Cyril Sahyoun is an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Geneva. He attended medical school at Georgetown University, Residency at Columbia University's Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian and Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, where he developed clinical expertise in procedural sedation, anxiolysis and analgesia. After returning as an attending physician at his alma matter in New York to head Medical Student Education efforts in the Pediatric Emergency Department, Cyril Sahyoun moved to Switzerland, where he is boosting the field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Procedural Sedation and Analgesia. Cyril has authored influential review articles and book chapters in the field of sedation, the first comprehensive survey of pediatric procedural sedation, anxiolysis and analgesia in European Emergency Departments, and a recent study on an innovative, family-centered, gentle procedural sedation program of children with autism and neurodevelopmental delay. Other academic interests include medical trainee education in analgesia and anxiolysis, communication in the clinical environment as well as prehospital care. His other jobs include baking deeply fermented sourdough breads and feeding them to his wife, his 3 children and their dog Chicha.