Karina Butler
Karina Butler | |
|---|---|
| Born | Karina Mary Butler |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin |
| Occupation(s) | Doctor, academic |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Employer | University College Dublin |
| Known for | Chair of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee |
Karina Mary Butler is an Irish professor of paediatrics and chair of Ireland's National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC).[1]
Background
[edit]Butler graduated with a degree in medicine from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1978. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1996.[2]
Career
[edit]Butler is a specialist consultant in paediatrics and infectious disease at Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street and Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin. She is a Clinical Professor in Paediatrics at UCD.[2][1][3][4]
Butler is the chair of NIAC and sat on the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) from January 2021 until it disbanded in February 2022.[5][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Prof Karina Butler – Keynote Speakers – IDSI". www.idsociety.ie. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Search Results – Karina Mary Butler". medicalcouncil.ie. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ "Consultants A-Z". www.olchc.ie. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ a b "UCD Professor, Karina Butler, Appointed to NPHET | College Tribune". collegetribune.ie. 13 January 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
- ^ Horgan-Jones, Jack (5 January 2021). "Nphet gets three new members to boost infectious disease, scientific resources". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
Categories:
- Living people
- Irish women academics
- Irish women medical doctors
- Alumni of University College Dublin
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
- Irish infectious disease physicians
- Irish pediatricians
- 20th-century Irish medical doctors
- 21st-century Irish medical doctors
- Academics of Trinity College Dublin