Marietjie Slabbert Keilty

Dr Marietjie Slabbert graduated from medical school in South Africa in 2001. She worked in Cape Town for three years, gaining experience Emergency Medicine, Paediatric Trauma and in Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) working briefly with Red Cross Air Mercy Services. After moving to the United Kingdom in 2004, she worked as Emergency Medicine resident for 18-months. She started her Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine joint residency training in the UK in 2005. During her specialty training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care, she also completed 18-months full-time Helicopter Emergency Medicine (HEMS) and Retrieval Medicine training with Careflight and the Royal Flying Doctors Service in Australia, London’s Air Ambulance and Essex and Hertfordshire Air Ambulances in the UK. She was also a flight physician with Thames Valley Air Ambulance and a critical care prehospital response physician in Oxford, England from 2008 to 2014. Dr Slabbert completed a Fellowship in Trauma and Critical Care Anesthesiology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 2015/2016 after which she took up a staff physician and physician leader post in Critical Care and Anesthesiology in Northern British Columbia from 2015 to 2021. During this time, she held the rank of assistant professor at UBC and also completed an MBA in Leadership and Management with distinction. Dr Slabbert returned to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in January 2022 to take up a position as staff anesthesiologist. Her interests are in trauma anesthesia and resuscitation medicine, team leading in VUCA environments and the role of the anaesthetist in the remote / out of OR settings. She has presented on these topics at several international conferences in recent years. Dr Slabbert is actively involved in social media, promoting the concept of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed). Her Twitter handle is @Gas_Air_CCdoc. She can also be found on LinkedIn and has a blog named “Anaesthetic air and critical care doc” at https://gas-air-critcaredoc.blogspot.com