Dr Alan Watts is Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine and Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Limerick. Originally from New York, he spent part of his childhood in Montpellier in France and lived in Boston until moving to Ireland in 1999. He completed his Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine in 2016 having worked in departments around the country. His academic and clinical interests include resuscitation, critical care, chest pain, simulation and pre-hospital Emergency Medicine.

  • BA, Communications, Boston College
  • MB BCh BAO, Trinity College Dublin
  • Diploma in Immediate Medical Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Quality Improvement Leadership in Healthcare, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
  • Postgraduate Diploma of Science in Simulation and Patient Safety, National University of Ireland, Galway
  • Fellowship, Royal College of Emergency Medicine

Professional Experience: 

2017     Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Limerick
2016     Fellow, Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Service, Cork University Hospital
2012    Course Director, Graduate Diploma in Emergency Medical Science, UCD Centre for EMS
2011    Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine
1997    Research Associate/Apheresis & Blood Bank Technologist, BioTransplant and Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Professional Memberships: 

  • Irish Association for Emergency Medicine
  • European Society for Emergency Medicine
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • ACLS Council
  • Medical Advisory Committee, Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council

Research Interests: 

Chest pain, resuscitation and simulation

Publications

Marsden MER, Vulliamy PED, Carden R, Naumann DN, Davenport RA. Trauma
Laparotomy in the UK: A Prospective National Service Evaluation. National Trauma and
Research Collaborative. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021; 233(3):
383-394.

Watts A. Sepsis and septic shock. In: Cameron P, Little M, Mitra B, Deasy C, eds.
Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine. 5th edition. Edinburgh: Elsevier; 2019.

McCabe A, Qasem Q, Watts A, Abdulrazak A, Doyle M, McCann B. Management of Renal
Colic in Waterford Regional Hospital’s Emergency Department – A Retrospective Audit.
National Institutes of Health Science Research Bulletin 2013; 6(4): 2.

Watts A, Foley A, Awwad M, Treter S, Oravec G, Buhler L, Alwayn IP, Kozlowski T,
Lambrigts D, Gojo S, Basker M, White-Scharf ME, Andrews D, Sachs DH, Cooper DK.
Plasma perfusion by apheresis through a Gal immunoaffinity column successfully depletes
anti-Gal antibody: experience with 320 aphereses in baboons. Xenotransplantation 2000;
7(3): 181-5.

Presentations

Coleman O, Watts A. Fascia iliaca compartment block for analgesia of neck of femur fractures: A Systematic Review. Annual Scientific Meeting Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, Oct 2022

McElligott M, Watts A. Man vs Machine: Do Mechanical Chest Compressions Improve Survival Outcomes in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – A Systematic Review
Annual Scientific Meeting Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, Oct 2021

Green P, O’Gorman E, Dixon M, Kelly D, Watts A. Designing a high-fidelity helicopter emergency medicine simulation. Annual Scientific Meeting Irish Association for Emergency Medicine, Oct 2019

Watts A, Breen D. MICAS South Service. Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Scientific Symposium, 
March 2017

Watts A, Foley A, Awwad M, Treter S, Lambrigts D, Buhler L, Gojo S, Basker M, Oravec G, Sachs DH, Andrews D, Cooper DK. Plasma perfusion by apheresis through a gal immunoaffinity column successfully depleted anti-Gal antibody: experience with 275 aphereses in baboons. 5th Congress of the International Xenotransplantation Association, Oct 1999
 

Additional Information: 

Dr Watts enjoys whitewater rafting and has rafted rivers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Italy, Peru, and Zambia. Additionally, he enjoys film and trivia and pub quizzes.