Training

I graduated from medical school at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1991. Following my Junior House Officer (Intern) year at Craigavon Area Hospital I entered specialty training in anaesthetics within the Northern Ireland Regional Anaesthetic Training Program. I completed my anaesthetic training in August 1999 which included 18 months subspecialty training in Intensive Care Medicine within Northern Ireland. I then completed the final 6 months of my ICU training at the University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.

Current Positions

• Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Specialty Improvement Lead, Deteriorating Patient
• Clinical Supervisor, Advanced Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Program. BHSCT
• Independent Medical Examiner
• FUSIC (Focused Ultrasound in Intensive Care) Mentor

Previous Positions

• Lead Clinician, Critical Care Network Northern Ireland
• Lead, Patient Safety and Clinical Governance, Belfast City Hospital ICU
• Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine Equivalence Committee
• Senior Deputy Editor, Critical Care Horizons Journal
• Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics, Craigavon Area Hospital, United kingdom (2006-2017)
• President, Northern Ireland Intensive Care Society (2013-15)
• Royal College of Anaesthetists College Tutor, Craigavon Area Hospital (2008-2014)
• Assistant Professor of Medicine (Critical Care) and Anesthesia, Dalhousie University and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada (2005-2010, part-time 2006-2010)
• Chair, Critical Care Multidisciplinary Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Committee, Dalhousie Division of Critical Care Medicine (2005-2006)
• Consultant in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Medicine, Antrim Area Hospital, United Kingdom (2000-2005)

Qualifications, Fellowships & Memberships

• Primary Medical Degree MB BCh BAO 1991
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists FRCA 1995
• Diploma of the Irish Board of Intensive Care Medicine DIBICM 1999
• Master of Education MEd 2003
• Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (United Kingdom) FFICM 2011

Society Memberships

• European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
• British Society of Echocardiography

Professional Interests: Clinical

• Echocardiography and ultrasound
• Acute kidney injury
• Fluid management
• Gram-positive sepsis and toxic shock

Professional interests: Non-clinical

• Service development
• Interface between the workplace/work and employee well-being
• Organisational (re-)humanisation
• Medical education
• Faculty development
• Quality improvement, patient safety and service development
• Medical publishing and peer review