Simon Whyte

Head, Pediatric Anesthesia, BC Children’s Hospital Head; UBC APT Division of Pediatric Anesthesia
Faculty Bio
Dr. Sadiq Abdulla is an Anesthesiologist at BC Women’s Hospital. He has a clinical fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesia from Mount Sinai Hospital inToronto, Ontario. He has also completed the UBC Sauder Physician Leadership Program and was the inaugural Associate Program Director for theAnesthesia Training Program. His research interests include optimizing uterotonic use, ultrasound use in obstetric anesthesia, and developing anenhanced recovery pathway for cesarean delivery. He is currently a Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada examiner for the Anesthesiology specialty.
Social Media / Lab or Research Website
Website (or Lab): https://bcchr.ca/PART
Research Interests
Pediatric perioperative pharmacology Pediatric difficult airway Pediatric scoliosis correction surgery Pediatric TIVA
Research Theme(s)
Publication Link(s)
ORCID: 0000-0002-8590-3916
The safety of modern anesthesia for children with long QT syndrome
Audit and feedback: to tell or not to tell? That is not the question
Clinical Interests
Pediatric anesthesia, including development of perioperative management guidelines for children with long QT syndromes; development of comparative, anonymized, individual feedback as a driver of continuous quality improvement; and establishment & dashboarding of a pediatric difficult intubation
registry. Current & future work focused on improving individualized TIVA regimens by examining pharmacodynamic-pharmacogenomic relationships
with anesthetic drugs used in children.