Dr Cathy Gibbons is a Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care and Critical Care Retrieval. She is currently the national Clinical Lead for the Irish Paediatric Acute Transport Service (IPATS). Following completion of training in Paediatrics, she completed critical care fellowships in The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK. Since taking up her post in PICU and IPATS in April 2016, she has led the development of a robust service to facilitate the transfer of critically ill children to PICU, launched a nurse-led repatriation team to improve CHI bed flow and maintained strong interests in vascular access, point of care ultrasound and end of life care. She is an Associate Clinical Professor of Paediatrics in University College Dublin and delivers outreach education annually to each Regional Unit on the care and transfer of critically ill children and has developed extensive online educational resources to facilitate the standardisation and improvement in the care of critically ill children around the country.

Dr Conor Davis is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Temple Street Children’s Hospital and is the first PEM consultant with the Irish Paediatric Acute Transfer Service (iPATS). He has a keen interest in Paediatric Critical Care and transfer and retrieval medicine. When not chasing ambulances or helicopters he is busy chasing his two young boys. 

Dr Spyridon Karageorgos is a Paediatrician working at Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital in Athens, Greece. He is interested in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, reducing antibiotic use in paediatric patients and in Medical Education. He is a proud alumni of the QMUL DFTB Paediatric Emergency Medicine MSc. He is currently an Honorary Lecturer in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Queen Mary University of London.

Dr Cilian Ó Maoldomhnaigh is a Paediatric Infectious Disease Consultant working in Children’s Health Ireland. He has completed clinical fellowships in Paeds ID in CHI Crumlin and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, New York, and was awarded a PhD from Trinity for work performed on neonatal TB responses. He is currently the Chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee in CHI Crumlin. 

Dr Arthur Hennessy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine working at St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.

He is a graduate of UCD and trained in surgery, before completing Emergency Medicine specialist training in Ireland. He had a Pg Dip in Medical Toxicology and is ACLS/ACLS EP Instructor and course director.

He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer with Trinity College Dublin and Examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in London and is currently Clinical Lead for Emergency Medicine in St. James’s Hospital.

Dr Dom Cincotta was born and raised in Melbourne of Italian Migrants and carb-loaded from infancy. Dom loves coffee, makes his own passata and salami, and is a better cricketer and dancer than his teenage sons. 20 years ago Dom was shocked to learn of the rise in food allergies and that kids couldn’t enjoy the foods of his youth, and as a Paediatric Emergency Physician & Allergy Specialist since 2006, seeks to improve Quality and Safety in Anaphylaxis care.

Dom is supervising author of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Anaphylaxis Clinical Practice Guideline; member of Anaphylaxis Committee for Australasian Society Of Clinical Immunology & Allergy (ASCIA); Clinical Researcher with the National Allergy Centre Excellence/Murdoch Children’s Research Institute/ University of Melbourne. Dom’s other interests include leading the Translational Simulation Program for Quality Improvement at RCH ED.

Dr Ffion Davies is the Immediate Past President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. IFEM serves the Emergency Medicine professional societies of over 70 nations and regions.

She works as a Consultant Emergency Physician at the University Hospitals of Leicester (pronounced Lester), in the UK.

She is the main author of the textbook Emergency Care of Minor Trauma in Children and developed the eLearning website www.spottingthesickchild.com

Dr Aoife Fox is an Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine Specialist Registrar with expertise in AI development and implementation in healthcare. She completed her Paediatric Emergency Medicine training at University Hospital Southampton and is currently finishing her Adult Emergency Medicine training in London. Holding an MSc in Medical Informatics, she is currently a Clinical AI Fellow with the Clinical Scientific Computing team at Guy’s and St Thomas’. Her work spans both the development of de novo AI tools and the implementation of commercial AI solutions in emergency medicine.

Dr Paddy Fitzpatrick 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.

Dr Mohamed Qotb is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Sligo University Hospital. He holds multiple certifications and fellowships in Emergency Medicine and healthcare leadership. His research focuses on trauma and venous thromboembolism (VTE), with numerous publications and presentations at national and international conferences.

