The Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine, the professional body representing medical scientists in Ireland. Medical science is a regulated and state registered profession
The Medical Scientists Registration Board at CORU established its register on 31 March 2019. As and from this date the Medical Scientists Registration Board is designated as the Competent Authority for the profession of Medical Scientist under the relevant legislation.
The vision of the Academy is “To support excellence in clinical science and laboratory medicine, and in doing so, enhance patient outcomes”.
Laboratory medicine is a clinical service and the clinical sciences that underpin laboratory medicine are; Cellular Pathology (Histopathology), Clinical Chemistry, Haematology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Molecular Diagnostics, POCT, Transfusion and Transplantation Science and Virology. Medical scientists are at the forefront not only in the provision of these services but in the management and delivery of the services.
Following graduation from the BSc in Medical Science programme, Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin), Claire spent some time working in a diagnostic Haematology laboratory before carrying out research work in Baylor College of Medicine, Texas. She was awarded an MPhil from TU Dublin for this work and went on to become one of the Health Research Board PhD Scholars in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). After spending time in research laboratories in Brown University, Providence, Claire worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the RCSI. She returned to TU Dublin in 2013 to take up her current position and graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Third Level Learning and Teaching in 2015.
Cían graduated from Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Atlantic Technological University) in 2013, with a B.Sc. in Medical Science. He has 8 years of experience in Irish public hospital laboratories, working across the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin. During his time in Irish hospitals, he specialised in the monitoring of monoclonal gammopathies and HIV in the clinical immunology laboratory, as well as routine haematology. In 2021, Cían received an M.Sc. in Epidemiology as well as an M.Res. in Global Health – Quantitative and Translational Methods. Prior to commencing his PhD in 2022, Cían was seconded to the UK Health Security Agency where he spent 7 months working as a surveillance scientist responding to the COVID-19 omicron emergency as well as the Monkeypox pandemic. Cían is currently completing a PhD at Lancaster Medical School investigating how social networks and vaccine assortative mixing translates on the transmission of communicable disease. Prior to joining counsel, Cían sat on the immunology advisory body, before becoming chair between 2017-2020. Cían also currently sits on the engagement and advancement advisory body.
Dermot has worked for twenty years in Beaumont hospital, at every level. Currently he holds the post of chief medical scientist in NPT (near patient testing) and also works in the Biochemistry Department. Interests include NPT, Biochemistry, Toxicology, Forensic, CSF Xxanthachromia for subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis, strategy and management.
Dr Fiona O’Halloran, Munster Technological University
Isabelle O’Callaghan, Specialist Medical Scientist, Cork University Hospital
My name is Jacqui Clarke, I am currently the Pathology manager at Letterkenny University Hospital. I began my studies in ATU Galway and then went to the University of Ulster, Coleraine where I completed my PhD through a Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship. I remained in academia for a few years before returning to Letterkenny in 1997 to the Biochemistry Dept.
Dr. Joan O’Keeffe
