Our people

Group shot of the RCSI Department of Clinical Microbiology.

Administrator 

  • Ann Shannon

Professor and Head of Department 

Associate Professors 

Emeritus Professor 

Senior Lecturers 

Clinical Lecturers 

  • Rachel Grainger
  • Muaaz Ather 
  • Melanie Cunningham 
  • Aoife Kearney 
  • Niamh Reidy 

Teaching Coordinator

  • Tracey Dillane 
  • Cristina Heredia Acuna

Postdoctoral Researchers 

PhD students 

  • Mairead Skally 
  • Kaja Turzanska 
  • Yunfei Ye

ICAT fellow 

  • Louise Kelly 

STAR MD student 

  • Katie Giblin

MSc student 

  • Stephen Grogan 
  • YinHeRichard Sun 

Honorary Clinical Associate Professors

  • Karen Burns, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 
  • Robert Cunney, Irish Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory, and Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street   
  • Binu Dinesh, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 
  • Richard Drew, Rotunda Hospital and Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street   
  • Alida FeTalento, Rotunda Hospital and Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street   
  • Karina O’Connell, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturers 

  • Suzanne Corcoran, Bon Secours Hospital Dublin 
  • Roisin Connolly, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda 
  • Helene McDermott, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 
  • Ciara O Connor, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 
  • Marta Trzos-Grzybowska, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda 

Honorary Lecturer

  • Mary Corcoran, Irish Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory 
  • Sadhbh Gash, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 
  • Robert Mulhall, Irish Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory 
  • Edel O’Regan, Irish Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory 

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