Paediatrics
This one-year fellowship is intended to provide trainees with academic and clinical educational opportunities in the perioperative management of pediatric patients undergoing anesthesia.
Our program provides comprehensive exposure to pediatric anesthesia. This includes exposure to ambulatory/day surgery, thoracic and abdominal, ENT and airway, neurosurgical, craniofacial, orthopedic and spine, urological and renal transplant surgeries as well as neonatal index cases. Fellows are also exposed to our pediatric acute pain service and our complex chronic pain pediatric program. Pediatric cardiac anesthesia exposure is available through our association with the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where fellows spend a one to two month rotation at the Stollery Children’s Hospital. Elective time in pediatric intensive care is available for interested fellows.
Approximately 20% of time is protected for non-clinical work and research. We have educational rounds for the fellows as well as weekly departmental academic rounds and a monthly journal club.
One fellowships position is offered per year, typically starting each July. Alternative start dates can be considered.
Perioperative Medicine Fellowship Contacts
Dr. Scott Else
Email: Scott.Else@ahs.ca
Dr. Scott Else, MD, is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Alberta Children’s Hospital. He earned his medical degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. After completing his anesthesia residency at the University of Calgary, Dr. Else received fellowship training in pediatric anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University.
In addition to being the fellowship director for pediatric anesthesia, Dr. Else is the part of the ACH Difficult Airway Working Group, is co-director of The ACH Pediatric Airway Course and is involved in the development of ERAS protocols for neonatal surgery.