Speakers 2025
Dr Clinton Boyd
Consultant Pathologist and Clinical Director Director
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Prof Gerard Clarke
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioural Science and APC Microbiome Ireland
University College Cork
Laura Clifford
Chief Medical Scientist and Chair of the Cellular Pathology Advisory Body
Histopathology, Bon Secours Hospital Tralee.
Dr Dearbhaile Collins
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Cork University Hospital and Clinical Lead Molecular Tumour Board
Prof Aedin Culhane
Professor of Cancer Genomics and Director of the Limerick Digital Cancer Research Centre
University of Limerick School of Medicine
Sophia Godau
Biomedical Laboratory Scientist
Vårdförbundet (The Swedish Association of Health Professionals)
Prof Seán Hynes
Professor in Pathology
University of Galway & Consultant Histopathologist at University Hospital Galway.
Paul Lynam
Chief Medical Scientist, Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Laboratory
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin Hospital
Dr Sorcha Ní Loingsigh
Clinical Advisor in Transfusion in conjunction with a role as Consultant Haematologist at Munster Regional Transfusion Centre
National clinical programme for pathology
Prof Derek O’Keeffe
Consultant Physician, University Hospital Galway Professor of Medical Device Technology
University of Galway
Dr Norah Patten
Aeronautical Engineer and Bioastronautics Researcher (IIAS Astronaut 003)
Esther Purcell
Principal Biochemist
St Vincent's University Hospital
Caroline Reilly
Specialist Medical Scientist
CHI at Crumlin
Sean Rooney
Chief Medical Scientist in the Paediatric Haematology Laboratory
Children’s Health Ireland (at Crumlin)
Prof Manuel Salto-Tellez
Professor of Molecular Pathology
Precision Medicine Centre at Queen's University Belfast
Mark Zuckerman
Consultant Medical Virologist and Honorary Reader in Virology
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences
