Niall is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Sunderland Royal Hospital . He is an accidental clinical researcher having joined the PERUKI Research Steering Committee at its inception. He is the PERUKI site lead for Sunderland and a recent graduate of the North East’s Green Shoots Research Programme. His other main interest is simulation based medical education and he is the RCPCH Simulation lead for the North East. When not working or playing with dolls he obsesses over the (mis)fortunes of Liverpool Football Club and unsuccessfully tries to get his two children to do the same. He is also devilishly handsome, great with kids & loves his mum.