Meet our team

Our medical staff are easy to identify. Our Emergency Medicine Consultants all wear purple scrubs while our Emergency Medicine Registrars wear dark green scrubs. Our other junior doctors wear standard blue scrubs.

Medical Team

Dr Graeme McAlpine

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Training Programme Director

Dr Sarah Robinson

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Associate Director of Medical Education, RIE

A millennium graduation thrust Sara into the medical profession without any clear forward plan. The medical school year book provided some inspiration placing her in the Emergency Medicine section and suggesting she was the person most likely to sail the seven seas.

  • Her first SHO job in the Emergency Department of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was so exciting and rewarding that it pushed aside any doubts about where her career was headed. The career did however have to go on standby whilst she circumnavigated the globe (4 seas, 3 oceans, 2 years….bliss).

    Having (finally) completed training and achieved Consultant status in 2012 Sara can now been found promoting a career in Emergency Medicine to anyone who will listen. She shares her passion for emergency care by regularly instructing on ATLS and EPLS courses.

    Current responsibilities include the junior doctor rota and locum appointments. She is well qualified to discuss flexible and less than full time training patterns, having done both over the course of her training. She welcomes enquiries from anyone who wishes to become part of the energetic and dynamic team that convinced her that Emergency Medicine is great medicine.

Dr Janet Skinner

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Undergraduate Education & Clinical Skills.

Janet is a local East Lothian lass who has never actually managed to leave. She graduated from Edinburgh in 1994 and trained in SE Scotland becoming a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh in 2007.

  • During her SpR training she developed an interest in medical education and had some time out of programme to do a Masters and a research fellowship.

    Half of her current post is as Director of Clinical Skills at the University of Edinburgh, leading and co-ordinating undergraduate clinical skills and acute care teaching. This means that she frequently gets the blame for every ‘failing’ of junior doctors from other consultants! She is responsible, with the rest of the clinical skills team, for running the clinical skills and simulation centre in Chancellor’s Building.

    She is also the module organiser for the year 5 Emergency Medicine medical student attachment and is particularly interested in trying to ensure that students have a positive learning experience in ED, rather than leaving feeling like ‘cannulation monkeys’.

    Janet has 1PA for work with NHS Education Scotland through their Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network that co-ordinates clinical skills teaching across Scotland, including managing a mobile skills unit that delivers teaching to remote and rural areas. She was the abdominal modules section editor for the CEM ENLIGHTENme project.

    Most importantly, she is proud mum to two ‘kittens’…..Molly and Daisy.

Dr David Caesar

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
National Clinical Advisor (Secondary Care) to the CMO.

David graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1997, having been educated in Aberdeenshire, Sarawak, and Dorset. He joined the South East Scotland Emergency Medicine Training Programme in 2001, and, with a year’s sojourn in Christchurch New Zealand, completed his training in 2006. 

  • He has been Lead for Clinical Governance, Training Programme Director for SE Scotland, was Clinical Director of the Edinburgh EM service for 4.5 yrs, and most recently has been Associate Medical Director at the Western General Hospital & Clinical lead for Major Trauma in South-East Scotland.

    He has a strong interest in Medical Leadership, writes a regular column for the Edinburgh Evening News, and has lectured on Leadership to the Ernst & Young “Connecting Emerging Leaders” network, the University of Edinburgh Business School, and to the UK Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants.

    He has a very tolerant wife, 2 boisterous sons, a shoe-obsessed daughter, and not quite enough bicycles.

Dr Dave McKean

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine

Dave graduated from Edinburgh University in 2009 and continues to have a keen interest in teaching and examining undergraduate medical students there. He trained in Emergency Medicine in the South-East Scotland Deanery before being appointed to a substantive Consultant post at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

  • His specialist interests involve Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Retrieval Medicine, regularly undertaking clinical work with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service.

