Emily Carne is the Consultant Nurse in Immunology & Allergy Service for Wales in Cardiff.  She has worked as the lead nurse in the service since 2001, completed her immunology MSc in 2006, advanced nurse practitioner qualification in 2007 and independent prescribing qualification in 2019. Emily has a particular interest in and has published on different aspects of primary immunodeficiency, including quality of life, home therapy and burden of treatment.  

She has held positions the committees of the British Society of Immunology – Clinical Immunology & Allergy Section, UK Primary Immunodeficiency Network, International Nurse Group for Immune Deficiency, British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was chair of the Immunology and Allergy Nurses Group and sits on the Medical Advisory Panel for Immune Deficiency UK and Immune Deficiency Patient Group Wales.    

She was the first recipient of the INGID award for worldwide services to Immunology in 2017, won the Royal College of Nursing Wales Clinical Nurse Specialist of the Year in 2016, and Cardiff and Vale Chairs award for clinical excellence in 2015.  Her nursing team won a global patient safety day award in 2022 for work undertaken during the COVID pandemic.