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Full NameProfessor Colm Bergin

Department of GU Medicine & Infectious Diseases, St. James's Hospital

Trinity College Dublin

Webpage:stjames.ie

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Research Fields

infectious disease and the immune system

Postgrad Medical Specialties

Medicine

Medical Subspecialties

Infectious diseases

My Work

I am a Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, St. James's Hospital, Dublin and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. I am the Associate Director of the Wellcome-Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Research Facility, St. James’s Hospital Dublin, the Chair of ICORN (Irish Hepatitis C Outcomes Research Network) and co-National Specialty Director, Infectious Diseases, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

I am the co-director of the Department of GU Medicine and Infectious Diseases Clinical Studies Unit, the department has an active national and international research reputation. I have secured funding from national and international funds including FP-7 funding in 2012. I have been and am the supervisor for a number of MD and PhD degrees covering research topics in medical education, cost effectiveness of medical care, molecular and clinical epidemiology, immunology of host response to infections, neurocognitive disease in HIV infection and innovative interventions to affect social behaviours in disease modelling. Present areas of research interest include immune biology of ageing and neurocognitive change in HIV infection; HPV vaccinology; HCV vaccine studies, HIV epidemiology, HCV therapeutics and HCV epidemiology,

I have published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 3416 citations and h-index score is 23.