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
08:00 - 10:00
360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 1
BRACHIAL PLEXUS BLOCK - COMPLICATIONS MANAGEMENT
Singapore, Singapore
Coimbatore, India
Basel, Switzerland
chennai, India
India, India
10:30 - 12:30
360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 2
OBSTETRICS - LABOUR ANALGESIA
Singapore, Singapore
08:00 - 10:00
360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 3
PERIPHERAL NERVE CATHETERS - POSTOPERATIVE TROUBLE SHOOTING
Singapore, Singapore
India, India
chennai, India
Basel, Switzerland
Coimbatore, India
Bangkok, Thailand
08:00 - 10:00
360° AGORA - SIMULATION SCIENTIFIC SESSION 4
NEPHRECTOMY - THORACIC EPIDURAL ANALGESIA
Singapore, Singapore
India, India
chennai, India
Basel, Switzerland
Bangkok, Thailand
