Mr John D. Caird. MD, MMedSci, FRCS (SN)
Mr Caird has been a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and Our Lady’s Children Hospital, Crumlin now Childrens Health Ireland and Beaumont Hospital since December 2008.
He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1993 and completed his core surgical training in Dublin between 1994 and 1998. His general neurosurgical training was in Newcastle (UK), Dublin and Belfast from 1998 to 2007.
He undertook fellowships in paediatric neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in 2007 and the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Alder Hey in 2008.
His sub-specialist interests in children are tumours of the brain and spinal cord, craniofacial surgery and treatment in children with cerebral palsy.
Mr Caird has a strong track record in education and research. In 2006, he was awarded a postgraduate neuroscience MD in the pathogenesis of intracranial aneurysms and has taught neuro-anatomy at RCSI both as lecturer in 2003 and as Schering Fellow in Neuroscience in 1998. He has published articles on brain tumours in children, head injury and intracranial aneurysm.