Scientific Programme

Sheila Myatra is a Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, working at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India. She is the Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and the President Elect of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM). She is the Immediate Past President of the All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA).

She is a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SCC) Research Committee and COVID guidelines committee and a Steering Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA). She is among the 14 international airway experts on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) difficult airway guidelines and the PUMA guidelines (Project for the Universal Management of the Airway). She has led the development of the AIDAA difficult airway guidelines and the first guidelines for tracheal intubation in ICU. Her research interests include airway management, hemodynamic monitoring and sepsis. She has developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring, called the “tidal volume challenge” (CCM 2017).

She was awarded the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) Honorary Membership in 2022.Awarded FCCM (American College of CCM) and FICCM by ISCCM. She serves on the editorial board of several journals including Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Journal of Critical Care, Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, Indian Journal of Anaesthesiology, and Intensive Care Medicine (past). She has several publications to her credit. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Myatra+S&sort=date.

Professor Loh graduated from University College London Medical School and completed his anaesthesia, research and intensive care training in Liverpool. He is dually accredited in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia. Dr Loh is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, a Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and holds the European Diploma in Intensive Care. He completed his research fellowship at the University of Liverpool in ICU acquired weakness and nutrition in the critically ill. He is also a member of the Neuro-Intensive Care and the Systemic Inflammation group of the European Society of Intensive Care. Before moving to Singapore, he was a consultant and chair of the Intensive Care Unit at The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery in England. Dr Loh’s areas of clinical and research interests include; resuscitation, septic shock, post-critical illness rehabilitation and managing head injuries.

Dr Loh is an Associate Professor, Research Director and Senior Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesia and the Division of Critical Care, National University Hospital. The focus of Will’s research centres on improving outcomes for patients following major surgery and critical illness through developing translational models, focussing on modulating inflammation and ageing.

His other interests are in anaesthesia for awake neurosurgery and functional brain mapping for cancer, where he underwent extensive training in the UK, France and Italy. Professor Loh is also the Associate Chairman Medical Board at the National University Hospital.