    He also has a keen interest in the use of technology in healthcare and is the developer of multi-award winning iOS Apps for the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service, The Scottish Paediatric Retrieval Service, EMRTS Cymru in Wales and MedSTAR South Australia. He is also the developer of this website.

    During his training he undertook a clinical leadership fellowship with The Scottish Government where he was responsible for the implementation of a quality improvement curriculum undergraduates and for doctors in training.

    Dave has an extremely patient, handbag-obsessed wife who despite discussion with the training programme director was unable to make him work even more hours!!

    In what little spare time he has he enjoys eating out, and generally relaxing!

Dr Gareth Clegg

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
EMeRGE & Cardiac Arrest Research

Gareth Clegg trained in Emergency Medicine in Edinburgh having completed undergraduate degrees in Medicine and Psychology. He started research work early in the course of EM training - initially looking with Professor Colin Robertson at whether the ventricular fibrillation ECG waveform could be used to guide real time resuscitation of patients in cardiac arrest.

  • He then completed a PhD in cell biology as a Wellcome Clinical Research Fellow and went on to complete a CSO Intermediate Fellowship at the MRC Centre for Inflammation Research in Edinburgh looking at the process of lung epithelial repair after acute lung injury. He now works as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at in the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at Edinburgh University and Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh.

    Gareth is co-founder of the Emergency Medicine Research Group in Edinburgh (EMERGE) and leads the Resuscitation Research Group, a collaborative involving Edinburgh University, the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS Lothian. Research interests include the physiology and clinical management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, non-technical skills in time critical resuscitation, and the physiology of fluid resuscitation. The group coordinates the TOPCAT2 project and 3RU team along with a range of other projects relating to all all elements of the OHCA response ‘system’ summarised in the Chain of Survival.

Dr Sarah Alexander

Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr Rachel Anderson

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Dr Shirin Brady

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Lead for Simulation

Shirin graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2004. She moved to Scotland for her house officer jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh; before taking off to the other side of the world, where she spent a year in Hamilton, New Zealand, on a medical rotation.

  • She returned to the UK and her first Emergency Medicine post in Portsmouth, after which started her training in Emergency Medicine in the South East Scotland deanery. She completed her training in 2013, and was appointed to a consultant post in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh shortly after.

    She has an interest in Simulation Medicine for the development of clinical knowledge and skills, and non-technical skills within the Emergency Department.

    She splits her spare time between sport: her snowboard in the winter and her climbing shoes in the summer, and enjoying eating out with friends!

Dr Dylan Broomfield

Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr Jen Browning

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Jen, a Glaswegian at heart, crossed the east-west divide in 1992 to study Medicine at Edinburgh University. Having graduated from here she pursued a career in Orthopaedics before seeing the light and converting to Emergency Medicine.

  • She joined the South-East Scotland Emergency Medicine team in 2004 and developed her interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

    Jen commenced her post as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in March 2010. She also does sessions at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Jen is keen to “Bridge the Gap” in Adolescent Emergency Medicine especially with the reprovision of the RHSC.

    Jen spends the rest of her time running around after her 3 boys.

Dr Gregor Campbell-Hewson

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr Jon Carter

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

I am part of a vibrant team of emergency medicine consultants. I originate from Lancashire and did my medical degree in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I had a taste of emergency medicine in my foundation years, then did a medical rotation and worked as a respiratory registrar in Stockton-on-Tees before the MMC tide swept me to Glasgow where I worked as a haematology registrar.

  • However my passion for seeing undifferentiated patients, making a diagnosis and fixing people drew me back to EM and I have worked in NHS Lothian since 2008.

    I love acute medicine and innovative ways of teaching, and I'm a big fan of FOAM (Free Online Access to Meducation).

    When I'm not working I enjoy testing the integrity of my tibias in the local Sunday football league, singing and songwriting, and having my nose chewed by my seven-month-old daughter.

