About CPAS

Papu Nath, MD
President, Executive Committee

I completed both my MD degree (2010) and my anesthesiology residency (2015) at the Université de Montréal before completing a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto (2016). I have been a staff pediatric anesthesiologist at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montreal since 2016. My main areas of interest are craniofacial and pediatric neuroanesthesia. I also co-chair the hospital sedation committee since 2017.

Conor Mc Donnell, MD MB BCh BAO FCARCSI
Vice President, Executive Committee

Conor Mc Donnell, MD MB BCh BAO FCARCSI, is a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC), Toronto, Ontario. He is an Associate Professor with the University of Toronto, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine. His research interests include Pediatric Medication Safety with a focus on Opioid Safety & Stewardship, Quality Improvement Methodologies in Perioperative Care, Peer Support, EDI and Wellness in trainees.

He is currently Director of Patient Safety & Quality for Anesthesia, Perioperative Services Associate Chief for Safety & Quality, and one of three funded Physician Hospital Safety Leads (all within HSC). He is also founding Chair for Medication Safety and Opioid Stewardship Programs (HSC). He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee for Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society, founding co-chair of Patient Safety & Quality Committee for Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society, and incoming chair of Patient Safety & Quality Committee for Canadian Anesthesia Society. He is also an organizing committee member for Harvard’s annual International Conference on Opioids. His recent activity comprises international presentations on perioperative respiratory adverse events, ongoing funded and nationally awarded work on safely decreasing opioid prescribing at surgical discharge and increased opportunities for safe return / disposal of unused opioids.

Dr. Mc Donnell is from Ireland and came to Toronto in 2004 for a two-year fellowship in pediatric intensive care and anesthesia. He has been on staff in the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine since 2006. He is also a published poet.

Erica Dibb-Fuller, MB BCh, FANZCA, FRCPC
Secretary, Executive Committee

I’m a Pediatric Anesthesiologist working at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. My Anesthesia training was both in the UK and New Zealand prior to moving over to Canada in 2019. I did a couple of fellowships due to my sub-specialty interests including pediatric anesthesia, pediatric critical care medicine and major trauma anesthesia. I worked as a Staff Pediatric Anesthesiologist and PICU physician in Southampton UK prior to moving to Canada and was the clinical director of Pediatric Major Trauma for the South Coast. 

I enjoy living near the mountains in BC and spend time skiing, mountain biking and exploring the gorgeous hiking trails.

Koto Furue
Treasurer, Executive Committee

I completed my M.D. degree at Dalhousie Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1999. I completed the anesthesia residency program at McGill University in Montréal in 2004, followed by a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Children’s Hospital Boston in 2005. I have been a staff pediatric anesthesiologist and member of the pediatric cardiac anesthesia service at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine in Montréal since 2006, where I am also a member of the Department of Anesthesia’s quality sub-committee.

I first became involved with CPAS as a member of the Scientific Committee in 2008, followed by a stint as Member-at-Large, before becoming the Treasurer in 2011.

Jonathan Gamble, MD, FRCPC
Past Chair, Executive Committee

Jonathan Gamble MD, FRCPC (Anesthesiology/Critical Care) is a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor with the University of Saskatchewan, Department of Anesthesiology. Jon is the Director of Research for the Provincial Department of Anesthesiology in Saskatchewan. His interests include resuscitation, virtual care, and the effects of Anesthesia on mood disorders.

Dr. Gamble is from Saskatchewan and completed his medical school and anesthesiology residency at the University of Ottawa. He then completed fellowships in Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Anesthesiology at the University of Alberta in 2009. Dr. Gamble has practiced as a faculty Pediatric Intensivist at Alberta Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Anesthesiologist in Saskatchewan since completing training.

Duncan McLuckie, MBBCh, FRCPC
Member at Large, Executive Committee

Dr Duncan McLuckie (MBBCh, FRCPC) is a consultant pediatric anaesthetist in Victoria, BC. He completed his pediatric anesthesia and simulation fellowships at the University of Ottawa. His interests include simulation as a tool for faculty development, the integration of perioperative phases of care into standardized care bundles, and global health medical education.

