Gezy Weita Giwangkancana, MD is a pediatric anesthesiologist and academic faculty member at Universitas Padjadjaran and Dr. Hasan Sadikin National Referral and Teaching Hospital, Bandung, Indonesia. She serves as Program Director of Pediatric Anesthesia Training at Universitas Padjadjaran, where she leads the development of pediatric anesthesia education, clinical training, and competency-based learning.
Giwangkancana’s clinical and academic interests include pediatric anesthesia, difficult airway management, pediatric regional anesthesia, procedural pain and comfort, and perioperative quality improvement. Her work focuses particularly on translating evidence into practical and sustainable systems of care in resource-variable settings. She has led institutional initiatives in early warning systems, rapid response and Code Blue systems, perioperative quality, and patient safety.
Her work extends internationally through collaborations and educational activities with the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA), the Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists (ASPA), and St. Jude Global. Through these collaborations, she contributes to international education, capacity building, and initiatives aimed at improving pediatric anesthesia, procedural pain management, and the quality of care for children, particularly in low- and middle-income settings.
Giwangkancana leads the implementation and expansion of the Comfort Promise program at Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital and has contributed to its dissemination across multiple hospitals in Indonesia. The program aims to systematically reduce pain and distress associated with needle procedures in children and represents her broader interest in moving evidence-based interventions from individual practice into routine healthcare systems.
She is Editor-in-Chief of Jurnal Anestesi Perioperatif and an active researcher whose publications span pediatric anesthesia, airway management, regional anesthesia, critical care, patient safety, and quality improvement. She teaches medical students, anesthesia residents, fellows, and practicing anesthesiologists and regularly contributes as faculty and speaker at national and international scientific meetings.
Her broader academic work centers on building sustainable systems that improve the safety, comfort, and quality of care for children, particularly where access to specialized pediatric anesthesia services and resources remains limited.
