Dr Caoimhe Howard

Consultant in Metabolic Diseases

CHI at Temple Street

Dr Caoimhe Howard is a consultant in Metabolic Diseases and practices primarily in CHI at Temple Street/CHI at Crumlin.

Metabolic Medicine (National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders)
The National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) at CHI is Ireland’s specialist referral service for children with inherited metabolic conditions. Our consultants work as part of a highly experienced multidisciplinary team providing diagnosis, acute care and long-term management for a wide range of metabolic disorders, many of which require lifelong monitoring and specialist dietary treatment. We support patients and families from across the country, offering coordinated, family-centred care alongside national advisory support to clinicians. For more detailed information on conditions treated, referral pathways and supports available, please visit the Metabolic Medicine service page.

Referrals
Referrals to the NCIMD typically come from the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme, and from tertiary and quaternary sources.

New referrals are accepted within the age-attendance policy of CHI, i.e. up to the eve of the person’s 16th birthday.

The NCIMD is recognised by the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) to provide training for medical professionals in paediatric inherited metabolic diseases.

Biography

Dr Caoimhe Howard joined the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) as a Locum Consultant Metabolic Paediatrician in 2022. She completed her paediatrics training through the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 2021. She has undertaken several years of specialist training in metabolic medicine at the NCIMD, followed by a Clinical Fellowship in Biochemical Genetics at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr Howard’s clinical and research interests include primary mitochondrial disorders. She runs an outreach clinic in Cork University Hospital 4 times a year. She has a keen interest in medical education and leads the metabolic teaching programme at the NCIMD.

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