Piet Leroy MD, PhD, MSc

Piet Leroy (Belgium 1969), MD, PhD, MSc, is a senior consultant in pediatric critical care and director of the Pediatric Procedural Sedation Unit at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is a professor in procedural sedation and analgesia in children (PROSA chair) at the School of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University and graduated in 2017 with a Master's in Health Professions Education.

His main research topics concern delirium in critical care and procedural sedation in children. Within these fields, he has published over 50 scientific papers, guidelines, and book chapters, and lectured at more than 100 scientific meetings over the last decade. In 2012, he obtained a PhD degree at Maastricht University with a thesis entitled ‘Improving Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Children: from practice over evidence to practice’.

He is a board member of the International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation and scientific director of the PROSA expertise centre, which offers an interdisciplinary training and implementation program for trauma-free medical care in children. This work is supported by the Charlie Braveheart Foundation. Piet Leroy is editor at the European Journal of Pediatrics. In 2023, he received the Blike&Cravero International Pediatric Sedation Advocacy Award van de Society of Pediatric Sedation.