105 Adjunct Faculty Appointments creates School’s largest ever clinical faculty

The School is pleased to announce the appointment of 105 adjunct faculty appointments under the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway 2021/2022 scheme.  The appointments include 39 first time appointments, 33 promotions and 14 re-appointments.  These appointments bring our adjunct faculty including non-clinical adjunct and visiting academic staff to 867 individuals, the largest ever in the School’s history.

First introduced in 2008/2009, this adjunct appointment scheme is designed to recognise those clinical staff who contribute strongly to our academic programmes despite having no formal academic appointment.  Appointees include hospital consultants, general practitioners, senior radiographers and advance paramedics who support clinical training within our undergraduate medicine, radiography and emergency medicine programmes as well as who lead or contribute to postgraduate education and/or research.

Of the 36 first time appointments, 14 were made at the rank of UCD Assistant Clinical Professor / Clinical Lecturer, 23 were appointed as UCD Associate Clinical Professor and 2 individuals were appointed at UCD Clinical Professor.  Of the 52 promotion applications, 33 successful applications included UCD Associate Clinical Professor (18), UCD Clinical Professor (12) and UCD Full Clinical Professor (3).

Among the senior faculty re-appointed or promoted in the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway 2021/2022 were:

UCD Full Clinical Professor

• Professor Cecily Quinn, Histopathology, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Christopher McGuigan, Neurology, St Vincent’s University Hospital
• Professor Colm O’Donnell, Neonatology, National Maternity Hospital
• Professor Edward McKone, Respiratory Medicine, St Vincent’s University Hospital
• Professor Jonathan Dodd, Radiology, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Kieran Sheahan, Histopathology, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)

UCD Clinical Professor

• Professor Aisling Mulligan, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Dublin North City and County Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Christopher Fitzpatrick, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)

• Professor Carmel Cronin, Radiology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)        

• Professor Conor Collins, Radiology, St Vincent’s University Hospital
• Professor Corrina McMahon, Haematology, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor David Brophy, Radiology, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Emir Hoti, Surgery, St Vincent’s University Hospital
• Professor Garret Cullen, Gastroenterology, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Jan Miletin, Neonatology, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Jennifer Hoblyn, Psychiatry, St John of God Hospital
• Professor Joseph Butler, Orthopaedic Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Joseph Gallagher, General Practice, Co. Wicklow ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Justin Geoghegan, Surgery, St Vincent’s University Hospital
• Professor Karen Ryan, Palliative Medicine, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and St Francis Hospice, Dublin ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Kirsten Schaffer, Microbiology, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Linda Mulligan, Pathology, Office of the State Pathologist
• Professor Michael Reardon, Geriatric Medicine, Wexford General Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Obada Taha Yousif, Endocrinology, Wexford General Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Shane O’Hanlon, Geriatric Medicine, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)
• Professor Shu Hoashi, Endocrinology, Regional Hospital Mullingar
• Professor Silke Ryan, Respiratory Medicine, St Vincent’s University Hospital ((opens in a new window)Profile)

Formal applications were assessed in a three-stage process by panels of senior academic staff including Section Leaders & Heads of Subject, Dean & Associate Deans and representatives from other Irish Medical Schools.  Applications were evaluated based on contributions to teaching & learning, research & innovation, and academic & clinical leadership.

Consistent with our commitment to gender equality, an analysis of appointments and promotions by gender was also undertaken.  While there was no significant gender disparity among first time applications, there were almost twice as many applications for promotion from male compared with female applicants.  This ratio represents an improvement from previous years however the overall success rate of promotion applications from female applicants (10 from 19) was lower than that of their male counterparts (23 from 33).  The School strongly encourages our female adjunct faculty to consider making a promotion application when the 2022/2023 scheme opens later this year.