Dr Shamiel Salie trained in Paediatric Critical Care in South Africa and the UK and completed an MPH in 2015. He has been a PICU Consultant at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital since 2006 and was appointed as the PICU Medical Director in 2020. Dr Salie has varied interests, the main ones being infectious diseases, the provision of respiratory support and the management of children post cardiac surgery. He is actively involved in the of training junior doctors and nurses. He is the National Director of the Advanced Paediatric Life Support course in South Africa and a Co-ordinator of the Paediatric Basic Assessment and Support in ICU course. Dr Salie is a Supervisor on the African Paediatric Fellowship Programme, which has facilitated the training of Paediatric Intensivists from Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Libya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Namibia.