Professor of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain
Tata Memorial Hospital, India
Prof. Sheila Nainan Myatra MD,FCCM,FICCM
Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, INDIA.
Sheila Myatra is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the Homi Bhabha National Institute University in Mumbai, India. She is working at the Tata Memorial Hospital, which is Asia’s largest cancer centre located in Mumbai, India since 25 years. She is the President of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) and the Chair of the Intensive & Critical Care Medicine Committee of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). She is the Immediate Past President of the All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA).
She is a member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SCC) 2025 Guidlines Committee, Research Committee and the COVID Guidelines Committee. She is a Steering Committee Member of the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance (APSA). She is among the 14 international airway experts on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) difficult airway guidelines and the PUMA guidelines (Project for the Universal Management of the Airway). Her research interests include hemodynamic monitoring, airway management, and sepsis. She has developed a new test in hemodynamic monitoring, called the “Tidal Volume Challenge” (CCM 2017).
She delivered the William C Shoemaker Honorary Lecture at SCCM 2023 in San Francisco, USA. She was awarded the prestigious 2023 ESICM Honorary Membership at ESICM Lives in Milan and the European Airway Management Society (EAMS) Honorary Membership in Baveno, Italy in 2022. She was awarded FCCM in 2015 (American College of CCM) and FICCM in 2013 by ISCCM. She serves on the Editorial Board of various journals which include Anaesthesia, Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia, Journal of Critical Care, Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Indian Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (past). She has several publications to her credit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Myatra+S&sort=date