Workshop faculty

Dr. Jiju John, MBBS, MD
Course Director

Dr. Jiju John is Senior Attending in Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Division of Anesthesiology at Sidra Medicine and Member of Scientific Planning committee for the conference. He graduated from Madurai Kamaraj University in India and completed his residency in Anesthesiology from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Thereafter he completed a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia. For six years after his training, he worked as a specialist and later as a senior specialist in Cardiac anesthesia at a busy cardiac institute in Cochin, India. He joined Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in 2006 as a Consultant in Cardiac Anesthesia and was later promoted as a Senior Consultant. While at HMC he has been fully engaged in the Anesthetic management of pediatric as well as adult patients with congenital heart defects who present for corrective surgery and cardiac catheterization. He is is a Member of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland.

Dr. Tripiti Sinha, MBBS, MD
Co-Course Director

Dr. Tripiti Sinha is Senior Attending in the Pediatric Division of Anesthesiology at Sidra and Co-Chair for the conference. She completed her residency in Anesthesia from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. She went on to complete her Fellowships in Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Anesthesia from Sickkids, Toronto following which she joined as Consultant in Pediatric Anesthesia at Hamad Medical Corporation under the aegis of Sickkids International in 2012. During her tenure, she played a key role in establishment of safe Pediatric Sedation Services and Pediatric pain services at HMC. She has special interest in teaching and training, she is currently the Site Director for Pediatric Anesthesia Training program and Program Director for Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship at Sidra, she is also Course Director for Medical Communication Skills course and instructs many courses at Hamad international Training Centre. She has been an invited speaker at various national and international conferences In India and Qatar.

Dr. Roshan John, MBBS, MD
Course Coordinator

Dr. Roshan John completed his fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesia from Sidra Medicine and joined  as an Attending Physician in Pediatric Division of Anesthesiology. He has special interest in pain management and regional anesthesia in pediatrics, he is also Member of Scientific  and Organising committee for the conference.

Dr. Sindu Balakrishnan, MBBS, MD
Course Faculty

Dr. Sindu Balakrishnan is Attending Physician in Pediatric Division of Anesthesiolgy at Sidra and Menber of Scientific Committee for the conference. She is the lead for the pediatric pain service at Sidra Medicine which provides pain management for medical, surgical and complex patients. Dr. Sindu is also an instructor in multiple life support courses, airway and sedation courses conducted by the Hamad International Training Centre. Prior to joining Sidra, Dr. Sindu worked at Hamad Medical Corporation in various areas – starting in surgical and trauma ICUs, Emergency department, adult anesthesiology, Pain management and finishing with Pediatric anesthesiology.

Dr. Moataz Adham, MBBCh
Course faculty

Dr. Moataz Adham is  Attending Physician in Pediatric Division of Anesthesiology at Sidra Medicine. He came from Hamad Medical Corporation where he has been practising as a pediatric anesthesiologist for around six years. Dr Moataz has many years of clinical experience in the perioperative management of neonates, infants and kids in all of the aspects of pediatric surgical subspecialties (except for pediatric cardiac and transplant) . He has underpinned his  expertise with Pediatric Anesthesia fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital Of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) affiliated with the University Of Ottawa. He has special interest in neonatal anesthesia, pediatric airway and education. He will be involved in residents teaching and staff educational CPD programs at Sidra. He has co-authored several publications in major peer reviewed journals and will be contributing to research activity in the department of Anesthesia at Sidra.

Dr. Mohammed Ramadan
Course Faculty

Dr. Ramadan joined Sidra Medicine in December 2021 as Senior Attending Pediatric Anesthesiologist. Previously, he worked in KFSH&RC in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr Ramadan completed fellowship in Great Ormond Street Hospital and Royal Brompton as well Royal National Orthopedic Hospital, London

Dr. Santhosh Balachandran
Course Faculty

Dr. Santhosh Balachandran is Senior Attending in Pediatric Division of Anesthesiology at Sidra Medicine. He completed his training in Pediatric Medicine and Anesthesiology in UK. He also completed his 1-year fellowship in Pediatric Anesthesiology and 18-month fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care in the UK. Post-CCT, he was appointed as a Consultant Anesthestist in Coventry, UK and was the Lead for Pediatric HDU services. Prior to moving to Sidra, he worked in Hamad Hospital for 4 years. He has special interest in teaching and training, and is a member of the Clinical Competency Committee for  Anesthesia Residency program in Hamad and the Fellowship program in Sidra.

