Brief Biography

Dr. Isaac is a paediatric anaesthetist who has been on staff at The Hospital for Sick Children since September 1999, after a fellowship in paediatric intensive care and paediatric anaesthesia. Her academic activities consist of lectures to residents rotating through paediatric anaesthesia, and she plans to expand this to university-wide lectures to the residents and others. She also plans to participate in the development of a palliative care service at The Hospital for Sick Children. Her clinical interests include pain management and palliative care. She is a member of the Canadian Anaesthesiologists’ Society, the American Society of Regional Anaesthesia, and the American Society of Anaesthesiologists. Publications include 2 abstracts, in the Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, and Anaesthesia and Analgesia, and 2nd authorship of an article awaiting publication in Anaesthesia and Analgesia. Also pending publication is a book chapter in a textbook of paediatric anaesthesia (eds. Bruno Bissonnette and Bernard Dalens).