As the educational lead in Emergency Medicine and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at NUIG, he is dedicated to advancing medical education. He has worked across different countries and healthcare systems and is passionate about fostering continuous improvement in care delivery.

Dr Carol Blackburn has been a consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at CHI Crumlin since 2012.

She is a graduate of UCC, trained in paediatrics in Ireland and completed a clinical fellowship in PEM at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

She is a fellow of faculty of Paediatrics, RCPI and a national specialty director for higher specialist training in paediatrics. She has been the PEM representative to the Emergency Medicine Programme since 2015, where development of the PEM specialty and staffing nationally is a goal, and is an APLS course director . Clinical interests include PEM guidelines and sedation.

Dr Maeve O’Rourke is a lecturer in Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), School of Law, University of Galway, where she is also the founding and current Director of the postgraduate Human Rights Law Clinic. She is a barrister at 33 Bedford Row, London, and has worked previously as a researcher at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota Law School Human Rights Center, Equality Now, and Irish Council for Civil Liberties.

Prof Gabrielle Colleran is the Radiology lead for the National Fetal MRI program, the head of department in radiology in the National Maternity Hospital and a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist in CHI at Temple Street. 

She graduated from NUI, Galway in 2005 with a first class honours degree and completed radiology training in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital before completing 2 years Paediatric Radiology fellowship in Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital from 2014-16. In 2015-16 she was Chief Fellow in Paediatric Radiology and underwent subspecialty training in Fetal and Neuro MR.

Prof Colleran is currently co-Chair the fetal imaging taskforce of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology. Fetal and neuro MR and medical education are her areas of academic interest.

She is also the President of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association with a focus on capacity, sustainability and physician retention.

Mr Hassan Abuomar ia a legal adviser at Law for Palestine and a PhD Researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway. Hassan is specialised in International Criminal Law, International Criminal Court and Transitional Justice.  

A/Prof Elliot Long works at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne as a paediatric emergency physician. He is the Sepsis Research team leader at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne Department of Critical Care, and the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) lead for the Australian and New Zealand Emergency Department Airway Registry (ANZEDAR). He is really excited to catch up with friends and colleagues in Dublin!

Dr Caroline Fox is a consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Health Ireland Temple Street. She completed fellowships in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Dr Fox is interested in medical education, simulation and paediatric trauma. She is also interested in global health and is an educator with “Taking Paediatrics abroad”. In this role she travels to Vietnam National Children’s Hospital and provides lectures and clinical support virtually to Cambodian paediatricians.

Dr Stephen Mullen is a PEM consultant working in Belfast. He has a passion for teaching and QI and describes himself as a plate spinner – father of 3, husband to an infinitely more intelligent radiologist, full time clinician, wannabe triathlete and part researcher with an interest in trauma. 

Dr Peter Cosgrove is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Honorary Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. After training in Dublin Peter completed US Residency and Fellowship at UT at Austin and Boston Children’s Hospital. He moved home to Northern Ireland in 2020 where he now works in the NHS. His academic interest began through clinical & translational research, paediatric procedural sedation and has recently diversified into Data Analytics and Patient-Centred Design methodology. In his spare time he works with app development, advocates for safer screen use and has six children. 

Dr Dani Hall is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) consultant in Children’s Health Ireland in Dublin, Associate Clinical Professor in University College Dublin, and Senior Lecturer in the joint Don’t Forget The Bubbles and Queen Mary University of London PEM MSc.

Dani is also an Executive Director of Don’t Forget The Bubbles, the largest paediatric website for clinicians internationally; simulation lead across the four clinical sites of Children’s Health Ireland; and clinical lead for the three time award-winning HSE Rainbow Badge initiative at Children’s Health Ireland, improving access to health for LGBTQ+ young people.

In 2018, Dani Hall and two like-minded PEM friends were invited to give some case-based teaching in the last session of a European EM conference. Having been warned that by the end of the day audience enthusiasm waned, they set out to make the session interactive, educational and tunny. And thus begun PEM Adventures, an audience-led Choose Your Own Adventure exploration of the latest evidence and management strategies in paediatric emergencies and trauma. Since then the team has grown and the format has become… let’s call it innovative… with IPEM24 showcasing the debut simulated PEM Adventure, with an Irish cast, real-live Irish patient, and Irish-led management.