Julie Yu, MD, FRCPC
Communications Officer, Executive Committee

Julie Yu is a pediatric anesthesiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She completed medical school at the University of Toronto, her anesthesiology residency at the University of Saskatchewan, and her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at SickKids. She is currently a Master’s of Science in Health Informatics Candidate at the University of Victoria.

Dr. Yu’s academic interests are in clinical informatics in how it is taught and applied in daily practice.

LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/yu-julie

Dr. Heng Gan is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist at BC Children’s Hospital.
 
He completed medical school in 2000 at the University of Cambridge, and undertook residency training in pediatrics and anesthesia in London, UK. He then completed fellowships in pediatric anesthesia and clinical research at the BC Children’s Hospital and in cardiothoracic anesthesia at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He was a consultant in pediatric cardiac anesthesia at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital for a number of years, before moving back to Vancouver in 2018.

Dr. Gan’s academic interests include perioperative quality and outcome, hemodynamic monitoring, healthcare technology, and global health. He is a peer reviewer for a number of anesthesia journals, a PALS instructor, and a volunteer physician with the Whistler Blackcomb Ski Patrol.

Susan Goobie, MD, FRCPC
Scientific Committee

Dr. Susan M. Goobie, MD, FRCPC is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate with the Dept. of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr Goobie’s editorial positions include Executive Editor for Pediatric Anesthesia and Anesthesia & Analgesia. At Boston Children’s Hospital Dr. Goobie is chair of Perioperative research, past chair of the BCH Pharmacokinetics Laboratory and director of the PBM program. Dr Goobie holds leadership roles on research committees including the IARS, ASA and CAS. She is chair of the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society Research Committee, Chair of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Patient Blood Management committee and is the Vice Chair of the ASA PBM committee.  She has published over 200 articles in the field and lectures nationally and internationally.

Dr Ahmed Mesbah is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist at SickKids and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He attained his medical degree from Suez Canal University in Egypt and completed his anesthesiology training in the United Kingdom. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK, and was appointed as a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital prior to joining the staff of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He is fellowship-trained in both pediatric anesthesiology from Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, as well as pediatric cardiac anesthesiology from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

Kimmo Murto, MD, FRCPC
Scientific Committee

Kimmo Murto MD, FRCPC is a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and an Associate Professor with the University of Ottawa, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (DAPM). He is a CHEO Research Institute Level Two (2) Investigator for the “Improvements Now!: Acute and Critical Care Team (INACCT)” research group. His interests include the perioperative care of children undergoing adenotonsillectomy, clinical prediction/decision making tools, technology for healthcare service delivery, managing massive hemorrhage and perioperative blood transfusion and conservation.

He is the current CHEO DAPM Director of Research and Chair of the University DAPM Promotions Committee and past CHEO Deputy Chief of Staff (2016-17) and Medical Director for Hospital Strategy & Performance (2013-17). He is the founding past Chair of both the CHEO Transfusion Medicine and Infusion Therapy (2005-12) and the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine (SASM, 2012-17) Pediatric Committees of which he remains a member. He is also a member of the Society of Pediatric Anesthesia PBM special interest group. His recent activity revolves around: international presentations concerning the care of children with obstructive sleep disordered breathing; an ORBCoN sponsored province-wide roll-out of a standardized pediatric massive hemorrhage protocol and RCTs investigating celecoxib pharmacokinetics (lead investigator) and dexmedetomidine for MRI sedation (site-lead investigator).

Dr. Murto is from Ottawa and has dual Finnish and Canadian citizenship. He completed his medical school and anesthesiology residency at the University of Ottawa. He was a fellow, then a junior staff member at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto (1994-1995) before joining the CHEO DAPM (1996-present) with stints as a cardiac anesthesiologist (1997-2014) and several department and hospital administrative roles. He is a 2017 graduate of the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management “Advanced Health Leadership Program”.

I am an assistant professor at Western University, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario and specialize in pediatric and regional anesthesia. My training and experience in anesthesia is across 3 continents – Asia, Europe and North America. I completed my training in India, moved to UK where I completed my FRCA, EDRA and EDIAC. I did my Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship from Sick kids.

