Roy K. Philip FRCPI, FRCPCH, MD, DHE, FJFICMI

Prof. Roy Philip is the former Clinical Director of Maternal and Child Health at University Hospital in Limerick, Ireland. He was the President of the Irish Paediatric Association (IPA) from 2007 to 2012. He was formerly the consultant at Rotunda Maternity Hospital in Dublin and the Critical Care & ECMO Fellow at the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London. Prof. Philip is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health of the UK and the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland. In addition to MD in Paediatrics, he also holds postgraduate qualifications in Health Services Management, Health Economics and Healthcare Leadership & Quality.

He was awarded MBA in Healthcare management in 2017. He is a postgraduate examiner at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Neonatology at the University of Limerick, Ireland and an Honorary Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. He is in receipt of National and international awards for health services developments; an invited guest speaker at international conferences and a reviewer & editorial board member of peer-reviewed journals. Neonatal blood sampling device (Philip’s needle) marketed by Vygon as Neo-safe® was developed by him. Prof. Philip's current areas of interest are breastfeeding of premature neonates, RSV & Rotavirus infections, Life-course immunization, Paediatric high dependency care and health services developments through partnerships.