Member institutions

A growing network of pediatric hospitals.

PALNET now includes 50 pediatric anesthesia department members across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Definitions

PALNET's goal is to bring EEG-guided pediatric anesthesia to the widest possible audience — and it helps to be clear about who is who.

There is a distinction between being part of PALNET — a member department or individual learning EEG-guided anesthesia through the network — and being a PALNET teacher, an experienced expert who trains others. Most members join as departments, a smaller number join as individuals, and a dedicated group serve as teachers. As a PALNET member you act as an ambassador for the field: free to share knowledge and recruit colleagues, but never obligated to do so, and your own EEG teaching activities remain your own and are not governed by PALNET. The terms below define these roles.

Proper EEG

A monitor that displays the raw EEG waveform, the density spectral array (DSA), and the spectral edge frequency (SEF); is commercially available; and is approved by the country's regulatory agency.

PALNET member department

The department chief supports learning and adopting EEG-guided anesthesia. Several anesthesiologists will learn it and teach it to their colleagues. The department either has, or soon will have, a proper EEG. Most PALNET members fall into this category.

PALNET member individual

The department chief does not support department-wide adoption, but an individual clinician wants to learn EEG-guided anesthesia and has a proper EEG available to them. A small number of PALNET members fall into this category.

PALNET teacher

An expert in EEG-guided anesthesia: strong exam performance; case experience across all ages (including neonates and infants), techniques (propofol, sevoflurane, ketamine), and disease areas (neurological, ICU, cardiac); teaches trainees and colleagues; has oriented to a workshop and a site visit; performs at least one site visit and/or workshop per year; can host members for observership. Teachers are reimbursed for travel and lodging, and receive a stipend.

PALNET teacher orientation

A prospective teacher accompanies an experienced PALNET teacher to one workshop and one site visit before independently teaching.

Current member institutions

PALNET has 50 member departments worldwide. To protect member privacy, the directory lists department name and location only — no individual names or contact information.

North America

  • Boston Children's Hospital
    Boston, MA, USA
  • Boston Medical Center
    Boston, MA, USA
  • C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
    Ann Arbor, MI, USA
  • Children's Health Dallas (UT Southwestern)
    Dallas, TX, USA
  • Children's Hospital Colorado
    Denver, CO, USA
  • Children's Hospital of Georgia (Augusta University)
    Augusta, GA, USA
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Children's Mercy Hospital
    Kansas City, MO, USA
  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital
    Cincinnati, OH, USA
  • Comer Children's Hospital (University of Chicago)
    Chicago, IL, USA
  • Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
    St. Petersburg, FL, USA
  • Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (Stanford)
    Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • Lurie Children's Hospital
    Chicago, IL, USA
  • McMaster Children's Hospital
    Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital (Vanderbilt)
    Nashville, TN, USA
  • Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Columbus, OH, USA
  • Nemours Children's Hospital
    Orlando, FL, USA
  • Phoenix Children's Hospital
    Phoenix, AZ, USA
  • Rady Children's Hospital
    San Diego, CA, USA
  • Riley Children's Hospital
    Indianapolis, IN, USA
  • Seattle Children's Hospital
    Seattle, WA, USA
  • Stollery Children's Hospital
    Edmonton, AB, Canada
  • The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
    Toronto, ON, Canada
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital
    Minneapolis, MN, USA

Europe

  • Geneva University Hospitals (HUG)
    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital
    Genoa, Italy
  • Gregorio Marañón University Hospital
    Madrid, Spain
  • Hospital Sant Joan de Déu
    Barcelona, Spain
  • Hôpital Trousseau (Sorbonne Université, AP-HP)
    Paris, France
  • La Fe University Hospital
    Valencia, Spain
  • La Paz University Hospital
    Madrid, Spain
  • Meyer Children's Hospital
    Florence, Italy
  • Niño Jesús University Children's Hospital
    Madrid, Spain

Asia-Pacific

  • Hong Kong Children's Hospital
    Hong Kong
  • King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
    Bangkok, Thailand
  • KK Women's and Children's Hospital
    Singapore
  • Mackay Memorial Hospital
    Taipei, Taiwan
  • National Center for Child Health and Development
    Tokyo, Japan
  • National University Hospital (NUH)
    Singapore
  • Saitama Children's Medical Center
    Saitama, Japan
  • Seoul National University Hospital
    Seoul, South Korea
  • Tokyo Women's Medical University
    Tokyo, Japan
  • West China Hospital (Sichuan University)
    Chengdu, China
  • Xi'an Children's Hospital
    Xi'an, China

Africa

  • AIC Kijabe Hospital
    Kijabe, Kenya
  • CURE Ethiopia Children's Hospital
    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

South America

  • Clínica Alemana de Santiago
    Santiago, Chile
  • Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo
    São Paulo, Brazil

Directory current as of 2026

This directory reflects PALNET's current member departments across five continents as of June 2026. There are several additional departments in the pipeline to join. If your institution is a member and you'd like to confirm or update its listing, please get in touch.

How membership works

Member institutions enter into a relationship — not just a transaction. A typical engagement looks like this:

  1. Initial conversation. We learn about your program: equipment, current EEG use, learners, and what you want to achieve.
  2. Site visit. Two days of in-OR teaching and faculty development, scheduled around your case mix.
  3. Local faculty development. Your champions become teachers, supported by PALNET's curriculum and case library.
  4. Ongoing mentorship. Quarterly follow-up meetings, text and video support, and access to PALNET workshops and the simulator program.
  5. Network participation. Optional involvement in collaborative research, quality improvement, and PALNET's environmental-sustainability work.
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