I am the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship director at Western University. I am one of the founding members of the CAS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee and an executive member of CAS Regional committee. My research interests are pediatrics regional anesthesia and perioperative pain. I have coauthored first book for EDRA exam- MCQ in regional anesthesia.

Katherine Bailey, MD FRCPC
Co-Chair, CPAS Education Committee

Dear Colleagues,

I am a pediatric anesthesiologist and the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Director at BC Children’s Hospital.

I completed medical school and anesthesia residency at UBC, followed by pediatric anesthesia fellowships at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital. Upon completion of my fellowship training, I became a full-time faculty member at BC Children’s Hospital in 2004, and the Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Director in 2015.

The Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship at BC Children’s Hospital is a comprehensive, structured fellowship program that attracts both Canadian and international applicants. While giving fellows a broad foundation in all aspects of tertiary care pediatric anesthesia, our program strongly encourages fellows to pursue deeper expertise in areas of interest including simulation, research, global health, medical education and regional anesthesia. In July 2022, the program will be expanding to include 4 fellowship positions annually.

My areas of interest include neuroanesthesia, medical education, mentorship, and pediatric anesthesia curriculum development. I look forward to meeting and collaborating with you as Co-Chair of the CPAS Education Committee.

Katherine Bailey MD FRCPC
Pediatric Anesthesiologist, Fellowship Director, BC Children’s Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Co-Chair, CPAS Education Committee

Ilavajady Srinivasan, MBBS, MD (Anes), FRCA, FRCPC
Co-Chair, CPAS Education Committee

I am Dr. Ilavajady Srinivasan, a staff paediatric anaesthesiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Assistant professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto since 2008.

I completed my anesthesia training from India (AIIMS, Delhi) and the UK, and I am a fellow by examination of the Royal College of Anesthetists UK(FRCA), and Canada(FRCPC). I completed my pediatric Anesthesia fellowship training at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

I am active in anesthesia resident and fellowship education, both at The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, having been awarded The Hospital for Sick Children Anesthesia Resident Teaching Awards in 2014, Fellows teaching award in 2015 and inaugural CanMeds award in 2015.

Since 2013, I have been the Director of Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program at The Hospital for Sick Children. This program accepts 10- 13 visiting anaesthesiologists/year. It is one of the largest programs open to applicants from anywhere in the world and which can guarantee the broad experience and education required to produce a skilled Paediatric Anaesthesiologist.

My areas of interests include regional anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia curriculum development, creation of entrustable professional activities (EPA) and competency based training and accreditation of the Pediatric anesthesia sub-speciality as board certification at Royal College level.

I am a staff anesthesiologist and chronic pain physician at The Hospital for Sick Children.  Prior to SickKids, I completed my medical training, anesthesia residency and pediatric anesthesia fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. After training, I continued to work as a staff pediatric anesthesiologist for several years with a subspecialty focus in neuro-anesthesia at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. As an Ontario native, I decided to return to Toronto and completed a one-year fellowship in pediatric pain at SickKids. My clinical focus is now on pain management in children. I also have a research interest on the use of opioids for pain treatment in children and using technology to improve pediatric pain education.

Lynsey Downing, MBBCH BAO FRCA
CPAS Social Media Coordinator

Dr Lynsey Downing is a Staff Pediatric Anesthesiologist at The Hospital for Sick Children and holds an Assistant Professor rank with the Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto. She completed her graduate degree at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2008. Her clinical anesthesia training was undertaken in the United Kingdom, supplemented with three years of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care experience at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia before completing a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in 2021. Dr Downing has taken on leadership roles within the trauma program acting as both anesthesia trauma program liaison and anesthesia liaison for mass casualty event preparedness at the hospital level. Dr. Downing has an interest in the use of clinical simulation for both medical education and translation to clinical practice. From an educational standpoint, she spearheads the Anesthesia Fellowship Simulation Education Program at SickKids as well as being the Anesthesia lead for the Trauma Team Simulation Program.