Programme overview
Day 1 (20 April 2026)
| 0800 - 0900 | Registration | |||
| 0900 - 0930 | Plenary Lecture 1 My Life in Global Health Kathryn MAITLAND |
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| 0930 - 1010 | Opening Ceremony | |||
| 1010 - 1040 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | |||
| 1040 - 1110 | Plenary Lecture 2 TBC Niall FERGUSON |
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| 1110 - 1140 | Plenary Lecture 3 TBC Wes ELY |
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| 1140 - 1210 | Plenary Lecture 4 TBC Madiha HASHMI |
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| 1240 - 1320 | Lunch/Exhibition Lunch Symposium 1 (By Sponsor) Lunch Symposium 2 (By Sponsor) |
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| 1330 - 1510 |
Symposium 1 LMIC – Improving Outcomes GASTRO - Aggressive vs Slow IV Rehydration Kathryn MAITLAND Less is more in intensive care: perspectives from resource limited countries Younsuck KOH What dictates recognition of critical illness in acute care in Sri Lanka? - a multicenter, qualitative study of health workers perspectives Abi BEANE ICU Outcomes in LMIC Elisabeth RIVIELLO Panel Discussion: Improving ICU Care in LMIC - What Needs to be Done? Abi BEANE / Younsuck KOH / Kathryn MAITLAND / Elisabeth RIVIELLO / Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD |
Symposium 2 Research Rapid Diagnostics in ICU Andrew MORRIS TBC Niall FERGUSON ICNARC - Leveraging on Databases for ICU Research Kathy ROWAN TBC Kelly THOMPSON |
Symposium 3 ICU Administration Don’t Panic – It’s a Disaster! Diana STEPHENS Bullying Charlie CORKE TBC Jason PHUA Women in Critical Care Leadership Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD |
Symposium 4 Paediatrics Track – Brain/Trauma Sedation in PICU: What is New? Corrine BALIT Protecting the brain in Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – what works and what doesn’t? MOK Yee Hui Factor concentrates in traumatic/surgical bleeding Christopher KING Neuromonitoring in the PICU Anusha GANESHALINGAM Panel Discussion: Pediatric neurocritical care Corrine BALIT / MOK Yee Hui / Christopher KING / Anusha GANESHALINGAM |
| 1510 - 1540 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | |||
| 1540 – 1720 |
Symposium 5 Sepsis Immune dysfunction in Sepsis Andrew MORRIS Epidemiology and Outcomes in Sepsis Kathy ROWAN TBC Bram ROCHWERG Sepsis: From Bench to Bedside to Systems Improvement Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD |
Symposium 6 Ethics / Palliative TBC Wes ELY TBC Charlie CORKE What we have learned through a surveillance on end-of-life cares in Asian ICUs Younsuck KOH Where the Impossible becomes I Am Possible: How to Reset ICU Family’s Expectations Dominique PIQUETTE |
Symposium 7 Ultrasound TBC Adrian WONG How to Build a Critical Care Ultrasound Service Martin ZAMMERT TBC CHIA Yew Woon Echocardiography in the ICU - Clinically Useful or Just Pretty Images CHEN Horng Haur |
Symposium 8 Paediatrics Track - Heart Challenging arrhythmias in PICU TAN Teng Hong VA ECMO in septic shock - saving lives or wasting time? Felix OBERENDER Ventilation on ECMO Jacqueline ONG Improving neurodevelopmental outcomes in children undergoing congenital heart surgery Johnny MILLER Panel Discussion/Q&A;: ECMO TAN Teng Hong / Felix OBERENDER / Jacqueline ONG / Johnny MILLER / Corrine BALIT |
Day 2 (21 April 2026)
| 0730 - 0820 | Breakfast Symposium Sponsored by:  |
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| 0830 - 0900 | Plenary Lecture 5 TBI/NeuroCrit Topic David MENON |
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| 0900 - 1040 |
Symposium 9 LMIC - Education Setting up a CCM Fellowship in Ethiopia Neill ADHIKARI CCM Education in Pakistan Madiha HASHMI Education in LMIC Elisabeth RIVIELLO SGANZICS CHALLENGE Award TAN Hon Liang Panel discussion: CCM Education in LMIC - Taking the Lessons Neill ADHIKARI / Madiha HASHMI / Elisabeth RIVIELLO / TAN Hon Liang |
Symposium 10 Sedation/Delirium TBC Wes ELY TBC Joanna STOLLINGS TBC Bram ROCHWERG Sedation: Considerations in Neurocritical Care Victoria MCCREDIE |
Symposium 11 CVS/CTVS Broken Heart Syndrome - Does it exist clinically, aside from Melodramatic Movies? CHEN Horng Haur TBC John GRANTON LVAD patient in the ICU Martin ZAMMERT TBC Gee Young SUH |
Symposium 12 Paediatrics Track – Lung Debate: NIV vs HFNC. Which to use, when? Ira CHEIFETZ, Andreas SCHIEBLER How I manage cardiac complications in acute lung disease Simon ERICKSON High-Flow from spontaneous breathing to apnoeic oxygenation/THRIVE (Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange) Andreas SCHIEBLER Q&A; |
