Dr Karen Bartholomew is a committed Paediatric Anaesthetist working in a UK DGH, District General Hospital, Calderdale Royal, in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK, where she has been in post for 17 years. Karen is a Lead Paediatric Anaesthetist for the trust, was a founder member of the original Yorkshire Paediatric Surgery & Anaesthesia Network and is joint organiser of the Yorkshire Paediatric Anaesthesia CPD / Network meetings. Karen is an elected Council member of the APAGBI, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of GBI, for which she was the linkman scheme coordinator for three years and is currently now the meetings secretary. Karen qualified in 1986 from Cambridge University Medical School, UK, and subsequently completed most of her anaesthesia training part-time in Yorkshire. Karen is married to an equine surgeon and they have three sons, and a granddaughter. Their hobbies are mainly outdoors, involving horses and dogs.

Professor Victoria Brazil is an emergency physician and medical educator. She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Simulation at the Gold Coast Health Service, and at Bond University medical program. Victoria’s main interests are in connecting education with patient care - through healthcare simulation, technology enabled learning, faculty development activities, and talking at conferences. She also serves as a faculty member with the Harvard Macy Institute. Victoria is an enthusiast in the social media and #FOAMed world (@SocraticEM), and she is co-producer of Simulcast (Simulationpodcast.com)

Simon is an anaesthetist in Plymouth, Devon in the SW of England. He has worked in Plymouth, a large teaching hospital looking after adults and children, as a consultant with an interest in paediatric anaesthesia since 2004. He is the clinical director for children’s surgery, and also paediatric medicine, including community services medicine. He has led the regional network for paediatric anaesthesia and led projects to create shared standards and care pathways. He has served on the APAGBI council for several years and been involved in redeveloping peer review and networks across the UK, defining accreditation standards for children services for the RCOA, and recently worked with the NHS review of sustainable children’s surgery and critical care in England.

Liz Crowe is the senior social worker at the paediatric intensive care unit at the Qld Children’s Hospital. She is currently a PhD student examining Staff Wellbeing in critical care examining the risk and protective factors, with a view to inform interventions to build resilience and capacity. She is a passionate and humorous educator who regularly speaks internationally. She is the successful author of ‘ The Little Book of Loss and Grief You Can Read While You Cry” and is a proud member of the St Emlyn’s educators on #FOAMed and can be found on Twitter @LizCrowe2

Chris is a Paediatric Anaesthetist from the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, where he has worked since 1993. He is the President Elect of the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. He is co-author of the Royal College of Anaesthetists Guidance on the Provision of Paediatric Anaesthesia Services and the NICE Guidelines on intravenous fluid therapy in children. Publications include topics such as airway and airway equipment and anaesthesia. He has contributed to a number of commissioning reviews on paediatric specialist services for the Welsh Government.

Dr Richard "Harry" Harris is a Flinders University graduate who became a specialist anaesthetist in 1998. He trained in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and also worked as an AusAID anaesthetist in Vanuatu for two years. Career interests have included Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, Prehospital and Retrieval, Remote Area, Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. From a young age he has been a passionate SCUBA diver and this love of all things aquatic led him to become a world leader in the niche area of exploring and documenting deep water filled caves. The physiological and logistical challenges of such exploration have fascinated Harry for many years, and along with his team have led to numerous technological developments in the field. Harry holds positions in various caving organisations as the search and rescue lead, which culminated in him being requested to attend the Thai Cave rescue in 2018. His combination of critical care and cave diving skills were an important contributor to the successful outcome. Harry currently works in a mixed adult and paediatric practice, and as the Head of Unit Retrieval Coordination with MedSTAR in South Australia.

Dr. Laussen was appointed as the Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in September 2012, and is the first incumbent of the David and Stacey Cynamon Chair in Critical Care Medicine. In addition to leading the Department of Critical Care, Dr. Laussen’s other leadership roles at SickKids include being Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee, member and past Chair of the hospital-wide Mortality & Morbidity Committee, and membership on the Clinical Operations Council and the Quality Management Council for the hospital. Dr. Laussen is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Research Institute, and Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Jody Thomas is a licensed clinical psychologist, and specialist in pediatric medical illness, trauma, and pain. A well-known expert in pediatric pain and hypnosis, she teaches and lectures internationally on these topics, and is core faculty of the National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute. She was a founder and the former Clinical Director of the Packard Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center at Stanford, and was an Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Though she currently lives in Denver, CO, she still serves as Adjunct Faculty providing supervision and teaching for faculty and trainees in Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry. As an active consultant for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, she directs projects for the institution on the integration and innovation of pain management and hypnosis. Her latest endeavor is founding the Meg Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to using technology, education, and empowerment to close the gap between research and clinical practice in pediatric pain management. As executive director, she leads a team of experts in pain, technology, design thinking, and user experience who are working to transform the way we think about kids and pain. Dr. Thomas was recently chosen for the prestigious MayDay Fellowship, which supports pain experts in assuming public leadership roles to help end human suffering from pain through public discourse about research, best practices in care and policy.

Mark is a Paediatric Anaesthetist from Great Ormond Street in London where he has worked since 1998. He is Treasurer of the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Publications include the topics of preoperative clear fluid fasting, perioperative anaphylaxis, ENT anaesthesia and pain management. Mark has been a Fellowship examiner at the Royal College for 11 years.

Dr. Vutskits received his medical degree from the Semmelweis University of Medicine in Budapest Hungary. He then completed a PhD in the field of developmental neurobiology at the University of Geneva Medical School followed by an anesthesiology residency at the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care at the University Hospitals of Geneva. After his residency training, he turned toward a specialization in pediatric anesthesia. Parallel to his clinical training, he continued his basic science and translational research activity and is the principal investigator of a research group at the interface of the Departments of Anesthesiology and Fundamental Neurosciences at the University of Geneva Medical School. Dr. Vutskits currently serves as the Head of Pediatric Anesthesia at the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care at the University Hospital of Geneva. He also acts as the Scientific Chair of European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology. He is an Editor of Anesthesiology and a Section Editor of Pediatric Anesthesia.