Keir Shiels
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Speaker

As well as being a full-time paediatrician, I have spent the last eight years visiting universities, schools and private functions in my capacity as a lecturer and after-dinner speaker. This section offers some highlights of what has become a regular part of my annual calendar.

If you wish to book me as a speaker, please use the contact form

I do not charge a fee for student or charity events.

Styles of Presentation

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Tailored to you

I have engaged in many different forms of presentation from the formal to the frivolous and am happy to mould my talks to suit the ethos of your event.
I am also happy to take participate in comedy panel shows, podcasts and performance events.

​Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to see whether I can help with an event you are running.

Highlights


Dinners & Award Ceremonies:
Host of Great Ormond Street Junior Doctor Awards 
"On Language and Bullying" - Old Novocastrians Association Annual Dinner, Royal Grammar School

"Children in Their Own Words" - Paediatric Society Conference Dinner, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Sample Lectures:
"The Mistakes That Got Me Here" - Open discussion of medical errors and duty of candour
"Three Stories" - Introduction to Paediatric Emergency Medicine through three seemingly similar cases
"Medicine and the Life of a Junior Doctor" - Candid discussion for people considering medical careers
"Shakespeare, Medicine and Me." - How my love of Shakespeare and acting made me a better doctor

For Children:
"Doctors v GERMS!" - Hands-on presentation for infant school age children
"Brains Show-off" - Barbican Centre, London

Podcasts:
"The World's Worst Doctor", Ep 33 of Comedy Podcast Worst Foot Forward
"Murder by Death and Lebanese Wine", Ep 23 of Interview Podcast Better Known
"Striking Doctors", Ep. 1 of Comedy Political Podcast Tiernan Douieb's Partly Political Broadcast
Panels:
MedFest Events: International Medical Film Festival  - Aberdeen, Leeds, Southampton
Dreams Really Do Come True: Don't Forget The Bubbles 2019, London

On-Stage Interviews:
GMC Medical Education Conference 2011 - Half hour interview with BBC News's Fergus Walsh
​The World's Worst Doctor: Episode 33 of "Worst Foot Forward" Comedy Podcast

Conferences:
Don't Forget The Bubbles 2019: International Acute Paediatrics Conference
GMC Education Conference 2011
KSS Deanery Conference 2013
Paediatric Student Conferences in Manchester, Bath, Keele, Glasgow, Leeds and Newcastle
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