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Professor of Anesthesia
Dr. Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH is the Shapiro Endowed Chair of Critical Care Medicine and the Associate Chief Medical Officer-Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School, where his also the Emeritus Chief of Critical Care, a position he held from 2004-2024.
Dr. Burns completed his residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Pediatrics.
Dr. Burns’ research focuses on innovations in postgraduate medical education, as well as health services research on pediatric critical illness, intensive care unit organization and delivery. Dr. Burns was the founding director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Simulator Program, the first in-hospital, dedicated pediatric critical care simulator suite in the United States as well as the internationally acclaimed OPENPediatrics.org in 2008, and has published more than 200 articles, reviews, and educational media in pediatric critical care medicine. He lectures widely nationally and internationally and has held numerous leadership positions in the field including as the current President of the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care Societies.
He has received numerous awards over the years including the Dharmapuri Award for advancing the care of critically ill children in 2018, the Distinguished Career Award in 2020, and the Innovation in Education Award in 2025, all from the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Consultant in Pediatric Medicine
Secretary of the Society
Dr. Paula Pilar G. Evangelista, MD is a pediatrician and pediatric critical care specialist.
Occupational Therapist
Laura Reid is a highly specialised Paediatric Occupational Therapist based in Dubai, with over a decade of clinical experience supporting children with a wide range of developmental, neurological, and sensory needs.
She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy from York St John University, England, in 2015, and holds professional licences with both the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) in the UK.
Throughout her career, Laura has worked across diverse paediatric settings- including children’s hospitals, therapy centres, special needs and mainstream schools, nurseries, and home environments. This breadth of experience allows her to deliver therapy that is deeply personalised, family-centred, and outcome-focused.
Renowned for her holistic and evidence-based approach, Laura combines detailed clinical assessment with creative, advanced interventions. She is passionate about empowering children to participate meaningfully in everyday life and believes that involvement and collaboration with families, caregivers and educators is essential to building lasting independence and improving quality of life.
Consultant in Pediatric Critical Care
Al Jalila Children's Speciality Hospital
Physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
Dr. Manu Sundaram joined Sidra Medicine in January 2018 as a Physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). He is also the Physician Lead for Quality and Safety within the PICU and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar. Dr. Sundaram brings extensive expertise in pediatric critical care medicine, particularly in acute noninvasive ventilation and long-term ventilatory support for children with complex respiratory needs.
He completed his PICU training at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the UK and previously served as a Consultant in Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of North Midlands, UK. Dr. Sundaram is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and to conduct European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)-endorsed courses on acute noninvasive ventilation.
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Akira Nishisaki, MD, MSCE, FAAP, is an attending physician in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
He received his medical degree from Nagoya University- School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.
Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Dr. Curley is an international leader and premier clinical scientist in pediatric critical care. Her multisite clinical trials, funded by multiple branches of the National Institutes of Health, have high international impact, and are considered standard setting in the interprofessional management of critically ill children.
Her passion for interprofessional clinical practice centers her research which has primarily focused on nurse-led complex therapies that include pain and sedation management, care of the critically ill child supported on mechanical ventilation and patient and family care post intensive care. Focusing on the primacy of families, she was one of the first to articulate a model of relationship-based partnerships with parents of critically ill children. Dr. Curley has also led the development and dissemination of core assessment instruments in the field of pediatrics; for example, the State Behavioral Scale (SBS), the Withdrawal Assessment Tool (WAT-1), individualized numeric rating scale (INRS) and the Braden QD scale