Prof Ellen Crushell

Consultant in Metabolic Diseases

CHI at Temple Street

CHI at Crumlin

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Prof Ellen Crushell 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

Prof. Ellen Crushell, a UCC graduate, qualified as a general paediatrician prior to further specialising in Inherited Metabolic Disorders. She trained at the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) and then completed a senior clinical fellowship in Metabolic Genetics at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, prior to taking up her current consultant post at NCIMD, CHI at Temple st and Crumlin. She served a term as Dean of the Faculty of Paediatrics, RCPI 2017-2020. Since 2020 she has been clinical lead for children with the HSE/RCPI National Clinical Programme for Paediatrics and Neonatology.

Ellen is a Clinical Professor with UCD and enjoys teaching. Clinical and research interests include Infantile Liver Failure Syndromes, Lysosomal Storage Disorders, and the health of marginalised children, who are over-represented in the metabolic service. She and colleagues are involved in international collaborative studies and metab-ERN.

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