Invited Speakers
Dr Vinícius C Quintão
Dr Vinícius C Quintão is a Consultant Pediatric Anesthesiologist at the Instituto da Criança e do Adolescente, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), Brazil. He serves as Director of the Pediatric and Neonatal Anesthesia Fellowship Program within the Discipline of Anesthesiology at FMUSP.
He holds a Master’s degree in Pediatrics, during which he investigated emergence delirium and validated the Pediatric Anesthesia Emergence Delirium (PAED) scale for Brazilian Portuguese. He recently completed his PhD, focusing on long-term behavioral changes and epigenetic modifications in children who experienced emergence delirium.
Currently, Dr Quintão is a postdoctoral fellow leading the Latin American Surgical Outcomes Study in Pediatrics (LASOS-Peds)—the first multicenter study to describe postoperative outcomes in children across Latin America.
In addition to his research on postoperative behavioral changes, his academic interests include perioperative neurodevelopment, neuromonitoring under anesthesia, airway management, and global surgery in pediatric anesthesia.
Isabel Díez-Martin
Isabel Díez-Martin is a senior Post-Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) Nurse with over two decades of specialist clinical experience in perioperative practice. For the past 16 years, she has served at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London.
Her work in the UK has been instrumental in raising awareness and legitimising paediatric emergence delirium as a measurable and clinically significant postoperative complication, enabling earlier detection, standardised screening, and the development of structured clinical workflows.
As a 2024 Horizon Fellow, she led a Quality Improvement project implementing the Cornell Assessment of Paediatric Delirium (CAPD) as a vital sign in PACU, and was awarded the Clinical Audit Heroes Award by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.
She was shortlisted for the Nursing Times Awards and the Nursing Workforce Awards in the UK for her contribution to perioperative care innovation and nursing leadership, while her work on the implementation of CAPD as a vital sign in PACU received commendations at APAGBI 2025 and RIQI 2025.
In 2025, Isabel was awarded the Dragons’ Den Prize by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, securing funding to develop a national e-learning module on paediatric emergence delirium.Drawing from this experience, she co-founded Ikos Health, a medical innovation and technology company empowering healthcare professionals to transform frontline ideas into usable solutions with real‑world impact.
As a Board Member of the British Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurses Association (BARNA), she contributes to national policy development, professional standards, and the advancement of PACU nursing leadership. Alongside her clinical work, Isabel promotes knowledge mobilisation by integrating research into practice through education and collaboration. She is dedicated to improving postoperative recovery in children, advancing multidisciplinary engagement, and shaping perioperative care with evidence-based innovation.
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