120 Adjunct Clinical Faculty appointed within the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway 2020/2021 programme

The School is pleased to announce the appointment of 120 adjunct clinical faculty within the UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway 2020/2021 programme.  The appointments include 59 first time applicants and 55 promotion applications, of which 33 (60%) were successful.  These appointments bring the School’s adjunct faculty including non-clinical adjunct and visiting academic staff to over 800 individuals.

First introduced in 2008, this adjunct appointment scheme is designed to recognise those clinical staff who contribute strongly to our academic programmes despite having no formal academic staff appointment.  Appointments include hospital consultants, general medical practitioners, senior radiographers and advance paramedics who support clinical training within our undergraduate medicine, radiography and emergency medicine programmes as well as who lead or contribute to postgraduate education and/or research. 

Of the 59 first time appointments, 33 were made at the rank of UCD Assistant Clinical Professor / Clinical Lecturer and 22 were appointed as UCD Associate Clinical Professor.  Three individuals were appointed at the rank of UCD Clinical Professor.  Of the 55 promotion applications, 33 successful applications included UCD Associate Clinical Professor (20), UCD Clinical Professor (12) and UCD Full Clinical Professor (1).

Among the senior faculty appointed or promoted in the 2020/2021 UCD Medicine Clinical Pathway were:

 

UCD Full Clinical Professor

  • Prof Colm McMahon, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, CHI (Children’s Health Ireland)
  • Prof Niall Mahon, Consultant Cardiologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

UCD Clinical Professor

  • Prof David Anthony Burke, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Beacon Hospital
  • Prof Colin Cantwell, Consultant Interventional Radiologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital
  • Prof Darach William Crimmins, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, CHI (Children’s Health Ireland)  
  • Prof Desmond Crowley, General Medical Practitioner, Dublin
  • Prof Eoin Feeney, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, St Vincent’s University Hospital
  • Prof Joseph Galvin, Consultant Cardiologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
  • Prof David Gibbons, Consultant Histopathologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital
  • Prof Séamus Hussey, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, CHI (Children’s Health Ireland)
  • Prof Emer Joyce, Consultant Cardiologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
  • Prof Bryan Lynch, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, CHI (Children’s Health Ireland)
  • Prof Seamus Morris, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
  • Prof John D. Russell, Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon, CHI (Children’s Health Ireland)
  • Prof Stephen Stewart, Consultant Hepatologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
  • Prof Niall Swan, Consultant Histopathologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital
  • Prof Jennifer Westrup, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Beacon Hospital

Formal applications were assessed by a panel of senior academic staff including representatives from other Irish Medical Schools and were evaluated based on contributions to teaching & learning, research & innovation, and academic & clinical leadership.

Consistent with our commitment to gender equality, an analysis of appointments and promotions by gender was also undertaken.  While there was no significant gender disparity among first time applications, there were three times more applications for promotion from male rather than female applications.  By way of reference, the ratio of male : female appointees among our adjunct faculty is 2 : 1.  Notwithstanding the difference in the number of applications, the success rate of promotion applications from female applicants (8 from 12 applicants) was higher than that of their male (25 from 43 applicants) counterparts.  The School strongly encourages our female adjunct faculty to consider making a promotion application when the 2021/2022 scheme opens later in the year. 

The School would like to thank all our clinical faculty for their continued generous contributions to our academic programmes in the midst of the global pandemic. 

SEE MORE 

https://www.ucd.ie/medicine/studywithus/ourstaff/adjunctstaff/