Pulmonary and critical care fellow
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland/Seattle Children's, Ireland
Dr. Oliver McElvaney is an Irish pulmonary/critical care physician and researcher with joint appointments at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Seattle Children’s Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from University College Dublin Medical School in 2013, before undertaking specialist clinical training with a focus on cystic fibrosis at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and the Irish Centre for Genetic Lung Disease at Beaumont Hospital. Dr. McElvaney is a past recipient of the Physician’s Award from the Royal Academy of Medicine, the Canavan Medal for clinical medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and the Sheppard Prize for translational research. He was awarded Ireland’s inaugural StAR-MD research scholarship for his work in the field of CF and completed his PhD on the role of immunometabolism in inflammatory lung disease in 2019. His research interests include rare and genetic lung disease, clinical trials, epidemiology, airway inflammation, neutrophil cell biology and cell metabolism. He will be continuing his role as a CF investigator and clinician at the University of Washington in 2023.