Dr. Grace van Leeuwen, MD, MSc, is Medical Director of the ECMO Program and Senior Attending Physician in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care at Sidra Medicine (Qatar), and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine � Qatar. She leads neonatal and pediatric ECMO transport services at the region�s national referral center and previously directed the first ECMO program in Brazil to earn the ELSO Award of Excellence. Dr. van Leeuwen serves as the Qatar representative on the SWAAC ELSO Steering Committee and is a member of the EuroELSO Pediatric ECPR Working Group. She holds a Master of Science in Clinical Service Operations from Harvard Medical School, with a focus on implementation science and change management in complex clinical systems. Co-Chair of the Congenital Heart Academy, she has organized 200+ webinars delivered to over 20,000 clinicians worldwide and serves as faculty for international ECMO courses and congresses. Her work bridges clinical excellence, program innovation, and the structured change management required to build safe, high-reliability ECMO programs.
