The Goal of the Global Health Sub-Committee
To further the Society’s mission of “striving to be the international multidisciplinary leader in the advancement of global pediatric sedation by promoting safe, high-quality care, innovative research, and quality professional education” in resource-rich and resource-limited settings alike.
Chair, Megan Schultz, MD, MA
Medical College of Wisconsin
Carlos Delgado, MD
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Cheryl Gooden, MD
Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital
Matthew Gunderson, MD, MSc
University of New Mexico
Kunal Gupta
Children’s Dental Center, India
Jaimee Holbrook, MD
University of Chicago – Comer Children’s Hospital
Dominique Ploin, MD, PhD
Hospices Civils de Lyon, France
Arlette Setiawan
Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Elise van der Jagt, MD, MPH
University of Rochester
Leonel Toledo, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Kaylah Ibidapo, MD
University of Chicago
Sally Watson, MD
Monroe Carell, Jr., Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
SPS Members’ Global Health Initiatives
Janey Phelps, MD (UNC): Malawi
Sue Kost, MD (CHOP): Ghana, Paraguay, Haiti, Kenya
Cheryl Gooden, MD (Yale): Vietnam, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Peru, India, China
Megan Schultz, MD (Medical College of Wisconsin): Liberia, Ethiopia, Kenya
Jennifer Hayes, RN (Comer Children’s Hospital): China, Cardiac Alliance
Abdallah Dalabih, MD (Arkansas Children’s Hospital): Turkey
Melinda Coplin, RN (Dental care, Montana): Tonga
Matthew Gunderson, MD (UNM): Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Dominican Republic
Carlos Delgado (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta): Republic of Georgia, Kosovo
Kunal Gupta (Children’s Dental Center in Delhi): India
Leonel Toldeo, MD (CHOP): Chile, China, Botswana, and the Dominican Republic
Kaylah Ibidapo, MD (University of Chicago) Liberia
Funding for Global Pediatric Sedation Projects
SPS Scholarly Grant Information
Other Funding Opportunities
Global Pediatric Sedation Publications by Committee Members
- Nitrous Oxide in Pediatric Dentistry https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-29618-6
- Guidance for Implementing Pediatric Procedural Sedation in Resource-Limited Settings (Schultz ML, Niescierenko M) Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine June 2019;20(2):116-122 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85068414878 06/01/2019
- Pediatric Procedural Sedation in African Clinical Settings: A mixed methods study of African providers’ sedation practices