Dr. Naveen Poonai

MSc, MD, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Western University
Cross Appointments: Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Chair, Children’s Health & Therapeutics Division, Children’s Health Research Institute
Chair, Western University’s Health Sciences Research Ethics Board

Meet Dr. Poonai, one of our team members for Western kNOw-PAIN. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics in the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Western and Vice-Chair of the Paediatric Emergency Research Canada network. Dr. Poonai is also the Chair of the Children’s Health & Therapeutics Division of the Children’s Health Research Institute and Western University’s Health Sciences Research Ethics Board. His research interests include procedural sedation and management of acute pain in children, and he has published over 95 peer-reviewed articles and has had over 20 invited speaker engagements in 6 countries.