Who We Are
BCNI Investigators
BCNI is a collaborative network of clinicians, scientists, and population health experts with a shared interest in blood cancer research. It is led by investigators from across the country.
Dr Eva Szegezdi
Director, Blood Cancer Network Ireland
Email: eva.szegezdi
universityofgalway.ie
Ext: 5037
Direct: 353- (091)-49 5037
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
Dr Philip Murphy
Deputy Director with clinical responsibility, Blood Cancer Network Ireland
Email: philipmurphybeaumont.ie
(01) 8092622
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
Professor Michael O'Dwyer
Investigator, Blood Cancer Network Ireland
Email: michael.odwyernuigalway.ie
Previously BCNI Director (2015-2019)
Ext: 4443
Direct: 353-91-494443
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
Professor Mary Cahill
Investigator
Email: maryr.cahillhse.ie
Ext: 2548
Direct: 353-(021)-492 2548
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
Professor Paul Browne
Investigator
Email: pbrownestjames.ie
Ext: 1476
Direct: 353-(01)-896 1476
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
Dr John Quinn
Investigator
Email: johnquinnbeaumont.ie
Direct: 353-(01)-8092655
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
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Professor Peter O'Gorman
Investigator
Email: pogormanmater.ie
Direct: 353-(01)-8500977
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
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Professor Ruth Clifford
Investigator
Email: ruth.clifford1hse.ie
Direct: 353-(61)-233423
See profile for further information (profiles are listed below)
BCNI Staff
Our staff represent expertise from a range of clinical and research backgrounds. They ensure the day-to-day workings of BCNI, including clinical trials, biobanking and data registration, are consistenly run to the highest standards.
Dr. Sharon Kelly
Programme Manager, University of Galway
Email: Sharon.M.Kelly@universityofgalway.ie
Ext: 5037
Direct: 091-495037
Cliodhna Nolan
Biobank Research Assistant, UCC
Email: Cnolan@ucc.ie
Profiles:
Professor Michael O'Dwyer - Profile
Professor Mary Cahill - Profile
Professor Paul Browne - Profile
BCNI Members
Clinicians, nurses and researchers can apply to be BCNI members. Members will recieve reguar updates on BCNI activities and progress and can become involved in clinical, biobanking and registry activities.
If you would like to become a BCNI Member please complete this BCNI Membership form
Name |
Institution |
Position |
| Senthil Kumar | University Hospital Waterford | Consultant Haematologist |
| Ruth Clifford | University Hospital Limerick | Consultant Haematologist |
| Gerardene Meade Murphy | University College Cork | Lecturer |
| Paul Young | University College Cork | Lecturer |
| Leanne O'Sullivan | University College Cork | PhD student |
| Brian Hennessy | University Hospital Waterford | Consultant Haematologist |
| Dalyia Benjamin | CCRC and Mercy hospital Cork | Clinican and PhD student |
| Ezzat Elhassadi | University Hospital Waterford | Consultant Haematologist |
| Keith Egan | Cancer Trials Ireland(Beaumont) | Programme manager |
| Tracey O’Donovan | University College Cork | Research fellow |
| Siobhen Glavey | Royal College of Surgeons Ireland | Lecturer |
| Dervla O'Shea | Cork University Hospital | Consultant Haematologist |
| Tony McElligott | TrInity College Dublin | Lecturer |
| Janusz Krawczyk | Galway University Hospital | Consultant Haematologist |
| Vitaliy Mykytiv | Cork University Hospital | Consultant Haematologist |
| Alan Ó Céilleachair | University College Cork/National Cancer Registry | Post-doc |
| Niamh Keane | St James Hospital Dublin | Specialist Registrar in Haematology |
| Patrick Thornton | RCSI/Beaumont | Consultant Haematologist |
| Philip Murphy | Beaumont | Consultant Haematologist |
| Aileen Walsh | Midlands regional hospital Tullamore | Clinical trials nurse |
| Maureen O'Grady | University Hospital Limerick | Trail unit manager |
| Salvador Figueroa Morales | Roche | Medical Manager |
| Audrey Carthy | Beaumont | CNM in Clinical trials unit |
| Ian Hann | Irish Blood Transfusion Service | Professor |
| Andrew Hodgson | Sligo University Hospital | Consultant Haematologist |
| Maeve Leahy | University Hospital Limerick | Consultant Haematologist |
| Daniel Angelov | Tullamore Hospital | Haematology SpR |
| Geraldine Walpole | Sligo University Hospital | Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Haematology |
| Edel Quinn | Sligo University Hospital | CNS hematology |
| Samantha Sloan | Belfast City Hospital | Haem Nurse Practitoner |
| Richard McCafferty | St James Hospital Dublin | Chief Medical Scientist |
| Clodagh Ryan | Mercy Hospital | Consultant Hematologist |
| Catherine Flynn | St James Hospital Dublin | Consultant Hematologist |
| Leah O'Brien | Genomics Medicine Ireland | Clinical Partnerships lead |
| Annmarie Wrafter | GUH Hematology lab | Medical Scientist |
| Mairead Ni Chonghaile | St James Hospital Dublin | CNS hematology |
| Tracey Steede | Galway University Hospital | Senior Medical scientist |
| Anne Fortune | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | Consultant Hematologist |
| Finnuala Creighton | Irish Cancer Society | Nurse |
| Su Wai Maung | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital | Consultant Hematologist |
| Elizabeth Vandenberghe | St James Hospital Dublin | Consultant Hematologist |
| Clodagh Keohane | Mercy University Hospital, Cork | Consultant Hematologist |
