Piet Leroy MD, PhD, MSc

Piet Leroy MD, Ph.D., MSc is a senior consultant in pediatric critical care and director of the Paediatric Procedural Sedation Unit at Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is an associate professor at the Faculty of Health, Life Sciences, and medicine at Maastricht University) and graduated in 2017 as a Master in Health Professions Education at the Maastricht School of 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 Ph.D. 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. Currently, he is setting up an interdisciplinary training and implementation program for trauma-free medical care in children. This work is supported by the Charlie Braveheart Foundation.