I'm a senior trainee in paediatric surgery (ST8) and interested in congenital birth anomalies. My main focus is diaphragmatic hernia repair in patients born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. 

My pre-clinical work is focused on improving scaffolds for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) repair. Scaffolds currently used in clinical practice to close the diaphragmatic defect still carry a high complication rate, including recurrence (~16%), bowel obstruction and chest wall deformities. I am working with the School of Pharmacy at QUB to design novel bioprinted scaffolds. I have experience in large and small animal models of CDH and will use these to translate scaffolds tested in vitro. 

I am also interested in studying the diaphragmatic repair in patients. I lead "The Defect Study" on behalf of the paediatric surgery trainee network (UK). This study has captured CDH repairs in neonates at centres across the UK and Ireland over a 2 year time frame.