Ashokka BALAKRISHNAN

Singapore, Singapore

Ashokka BALAKRISHNAN

Faculty

Dr Ashokka Balakrishnan is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Simulation Program Director (anaesthesia division) at National University Hospital and CenMED Associate at Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), National University of Singapore. He is the director for Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) program for the Maastricht-Singapore Collaboration at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
He started his career in Anaesthesia in 2002 and has 17 years of experience in high fidelity simulation based undergraduate, postgraduate medical and allied health acute care teaching. He has a Fellowship of the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists (FANZCA) and a Masters in Health professions educations (MHPE) from Maastricht, Netherlands. He holds the office of the treasurer for the Asia Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (AOSRA-PM) and Vice President for the Pan Asia Society of Simulation (PASSH).
His special interests are obstetric and regional anaesthesia, postgraduate exam support, simulation based postgraduate and undergraduate education, Inter professional education through acute care simulation and multidisciplinary team training.
He has conducted international workshops in simulation, airway and crisis management for acute care practitioners, trauma teams, anaesthesiologists and nursing delegates and hosted medical education faculty development programs in USA, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia & India.
He is reviewer of Medical education, BMJ Open, the Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE), Advances In Simulation, Annals Of Medicine Singapore, The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS), Nurse Media and Singapore Medical journal.

Sessions

06 September

08:00 - 10:00

360° AGORA HALL B N10

360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 1

BRACHIAL PLEXUS BLOCK - COMPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT

WS Leaders
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Ashokka BALAKRISHNAN
Singapore, Singapore
Animators
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Balavenkat SUBRAMANIAN
Coimbatore, India
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Roman ZUERCHER
Basel, Switzerland
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Shri Vidya NIRANJAN KUMAR
chennai, India
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Archana ARETI
India, India

10:30 - 12:30

360° AGORA HALL B N13

360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 2

OBSTETRICS - LABOUR ANALGESIA

Animators
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Archana ARETI
India, India
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Shri Vidya NIRANJAN KUMAR
chennai, India
WS Leaders
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Ashokka BALAKRISHNAN
Singapore, Singapore

07 September

08:00 - 10:00

360° AGORA HALL B N20

360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 3

PERIPHERAL NERVE CATHETERS - POSTOPERATIVE TROUBLE SHOOTING

WS Leaders
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Ashokka BALAKRISHNAN
Singapore, Singapore
Animators
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Archana ARETI
India, India
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Shri Vidya NIRANJAN KUMAR
chennai, India
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Roman ZUERCHER
Basel, Switzerland
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Balavenkat SUBRAMANIAN
Coimbatore, India
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Suwimon TANGWIWAT
Bangkok, Thailand

08 September

08:00 - 10:00

360° AGORA HALL B N30

360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 4

NEPHRECTOMY - THORACIC EPIDURAL ANALGESIA

WS Leaders
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Ashokka BALAKRISHNAN
Singapore, Singapore
Animators
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Archana ARETI
India, India
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Shri Vidya NIRANJAN KUMAR
chennai, India
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Roman ZUERCHER
Basel, Switzerland
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Suwimon TANGWIWAT
Bangkok, Thailand