Teresa Skelton

Dr. Skelton is a pediatric anesthesiologist and clinical associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia and an Evidence to Innovation Researcher at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. She is the Chair of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society International Education Foundation (CASIEF) and the co-lead of the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team (PART) at BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.

Her research focuses on two main topic areas, safe perioperative transfusion medicine practices and global health partnerships and education. Since 2019 she has co-led the implementation of Transfusion Camp Rwanda, adapted from the longstanding and successful Transfusion Camp education program for anesthesia residents in Canada and the UK. Through a multidisciplinary partnership, a team of experts has managed to develop a successful knowledge translation strategy to improve access to transfusion medicine education among clinicians, lab scientists, and nurses in Rwanda.

Dr. Skelton also works to make long-lasting system changes in the emergent transfusion of pediatric trauma patients across small and large hospitals in the province through education and protocol development. Most recently she is co-leading the implementation of a new pediatric transfusion medicine curriculum for sub-specialty pediatric trainees across Canada.