Postgraduate
The discipline offers the following degree programmes by research.
MSc, MD, PhD.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Gynaecology and Obstetrics (DGO) was discontinued in 2009.
Current MD students
Dr. Zbigniew Marchocki
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
MD student: Recurrence of venous thromboembolism in patients with gynaecological cancer – incidence, risk factors and impact on survival
Dr. Katie Field
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
MD student:Endometriosis – Taking diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to the laboratory
Previous Postgraduate Students
Dr. Araibi Alhadi
O'Meara Scholar for Cancer Research
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
Registered for MD: Cell cycle regulatory proteins and their potential role in early diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of borderline and invasive ovarian cancer
Dr. Brian Cleary
HRB/Friends of the Coombe Research Fellow
Registered for PhD: Medication Use in Pregnancy- Prevalence, Determinants of Use and Perinatal Outcomes in an Irish Obstetric Cohort.
Lynne Kelly
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
Registered for PhD: Phytoestrogens as an alternative to HRT: assessing thrombotic risk in cell and animal models.
Ream Langhe
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology & Dept. of Histopathology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
Registered for PhD: microRNA Profiling in Ovarian Cancer Serum
Lynda McEvoy
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
Emer Casey PhD Fellow (in collaboration with Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University): Developing novel therapeutic approaches in chemoresistant ovarian cancer patients and investigation of the role of hypoxia in ovarian cancer chemoresistance using a novel "lab-on-a-chip" device.
Dr. Aoife Mullally
Research Fellow
Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital
Registered for PhD: Alcohol Use During Pregnancy, Perinatal Outcomes and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - a Prospective Cohort Study and Longitudinal Observational Study.
Mairead Murphy
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Trinity Centre for Health Sciences
St. James's Hospital
Emer Casey PhD Fellow: Identification and validation of novel serum biomarkers for ovarian cancer
Dr. Sharon Sheehan
HRB Research Fellow
Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital
Registered for PhD: Control of Blood Loss at Caesarean Section - Effect of an Oxytocin Infusion, Review of Medical Methods Used, Implementation of Existing Clinical Guidelines.