Ellen O'sullivan MB, FRCA, FCAI, FCPSP

Dr. Ellen O’Sullivan trained in anesthesia in the UK and USA and spent 10 years as a Consultant at Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, UK. Now a consultant at St James Hospital Dublin, Ireland she specializes in airway management. She has been involved in the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) since it’s the foundation and was elected President of DAS in November 2009.

In 2016 she was appointed the Difficult Airway Society Professor of Anesthesia and Airway Management. She is very active in research In this area and has been part of a number of guideline groups. She was the chair of the first WAMM meeting in 2015 (World Airway Management Meeting) and is the executive director of WAMM 2019 to be held in Amsterdam. She is the immediate Past-President of the College of Anesthetists of Ireland having held numerous posts including Chair of Education and Chair of Examinations. More recently Prof O’Sullivan has been elected to the Council of the Royal College of Anesthetists UK and has set up and chaired their first Global Partnership Committee.