| 1040 - 1110 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | |||
| 1100 - 1250 |
Symposium 13 Respiratory Failure / Ventilation How to approach a patient with ARDS: Prevention, Plan, Prudence Younsuck KOH TBC Andrew LI TBC Niall FERGUSON TBC Ross FREEBAIRN |
Symposium 14 Neurocritical Care TBC David MENON TBC Jeff SINGH Standardized management protocols in neurocritical care: progress and pitfalls Victoria MCCREDIE TBC TBC |
Symposium 15 Hemodynamics Inotropic agents and vasopressor strategies for the management of cardiogenic shock: Flogging a dead Horse? CHEN Horng Haur TBC CHIA Yew Woon How to measure cardiac output: invasive non-invasive not at all? Martin ZAMMERT TBC TBC |
Symposium 16 Paediatric / Nutrition/ Rehabilitation/ Quality Body mass, composition and outcomes in critically ill children ONG Chengsi Physiotherapy Management in the Children's Intensive Care- The Singapore Experience Parveen KAUR PICU education in the developing world Felix OBERENDER TBC TBC |
| 1250 - 1330 | Lunch/Exhibition Lunch Symposium 3 (By Sponsor) Lunch Symposium 4 (By Sponsor) |
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| 1340 - 1520 |
Symposium 17 AKI / Fluids TBC Neill ADHIKARI TBC Bram ROCHWERG TBC Ross FREEBAIRN TBC TBC |
Symposium 18 Education TBC Adrian Wong Competency Based Medical Education in Critical Care Medicine: The Canadian Journey Alison FOX-ROBICHAUD Continuing Professional Development in Critical Care: Certification, check! Then what? Dominique PIQUETTE Simulations in ICU Education Peter LAI |
Symposium 19 Bleeding / Transfusion NOACS and reversal Christopher KING TRACT: Transfusion threshold in children in Africa Kathryn MAITLAND Fibrinogen Concentrates James WINEARLS VHA in Bleeding Management Klaus GORLINGER |
Symposium 20 Paediatric / Research Why we still need a HFOV trial in pediatrics? Ira CHEIFEITZ Research in PICU: Why is it so difficult? Simon ERICKSON Pros and cons of database/registry studies Johnny MILLER Panel discussion/Q&A;: Do’s and don’ts of setting up a PICU network and database Kathy ROWAN, LEE Jan Hau, Johnny MILLER |
| 1520 - 1550 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | |||
| 1550 - 1730 |
Symposium 21 ECLS TBC Eddy FAN TBC Niall FERGUSON ECMO – The Korean Experience Gee Young SUH TBC TBC |
Symposium 22 Nursing / Allied Health TBC Joanna STOLLINGS Critical Care Nurses- their Unique Role in Improving the Quality of Recovery for Patients Abi BEANE The ICU Nurse Clinician (or Nurse Educator) - The Challenges, Triumphs and Opportunities Peter LAI Dieticians in the ICU - Changing the Status Quo Emma RIDLEY |
Symposium 23 Trauma / Disasters Blast Injury – the 21st Century Trauma Challenge or Don't Panic, It's a Disaster Diana STEPHENS Terrorism in Pakistan Madiha HASHMI TBC Julia WENDON TBC James WINEARLS |
Symposium 24 Paediatrics Track – Fluid / Infection Challenges in determining the epidemiology of pediatric severe sepsis and septic shock LEE Jan Hau Fluid therapy post-FEAST Kathryn MAITLAND Current therapies in critical Pertussis Anusha GANESHLINGAM Critical care for the child with severe dengue Lucy LUM Panel discussion/Q&A;: what is the bottom line for fluid bolus therapy? Kathryn MAITLAND, Simon ERICKSON, LEE Jan Hau, Lucy LUM |
| 1830 - 2200 | SG-ANZICS GALA Dinner | |||
Day 3 (22 April 2026)
| 0800-0830 | Registration | ||
| 0830-0900 | Plenary Lecture 6 TBC Kelly THOMPSON |
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| 0900-0930 | Plenary Lecture 7 ECMO for ARDS - What Now and What Next? Eddy FAN |
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| 0930 - 1000 | Plenary Lecture 8 Acute Decompensated Heart Failure- Any Novel Therapeutics Superior to Furosemide? CHEN Horng Haur |
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| 1000 - 1040 | Coffee Break/Exhibition | ||
| 1040 – 1230 |
Symposium 25 Organ Donation / Transplant TBC John GRANTON TBC Jeff SINGH TBC Julia WENDON TBC David MENON |
Symposium 26 Nutrition / Rehabilitation TBC Gee Young SUH Nutrition in Rehab Jonathan TAN TBC Madiha HASHMI Indirect Calorimetry and Predictive Equations in Determining the Nutrition Requirement for Critically Ill Emma RIDLEY |
Symposium 27 Technology in ICU Social Media in ICU Adrian WONG Using Big Data to improve outcomes Kathy ROWAN Improving the care of acute brain injury with data Victoria MCCREDIE Poor quality of care drives poor outcomes in LMICs - how technology can help Abi BEANE |
*Timing and programme are subject to change
