Our Speakers

Dr Sashikumar Ganapathy is currently a Senior Consultant and Head of Department in Department of Emergency Medicine at KK Hospital. Dr Ganapathy’s areas of interest are Medical Education and Innovation, primarily in the field of designing and planning learning, teaching and facilitating learning as well as educational research and scholarship. Recently, he has been involved in enhancing education through the use of technology and optimizing educational and work output using technologically enhanced programs and human factors analysis. As an Emergency Pediatrician, his main interests are in pediatric resuscitation, toxicology, optimizing delivery of care and services as well as evidence-based emergency practice.

He is also the Asst Dean of Admissions at Duke-NUS. His various other involvement in education includes designing, planning and implementation of the education curriculum in the Emergency Department in KK Hospital and inter-professional education spanning from nursing education and communications education.

Dr Ganapathy is keenly involved in Medical Innovation and Care transformation with the creation of a Pediatric Chatbot as well as Telecollaborative consults within the emergency department and across hospital emergency departments in Singapore. He has worked on creating educational teaching programs using Virtual reality games as a teaching platform. He also has a keen interest in improving health delivery, enabling the primary healthcare sector in pediatric medicine, optimizing efficiency and maintaining safety of staff and patients.

Assoc Prof Sashikumar Ganapathy's Session:

• Emergency Medicine Symposium
  Date: 20 Sep 2025, Saturday | Time: 1355—1525 | Venue: Level 2, L2-S3&S4