Dr Kristina Rebecca Cranfield

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Lead

Rebecca graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2003, following education in Sheffield and Brighton, and electives in Japan and Australia. Initially, she began training in surgery on the Edinburgh Basic Surgical Training rotation, but after working in Johannesburg and King's College Hospital, London, her main interest became the initial management of the trauma patient.

  • She joined the SE Scotland Emergency Medicine Training Programme in 2006 and is currently trainee representative for the Scottish Trauma Audit Group.

    In 2012, she was awarded the Robin Mitchell Medic One travel fellowship and spent just under 3 months in Shock Trauma, at the University of Maryland Medical Centre, Baltimore. Her time spent in the Trauma Resuscitation Unit and Radiology, heightened her enthusiasm and determination to improve trauma care in the UK, and also to explore and extend the role of ultrasound in the Emergency Department.

    In 2015, she became the Emergency Medicine regional ultrasound lead for NHS Lothian and has rapidly developed further enthusiasm for Point Of Care UltraSound in Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Critical Care. Her excitement for all things POCUS and FOAMEd may be found at @EmergencyMedDr on Twitter.

    Having trained and worked in 10 different Emergency Departments internationally, she is passionate about learning from other departments across the world, and equally to impart Edinburgh's excellence on visiting doctors and trainees.

    Outside the bright lights and fast pace of the Emergency Department, she can usually be found chasing other kinds of excitement, often involving mountains and her beloved pair of K2 skis, soon to pop her little person on a pair of her own little skis. She is currently undertaking the Fellowship of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and has been the doctor for the coldest race on earth, the Yukon Arctic Ultra-marathon.

Dr Craig Davidson

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
SE Scotland CEM FOAM Lead

Dr Nicola Di Rollo

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Lead for Airway, RIE

Dr Jane Fothergill

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
SJH Rota Master

Jane graduated from the University of Bristol and completed her training in Emergency Medicine in London before becoming a consultant at St Mary’s Hospital/Imperial College London in 1991.

  • She was the Lead Clinician for the £5.4M charitable appeal for the new Children’s ED at SMH, marking the hospital’s 150th Anniversary. Jane completely rewrote the SMH Major Incident Plan, which was successfully activated to care for the 55 most critically injured patients following the Paddington Rail Crash in 1999.

    She was an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer from 1997 at Imperial College London and now at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. She Chaired the Medical School Admission Panels (including those for clinical students from Oxbridge). She was the last Honorary President of the SMH Medical Students’ Union.

    She was the editor/author of the SMH Handbook of Medical Emergencies and subsequently the St John’s Hospital Emergency Department Guidelines, published on the Lothian intranet.

    She was firstly Secretary then Chairman of The Training Standards Committee of The College of Emergency Medicine 2000-2007, & also a Member of CEM Council.

    She was a National Panellist for EM Consultant appointments in Scotland from 2003 to 2009 and CEM representative on the Scottish Specialty Training Board for Anaesthetics & EM from 2006-11. She has been an FCEM examiner since 2004.

    She was the sole UK adviser setting up training in the new specialty of EM in West Indies, and external examiner UWE in Barbados and Jamaica from 2001-2008 with trainee registrars on secondments for training at SMH and then SJH.

    Jane continues to have a strong interest in specialty training in EM and on a more mundane level has never been able to hand over the task of preparing all the ED medical staff rotas during her 22 years as a consultant.

    Her partner John keeps the home fires burning – literally, as they live 1000 feet up a remote Scottish hillside. Walking with their 4 dogs, reading, enjoying good food and wine keeps them happy. And they also have a house on the Greek island of Skopelos where they spend as much of the year as time allows.

Dr Alasdair Gray

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine

Qualified from Edinburgh University in 1989; postgraduate training in emergency medicine in Scotland and Yorkshire. Consultant in Emergency Medicine in Leeds and in Edinburgh since 2001. Currently, research director for the Emergency Medicine Research Group, Edinburgh and College Professor of Emergency Medicine. Current research interests include chest pain assessment and sepsis.

