IPEMA Committee

Rasha is currently a PEM consultant and Head of Department at Temple st ED, Children’s Health Ireland, Dublin. She is the Founding Chair of the Irish Paediatric Emergency Medicine Association, Adjunct faculty at the American University of Beirut and International PEM fellowship lead at RCPI. After training in the US, Rasha has worked in different countries and settings from the US to Lebanon before moving to Ireland in 2021. Her interests lie in PEM education and operations where she is continuously learning from the different systems she has worked in.

Turlough graduated from UCD in 1997. He undertook Paediatric training and General Practice training in Ireland. He was appointed as a full time Paediatric Emergency Medicine consultant to Tallaght University Hospital in February 2010. He has been Clinical Director in Tallaght and President of the Irish Paediatric Association 2017-2019

Emma is a French-Canadian paediatrician and paediatric emergency medicine consultant. After obtaining her specialist qualifications in Canada in 2015, she moved to Melbourne for further training in paediatric emergency medicine and paediatric pain management at the Royal Children’s Hospital. Her research has focused on sedation and analgesia in paediatric trauma. Emma is currently paediatric emergency medicine clinical lead at Cork University Hospital.

Michael’s expertise in paediatric emergency medicine was developed in Ireland then Australia before returning to Ireland as a Consultant in Dublin. He has held key governance roles, including Chair of the National Paediatric Mortality Register, NOCA, and actively engages in national and international paediatric clinical research initiatives. His focus is on the effective  translation of evidence based practice into clinical practice.

Paddy graduated from University College Dublin in 2004 and after internship embarked on a career in paediatrics. He completed basic and higher specialist training in paediatric medicine with the Royal College of Physicians Ireland and a two and a half year clinical fellowship with the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. On returning from Australia in 2016, he was appointed as a consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine in CHI at Temple Street and in 2019 he was assigned emergency department lead. Since 2020 Paddy has taken on the role of Clinical Specialty Lead for Paediatric Emergency Medicine in CHI.

Paddy has an interest in medical education and has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level in medicine, nursing and pre-hospital practice. He is an honorary senior lecturer with the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. Other interests include simulation education, human factors, healthcare informatics and clinical communication.