Morgan McMonagle

Morgan McMonagle, MB, BCh, BAO (Hons), MD, FRCSI, FRCPSGlas FACS is a consultant trauma surgeon in the North West London Trauma Network based at St Mary's Hospital, London and a general and vascular surgeon with the South/South West Hospital Group in Ireland. After graduating from University College Dublin (UCD) with honours in 1997, he undertook basic surgical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) hospital group after which he gained further trauma surgery experience at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Following this he gained extensive experience working in prehospital care and aeromedical retrieval with Careflight and Careflight International, Australia and later with MAGPAS air ambulance in the United Kingdom. He completed higher surgical training with the West Midlands surgical training programme, UK followed by a Vascular & Endovascular Fellowship at the Royal Brisbane & Women's hospital, Brisbane, Australia. He then undertook additional fellowship training in trauma, emergency surgery and surgical critical care at the world renowned and prestigious trauma programme Penn-Trauma at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, after which he was awarded fellowship of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). As well as being faculty on the NECPOD report "Trauma: who cares?" (2007), which was instrumental in the development of the UK trauma network, he was the first trauma surgeon appointed at Imperial Healthcare as part of the new London Trauma Network. He was also faculty member on the steering group advising on the document A Trauma System for Ireland: Report of the Trauma Steering Group for the Department of Health, Ireland.

Positions include teaching faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng) in addition to Director of the RCSEng Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills course and a contributing author to e-Learning for Healthcare, NHS Health Education England. He is a clinical lecturer in surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and a senior clinical lecturer in surgery at University College Cork (UCC) and an honorary lecturer in surgery at Imperial College, London. He is an Intercollegiate Examiner in vascular surgery and the author of one other award-winning vascular textbook. He regularly lectures internationally, including visiting professorship to the University of Athens on disaster and conflict medicine and is currently the national clinical lead for mass casualty planning for the Health Service Executive in Ireland.

Interests include; trauma education, trauma systems development, trauma protocol development, management of penetrating injury, complex aortic disease, complex lower limb revascularisation, pharmacological suppression of neointimal hyperplasia, vascular trauma, management of non-compressible haemorrhage, pelvic trauma, trauma thoracotomy, management of postpartum haemorrhage, biomarkers for shock and haemorrhage and management of the open abdomen, including abdominal wall reconstruction.