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Postgraduate Courses

The Discipline of Obstetrics & Gynaecology has a long track record in postgraduate education, with an extensive range of research themes including: Preterm labour, Myometrial physiology, Placental biology, Fetal disorders, Molecular aspects of parturition, Obstetrics and cerebral palsy. Full details on applying for a PhD are available here

To date six PhD’s and five MD’s have been awarded in the discipline:

PhD’s:

NAME	YEAR	TITLE
Dr Paul Hynes	2007	Functional and molecular studies of the pregnancy associated pathologies, PET and IUGR
Dr Audrey Moynihan	2007	Molecular and functionals aspects of the large conductance calcium- activated potassium CHannel (Maxi-k)
Dr Deirdre Mongan	2007	The epidemiology of cerebral palsy in the west of Ireland 1990-1999
Dr Sara Sedano	2007	Investigation of the molecular basis of activated protein C resistance in pregnancy.
Dr Michael Curley	2003	Potassium channel function and human myometrial contractility
Dr Anne Friel	2002	Molecular and physiological aspects of human myometrial contractility

MD’s

NAME	YEAR	TITLE
Dr Mark Hehir	2013	Metabolic factors and pharmacological regulation of human myometrium in pregnancy
Dr Donal Sexton	2012	The pharmacological modulation of endogenous regulatory pathways in human myometrium and placental vasculature in vitro
Dr Nicholas Allen	2009	Protease-activated receptor function in human uterine smooth muscle and umbilical artery
Dr Michael C Dennedy	2007	Beta 3- Adrenoreceptor function in hyman myometrial smooth muscle
Dr Michael Slattery	2007	Clinical physiological and pharmacological aspects of preterm labour

Ms Eva Sweeney is in year 3 of her PhD “Analysis of human myometrium in pregnancy using stereological techniques: Influence of maternal body mass index and age” which is co-supervised by Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Anatomy.