CHAIR

Tom is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics at Queen's University Belfast. Tom's research interests include paediatric infectious diseases, sepsis and biomarkers. 

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ViCE CHair

Shrouk is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Currently a NIHR NWC Research Scholar, Shrouk is keen to enable research in the Paediatric Emergency Department through ED generated projects or collaboration with other specialties. Other interests include developing and sustaining regional educational programs. Shrouk is often found near cake and tea.
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immediate PAST CHAIR

Niall is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Sunderland Royal Hospital . He is an accidental clinical researcher having joined the PERUKI Research Steering Committee at its inception. He is the PERUKI site lead for Sunderland and a recent graduate of the North East’s Green Shoots Research Programme. His other main interest is simulation based medical education and he is the RCPCH Simulation lead for the North East. When not working or playing with dolls he obsesses over the (mis)fortunes of Liverpool Football Club and unsuccessfully tries to get his two children to do the same.  He is also devilishly handsome, great with kids & loves his mum.

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SECRETARY

Shane is a PEM consultant at the Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) & a General Paediatric Higher-Specialist Trainee with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). Having completed his MSc in PEM (University of Edinburgh) he is now a Personal Tutor for the current batch of PEM MSc students. A former PEM Education Fellow at LRI, he enjoys facilitating SIM’s & all forms of medical education. Shane is looking forward to encouraging other trainee’s to engage with PERUKI & nurture an interest in Research. Shane is a Leicester City Fan.

TREASURER

Meenu is a paediatric emergemcy medicine consultant at the Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 

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NURSE REPRESENTATIVE

Marianne is a Consultant Nurse Practitioner (Adults and Paediatrics) in the Emergency Unit at the University hospital of Wales in Cardiff and Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University. Her doctoral research has been qualitative and focussed on advanced nurse practitioner role, but she’s looking forward to getting back to her paediatric roots with clinical research as part of PERUKI. She’s quoted as saying ‘now I’ve got over being star-struck by the famous PERUKI exec committee I’m excited to bring my nursing experience to the group and hopefully engage more paediatric emergency nurses in research’. To balance the challenges of work, research, and life she spends time being dragged around fields by Flo & Nemo, who are much bigger goldendoodles than the breeder said they would be.
 

Research dissemination and knowledge transfer

Ian is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine based in Derby and Deputy Direction of Medical Education at UHDB Trust. Ian is absolutely not a researcher but is quite good at getting researchers to talk about their interests and broadcasting them to the wider paediatric and emergency medicine communities. He has achieved through the creation of the website PEMInforgaphics.com. and the popular podcast, ‘2 Paeds In a Pod.’ Ian likes to fancifully call this Knowledge Translation. In his spare time Ian enjoys finding increasingly convoluted ways of spending increasingly large amounts of money on obtaining tickets to watch Liverpool FC.

TRAINEE MEMBER

Shaarna is a PEM GRID trainee in Leicester and aside from research, has interests in advocacy, medical education and public health. Shaarna worked as the HeadSmart Fellow after which she pursued an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship studying routes to diagnosis and diagnostic intervals for childhood cancer in the UK. She is currently the Early Diagnosis Fellow at the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group, working on a new campaign called Child Cancer Smart. She is also the Awareness Lead for DFTB Skin Deep and sits on the Climate Change Working Group at the RCPCH. Her spare time is currently spent writing her never-ending thesis whilst drinking wine which is probably not the best combination for prompt completion!

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TRAINEE MEMBER

Charlotte is a PEM trainee at Southampton General Hospital. She has just completed a clinical research fellowship at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, obtaining a Master’s in Experimental Medicine at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queens University Belfast. She is the joint-trainee representative on the PERUKI committee and is interested in research and education within PEM.”

iRELAND REPRESENTATIVE 

Michael Barrett is PEM consultant at Children’s Health Ireland, Dublin and Associate
Clinical Professor in University College Dublin. He is Lead for research in the
Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine in Children’s Health Ireland, Dublin.
He is a full-time clinician. He has been involved in Children’s Health Ireland and Irish
Association of Emergency Medicine and Faculty of Paediatrics, Royal College of
Physicians of Ireland guideline development and delivery across Paediatrics. He is
working with the NIHR on trial steering committees for paediatric drug trials. He has
been the Irish National Lead for numerous PERUKI studies including drug trials. Ex-
Chair of Drug and Therapeutics of Children’s Health Ireland. Current Chair of
National Paediatric Mortality Register in the National Office of Clinical Audit, RCSI.
He has productively collaborated with researchers in PERUKI, REPEM, ITERN,
TERN, IAEM, GAPRUKI, PREDICT and PERN. He truly believes that research and
investment in unscheduled care will create the largest positive change for the most
in our hospital systems. A hurling, Gaelic football, rugby fan, slow jogger, buoyant
swimmer and father of 4 of the best.

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WALES REPRESENTATIVE 

Jordan is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Cardiff.  He is the Research Lead and PERUKI site lead at UHW.   Jordan currently holds a Health and Care Research Wales 'Research Time Award' enabling him to pursue his passion as a clinical researcher in PEM and to ensure the children and young people of Wales are represented in PEM research.  Out of work you'll find him behind a drum kit, on a surfboard or preventing his two children from achieving their goal of obtaining Gartland type III supracondylar fractures.  In work you'll find him doing whatever Marianne Jenkins tells him to. 

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Scotland REPRESENTATIVE

Stevve is an honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and a Paediatric Emergency Medicine consultant at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow.

Invited past CHAIR

Damian is a Consultant and Honorary Professor at Leicester Hospitals and Leicester University. He has research interests in scorings systems in acute care, educational evaluation and social media as a means of knowledge translation. He was previously a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and is currently involved as a chief investigator and co-investigator on two large NIHR funded studies. He struggles to keep fit, avoid drinking coffee and clean up after his two daughters.
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