Anaesthesiology) qualifications from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Dr. Mohd Fahmi bin Lukman is a consultant anaesthesiologist at the Tuanku Mizan Armed Forces Hospital and an associate professor at National Defence University of Malaysia. His research focuses on airway management and neuroanaesthesia. He is also the co-author of various books related to anaesthesia, resuscitation, and pain management. He is the inventor of IComPBag, a multiple award-winning inflatable positioning device that is widely available in the market now.
Nahemah Hasanaly
Malaysia
Nahemah Hasanaly (Malaysia)
Dr. Nahemah Hasanaly
Neuroanesthesiologist
Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun, MALAYSIA
Dr Nahemah Hasanaly graduate both her undergraduate and post graduate study from University Kebangsaan Malaysia. She completed her neuroanesthesia fellowship from Toronto Western Hospital, University of Canada in 2022. She currently a neuroanesthesiologist based in a tertiary center in Perak and has been an advisoruy for the neuroanesthesiology service in the northern region. Her interest are mainly in neuroanaesthesia, neurocritical care, airway management and regional anaesthesia. She is an active member of the Malaysia Society of Neuroanesthesioly and Neurocritical care.
Olive Lee
Malaysia
Olive Lee (Malaysia)
Dr. Olive Pei Ee Lee
Pediatric Intensivist
Sarawak General Hospital
Malaysia
Pediatric Intensivist working in Sarawak General Hospital, Borneo, Malaysia. Dr Lee has special interest in ultrasound in critical care and is a provider for Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasonography (PERCUSS). She is actively involved in training junior doctors and research in this field.
Phuc Huu Phan
Vietnam
Phuc Huu Phan (Vietnam)
Dr. Phuc Huu Phan
Pediatric Intensivist
Vietnam National Children’s Hospital
Vietnam
Dr. Phuc Huu Phan completed his residency program in Pediatrics in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2000 and then pursued his career in pediatric critical care medicine. He obtained his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2012. Currently, he serves as Director of Training & Research Institute for Child Health, and Deputy Head, Medical Intensive Care Unit of Vietnam National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi. His current duties involve direct patient care, teaching, and research. His research interests include clinical & epidemiology of pediatric sepsis/septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pediatric tuberculosis, and other emerging infectious diseases in children.
Pon Kah Min
Malaysia
Pon Kah Min (Malaysia)
Dr Pon Kah Min
Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, PICU
Hospital Pulau Pinang
Malaysia
Dr Pon Kah Min is the Consultant Paediatric Intensivist currently working in PICU, Hospital Pulau Pinang. She attained her undergraduate degree at University of Malaya and completed her PICU subspecialty training after 2 years of training in Malaysia and 1 year training at Children Hospital at Westmead, Australia. She is currently the Paediatric Resuscitation Subcommittee of National Committee On Resuscitation Training. She is actively involved in paediatric resuscitation training including APLS PLS and MPLS courses. She is a member of Paediatric Intensive Care Evaluation Subcommittee of Malaysia Medical Council.
Raymond Seet
Singapore
Raymond Seet (Singapore)
Dr. Raymond Seet serves as a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National University Hospital, Singapore’s Division of Neurology, and is an Associate Professor with tenure at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He has completed an advanced fellowship in stroke and neurocritical care at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
His clinical and research endeavors are centered on the management of acute stroke, with a particular focus on the discovery of new biomarkers and the application of advanced multiplexed and spatial imaging techniques to unravel the mechanisms of stroke and tailor its treatment to individual patients. Dr. Seet has authored over 200 scholarly works and has consistently secured funding from the National Medical Research Council, Singapore, since 2006, including the distinguished senior Clinician Scientist Award.
Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, and serves as Chairman of the Domain-Specific Review Board, which governs research ethics in Singapore. Moreover, Dr. Seet is the current President of the Clinical Neurosciences Society and has previously held the position of Chairman for the Chapter of Neurologists in Singapore.
Samuel Tsan
Malaysia
Samuel Tsan (Malaysia)
Dr Samuel Ern Hung Tsan
Consultant Neuroanaesthesiologist and Neurointensivist
University of Malaysia Sarawak
Malaysia
Dr Samuel Ern Hung Tsan is a consultant neuroanaesthesiologist and neurointensivist at the University of Malaysia Sarawak and Sarawak General Hospital. He has a Master of Anaesthesiology with Distinction from University of Malaya, and he is also a Fellow with the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland. He completed his neuroanaesthesiology and neurointensive care fellowship In St George’s Hospital in London, United Kingdom. He is a keen researcher and in addition to authoring publications in international peer reviewed journals, he has published multiple book chapters. His research interest lies in regional anaesthesia in neurosurgery, neurointensive care, airway management, and mental health.
Abstract
Updates on Targeted Temperature Management
Targeted temperature management (TTM) became a prominent concept in resuscitation of post-cardiac arrest patients more than 20 years ago. However, since then, TTM has become a controversial topic, with many proponents and opponents. This lecture aims to review the latest evidence surrounding TTM, its proposed benefits and side effects, and future research direction regarding TTM.
