Prof David Coghlan

Professor Coghlan trained at leading paediatric centres in Ireland and completed a Clinical Fellowship at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He is currently working as an acute physician with particular interest in food allergy in children, penicillin allergy and the medical surveillance of Neurofibromatosis Type 1. He is a founding member of the GAPRUKI collaborative research group investigating hot topics in acute general paediatrics. Leadership roles included the General Paediatrics Lead role where he developed a new model of care for the new national children’s hospital (NPH) and began an integration process for three current hospitals.

He is a Clinical Associate Professor to Trinity College Dublin. Current interests include delabelling children with penicillin allergy and the performance of component testing in the cashew allergic child. He has supervised and reviewed many MD and postgraduate candidates including the benefits of Vit D in an asthmatic population and grass sensitisation patterns in asthma children attending primary care. He has been recognized through numerous awards and honours, including the prestigious Paediatrician of the Year award at the Laya Healthcare Awards in 2015