Dr. Tessa Davis

Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Royal London Hospital & Blizard Institute (Queen Mary University)

Consultant in paediatric emergency medicine; senior lecturer at Blizard Institute.

Dr Tessa Davis is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at The Royal London Hospital and a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London's Blizard Institute, where she also serves as Programme Director for the Paediatric Emergency Medicine programme.

Education & training: UK-trained with four formative years at Sydney Children’s Hospital in Australia before returning to London to complete higher specialist training and consultant practice.

Clinical interests: Paediatric trauma and acute care, child-friendly communication in emergencies and evidence-informed pathways that reduce variation and improve experience for families.

Research, teaching & leadership: Co-founder and senior faculty of the global paediatric education initiative “Don’t Forget the Bubbles” (DFTB), authoring widely read FOAMed resources and leading curriculum and assessment at QMUL.

Service & systems: Designs measurement-based PEM pathways, simulation, and digital learning that support safer triage, analgesia and procedural sedation in busy urban emergency departments.

Selected outputs & roles: Invited talks and peer-reviewed work in PEM education and quality improvement; ongoing cross-site leadership between Barts Health and QMUL.