Journal of Nursing & Care

Peter Laussen

Biography

Peter Laussen graduated from Melbourne University Medical School, Victoria, Australia, in 1980. He completed fellowships in anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine at the Austin Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, and then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1992 where he worked for the next 20 years on the cardiac anesthesia service and cardiac Intensive care unit at Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2002 he was appointed Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Critical Care in the Department of Cardiology and to the Dolly D. Hansen Chair in Pediatric Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital, and in 2008 was appointed as Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. In 2012, he moved to Toronto to take up the position as Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Professor in Anaesthesia at the University of Toronto. He is currently chair of the Medical Advisory Committee and co-chair of the hospital-wide Mortality & Morbidity Committee at SickKids. Dr. Laussen is a Senior Associate Scientist in the Research and Learning Institute at SickKids and the first incumbent of the David and Stacey Cynamon Chair in Critical Care Medicine.

Research Interest

 Pediatric nursing, critical care, medicine, pediatrics, Anaesthesia, cardiac nursing