Congratulations to Louise Rainford and Marguerite Clyne, who have been promoted within the UCD School of Medicine.
Louise has been promoted to Full Professor and Marguerite to Professor. Both have contributed greatly to the success of the School over the years.
Prof Louise Rainford
Prof Rainford's background is in the area of medical imaging, training as a radiographer in Manchester, UK where she worked for a short period. Following a move to Ireland and a twelve-year clinical career in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin, she commenced work in University College Dublin, Ireland in 1992, Since 2009 she has been the Head of Radiography & Diagnostic Imaging within the UCD School of Medicine. She was appointed the Associate Dean for Radiography in 2016. Prof Rainford has supervised many graduate research students, including 20 PhD studies. She is a distinguished teacher with awards for teaching excellence and she is currently focussed upon embedding clinical simulation into Radiography curricula. Prof Rainford sits on several national committees, representing Radiography education and she has experience as the Chair of the Irish Radiographers Registration Board, CORU. Prof Rainford is the Chair of the EFRS Research Hub Committee and has contributed to numerous European committees and working groups over the past two decades. Her passion for Radiography is driven by her commitment to the profession and she has a strong record of European and international Radiography collaboration.
Prof Rainford’s chronological research is as follows:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8587-0782
20 PhDs supervised
2004: Investigation into the standardisation of work practice and image quality for commonly performed radiographic examinations
2008: Dose and image optimisation for cardiac interventional procedures.
2011: Optimisation of Mammographic Examinations. 2012: MRI -Based Quantification of Rheumatoid and Psoriatic Arthritis of the knee;
2012: Development of a Quantification and Visualisation Tool for the Assessment of Foetal Abnormalities
2013: MRI Visualisation and Quantification of HIV Associated ; 2013: Radiation Dose optimisation in computed Tomography; 2013: An investigation focussed upon the use and optimisation of the EI value; 2013: Establishment of Maltese CT DRLs and investigation into the optimisation of CT Protocols 2014: Novel applications of advanced neuro-magnetic resonance imaging;
2014: Portuguese Paediatric Radiation Dose Optimisation: CT Examinations;
2014: Diffusion-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography of the Achilles tendon at 3 Tesla: technical issues and clinical applications.
2015: Optimisation of Radiographic Exposure Practice; Calibration standards for DI monitors (pending minor corrections)
2017: Advanced MR techniques for Knee and Spine examination
2018: Optimisation of MR protocols for abdomen and pelvis examinations
2019: MRI derived indices of cardiac structure and function in cystic fibrosis adults and elastography use in paediatric liver CF.
2020: Optimisation of Cardiac Stress Imaging protocols
2020: Paediatric patient risk/benefit communication for High Dose Paediatric Examinations;
2023: AI focussed PhD - MR LSpine examinations Current: - CPD in Ireland: for PhD examination Current: AI Focussed PhD - DVT US Referral - Stage 1 2023
Completed secondary supervisor PhD Topics. CT imaging of obese patients; Image perception - image quality verification; IR radiation dose management and risk/benefit communication.
For Prof Rainford’s full bio, see here.
Prof Marguerite Clyne
Prof Clyne’s PhD project investigated the pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with cases of toxic shock syndrome. Her work on bacteria/host and mucin/pathogen interactions led to an invitation to be a PI on a successful SFI funded strategic research cluster award (Alimentary Glycoscience Research cluster, AGRC). Industry collaborators included Agilent Technologies, Alimentary Health, Biomining Inc, Bristol Myers Squibb and Teagasc.
Prof Clyne has also worked with Dr. Marion Rowland on a HRB funded project to investigate the epidemiology of H. pylori in Irish families using DNA isolated from faecal samples. part of an international collaborative project with Dr. Tadhg O.Croinin and researchers in UCDavis in USA funded by the animal health company Zoetis to phenotypically and genotypically characterise strains of C. jejuni from different environmental sources with a view to development of biomarkers of virulence for use in a diagnostic test for strains likely to cause disease in humans.
2022: Associate Dean School of Medicine, Equality Diversity and Inclusion
2019-2023: Chair of School of Medicine Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
2016-2019: Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Impact School of Medicine
2022-2023: Co-chair School of Medicine Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team (Bronze renewal award)
2017-2019: Chair of School of Medicine Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team (Bronze award)
2008-2016: Chair of Biomedical Research Degree Committee 2023-present Professor UCD School of Medicine
2014-2023: Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer UCD School of Medicine
2004-2014: Lecturer UCD School of Medicine
2000-2004: Special Lecturer UCD School of Medicine
For Prof Clyne’s full bio, see here.
The School strongly encourages our female faculty to consider making promotion applications as this is of great importance to the School’s commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. For more information, please see here.