ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GRAINNE O'DONOGHUE

UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science

Exercise is Medicine!

Dr Grainne O'Donoghue graduated from the University of Manchester with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy and worked clinically from 1998 until 2005 as a senior physiotherapist in Beaumont Hospital Dublin in the area of musculoskeletal physiotherapy and exercise prescription.

She then completed an MSc in Sports Physiotherapy in UCD in 2005 and worked as a clinical specialist in sports physiotherapy in Queens University Belfast (2005-2006). She was awarded a doctorate from University College Dublin in 2011.

Her PhD work focused on entry-level physiotherapy education; "Promotion and Prescription of Physical Activity and Exercise in Healthy & Clinical Populations: an Evaluation of Current Educational Practice and Recommendations for Future Physiotherapy Education".

In 2016 she completed a postgraduate certificate in Statistics at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in TCD and was awarded a distinction.

She was employed until September 2017 as a research associate in the Centre for Preventive Medicine in DCU and previously as a post-doctoral researcher by the Danish Diabetes Center, Steno, a world leading institution within diabetes care and prevention, as part of the Health Promotion team, working between Copenhagen and Dublin.

She is currently employed as an Associate Professor in Physiotherapy in the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science in University College Dublin.

In the video below, Dr O'Donoghue speaks about her ethos of "Exercise is Medicine".

(opens in a new window)(opens in a new window)Grainne O'Donoghue UCD Profile