Cohort 4 ICAT Fellows (2020)

Dr Louise Rabbitt
Clinical specialty: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Dr Kiran Reddy
Clinical specialty: Anaesthesiology

Dr Maria Tomkins
Clinical specialty: Endocrinology

Dr Sarah Kelliher
Clinical specialty: Haematology

Dr Andrea Bowe
Clinical specialty: Public Health Medicine

Dr Bethany Wong
Clinical specialty: Cardiology
Dr Ciara McNevin
Clinical specialty: Oncology

Dr Katie Ridge
Clinical specialty: Immunology
Cohort 3 ICAT Fellows (2019)

Dr Graeme Greenfield
Clinical specialty: Haematology
PhD research area: Therapeutic manipulation of epigenetic changes occurring in response to JAK2 inhibition in myeloproliferative neoplasms
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Ken Mills, QUB; Prof. Mary Frances McMullin, QUB; Dr Jaine Blayney, QUB
Queen's University Belfast (QUB)

Dr Stephanie Bollard
Clinical specialty: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
PhD research area: Investigation Of The Paracrine Roles Of Extracellular Vesicle Derived Chemokines In Malignant Melanoma Progression (PREDiCt - MM)
PhD Supervisors: Dr Shirley Potter, UCD; Prof. Amanda McCann, UCD; Dr Pamela Kelly, UCD
University College Dublin (UCD)

Dr Cathal O'Connor
Clinical specialty: Dermatology
PhD research area: Assessing SleeP IN infants with early-onset atopic Dermatitis by Longitudinal Evaluation (The SPINDLE study)
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Geraldine Boylan, UCC; Dr Michelle Murphy, UCC; Prof. Jonathan Hourihane, RCSI
University College Cork (UCC)

Dr Claire Potter
Clinical specialty: Psychiatry
PhD research area: The ELECA study - Early Life strEss and Cognitive Ageing: an investigation of international longitudinal cohorts of ageing
PhD Supervisors: Dr Bernadette McGuinness, QUB; Prof. Frank Kee, QUB; Dr Amy-Jayne McKnight, QUB
Queen's University Belfast (QUB)

Dr Conor Grant
Clinical specialty: Infectious Diseases
PhD research area: Exploiting Trained-Immunity and Immunometabolism in Tuberculosis (EXTINCT)
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Colm Bergin, TCD; Dr Mary O’Sullivan, TCD; Prof. Joseph Keane, TCD; Dr Frederick J Sheedy, TCD; Prof. Sam McConkey, RCSI
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Dr Dearbhla Doherty
Clinical specialty: Haematology
PhD research area: Defining the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying Low VWF in the Low VWF in Ireland Cohort (LoVIC) study
PhD Supervisors: Prof. James O’Donnell, RCSI; Dr Michelle Lavin, RCSI
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
Cohort 2 ICAT Fellows (2018)

Dr Helen Fogarty
Clinical specialty: Haematology
PhD research area: Investigation of the role of the VWF-ADAMTS13 axis in the pathogenesis of sickle cell vasculopathy in children
PhD Supervisors: Prof. James O'Donnell, RCSI; Dr Corrina McMahon, Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin; Dr Michelle Lavin, RCSI
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)

Dr Brendan Kelly
Clinical specialty: Radiology
After studying Radiography Dr Brendan Kelly entered Graduate Entry Medicine, graduating in 2015. He was appointed as a Specialist Registrar in Radiology in St Vincent’s Hospital in July 2017 and received an MSc in Radiology from NUI Galway in 2017. His research interests are in the fields of molecular imaging, especially in its application to personalised medicine and cognitive imaging / dementia, and in potential applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to radiology.
PhD research area: Clinical ApplicatioN of DEep Learning and Intelligent Vision in Radiology:CAN DELIVeR
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Ronan Killeen, UCD; Prof. Aonghus Lawlor, UCD
University College Dublin (UCD)

Dr Anita Lavery
Clinical specialty: Medical Oncology
PhD research area: Understanding the DNA Damage Driven Immune Response in Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma (OAC): Opportunities for Improved Stratification and Treatment
PhD Supervisors: Dr Richard Turkington, QUB; Dr Jaine Blayney, QUB; Dr Kienan Savage, QUB
Queen's University Belfast (QUB)

