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Academic Staff and Researchers

Staff Name	Type	Subject Area	Phone	Keywords

Professor John J. Morrison MB BCh, BSc. DCH, FRCOG, FRCPI, MD
Chairman and Head of Department
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist

Email: John.Morrison[at]universityofgalway.ie

Professor Morrison has been in post as Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Galway/ Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist at Galway University Hospital since 1997. Before joining the University of Galway he worked at University College London as a Lecturer in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Senior Registrar in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. He completed RCOG sub-specialty training in Feto-Maternal Medicine at University College London Hospitals. Before that he was a clinical Registrar and Research Fellow at University of Cambridge Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. He is a Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist with Western Health board at Galway University Hospital and provides a sub-specialty clinical service in Feto-Maternal Medicine.

His main research areas of interest are:
Myometrial physiology
Pre-term labour
Pre-natal diagnosis and high-risk obstetrics

Dr Geraldine Gaffney MD, MRCOG, Senior Lecturer

Email: Geraldine.Gaffney[at]universityofgalway.ie

Dr Gaffney qualified at Trinity College Dublin. She trained in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Dublin, London and Oxford. She completed RCOG sub-specialty training in Feto-Maternal medicine. She has been a member of the department in Galway since 1998

Her main research areas of interest are:
Cerebral palsy
Pre-natal diagnosis
Maternal disease in pregnancy

Dr. Michael O'Leary, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist/Clinical Lecturer

Dr. O’Leary graduated from UCD in 1998. He trained in general Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Dublin and Galway. He underwent subspecialty training as a
Gynae-Oncologist in Christchurch (NZ), Sydney and Brisbane and obtained the Diploma in Gynaecological Oncology from RANZCOG in 2007. He has been a
Consultant in Galway since January 2009. His areas of interest are Colposcopy and the treatment of women’s cancers.

Professor Denis Crankshaw, Emeritus Professor at McMaster University, Canada Professor Crankshaw spent a sabatical year doing Myometrial research at the Discipline July 2009 - July 2010 and returned to continue with this research in the summers of 2012 - 2017.