Dr Ffion Davies works as a Consultant Emergency Physician at the University Hospitals of Leicester and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester. She is the Immediate Past President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. IFEM is an umbrella organisation serving the Emergency Medicine professional societies of over 70 nations and regions. She is also the medical lead for The Children’s Air Ambulance charity: a UK national PICU/NICU helicopter retrieval and ECMO service. Her areas of interest are multi-professional Education, Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Emergency Medicine. Her varied career has been dedicated to improving care in emergency departments, in particular the care of children through training and education, and in influencing national healthcare policy. She is the main author of the textbook Emergency Care of Minor Trauma in Children and developed the eLearning website www.spottingthesickchild.com