This podcast features one of Ireland’s most dynamic anaesthesiologists.

Professor Ellen O’Sullivan, a consultant anaesthesiologist at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, has a worldwide reputation in airway management and a substantial portfolio of cutting edge research. She was elected President of the Difficult Airway Society in November 2009 and, in 2016, she was appointed the Difficult Airway Society Professor of Anaesthesia and Airway Management. She has held many senior professional roles, membership and fellowships, at home and overseas, e.g., in the Society of Airway Management USA, European Airway Management Society, the Airway Special Interest Group, and the International Airway Management Society (IAMS). She was elected to the Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) in 2001 and became Vice-President. She received the John Snow Silver Medal for her contributions to the AAGBI, and the Dudley Buxton award from the Royal College of Anaesthetists for services to anaesthesia, and is the Past-President of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI). 

In this wide-ranging conversation, Ellen reflects on her happy childhood in West Cork, her school days in Cork, as well as the juggling of numerous personal and professional commitments as she made her steady progress to the apex of anaesthesiology in the UK and Ireland, and she touches on her varied global initiatives in airway care and capnography, and her passionate dedication to the development of anaesthesiology in East Africa. 

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