Elaine Burke

Affiliation(s):
St James's Hospital

Department:
Medical Education

Research interests:
Gender equity

ORCID Profile
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9885-8763

Biography

I’m a medical doctor by background with a PhD in Medical education.  I work as an Assistant Professor in Medical Education in the School of Medicine, TCD.  My PhD was on the topic on building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive clinical academic skills pool, and I’m interested in gender equity in academic medicine and in the practice of medicine.  My research in this area includes a resume study exploring unconscious bias in selection to a clinical academic training programme for junior doctors, a systematic review of interventions to enhance gender equity in academic medicine, and an investigation of sex and gender representation in cardiothoracic surgery textbooks.
I’m a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences and School of Medicine EDI committees, and was team lead on the Education Self-Assessment Team as part of the School of Medicine’s successful application for a Silver Athena SWAN award, 2026.

Publications

Burke E, Heron EA, Hennessy M. Gender bias in academic medicine: a resumé study. BMC Med Educ. 2023 May 1;23(1):291. doi: 10.1186/s12909-023-04192-6. PMID: 37127591; PMCID: PMC10152728.

Burke E, Darker C, Godson Treacy IM, et al  Interventions to enhance gender equity in academic medicine: a systematic review
BMJ Open 2025;15:e107096. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-107096

Prescott E and Burke E. Sex and Gender Representation in Cardiothoracic Surgical Textbooks [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. MedEdPublish 2026, 16:78 (https://doi.org/10.12688/mep.21558.1)

Burke, Elaine, An exploration of the role of the clinical academic and strategies to sustain and build the clinical academic workforce, Trinity College Dublin.School of Medicine, 2022