Teresa Skelton

MD, FRCPC, MPH

Investigator and Staff Anesthesiologist, BC Children's Hospital

Currently my research focuses on two main topic areas, safe perioperative transfusion medicine practices and global health partnerships and education. Through this recent initiative: Transfusion Camp Rwanda, a currently very successful training program for anesthesia residents in Canada and the UK, that delivers core transfusion medicine education in Africa, we have managed to develop a successful knowledge translation strategy to improve access to transfusion medicine education among multidisciplinary teams in Rwanda.

I also support research in quality improvement initiatives including the perioperative use of oral iron to decrease usage of blood products in children and I work to make long lasting system changes in the emergent transfusion of pediatric trauma patients across small and large hospitals through education and protocol development.