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Dr Ritma Boruah

Consultant in Metabolic Diseases

CHI at Temple Street

Boruah

Dr Ritma Boruah 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 Ritma Boruah joined the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) as a Locum Consultant Metabolic Paediatrician in 2020. She completed her paediatric training in Latvia in 2012 and subsequently worked as a General Paediatrician and Emergency Department Paediatrician in Children’s University Hospital in Latvia. After moving to Ireland, she trained in metabolic disorders in the NCIMD.

Dr. Boruah is interested in all Inherited Metabolic Disorders. Her clinical and research interests include Lysosomal Storage Disorders, Primary Mitochondrial Disorders and Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders.

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