Peter Laussen, MB.BS, FANZCA, FCICM, AB
Dr. Laussen is the Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children, a Professor in Anaesthesia at the University of Toronto, and holds the David and Stacey Cynamon Chair in Critical Care Medicine. He graduated from Melbourne University Medical School, Victoria, Australia, in 1980, and completed fellowships in anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. He has worked on staff at 3 major pediatric hospitals: Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne(1989-1992), Boston Children’s Hospital (1992-2012), and now The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (2012 to present). Dr. Laussen has extensive experience with clinical research and education in pediatric cardiac critical care and anesthesia. Over the past decade he has focused on systems and human engineering applied to critical care, and the use of high and low frequency physiologic signals for predictive modelling (www.laussenlabs.ca); he is the principal developer of the web-based visualization platform called T3 (Tracking, Trajectory, Trigger tool). He is a cofounder of the international "Risky Business" risk management conferences (www.riskybusiness.events).