Dr John Beca

Paediatric Intensivist, Director of Child Health - Surgery, Cardiac and Critical Care, Starship Child Health, Auckland, NZ

Dr John Beca is a paediatric intensivist.  He is the Director of Child Health – Surgery, Cardiac and Critical Care at Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand and is also Clinical Director of the PICU. His research interest is in acute brain injury, especially injury related to cardiac surgery, trauma and hypoxic ischaemic injury. He was PI for the Hypothermia in TBI in Children (HiTBIC) study, co-PI for the international CoolKids study and PI for the Hearts and Minds Study (investigating brain injury and development in infants having heart surgery).