James Diviney

About

I am a consultant in paediatric intensive care and critical care transport at Evelina London Children's Hospital and the South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS). The unit combines cardiac, general and retrieval intensive care: much of my clinical work is the pre- and post-operative care of neonates and children undergoing cardiac surgery, alongside ECMO, airway and transport medicine.

I trained in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine at Great Ormond Street Hospital, with anaesthetic experience at King's College Hospital, and was awarded my CCT in PICM in 2024. I joined Evelina as a post-CCT fellow before taking up my consultant post in 2025.

• Cardiac critical care
• Airway & bronchoscopy
• Retrieval medicine
• Mechanical ventilation
• ECMO
• Point-of-care ultrasound
• Medical education
• Clinical data

Leadership

Airway & bronchoscopy

I run and teach on elective bronchoscopy lists and lead emergency airway interventions, including airway OCT, foreign body retrieval and airway stent deployment, and regularly chair the network airway meeting. I have presented on critical care bronchoscopy internationally through WFPICCS, taught at the PICM grid and Bristol bronchoscopy masterclasses, and review bronchoscopy papers for Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Teaching & education

• ESPNIC-accredited mechanical ventilation instructor
• APLS instructor
• Educational supervisor (RCPCH Effective Educational Supervision)
• PG Certificate in Medical Education, UCL (Merit)
• Regular teaching for doctors, ACPs, nurses, physiotherapists and the STRS team; ACP examiner
• Invited speaker, RCEM Paediatric Emergency Medicine conference

Research

I am lead applicant for NeoVISOR, a national multicentre prospective study in development, and have recruited patients into the PIVOTAL platform trial. I have presented internationally at ESPNIC and WFPICCS on paediatric cardiac arrest, peripheral noradrenaline, CT in DKA and respiratory metagenomics.

Selected publications

Full list on ORCID →

Data & digital

I build Epic reports and PICU performance dashboards so that audit becomes repeatable rather than one-off, modelled cardiac surgical patient flow through PICU for bed-base planning, and designed STRS referral and transport-outcome classifications that map directly onto national PICANet submissions. Outside clinical work I write software in Python and C.

Experience

Recognition

• Shortlisted, Postgraduate Consultant of the Year — GSTT Education Awards 2026
• Junior Doctor of the Year, Cardiorespiratory & Diagnostics — Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Nominated, Senior Trainee of the Year — London School of Paediatrics

Education