25TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF IAP
INTENSIVE CARE CHAPTER
PEDICRITICON 2023
Pune
(Silver Jubilee CONFERENCE)
THEME: Pediatric Critical Care:
Combining Evidence with Experience.
Workshops: Thursday, 30th Nov 2023
Main Conference: Friday, 1 Dec to Sunday, 3 Dec 2023
ORGANIZED BY
The Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Pune branch and
Pune Pediatric Intensive Care Chapter.
Meet The International Faculty
Dr. Prof. Akash Deep is the Director of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit(PICU) at King's College Hospital, London and Professor of Paediatric critical care at King’s College London. Prof. Deep is the Staff Governor at King’s College Hospital, London.
Prof Deep is the Chair of Scientific Affairs for the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Society (ESPNIC). He also chairs the Liver Failure Working Group for ESPNIC. He has been the Founding Chair of the Critical Care Nephrology Section of the European Society of ESPNIC. Prof. Deep is the Chair of the Science and Education Committee of the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) of the UK. He is the advisor to the UK Sepsis Trust for paediatric sepsis and is the author of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for septic shock in children. Prof Deep is the Chief author of the Sepsis Toolkit for Management of sepsis in Children released by the UK Sepsis Trust at the House of Commons.
Prof Deep has organised many national and international congresses on CRRT and hosted the 8th International Conference on CRRT in London and the 9th International Conference on CRRT in Orlando, USA. He was the Organising Chairman for the 2019 U.K’s National Paediatric Intensive Care Congress in collaboration with US’s Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS) Prof is the Chief Editor for the official ESPNIC textbook published by Springer on ‘’Critical Care Nephrology and Renal Replacement Therapy in Children’’. He is an invited national and international speaker at major Paediatric and Paediatric Intensive Care conferences. Special interests include various aspects of the management of acute liver failure especially extracorporeal support in acute liver failure in children, acute kidney injury in neonates and children, Continuous renal replacement therapy, sepsis education/awareness and haemodynamics in septic shock.
Diploma (Health Research Ethics) 2014; BSc Physiotherapy 1995
Brenda Morrow is a Physiotherapist and Full Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Brenda is an active clinician-scientist with a special interest in interdisciplinary pediatric critical care practice and research; cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; palliative care; and medical ethics. Brenda has over 115 peer-reviewed publications; 13 book chapters; numerous national and international congress presentations and holds a Southern African National Research Foundation (NRF) B rating.
She is currently President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) and President-Elect of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Brenda is Editor-in-Chief of the Southern African Journal of Critical Care; Senior Associate Editor for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Associate Academic Editor of PlosOne and Frontiers in Pediatrics (Critical Care). She is a regular reviewer for over 40 international journals and grant funding agencies.
Prof. Dr. Martin Kneyber (1972) is Chief of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Dr. Kneyber obtained his medical degree in 1998 (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and completed his specialist training in Paediatrics in 2003 at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht. Since 2005 he is board certified in paediatric critical care. Dr. Kneyber completed a PhD thesis in 2000 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Prof.Dr. Kneyber serves as Medical President-Elect of the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). He is a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and frequently reviews for international journals in the field of critical care medicine.
His main academic interest relates to paediatric mechanical ventilation. He is the PI for the PAN (Paediatric Ards Neuromuscular blockade) study funded by ZonMW and MPI for PROSpect (Prone and Oscillation pediatric clinical trial) funded by the NIH/NHLBI. Dr. Kneyber has published more then 200 scientific papers and contributed to numerous book chapters. He frequently gives invited lectures and workshops at international critical care conferences. Prof. Dr. Kneyber is an active member of the PREVENT subgroup; his site participates in PALISI research projects such as BACON and LongVentKids.
Fellow - American College of Critical Care Medicine
Fellow - American Academy of Pediatrics
Dr. Mysore is a graduate of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. He completed his Pediatric Residency at the University of Minnesota and a Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care from UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He has been in Omaha, Nebraska since 1997. At the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, he was the Medical Director of the PICU, Division Chief, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. In 2019, he joined Boys Town National Research Hospital to set up a new, smaller PICU with a focus on Neurosciences with a team of dedicated individuals.
Patrick is a Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care at Nottingham UK, and an Honorary Associate Professor, at the University of Nottingham, School of Medicine.
He is lead for the regional Paediatric Critical Care Network, and Treasurer for the UK Paediatric Critical Care Society. He has a strong interest in physiology and pragmatic research, with 60 publications on various topics including PIMS-TS/MIS-C, applied intensive care, and is proudly a three-time Christmas BMJ author. He runs the PicPod podcast (www.picpod.net), now up to 68 episodes and >45k downloads, is involved in the CACTUS point of care ultrasound course, helps to run the PICCHub app, and provides second opinions on difficult cases.
