Dr. Nigel Salter

Dr. Nigel Salter is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and is the Head Of Department in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Ireland. He is also the Clinical Director in St Michael's Hospital, Dun Laoghaire. He qualified from Trinity College, University Of Dublin and completed his higher specialist training in Emergency Medicine in Ireland.

He was appointed as the national clinical lecturer for the Emergency Medicine CPD support scheme in the Royal College of Surgeons in 2019, and as part of this role has sat on the Irish Committee of Emergency Medicine Training. He is also an Asscoaited Clinical Professor for Emergency Medicine with University College Dublin.

He is the Chairman of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Council of Ireland of the Irish Heart Foundation. He has lead a working group of the committee advocating for the establishment of a National In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest register, and has led the first one year pilot of the National Cardiac Arrest Audit for the HSE Dublin and South East Region.

Dr Salter has been undertaking medicolegal assessments and writing medicolegal and Garda medical reports regularly for the over 14 years. He has given evidence as a Medical Expert in District Courts, the Children’s Court, Criminal Court, Circuit Court as well as the Coroner’s Court.  

He is currently part of a panel of consultants with Gleemed, a nationwide company providing independent consultant medicolegal reports for organisations including solicitors, insurance companies, and organisations dealing with personal injury claims, in respect of road traffic accidents, public liability and employer liability personal injury claims.

Dr Salter has written Medical Negligence reports regarding emergency medical and acute medical care, as well as timeliness of resuscitation interventions.

In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr Salter is also involved in a number of Hospital Committees, also undertaking relevant research and is regularly published.

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Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of (FRCP), Royal College of Physicians, Ireland, Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (F.R.C.E.M.), Royal College of Emergency Medicine, London