Dr Rebecca Gray has been a specialist anaesthetist at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital since 2007 and has special interests in anaesthesia for paediatric spinal, craniofacial, neuro- and general surgery, paediatric vascular access, simulation in anaesthesia and paediatrics and in supporting isolated and resource-challenged paediatric anaesthetists. Her major research interest is in children with muscle disorders coming for anaesthesia.  She has developed and runs vascular access workshops and is the lead clinician for MEPA in Cape Town. She was a founder member of the Paediatric Anaesthesia Community of South Africa (PACSA) and collaborates intercontinentally with the SPAN group.  She revels in barrelling down the rocky tracks of the Cape mountains on her 29er and baking with her two children.

Dr. Ignacio Cortínez is Professor in Anesthesia and Chairman at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Hospital. He studied Medicine at the Universidad de Chile (1987-1993) and completed  the anesthesia residency program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1994-1997). He also completed a 2 years fellowship program in Clinical Pharmacology at Duke University, USA (2001-2003). His academic and research interest has been mainly in developing pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models for anesthetic drugs.  

Dr Joseph Cravero - was trained initially as a pediatrician and practiced as a general pediatrician for four years in the army.   He later completed training in anesthesiology at the Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut.   As a result, he has spent the bulk of his career on issues where these two specialties meet.   His primary clinical role is as a pediatric anesthesiologist and he is now the Milton H. Alper Chair of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Director of Perioperative Outcomes Research at Boston Children’s Hospital.   Until November of 2012 Dr. Cravero was Director, Pediatric Anesthesiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, which includes the Pediatric Perioperative Program.   Not long after arriving at DHMC, he founded the Pediatric PainFree program that provides all sedation and pain control services for children undergoing diagnostic and/or minor procedures in the medical center.  He directed the Pediatric Perioperative Program, which manages all perioperative programs in children from preadmission counseling to discharge planning.  This service model has now been adopted across the country and internationally.