Dr Siobhán Neville graduated with first class honours (MB BCh BAO) from UCD in 2011. She completed basic and higher specialist training in General Paediatrics through the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, during which she spent six months working in rural Tanzania as part of the VSO-RCPI Partnership Programme. Dr Neville later completed a two-year Fellowship in Paediatric Hospital Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, where she developed her interest in medical education and completed the Sick Kids Teaching Scholars Program. She is co-editor of the 12th edition of the Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Paediatrics. 

Dr Neville has obtained Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the UK and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Paediatrics of the RCPI, and a member of the International Society of Social Paediatrics and Child Health. She received a Postgraduate Leadership Award from the University of Toronto in 2020. 

Dr Neville obtained a Masters in Quality and Safety in Healthcare Management through the RCSI in 2018 and has been actively involved in quality improvement education and practice. Her clinical and research interests lie in addressing healthcare inequity and the social determinants of health. Dr Neville worked as a Consultant in General Paediatrics at Children’s Hospital Ireland at Temple Street in Dublin before taking up the role of Consultant Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at UL in 2021.

  • MB BCh BAO (First Class Hons), University College Dublin, 2011
  • MRCPI (Paediatrics), Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 2014
  • MRCPCH, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK, 2014
  • MSc Quality and Safety in Healthcare Management, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, 2018

Professional Experience: 

Dr Neville worked as a Consultant General Paediatrician at Children’s Hospital Ireland Temple Street before taking up her current position. Along with her role as Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics at UL, she works as a Consultant General Paediatrician at University Hospital Limerick.

Professional Memberships: 

Fellow of the Faculty of Paediatrics of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (FFPAED)

Member of the International Society for Social Paediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP)

Research Interests: 

Healthcare for children from marginalised populations 

Quality improvement

Publications

Papers

Neville, S. et al. (2016) ‘Friedreich Ataxia in Classical Galactosaemia’, JIMD Reports, (26), pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1007/8904_2015_477.

Neville, S. and O’Grady, M. (2014) ‘Nail Dystrophy Mystery’, Journal of Pediatrics, 164(6), p. 1496. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.02.039.

Abstracts

Neville, S. et al. (2014) ‘Friedreich Ataxia in Classical Galactosaemia’, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, 37(Sept), p. S104. doi: 10.1007/s10545-014-9740-5.

Neville, S. et al. (2012) ‘Growth Hormone Deficiency and Therapy: The Temple Street Experience’, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 181, p. S90. doi: 10.1007/s11845-012-0833-6.

Neville, S. et al. (2011) ‘Along the COX Pathway: an Educational Programme in Translational Therapeutics’, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 180(S1), p. S10. doi: 10.1007/s11845-010-0661-5.

Conference Workshops 

‘Capacity Building for Case-based Quality and Safety Education using QuaCC: the Quality Care Curriculum’, Canadian Conference on Medical Education, Online, April 2021

Conference Presentations 

‘Working to implement guidelines for UTI assessment and management: the WIGUAM Quality Improvement initiative’, Irish Paediatric Association Annual Meeting 2017, Kilkenny, Ireland

‘Friedreich ataxia in classical galactosaemia’, Joint Irish Paediatric Association/Irish & American Paediatric Society Annual Meeting 2014, Cork, Ireland

Additional Information: 

Dr Neville was awarded a Postgraduate Leadership Award from the University of Toronto in 2020, and received a Bright Spark Award for NCHD Innovation from the National Doctors Training and Planning (NDTP) branch of the HSE in 2018, for her development of a medication passport for paediatric renal transplant recipients at CHI Temple Street.