“Dr. Samir Shah is a Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center (UTHSC) / Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He serves as the Chair of Excellence and as the Associate Medical Director of the Extracorporeal Membrane Therapies program. Earlier, he served as the Fellowship Program Director for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UTHSC. He received additional training in the Application of AI in Medicine from MIT and is a certified instructor in Simulation Medicine by the Harvard School of Medicine. His research interest is focused on the application of Clinical Decision Support tools and Artificial Intelligence for earlier recognition and management of severe sepsis. He is specifically interested in improving neurological outcomes after ECMO and in avoiding E-CPR by developing an ECMO Watcher program. His team’s efforts have awarded the institution the ELSO Gold category for their QI initiatives. Dr. Shah is published in high-impact journals and he has presented at national and international meetings”
She is a pediatric intensivist at Boston
Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Her academic interests include developing and studying innovative online educational strategies. She is the Co-Director of OPENPediatrics (www.openpediatrics.org), an open-access online learning program for healthcare professionals.
Dr. Vijay Srinivasan is a pediatric intensivist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Advisory Dean to medical students at PSOM and leads the International Education Program for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at CHOP. His research and quality improvement programs are focused on critical illness
endocrinopathies and nutrition with the goal of improving outcomes in critically ill children. Dr. Srinivasan co-founded and leads the multi-professional pediatric ICU nutrition team at CHOP. He is a founding member and Vice-Chair of the Nutrinet sub-group of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) network and serves as Principal/Site investigator for several studies.
He has been involved with the development of numerous guidelines including American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support Guidelines in 2005 and 2010 as well as current guidelines for SCCM (sedation and analgesia for critically ill neonates, infants and children; and management of stress hyperglycemia with insulin therapy in critically ill adults and children) and PODIUM network. As an influential leader, he has been elected to the Executive Committees in both the AAP Section on Critical Care (SOCC) and the Pediatric Section of SCCM. Dr. Srinivasan has developed and led an innovative webinar series for AAP SOCC and SCCM in quality improvement and safety in the pediatric ICU. Dr. Srinivasan is Chair-Elect of the AAP SOCC (commenced Nov 1, 2022). He serves on the Editorial Board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Associate Professor (Clinical), Duke-NUS School of Medicine
Dr. Yoke Hwee Chan is the Chair, of the Medical Board at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Associate Dean at the Duke-NUS School of Medicine, Singapore. As a pediatric intensive care physician by training, Dr. Chan has a special interest in pediatric home ventilation and played an important role in the establishment of the pediatric homecare program in Singapore. Dr Chan was the Director of the KKH Home Care Program from 2006 to 2017 during which the program grew to benefit more than 1500 technology-dependent children and expanded to include other patients with other complex medical needs.
Dr. Chan also established the Neonatal-Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She also has a special interest in extracorporeal therapies in the intensive care unit, namely continuous renal replacement therapies and ECMO. She had previously served as a board member at the World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS).
Meet The International Faculty
Dr. Prof. Akash Deep is the Director of the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit(PICU) at King's College Hospital, London and Professor of Paediatric critical care at King’s College London. Prof. Deep is the Staff Governor at King’s College Hospital, London. Prof Deep is the Chair of Scientific Affairs for the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Society (ESPNIC). He also chairs the Liver Failure Working Group for ESPNIC. He has been the Founding Chair of the Critical Care Nephrology Section of the European Society of ESPNIC. Prof Deep is the Chair of the Science and Education Committee of the Paediatric Critical Care Society (PCCS) of the UK. He is the advisor to the UK Sepsis Trust for paediatric sepsis and is the author of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for septic shock in children. Prof Deep is the Chief author of the Sepsis Toolkit for Management of Sepsis in Children released by the UK Sepsis Trust at the House of Commons.
Prof Deep has organised many national and international congresses on CRRT and hosted the 8th International Conference on CRRT in London and the 9th International Conference on CRRT in Orlando, USA. He was the Organising Chairman for the 2019 U.K’s National Paediatric Intensive Care Congress in collaboration with US’s Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS). Prof is the Chief Editor for the official ESPNIC textbook published by Springer on ‘’Critical Care Nephrology and Renal Replacement Therapy in Children’’. He is an invited national and international speaker at major Paediatric and Paediatric Intensive Care conferences. Special interests include various aspects of the management of acute liver failure especially extracorporeal support in acute liver failure in children, acute kidney injury in neonates and children, Continuous renal replacement therapy, sepsis education/awareness and haemodynamics in septic shock.
Diploma (Health Research Ethics) 2014; BSc Physiotherapy 1995
Brenda Morrow is a Physiotherapist and Full Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Brenda is an active clinician-scientist with a special interest in interdisciplinary pediatric critical care practice and research; cardiopulmonary rehabilitation; palliative care; and medical ethics. Brenda has over 115 peer-reviewed publications; 13 book chapters; numerous national and international congress presentations and holds a Southern African National Research Foundation (NRF) B rating.
