Dr. Naveen Poonai

Dr. Naveen Poonai completed his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2004 and his paediatric residency and emergency medicine fellowship training at Western University in 2009. He obtained his Master of Science in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University in 2013. He is the Chair of the Children’s Health & Therapeutics Division of the Children’s Health Research Institute, and the Research Director of the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine. On a national level, he is a Decision Editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, a member of the executive of Empowering Next Generation Researchers in Child Health (ENRICH) Health Research Training Platform and Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC), and a contributor to the national knowledge mobilization networks: Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK), Children’s Healthcare Canada, and the Hospital for Sick Children’s Online Paediatric Pain Curriculum. His research interests include procedural sedation and management of acute pain in children.