Dr Kathrina Epino is an anesthesiologist. She had her pediatric pain training at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. She was given the title Clinical Lecturer at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine for her teaching contributions while a fellow. She further pursued an adult pain training at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

 

At present, she is a Clinical Associate Professor and Chief of the Pain Medicine Division at the Department of Anesthesiology University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital. She spearheaded revitalizing the division and progressing their Pain Clinic towards a Multi-disciplinary Pain Center during the SARSCOV2 pandemic. One of her flagship projects is creating burn pain management and procedural analgesia guidelines for future use of local public hospitals. She is also working with Pediatrics in a St Jude Global Alliance supported Comfort Promise project geared towards reducing needle prick pain. She is also part of the University of the Philippines Manila medicinal cannabis technical working group and of the local National Institute of Health scientific review council pool of experts. 

 

She works part time as the Section Head of Pediatric Pain within the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at the Philippine Children’s Medical Center, tasked with starting an outpatient pediatric pain clinic and a pediatric pain fellowship training. 

 

Her research interests are pediatric burn pain management and procedural analgesia as well as cancer pain and database management. She has given talks on pediatric pain in local and ASEAN conferences. Currently, she is the President-elect of the Pediatric Pain SIG of the Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists. 

 

On her spare time, she volunteers in orofacial cleft correction missions, runs a small café with friends, loves to garden and walk her three adorable bichon frise.