Dr. Kattail (she/her) is a pediatric anesthesiologist and pain physician at The Hospital for Sick Children, with a focus in the full spectrum of pediatric pain medicine from acute to chronic pain management and pediatric regional anesthesia. She has a special interest in dissemination of education in pediatric pain medicine including development of the website www.SolvingPain.ca, associate editor for the Pain Medicine section of www.OpenAnesthesia.org and editor of www.Baby-Blocks.com.
She is an active member of the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine where she is currently an executive board member and chair of the communications committee. She is involved in various organizations advocating for improvements in pain care at the national and provincial levels in Canada, as pediatric co-chair of the Ontario Chronic Pain network, affiliated with Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and member of the National Advisory Committee for Pain Canada. She was recently honoured as a 2023 fellow of The May Day Pain & Society fellowship.