Professor Michael Keane
Principal, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences
Professor Michael Keane is College Principal, UCD College of Health and Agricultural Sciences
Professor Michael Keane was appointed as Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at UCD and Consultant Respiratory Physician at St Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH) in 2007. A graduate of UCD School of Medicine he undertook fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at University of Michigan from 1995-1998 and then joined the faculty there. In 2000 he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he was Director of the Fellowship Training Program and Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit until 2007 when he returned to Dublin.
Professor Keane was Dean and Head of School of Medicine at UCD from 2018-2025. He has chaired the Board of Directors of the RCSI and UCD Malaysia Campus (RUMC) in Penang since 2018. He has also held significant management positions at SVUH having served on the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group Board of Directors for nine years and has filled the roles of Group Clinical Director and interim CEO. He has significant roles in postgraduate medical education serving on the council of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) and he is currently Registrar in the RCPI. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London. His research interests are in the areas of interstitial lung disease and rare lung diseases. He has published widely in these areas and he is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and associate editor of Respirology.