Dr Marie-Clare Harris

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Lead for Patient Safety, RIE

Marie-Clare is from Glasgow and was hired as an SPR in 2006 as part of a government initiative to employ people in Lothian from socioeconomically and ethnically more diverse regions that the previous trawl of public schools and Oxbridge feeder colleges.

  • She graduated from Glasgow University in 2001 and also has an honours degree in biochemistry that was probably a mistake.

    Despite initial reluctance to engage in any of the Edinburgh nonsense, she found herself taking on a consultant post in 2010, to her and everyone else’s surprise.

    She enjoys travel to arcane and occasionally dangerous locations, cooking and convincing people that vegetarian food does not suck, and learning Italian, which she has no aptitude for whatsoever.

    Despite constant protestations that she is a hardened West coaster, she now lives in the grange and grows organic vegetables and is fooling nobody.

Dr Ed James

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Ed started hanging around the Emergency Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh as a medical student and they have kept employing him ever since.

  • He graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School in 2006 with an intercalated degree in Virology. After completing the Foundation programme he went directly into a run-through training programme for Emergency Medicine in South-East Scotland. During this time Ed took a 6 month OOPE in Intensive Care Medicine, has developed an interest in Quality Improvement/Audit and became a member of the Emergency Department Airway Group. In 2015 he started as an ED Consultant in the RIE.

    Outside of work, Ed is married with a small child. Much to his wife’s consternation he has a growing library of books, first editions and proofs/ARCs. He owns more copies of Harry Potter than any grown man ought to.

Dr Dean Kerslake

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
Lead for Major Trauma

Dean graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2002, having been educated in Northwood, Middlesex.  He joined the South East Scotland Emergency Medicine Training Programme in 2006.

  • During this time he completed a one year trauma fellowship in South Africa and a further thirteen months treating seriously injured patients at the roadside with Kent Air Ambulance and London Air Ambulance. He underwent dual training in Intensive Care Medicine and completed his training in 2013 when he was appointed as a Consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is an ultrasound enthusiast and teaches bedside echocardiography for the critically ill patient.

    In preparation for the Emergency Department, he spent six years as a nightclub supervisor and nine years in human resources with Marks & Spencer. When not travelling to visit family in London, Spain and Ireland he disappears to far away places doing a multitude of activities with a number of Swedish nurses.

Dr Alistair Kidd

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Alastair graduated in medicine with distinction from the University of Newcastle in 2001.  He joined the South East Scotland Emergency Medicine Training Programme in 2005.  He completed his Emergency Medicine Training with Paediatric sub specialty certification in 2010.

  • He was appointed as a substantive Consultant in the ED at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and St John's. His training in Emergency Medicine is not typical having first graduated in 1995 from Glasgow University with a degree in Dentistry. He began on a career path training in oral and maxillofacial surgery before realizing the enlightened practice of Emergency Medicine.He is a local boy and has returned with family to where he grew up.

    Perfect Sunday - first tracks with my snowboard in chest deep powder am followed 18 holes pm.

Dr Alexis Leal

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr Simon Leigh-Smith

MOD Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Simon graduated from Liverpool in 1990 and had a varied training / experience including Commando, Para, GP, Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital/Retrieval before Consultant appointment in 2006.

  • He has worked in Liverpool, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Portsmouth, London, Sydney, Kuwait, Iraq, Belize, Norway, Antarctic, South Atlantic, Iraq and Afghanistan.

    He is ‘virtually fluent’ in French and is hoping that now the RN and French Navy share an aircraft carrier he may get more chance to practice.

    He has a strong interest in Tension Pneumothorax, Human Factors in team working and the delivery of excellent pre-hospital care to major trauma and critical illness.

    He loves all the usual ‘adventure sports’ but after he sailed around Cape Horn his wife and 2 daughters were glad to hear that he no longer wanted to sail around the world!

    He tries to exercise his Hungarian Vizsla (dog) whilst mountain biking but often feels guilty leaving her behind to go for long road rides…..

