Aine Kelly is a clinical specialist dietitian in Tallaght University Hospital. She graduated from Trinity college Dublin in 2009 with a first class honours degree and has gained a vast amount of clinical experience in the last 13 years working across 5 large teaching hospitals including TUH, SJH, SVUH, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Bradford Trust Teaching Hospital.

 

Her areas of special interest are artificial nutrition support and critical care nutrition where she has been working for the past 9 years. Aine is passionate about the role of nutrition in recovery and rehabilitation and in 2021 graduated top of her class with a MSc in Exercise and sports nutrition. This gave her an in-depth understanding of the role nutrition plays in stress, injury and recovery. In Sept 2022 Aine was seconded to the role of national HSCP lead for critical care. In this role she represents all HSCP working in critical care and has a primary focus on workforce planning, including education and training to support the national critical care expansion plan.