Assistant Professor & Consultant Pediatric Intensivist
Section Head & Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM)
Director, PCCM Fellowship Program
Director, Quality & Safety, PICU
Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Dr. Naveed ur Rehman Siddiqui is an academic pediatric intensivist, educator, and simulation advocate with over 15 years of experience in pediatric critical care medicine. He currently serves as the Section Head and Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine program at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, where he also leads the fellowship program and the department’s quality and safety initiatives.

He completed his fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at both Aga Khan University and the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. He holds the Fellowship of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) and is certified in European Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (EPIC).

Dr. Siddiqui has been instrumental in introducing and expanding simulation-based education in Pakistan. He developed the nationally recognized Transform Code Blue Bootcamp, a low-fidelity hybrid simulation initiative, and has led multiple simulation-based courses including Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS), Pediatric Sepsis, Mechanical Ventilation, and Neuro-Critical Care Support. His leadership in simulation has earned national and international recognition, including the 2024 Award for Innovation in Education and multiple SCCM Presidential Citation Awards.

An active member of IPSS since 2020, Dr. Siddiqui currently serves as Co-Chair of the IPSS Membership Committee, where he champions equitable access and engagement from low- and middle-income countries. He has fostered collaborative simulation initiatives across South Asia and is committed to expanding interprofessional, culturally contextualized simulation training.

Aligned with the mission of IPSS—to inspire, grow, and lead the global pediatric simulation community—and its vision of ensuring the best healthcare for children and families, Dr. Siddiqui brings a passionate, globally minded perspective. His priorities include expanding outreach to resource-limited settings, promoting multi-professional engagement in simulation, and integrating simulation with quality and safety improvements in pediatric care.

Dr. Simranjeet Sran, MD
Physician Member, United States

Dr. Simranjeet S. Sran is a committed neonatologist and educator whose passion lies in advancing innovative, high-quality simulation-based education to improve pediatric patient care globally. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University and an Attending Neonatologist at Children’s National Hospital. In his roles as Director of Education for the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Director of Education for the hospital-wide Simulation Program, Dr. Sran has worked extensively to integrate simulation into clinical training, supporting safe, effective, and evidence-based care for neonates and children. He also serves as Co-Director for the Practice of Medicine Course at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, helping to shape the foundational clinical skills of future physicians.

He completed his medical school training at Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2012. He completed Pediatric Residency training at NYU/Bellevue Hospital at the NYU School of Medicine in 2015. He was then accepted into the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program at Children’s National and completed this training in 2018. As a member of the IPSS Education Committee, Dr. Sran contributes to the development and evaluation of educational courses, conferences, and materials, and provides guidance on the society’s broad educational curriculum. His areas of expertise include Simulation Development and Design, Interprofessional Education, Adult Learning, and Medical Technologies.

Dr. Sran seeks to serve as a member of the Board of Directors. His vision is to strengthen the society’s global reach by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, promoting excellence in simulation-based education, and expanding access to high-quality training opportunities for pediatric providers across diverse healthcare systems. He believes that through cutting-edge research, inclusive education, and technological innovation, IPSS can continue to lead the field and support practitioners in delivering optimal care for children across the globe.

Dr. Barbara Walsh is a pediatric emergency medicine attending in Boston, MA with almost 3 decades of experience at academic inner-city hospitals. She is currently a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and the Associate Director of the Solomont Simulation Center for the hospital. Her entire academic career has been immersed in simulation training, education, research with a patient quality and safety focus. She has completed graduate course work in simulation training and debriefing including the Center for Medical Simulation among many other courses and certificate programs.

Since Dr. Walsh’s start at Boston Medical center over 8 years ago, she has been the Director of In Situ and Mobile Outreach Simulation where she is creating innovative, inter-professional in situ programs at community sites and beyond. She is adept at designing and implementing novel pilot studies that have led to participation in high level simulation research through the ImPACTS (Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation) collaborative. This has led to multiple published manuscripts using simulation to study gaps in care, systems issues and use as an educational modality. Prior to the research of ImPACTS, she created and launched a quality and patient safety initiative - Community Outreach Mobile Education Training (COMET), evaluating general emergency departments in their care of critically ill children using in-situ simulation training. This program, which was started in 2010 with a pediatric emergency lens, has now evolved into custom in situ interdisciplinary training of any type and in any unit of care. The program aims to bridge gaps in emergency preparedness, among any specialty (OB, Adult, ICU, etc) evaluates systems issues, and improves team work at each site. The aim is to improve care, reduce errors, and ultimately have better outcomes in ANY critically ill patient. COMET aims to work with all hospital departments, community health centers and EMS services (www.cometsimulation.com). The initial work has been published in Advances In Simulation sharing how to build a similar program. She has also authored a simulation study in EM Clinics of North American which discusses using simulation for risk management and patient safety in emergency departments. She has ongoing simulation projects with various colleagues across the US and is always open to new collaborations and projects to move the simulation field forward and innovate on new projects. While doing so, she has continued quality and patient safety work at her own institution using simulation. Using an in-hospital grant at BMC, several faculty, with Dr Walsh, were able to evaluate system issues in inter-departmental patient resuscitations involving OB, EM, PEM and NICU. This work has been illuminating in creating safer processes for maternal deliveries and neonatal resuscitations alike.

Other collaboratives that Dr. Walsh has been part of include Pediatric Research in Disaster Education (PRIDE) for greater than 10 years. This group provides education and training in pediatric disaster triage for prehospital providers. PRIDE has studied different triage modalities using simulation as well as created an online serious medical game to improve the disaster triage skills of prehospital providers. Stemming from this work, PRIDE has been invited to the Pediatric Trauma Society meetings to conduct two workshops annually for the past 7 years.

Once of my most valuable experiences for Dr. Walsh is being a part of the INSPIRE network (International Network Simulation-based Pediatric Innovations, Research and Education) which is a collaborative of simulation research experts around the world and has an infrastructure in place with experts in all areas of medical research to lend support for any project. She has published extensively with many different INSPIRE members over the past decade. Through this group other collaborative projects continue to emerge. Currently, she is mentoring a multi-site study using simulation to look at graduating senior EM resident’s readiness to care for critically ill pediatric patients as they prepare to become attendings. The initial one-state study was published in Academic Emergency Medicine. There are further publications pending from recruitment of more sites. In the past two years, Dr. Walsh has evolved from being an active member of INSPIRE (since 2012) and now on the executive board of INSPIRE.

Dr. Walsh has also been an integral part of the Healthcare Distance Simulation Collaborative since its inception during the COVID pandemic. She has been on the planning committee, the co-chair of the Pictography group for 3 years and now an At-Large Executive Board member. This group is continuing to assess and expand Distance Simulation research and collaboration through various field related projects and summit work. Stemming from this work, Dr. Walsh partnered with a colleague for the Academy Archives, a division of the Debriefing Academy where they are the expert faculty for the distance simulation training modules. This work can be found at academyarchives.com

As a senior leader in simulation, Dr Walsh mentors many junior faculty, fellows, residents and medical students. She continues to support many new projects for trainees. All her experience enables molding of the next generation of simulation experts. As a board member for IPSS, she will be able to take her decades of experience from clinical work, international collaboration, quality research, her own programming and innovation from COMET to further the mission of the group.