Kirsty Challen
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Dr. Kirsty Challen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Research Lead, and Trust Lead for Major Trauma at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust in North West England. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate training in the region, earning a BSc in the History of Medicine, a PhD in Health Services Research—and along the way, an anesthesiologist husband and four children. Dr. Challen chairs the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Gender Equity Committee and is involved with the RCEM Public Health and Informatics groups. She also serves as Associate Editor at the Emergency Medicine Journal, Editor of Infographics for Academic Emergency Medicine, and is faculty for the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine, where she creates the popular #PaperinaPic infographics. Kirsty considers her inner toddler a great asset to medicine and finds #FOAMed invaluable in answering “but WHY?”. When not at work, she’s happiest running on—or skiing down—a muddy mountain.