Join Dani and the PEM Adventures team – Michael Barrett, Vicky Meighan, Linda Farren, Abaigh Healy, Paddy Fitzpatrick and Karl Kavanagh – in another simulated Choose Your Own PEM Adventure.

Ms Sinéad Fox is a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner with extensive experience working in the Paediatric Emergency Department. She currently works in CHI at Temple Street and CHI at Urgent Care Connolly providing care to children and young people presenting with minor injuries.

Ms Catherine de Blacam is a paediatric plastic surgeon in Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin.

Her subspecialty interests include cleft lip and palate and paediatric burns.

Dr Turlough Bolger 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

Dr Rasha Sawaya 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.

Dr Emma Fauteux 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.

Dr Freya Guinness graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2017 and has since spent her time working in Paediatrics in Ireland & London. She is currently a Paediatric SpR who plans to pursue a career in PEM. Freya also has a PgDip in Healthcare Simulation & Patient Safety from NUIG.

In 2016/2017 she was Manager of StreetDoctors Ireland, a charity which provides life-saving first aid to young people most at risk of youth violence. Her special interests include trauma & medical education.

Dr Alan Watts is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Limerick and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Limerick School of Medicine. Originally from New York, he spent part of his childhood in Montpellier in France and lived in Boston before moving to Ireland in 1999. He completed his Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine in 2016 having worked in departments around the country. His academic and clinical interests include resuscitation, critical care, chest pain, simulation and pre-hospital Emergency Medicine.

Dr Sheena Durnin has been a PEM Consultant in Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght since March 2019.  Sheena is site lead in postgraduate teaching & education, a graduate of the University of Wales with honours and a holds Masters of Health Sciences (Clinical Education) with honours from NUIG.

Sheena previously worked for two years as paramedic with HSE.  She completed paediatric higher specialist training and undertook a fellowship including RCPCH GRID training in PEM in Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK and Leicester Royal Infirmary for 2 ½ years.  Sheena is site lead on multiple PERUKI studies and a Senior Clinical Lecturer with Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Angharad Griffiths has been a Consultant with CHI in Crumlin since 2022.

She is delighted to be part of the IPEM Committee, believing that it is fundamental that children across Ireland have access to equitable and evidence-based care regardless of location or background and hopes this conference contributes towards that goal. Her interests lie in knowledge translation and NCHD training, though she’s pretty passionate about all things PEM!

Graduating from Cardiff University in 2011 and gaining CSCST in General Paediatrics through Higher Specialist Training in Ireland in 2021, Angharad holds a MSc in PEM [University of Edinburgh] and completed a wonderful PEM Fellowship at Starship Hospital, Auckland.

Outside work, Angharad enjoys sports, fresh air and the occasional dabble in DIY.

Ms Aoife Murray currently works in the Emergency Department in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin as a Registered Advanced Nurse Practitioner autonomously assessing, diagnosing, and treating children presenting with minor injuries.

After completing her Bachelor of Science in Children’s & General Nursing in UCD in 2014, Aoife soon travelled to Australia working in both Sydney Children’s Hospital and The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. After returning home to Ireland, she started working in the Emergency Department in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin where she worked initially as a staff nurse and then progressed to shift leader after completing a Graduate Diploma in Emergency Nursing. In 2020, she returned to UCD again to undertake her Masters of Advanced Practice. Aoife works collaboratively with her colleagues aiming to provide the highest standard of care to patients and families.

Ms Kim Price currently works as the Clinical Nurse Manager 3 in the Emergency Department at CHI Temple Street. She has many years’ of experience working in adult, mixed and paediatric Emergency Departments in Ireland and Melbourne, Australia. Kim holds post graduate qualifications in paediatric and emergency nursing. She completed her Master of Advanced Nursing Practice through research at the University of Melbourne in 2019.