Karina Mary Butler is an Irish professor of paediatrics and chair of Ireland's

National Immunisation Advisory Committee The National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) is an Irish National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, advisory body that advises the Chief Medical Officer (Ireland), Chief Medical Officer and Department of Health (Ireland), Department ...

(NIAC).

Background

Butler graduated with a degree in

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

from

University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...

(UCD) in 1978. She became a Fellow of the

Royal College of Physicians of Ireland The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), ( ga, Coláiste Ríoga Lianna na hÉireann) is an Irish professional body dedicated to improving the practice of general medicine and related medical specialities, chiefly through the accredit ...

in 1996.

Career

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 Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin (CHI at Crumlin; ga, Sláinte Leanaí Éireann ag Cromghlinn) in Drimnagh, Dublin is Ireland's largest paediatric hospital. CHI at Crumlin is so called because it is located ''at'' Crumlin. However it is ...

. She is a Clinical Professor in Paediatrics at UCD. Butler is the chair of NIAC and sat on the

National Public Health Emergency Team A National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) is a group within Ireland's Department of Health (Ireland), Department of Health. It is in the power of the Minister for Health (Ireland), Minister for Health to convene such a group when a publi ...

(NPHET) from January 2021 until it disbanded in February 2022.

References

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