Dr Alex Barnacle

Dr Alex Barnacle is a paediatric interventional radiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, the largest paediatric IR (PIR) unit in Europe. Originally from Zimbabwe, she trained in the UK and Australia and has been at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2003. Her main clinical interests are vascular anomalies, renal stone disease and interventional oncology. She sits on the Executive Committee of CIRSE as the Chair of the Standards of Practice Committee and is the Past President of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology (SPIR). She is a member of the IR Committee within The Royal College of Radiologists and authored the 2022 Royal College of Radiologists’ document ‘Improving Paediatric Interventional Radiology Services in the UK’. Dr Barnacle is a past chair of the BSIR’s Communication Committee and founded Paediatric IR UK, an annual multidisciplinary meeting for the sharing of paediatric IR knowledge and skills. Paediatric IR UK is now part of the BSIR. She is also part of the BSIR’s PIR special interest group and the Equality and Diversity Committee. She was the RCR-BSIR Travelling Professor for IR in 2017-18. She has worked alongside a team in Sri Lanka over several years to develop a national paediatric IR service there and is passionate about the promotion and development of IR for children in all parts of the world. 

Diagnosis and treatment of vascular malformations Orbit malformations Interventional oncology, including cryoablation Renal stones