Dr Paul Leonard

Consultant in EM & Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Professional Lead for RHSC ED

Paul graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 and trained in the South East of Scotland. He is the Professional Lead for the Paediatric ED at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. He also works at the ED at Saint John’s Hospital Livingston and for the ehealth department. His wife is a full time foster carer so when not at work he spends his time looking after an ever increasing number of children!

Dr Katy Letham

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Katy graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2005 and worked in the northern deanery in England before realising the error of her ways and gravitating back to the motherland. She has been training in emergency medicine in Edinburgh since 2007 and has been lucky enough to spend a year out of programme in various exciting places around the world.

  • This included a stint of expedition medicine in remote south-west Madagascar and a job in aeromedical retrieval and prehospital medicine in the Gold Coast in Australia.

    She has an interest in medical education and has been working towards gaining an MSc in clinical education from the University of Edinburgh. She puts the learned theory into practice when teaching on courses such as EPLS and level 1 emergency ultrasound courses.

    When not working she can generally be found spending all her money on travelling to remote parts of the globe to pursue her extra-curricular loves: skiing and scuba diving. She is a certified PADI Divemaster and has an incredible knowledge of Indian Ocean reef fish and corals – she’ll tell you all about it if you’re willing to listen.

Dr Stephen Lynch

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Training Programme Director

Stephen graduated from University College Cork, Ireland in 1998. His initially training was in Cork and latterly Dublin where he gained invaluable experience working in several Emergency Departments.

  • He commenced specialty training in Edinburgh in 2005 and enjoyed a two year out of programme experience working with the medical education unit of the University of Edinburgh. During this time he completed an MSc in Clinical Education.

    He has worked as a Consultant in the region since 2010 and in the last year became TPD for the region and thoroughly enjoys the challenge of working in this role. He acts as lead for patient safety and the Observation Ward at St. John’s Hospital.

    He has the good fortune of being married to a much more sensible fellow EM consultant and endeavours not to talk about work when at home or on holiday.

Dr Richard Lyon

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Clinical Lead for Medic One

Richard is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, HEMS Consultant and Director of Research for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

  • Richard has an established research portfolio in pre-hospital resuscitation, trauma care and emergency medicine and currents leads the Medic One pre-hospital team.

    He has won several international awards including the top research award from the European Resuscitation Council. Richard was a doctor for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium and takes leading roles in Event Medicine.

    He is an active member of the UK International Search & Rescue Team and recently deployed to Nepal following the devastating earthquake. He has previous experience in the British Armed Forces.

    Richard is a current member of the Resuscitation Council (UK) Executive Committee and author of several international pre-hospital guidelines.

Dr Martin McKechnie

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Lead for Scottish Trauma Network

Dr Nicola McCullough

Consultant in Emergency Medicine.
Clinical Director for Emergency Medicine, SJH

Nicola graduated from the Dundee Medical School in 2002 and since then has gained experience in several of Scotland's emergency departments from Aberdeen to Lanarkshire. Most recently as a Consultant in Wishaw General Hospital. 

  • Over her career she spent time in most surgical specialties before settling on Emergency Medicine because of its daily variety which prevents her tendency towards becoming bored!

    Her spare time is spent with her husband and daughter as well as singing in a choir. She has even taken up the sport of triathlon in an attempt to get more fit.

Dr Randal McRoberts

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & PHEM
Lead for Major Incident Planning

Randal has worked in Lothian since 2001 and in addition to Emergency Medicine has a special interest in Pre-Hospital and Remote Medical Care. He combines the disciplines through his work in Lothian Emergency Medicine & Medic-1 and also via his additional work with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) based in Glasgow.

  • He has previously worked as a rural GP in Scotland and was an Antarctic research station Doctor for 2 years with the British Antarctic Survey.

