Professor Elizabeth Molyneux
Tropical Medicine Specialist, and past Clinical Director of the emergency department of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, and was a founder of APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support).
Speaker's biography
Having initially qualified in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Paediatrics in the UK, Professor Molyneux and her husband moved to Malawi and worked there for over 20 years. She is a professor in the College of Medicine in Malawi, and was instrumental in starting the Paediatric A&E Department, the Kangaroo Care Unit, the Oncology Unit, and the Palliative Care Team in Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital.
In the UK she was Clinical Director of the emergency department of the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, and was a founder of APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support). This led to developing the WHO course called ETAT (Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment), which is now taught in many LMICs, all over the world.
Professor Molyneux and her husband were awarded OBE's in 2007 for their services to medicine. She has now retired but continues to visit Malawi and takes an active role supporting the new paediatric oncologist at QECH, Dr George Chagaluka.