Dr William Martin
Clinical specialty: Nephrology
PhD research area: The Impact of Intensive Lifestyle, Medical and Surgical Control of Diabetes on Human and Experimental Rodent Diabetic Kidney Disease (LIMIT-DKD Study Group)
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Carel le Roux, UCD; Dr Neil Docherty, UCD
University College Dublin (UCD)

Dr Mark Gurney
Clinical specialty: Haematology
PhD research area: The Development and Optimization of Anti-CLEC12A Targeted Umbilical Cord Blood Derived CAR-NK Cells in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Michael O'Dwyer, NUIG; Prof. Clair Gardiner, TCD
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Dr Karen McCarthy
Clinical specialty: General Paediatrics
PhD research area: Respiratory immune responses and their interaction in control of nasal colonization with Bordetella pertussis and Staphylococcus aureus in humans. Local immune responses to respiratory infection in the nasal tract
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Rachel McLoughlin, TCD; Prof. Kingston Mills, TCD
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Dr Jennifer Scott
Clinical specialty: Nephrology
PhD research area: VAPRE: Exploring the Relapse Prodrome of ANCA associated Vasculitis
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Mark Little, TCD; Prof. Cathal Walsh, University of Limerick; Prof. John Kelleher, Technological University Dublin; Dr Arthur White, TCD
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Dr Gerard Walls
Clinical specialty: Clinical Oncology
PhD research area: Radiotherapy-Related Adverse Cardiac Events In Lung Cancer (RACING)
PhD Supervisors: Dr Karl Butterworth, QUB; Dr Suneil Jain, QUB; Dr Aidan Cole, QUB
Queen's University Belfast (QUB)
Cohort 1 ICAT Fellows (2017)

Dr Peter Barrett
Clinical Specialty: Public Health Medicine
PhD research area: Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and the Risk of Kidney Disease in Women: A Nationwide Cohort Study
PhD Supervisors: Dr Ali Khashan, UCC; Dr Fergus McCarthy, Cork University Maternity Hospital; Prof. Ivan Perry, UCC
University College Cork (UCC)

Dr Delia Bogdanet
Clinical Specialty: Endocrinology
PhD research area: Plasma glycated CD59 (gCD59), a Novel Biomarker for the Diagnosis, Management and Follow up of Women with Gestational Diabetes (GDM)
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Fidelma Dunne, NUIG; Dr Paula O'Shea, Galway University Hospital; Prof. Jose Halperin, Harvard Medical School
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Dr Conor Judge
Clinical specialty: Nephrology
PhD research area: SMART Trials - Investigation of technology-enabled adaptive clinical trial methodologies for more efficient and effective clinical research
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Martin O'Donnell, NUIG; Dr Martin O'Halloran, NUIG
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Dr Sarah Cormican
Clinical specialty: Nephrology
PhD research area: The pathophysiological role of intermediate monocyte sub-populations in progression of chronic kidney disease and its cardiovascular complications
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Matthew Griffin, NUIG; Prof. Laurence Egan, NUIG
National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG)

Dr Kapil Sharma
Clinical specialty: Psychiatry
PhD research area: The effects of antipsychotics on human glial cells, neuroinflammation and demyelination
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Kumlesh Dev, TCD; Prof. Aiden Corvin, TCD
Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Dr Róisín Hambly
Clinical specialty: Dermatology
PhD research area: Immunological pathways in Hidradenitis Suppurativa and potential therapeutic targets
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Brian Kirby, UCD; Prof. Walter Kolch, UCD; Prof. Jean Fletcher, TCD; Dr Rosalind Hughes, St Vincent's University Hospital; Prof. Peter Doran, UCD
University College Dublin (UCD)

Dr David Mongan
Clinical specialty: Psychiatry
PhD research area: An inflammatory biomarker study of psychosis: a longitudinal study in an at risk population
PhD Supervisors: Prof. David Cotter, RCSI; Prof. Mary Cannon, RCSI
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)

Dr Liam Townsend
Clinical specialty: Infectious Disease