    Outside of work, Randal can either be found in Utah on his beloved telemark skis or deep in Scotland’s mountains his mountain bike. Kitesurfing, in Tiree or in slightly warmer waters off Morocco, is the cause of his favourite proclamation of delight - “yeeeeeeehaaaaaaa!!!!”.

Dr Krishna Murthy

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Krishna Murthy trained in Emergency Medicine in South East Scotland having graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School in 2004. He was appointed to a substantive Consultant post in 2013 and divides his clinical practice between adults at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and paediatrics at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.

  • He has a special interest in the management of orthopaedic presentations in the Emergency Department and develops our local protocols for this as well as sedations practices. He has represented Emergency Medicine on the National Hip Fracture Audit Steering Group for several years and represents South East Scotland on the Board of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scotland, currently in his second term.

    Krishna has been an ATLS instructor for over 10 years and is an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. He enjoys teaching doctors and allied health professional of all grades. He continues to support the activities of the MEDIC 1 pre-hospital service locally. When not at work he enjoys snowboarding and being a father and husband to his to his loving family.

    For new approaches contact drmkmurthy@yahoo.com.

Dr Jasmine NG

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Lead for Patient Safety, SJH

Jasmine graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2004. She then worked in a variety of hospitals throughout the UK including Glasgow, Basildon and Airedale, before she came back to South East Scotland in 2008, where she started her ACCS Emergency Medicine training. 

  • She gained her CCT in August 2012, having also spent 6 months working as an Emergency Physician in Hong Kong. Since then she has worked as an Emergency Medicine consultant in Wishaw and in Fife. She will start her post as consultant Emergency Medicine in St John’s Hospital Livingston in March 2014.

    In her free time, you will either find Jasmine learning to cycle in a park away from the main road, or eating out with her friends in town.

Dr Angela Oglesby

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Paediatric EM
Chair of Medic One Trust

Angela was educated in North Yorkshire and graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1993. She joined the South-East Scotland Emergency Medicine training programme in 1999 and undertook additional training in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

  • Angela commenced her post as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in March 2004.

    Angela is lead for the Emergency Department Intubation Registry at RIE and has been involved with the project since 1999 with extensive publications and presentations. She is lead for Paediatric liaison at the Royal Infirmary and is Chairperson for the Medic 1 Trust fund. Importantly, Angela instigated the renowned cake rota at the Sick Childrens ED!

    Away from work, Angela loves hill walking, running, skiing and cooking.

Dr Mish Open

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Dr Gillian Pickering

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Gillian graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2008 and then moved to Edinburgh to complete her training in Emergency Medicine. She completed her training with paediatric subspecialty in 2018 having a short venture to Canada to do paeds ultrasound.

Out of work most likely to be found up a hill.

Professor Matt Reed

Professor of Emergency Medicine
EMERGE Research Director

Dr Lindsay Reid

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Lindsay graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 2002 and undertook a rather tortuous path in to Emergency Medicine. Her enthusiasm for Emergency Medicine was certainly fuelled after a year in Australia, although she was uncertain if that was just all the sunshine.

  • She started out on a GP training programme on her return to Scotland and soon saw the light after another stint in Emergency Medicine at RIE. Becoming mixed up in MMC she finally began on an Emergency Medicine training programme in 2008 and became a Consultant in 2012 with subspecialty Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

    She promotes high quality emergency care in children by teaching nursing and medical staff based on adult sites and is currently Emergency Medicine representative for children’s surgical services in the region.

    When not at work she will often be seen donning a tartan outfit at the Highland Games judging the Highland Dancing.

Dr Toria Reid

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Mr David Steedman

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Wise Old Dog

David Graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1979. He trained as a Registrar and Senior Registrar in Edinburgh and a brief period in Queensland, Australia. David was appointed as substantive Consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1990.

  • David was the Clinical Director/Lead for the Emergency Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh between 2001 -2008.

    David’s MD thesis focused on the Medic One Accident Flying Squad. He was a member of the Flying Squad Team which responded to the Lockerbie Air Disaster, the Kurdish Refugee Crisis and the Guthrie Street tenement collapse.

