Dr Elena Cavazzoni started her training in paediatrics in the United Kingdom and completed her training in paediatric intensive care in Australia. She is a senior staff specialist in paediatric intensive care at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and has been the co-State Medical Director for the New South Wales Organ and Tissue Donation Service since 2014.
She has a significant interest in palliative care, organ donation, complex communication, and medical education. Her research interests include organ and tissue donation, liver transplantation, haematology and transfusion medicine, and neurocritical care. She is a senior clinical lecturer for the University of Sydney and has been involved in developing the Paediatric BASIC course, Paediatric Neurocritical Care: Beyond BASIC course, Critical Conservation in PICU course and helps facilitate the core Family Donation Conversation workshop.