Assoc ProfessorDavid Menzies

Dr David Menzies is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at St Vincent’s University Hospital and a Clinical Professor at University College Dublin. A graduate of the Irish Emergency Medicine Training Programme, he trained in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia, and is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

Dr Menzies currently serves as Deputy Clinical Director of the HSE National Ambulance Service, with responsibility for acute care - providing national leadership for helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS), pre-hospital critical care, clinical governance, service development and high-acuity operational oversight. He is also the Clinical Lead for the National Adult Retrieval Service (MICAS/NASCCRS), responsible for national standards, quality, safety and training in critical care transport.

He is Vice-Chair of the National Transfusion Advisory Group (NTAG), contributing to national transfusion policy, standards development and implementation. From 2020–2023 he was the Clinical Lead for the Central Trauma Network, encompassing the Major Trauma Centre at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and the Trauma Unit at St Vincent’s University Hospital.

Dr Menzies has longstanding subspecialty interests in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, Retrieval Medicine and Critical Care. Between 2013 and 2016, he served as Clinical Lead for Emergency Medical Science at UCD Centre for Emergency Medical Science (CEMS), with academic oversight of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for paramedics and advanced paramedics. He has served two terms as a ministerial appointee to the Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC), the statutory regulator for Pre Hospital Care; he chaired the council's Medical Advisory and Fitness to Practice Committees for 7 years.

He is a founding member and active volunteer with Wicklow Rapid Response, a declared critical-care resource to the National Ambulance Service responding to approximately 150 high-acuity emergencies annually. He is also a founder, former Chair, Trustee, Board Member and Medical Director of CFR Ireland, the national charity supporting Community First Responders. In addition, he is a Rescue Team member and former Medical Director with the Dublin & Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team.

Dr Menzies is a founding member and current Secretary of the Irish Society for Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (iPHEM), promoting research, clinical governance and educational advancement in the field.

He contributes internationally as a member of the Health Standards Organisation (HSO) Emergency Transport Technical Committee, participating in the development of international standards for acute and emergency care systems.

His research interests include pre-hospital critical care, retrieval medicine, trauma systems, quality and safety, and applied clinical artificial intelligence. He was lead author for the NAS Physician HEMS Feasibility Pilot (2024–2025) and is first author of a 2024 digital health study that led to the development of MedWrite.ai, a clinical AI documentation platform.

Dr Menzies is a Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthesia, Trauma & Critical Care (FFATCC), and contributes to undergraduate teaching and postgraduate academic supervision within UCD, including service on doctoral research studies panels.