Prof Ina Knerr

Consultant in Metabolics

CHI at Temple Street

Prof Ina Knerr is a consultant in Metabolics and practices primarily in CHI at Temple Street.

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

Professor Ina Knerr is a consultant metabolic paediatrician at the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) in Dublin. She has been a consultant in paediatric metabolic medicine for almost 20 years. For over 10 years of these, she held this position at Children’s University Hospital in Erlangen-Nuremberg, and then at The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and, after moving to Ireland, at the NCIMD in Dublin. She has full registration with the Irish Medical Council; furthermore, she was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Faculty of Paediatrics, in 2013. Having studied at the University of Frankfurt/Main, she qualified as a consultant in the specialist areas of Paediatrics, Endocrinology and Paediatric Metabolic Medicine, and she went on to obtain a higher academic qualification in Germany, PD/’habilitation’. Her research activities include a number of collaborative projects as well as research stays in the United States (in Pittsburgh, Washington, D.C., and at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda).

Professor Ina Knerr is the Chairperson of the Irish Society of Inherited Metabolic Disorders (ISIMD), communicating editor for the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (JIMD), and a council member of the Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (SSIEM). Professor Ina Knerr is the Chairperson of the local organizing committee for the SSIEM Annual Symposium in Dublin in 2027.

In conclusion, she is passionate about Paediatric Metabolic Medicine and patient care. She is committed to making her very best personal contribution to the direction and development of this discipline.

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