Sarah Livesay
United States
Sarah Livesay (United States)
Dr. Sarah Livesay is an Advanced Practice Nurse with an expertise in stroke and neurocritical care. She is the Associate Dean of Rush University College of Nursing where she oversees the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program and co-leads the Office of Nursing Research and Scholarship. Dr. Livesay has published widely on multiple neurocritical care and advanced practice nursing topics. She has co-edited two books on the nursing care of patients with stroke. She led the international effort to create performance measures for neurocritical care. She is the immediate past president of the Neurocritical Care Society, a multiprofessional international society dedicated to those suffering critical neurologic illness and is the current Secretary for the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.
Sharon Choo Yoke Ling
Malaysia
Sharon Choo Yoke Ling (Malaysia)
Dr Sharon Choo Yoke Ling, MD (UNIMAS), MRCP (UK)
Palliative Medicine Consultant
Sarawak General Hospital
Malaysia
Sharon is the first Palliative Medicine Consultant in Sarawak and had been working as a general physician in Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) before subspecializing in Palliative Medicine as there is a growing need and demand for palliative care in Sarawak.
She is currently leading the Palliative Care Unit in SGH and initiated the statewide domiciliary palliative care program, so that patients have access to palliative care even in the community. Sharon is actively involved in regional and international collaboration with American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) to develop palliative care services in the state and country. She is also involved in the training and education of nurses, doctors and medical students. She is excited in developing palliative care services in Sarawak, be it in the hospital or in the community. Her vision is to build Sarawak to be a centre of excellence in Palliative Care.
Sung-Min Cho
South Korea
Sung-Min Cho (South Korea)
Dr. Sung-Min Cho joined the Johns Hopkins Division of Neuroscience Critical Care in 2019 as a faculty. Dr. Cho specializes in neurointensive care and neurology. He is experienced in neurological critical care, cerebrovascular disease, adult neurology, and acute brain injury.
His training began at the Cleveland Clinic, where he was a resident in neurology from 2013-2017. He finished his neurocritical care fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University/Hospital in 2019. Then, he joined the Johns Hopkins in 2019 as a faculty.
He studied physics in the Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He earned his bachelor of science degree in physics from the University of Cincinnati. He then received his medical degree from the Ohio University in 2013. Additionally, he earned the Master of Health Science (MHS) in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Cho’s research interests include neurologic outcomes in intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, cardiac arrest, infective endocarditis, cardiac surgery, and mechanical circulatory support devices such as LVAD and ECMO.
Tang Swee Fong
Malaysia
Tang Swee Fong (Malaysia)
Dr Tang Swee Fong
Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Intensivist, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine
National University of Malaysia
Malaysia
Dr Tang Swee Fong is a Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Intensivist, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Malaysia. She graduated from National University of Malaysia and subsequently underwent specialty training in Paediatrics successfully obtaining her Masters of Medicine (Paediatrics) and MRCP (UK), and completed her Fellowship in Paediatric Intensive Care at the Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia. She has been actively involved in both undergraduate, postgraduate and subspecialty training and was a core member of the committee that prepared the National Postgraduate Paediatric Curriculum. She is also an assessor for the Malaysian Medical Council for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Programmes and is a member of the MMC Medical Education Subcommittee for Paediatric Intensive Care. She has been involved in several multicentre studies and has published in her areas of interest including sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Dr Tang has also been invited to speak in many local and international conferences.
She is Secretary of the Malaysian Paediatric Association and Assistant Secretary of the Malaysian Society of Intensive Care as well as Training Centre Faculty for the AHA Paediatric Advanced Life Support Course and instructor for Paediatric BASIC and Paediatric BASIC Nursing courses.
Vinay Nadkarni
United States
Nadkarni (United States)
Prof Vinay Nadkarni MD, MS
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
United States
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (2023), founding director for the CHOP Academy for Resuscitation of Children, and founding director of the CHOP Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation. Dr. Nadkarni has authored more than 750 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 35 book chapters related to the practice of critical care and resuscitation science.
Wong Yu Lin
Singapore
Wong Yu Lin (Singapore)
Dr Wong Yu Lin
Senior Consultant
Department of Anaesthesia Pain and Intensive Care and Medicine (AICPM)
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore
After my basic MBBS degree, I am dually accredited for anaesthesia (MMed Anaesthesia Singapore) and (ANZCA Australia). followed by Intensive Care Medicine Subspecialty accreditation (ICM Singapore).
I am currently the ICU Committee Chairperson in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, as well as chair the hospital Brain death Workgroup and Organ Transplant Improvement Programme.
I have an interest in sedation and delirium in ICU and Palliative care in ICU.
I have had research grants for ICU projects including ICU diary, virtual reality rehabilitation in ICU, palliative care in ICU, and non-verbal communication tools in ICU. Currently, we will be embarking on Platelet mapping studies for NICU patients on antiplatelet therapy who present with ICH.
Publications include Singapore SPICE: sedation practices in ICU evaluation in Singapore, Sedation Intensity in the first 48 hours of mechanical Ventilation, Integrating Palliative Care in Neurosurgical ICU, Physiological Changes during Prone positioning in COVID-19 Acute respiratory Distress syndrome, challenges in adapting existing hyperacute stroke protocols in Singapore for COVID-19.
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