She is currently President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) and President-Elect of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Brenda is Editor-in-Chief of the Southern African Journal of Critical Care; Senior Associate Editor for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Associate Academic Editor of PlosOne and Frontiers in Pediatrics (Critical Care). She is a regular reviewer for over 40 international journals and grant funding agencies.
Prof. Dr. Martin Kneyber (1972) is Chief of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands. Dr. Kneyber obtained his medical degree in 1998 (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and completed his specialist training in Paediatrics in 2003 at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht. Since 2005 he is board certified in paediatric critical care. Dr. Kneyber completed a PhD thesis in 2000 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Prof.Dr. Kneyber serves as Medical President-Elect of the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC). He is a member of the editorial board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and frequently reviews for international journals in the field of critical care medicine.
His main academic interest relates to paediatric mechanical ventilation. He is the PI for the PAN (Paediatric Ards Neuromuscular blockade) study funded by ZonMW and MPI for PROSpect (Prone and Oscillation pediatric clinical trial) funded by the NIH/NHLBI. Dr. Kneyber has published more then 200 scientific papers and contributed to numerous book chapters. He frequently gives invited lectures and workshops at international critical care conferences. Prof. Dr. Kneyber is an active member of the PREVENT subgroup; his site participates in PALISI research projects such as BACON and LongVentKids.
Fellow - American College of Critical Care Medicine Fellow - American Academy of Pediatrics
Dr. Mysore is a graduate of the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. He completed his Pediatric Residency at the University of Minnesota and a Fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care from UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. He has been in Omaha, Nebraska since 1997. At the Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, he was the Medical Director of the PICU, Division Chief, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. In 2019, he joined Boys Town National Research Hospital to set up a new, smaller PICU with a focus on Neurosciences with a team of dedicated individuals.
Patrick is a Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care at Nottingham UK, and an Honorary Associate Professor, at the University of Nottingham, School of Medicine. He is lead for the regional Paediatric Critical Care Network, and Treasurer for the UK Paediatric Critical Care Society. He has a strong interest in physiology and pragmatic research, with 60 publications on various topics including PIMS-TS/MIS-C, applied intensive care, and is proudly a three-time Christmas BMJ author. He runs the PicPod podcast (www.picpod.net), now up to 68 episodes and >45k downloads, is involved in the CACTUS point of care ultrasound course, helps to run the PICCHub app, and provides second opinions on difficult cases.
She is a pediatric intensivist at Boston. Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. Her academic interests include developing and studying innovative online educational strategies. She is the Co-Director of OPENPediatrics (www.openpediatrics.org), an open-access online learning program for healthcare professionals.
Dr. Vijay Srinivasan is a pediatric intensivist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Advisory Dean to medical students at PSOM and leads the International Education Program for the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at CHOP. His research and quality improvement programs are focused on critical illness
endocrinopathies and nutrition with the goal of improving outcomes in critically ill children. Dr. Srinivasan co-founded and leads the multi-professional pediatric ICU nutrition team at CHOP. He is a founding member and Vice-Chair of the Nutrinet sub-group of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) network and serves as Principal/Site investigator for several studies.
He has been involved with the development of numerous guidelines including the American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support Guidelines in 2005 and 2010 as well as current guidelines for SCCM (sedation and analgesia for critically ill neonates, infants and children; and management of stress hyperglycemia with insulin therapy in critically ill adults and children) and PODIUM network. As an influential leader, he has been elected to the Executive Committees in both the AAP Section on Critical Care (SOCC) and the Pediatric Section of SCCM. Dr. Srinivasan has developed and led an innovative webinar series for AAP SOCC and SCCM in quality improvement and safety in the pediatric ICU. Dr. Srinivasan is Chair-Elect of the AAP SOCC (commenced Nov 1, 2022). He serves on the Editorial Board of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
Associate Professor (Clinical), Duke-NUS School of Medicine
Dr. Yoke Hwee Chan is the Chair, of the Medical Board at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Associate Dean at the Duke-NUS School of Medicine, Singapore. As a pediatric intensive care physician by training, Dr. Chan has a special interest in pediatric home ventilation and played an important role in the establishment of the pediatric homecare program in Singapore. Dr Chan was the Director of the KKH Home Care Program from 2006 to 2017 during which the program grew to benefit more than 1500 technology-dependent children and expanded to include other patients with other complex medical needs.
Dr. Chan also established the Neonatal-Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. She also has a special interest in extracorporeal therapies in the intensive care unit, namely continuous renal replacement therapies and ECMO. She had previously served as a board member at the World Federation of Paediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS).