    David is the author of an Emergency Medicine textbook, several book chapters and author/co-author of 50 papers in peer review journals.

    David has been the recipient of the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow Travelling Fellowship, the 3M Research Award and the Emergency Medicine Research Society Scholarship. He has chaired and served on several Committees of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Emergency Medicine Research Society, the Faculty of Emergency Medicine and the College of Emergency Medicine.

    David is a sports car and motor cycle enthusiast. He lives with his wife, 3 children and Baxter, all of whom play better golf than him (not the dog) much to his embarrassment.

Dr Andy Stevenson

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Andy was born and raised in Fife. He studied medicine at Glasgow University, graduating in 2002. After graduation, Andy made the short journey to Edinburgh to take up a pre-registration house officer post at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

  • This initial post comprised of orthopaedics, psychiatry and medicine and it was this initial exposure to acute medicine which shaped his future choice to work at the ‘front door’ of the hospital.

    Andy’s career then progressed through a number of medical specialities and a short stint in neurosurgery before dipping his toes in the murky pool that is Emergency Medicine. Enjoying this first exposure to the unpredictable and interesting world of the emergency department Andy took up a training post in 2008.

    Completing this training in 2012 he was appointed to a substantive post at St John’s hospital in 2013.

    Andy has an interest in medical education and service development. He is essentially a geek and enjoys appropriately geeky things (computers, films and history).

    He has a wife, two sons and two cats. He avoids exercise and likes wine.

Dr Matt Vale

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Dr Craig Walker

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine
Lead for Simulation

Craig grew up in various parts of Scotland before graduating from Edinburgh University. After spending his medical elective in Emergency Medicine in Queensland, Australia, further EM posts confirmed that dealing with the big, acute, traumatic, scary stuff was where his interests lay and he joined the South East Scotland Emergency Medicine Training Programme.

  • He developed an additional passion for Intensive Care Medicine during that time, completed dual training and was appointed as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care.

    He has presented at numerous National and International Conferences and Meetings and maintains an active research interest. He was awarded the Scottish Intensive Care Society (SICS) Research Prize for work on lactate clearance in sepsis.

    Craig is the Co-Lead for EM Simulation Training. Related work includes the creation and development of the STOP5 Hot Debrief model, an innovative and simple framework that helps teams to support each other and improve their working environments following Resuscitation cases.

Dr Emma-Beth Wilson

Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Emma-Beth graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2003, having been educated in Leeds and Buckinghamshire.  After completing critical care rotation she joined the South East Scotland Emergency Medicine Training Programme in 2007 and subspecialised in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.

  • She was appointed as a substantive Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 2012.

    She is the lead for valuing staff, well-being and resilience. She She currently manages the consultant rota and is an educational supervisor for trainees.

    She also has the important role of being the consultant social secretary.

    When not at work she spends time with her husband and 2 children and in a spare minute loves running and yoga.

Dr Jonathan Wraight

Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Jonathan graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 and promptly fled the country for New Zealand. After a period of respiratory research he joined the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and trained in Dunedin, Christchurch andPerth, WA.

  • Ten years after leaving Scotland he returned with an EM Fellowship, a love of coffee and a Kiwi twang which can still occasionally be heard in moments of excitement.

    He spent a year as a clinical toxicology fellow before accepting a substantive post in Emergency Medicine and Toxicology with NHS Lothian. His works in the Emergency Department at St John’s hospital, with the clinical toxicology service at the Royal Infirmary and edits TOXBASE entries for the National Poisons Information Service.

    He is interested in good clinical care, the poisoned patient and the potential for using gadgets well in Emergency Medicine. A little incongruously for an Emergency Physican he also has a Masters degree in medical molecular genetics.

    Outside the hospital his time is happily taken up by his family and his camera, and less happily by the damp patches on the back wall of the house.