Dr. Piyush Singh, MD, FCARCSI, MBBS
Course Faculty

Dr. Singh received specialist Anesthesia training in the UK and undergraduate and postgraduate training in India. He did a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric critical care at Manchester Children’s Hospital. After completing his training (CCT), he was appointed consultant Pediatric Anesthetist in Newcastle, Leeds, and Swansea. He was the clinical lead for pediatric anesthesia, helped set up the pediatric acute pain service, and was the pediatric acute pain lead in the UK.
He is an Affiliate Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Associate Fellow of the Royal College of Anesthetists, UK, and Fellow of the College of Anesthetists, Ireland. He is interested in total intravenous and regional anesthesia, with experience in teaching, quality improvement, and service development.
He has experience in Research and Audit and was the local investigator for the APRICOT study, a pan-European prospective observational multicenter cohort study.

Dr. Sajith Chakithandy, EDICM, MD, FRCA, MBBS, MRCA
Course faculty

Dr. Sajith has worked at Sidra Medicine since April 2018 as an Attending Physician in Pediatric Anaesthesiology, he delivers the day today perioperative medical management of patients undergoing surgical and non-surgical procedures in the hospital
Dr. Sajith’s passion is in bringing comfort and better outcomes for little kids who walk in through Sidra’s hospital doors every day in the safest way possible. Medicine nowadays is super-specialized to extend sometimes unimaginable to people outside the medical profession and anesthesiology is one service which a variety of sub-specialties of medicine and surgery need to support their diagnostic and treatment options.

Dr. Mohamed Suliman, MBBS BMedSci(Hons) DTM&H MRCP FRCA
Course faculty

Dr. Mohamed Suliman is an Attending Paediatric Anaesthesiologist with specialist expertise in anaesthesia for children with congenital heart disease. He qualified from the University of Nottingham and completed his anaesthesia training programme in the UK.
He undertook advanced fellowship training in cardiac anaesthesia, paediatric anaesthesia, and paediatric cardiac anaesthesia in Manchester, Birmingham, and London.Prior to joining Sidra Medicine, he worked as a consultant paediatric cardiac anaesthesiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the UK.

Dr. Pradeep Bhaskar MBBS, MD
Course Faculty

Dr. Pradeep Bhasker is working as specialist in Division of Pediatric Anesthesia, Sidra Medicine, Qatar.His special interest is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia.

Dr. Aslam Faris A S , MBBS, MD
Course Faculty

Dr. Aslam is working as Specialist in Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Sidra Medicine. He has special interest in Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology & Critical Care.

Dr. Nahida Akhter, MBBS, MD
Course Faculty

Dr. Nahida Akhter is specialist in the Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Sidra Medicine. She has special interest in Pediatric Airway.

Dr. Mehdi Elhamdi, PhD, MD
Course Faculty

Dr. Mehdi Elhamdi is 2ng year fellow in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Sidra Medicine.

Dr. Osama Nidal Noubani , MBBS
Course Faculty

Dr. Noubani is working as Paediatric Anaesthesia Fellow , Sidra Medicine.
He has special interest in Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesiology & Critical Care.

Dr. Siwar Ben Khalifa
Course Faculty

Dr. Siwar joined Sidra in January 2021 as a Hospitalist and proceeded to join as Pediatric anesthesia fellow since 2024. She has special interest in simulation based learning.

Dr. Veena Enagandula, MBBS, DNB
Course Faculty

Dr. Veena is a fellow in the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia at Sidra Medicine.
She has a special interest in pediatric airway and pain.