• Fellowship Periods
    • Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Area of Academic Focus
    • Microcirculation
    • Sepsis and septic shock
    • Trauma resuscitation
    • Sedation strategies and consciousness
    • Transport and pre-hospital medicine
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Bio

Dr. Cusack is a dual qualified anaesthesiologist and intensive care specialist from Ireland. Originally from Cork, she studied medicine in University College Cork and got an intercalated BMedSci in Physiology from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently finishing her PhD with Trinity College Dublin, which focusses on the microcirculation in sepsis. Having worked in the busiest hospitals in Ireland, she wants to bring back overseas expertise to Ireland and mingle with like-minded physicians to enhance her clinical acumen.

Affiliations

  • College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • Clinical Fellow, UHN-SHS, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto

Honours and Awards

  • 2021     Awarded Trinity PhD Student Scholarship, Trinity College Dublin
  • 2020     Fellowship, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
  • 2017     Membership, College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
  • 2017     Trainee of the Year Medal, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
  • 2008     Scholarship to University College Cork
  • 2007     ATCL (Hons) Performance

Significant Publications

  1. Microcirculation Properties of 20% Albumin in Sepsis; a Randomised Controlled Trial R Cusack, B Cantan, A Garduno, A Rodriguez Oviedo, E Connolly, G Zilahi, J Coakley, I Martin-Loeches Journal of Critical Care Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5021... or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...;
  2. Endothelial damage and the microcirculation in critical illness R Cusack, M Leone, AH Rodriguez, I Martin-Loeches Biomedicines 10 (12), 3150
  3. Endothelial dysfunction triggers acute respiratory distress syndrome in patients with sepsis: a narrative review R Cusack, LD Bos, P Povoa, I Martin-Loeches Frontiers in Medicine 10, 1203827
  4. Effects of fluids on the sublingual microcirculation in sepsis R Cusack, S O’Neill, I Martin-Loeches Journal of Clinical Medicine 11 (24), 7277