Siobhán Masterson is a HRB Research Fellow, currently undertaking a PhD study entitled “A Geographic Model for Improving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Survival in Ireland”. She is also a member of the management team for the European Registry of Cardiac Arrest (EuReCa), a project of the European Resuscitation Council.
Siobhán started her career in 1995, working as a Community Dietitian in County Donegal. She then joined the HSE Department of Public Health Medicine as a Research Officer, working on diabetes related projects including a diabetes information system and the diabetic retinopathy screening service for North West Ireland. She has worked with the Discipline of General Practice since 2007, originally as the Manager of the National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register until
she commenced her HRB fellowship in 2015.
Since January 2017, Siobhán has had a half-time role with the HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS) as Project Manager for the National OHCA Strategy, and is also a member of the NAS Research Committee.