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Professor of Pathology and Head of Department

Professor Nollaig Parfrey BA, MD, FRCPC, FRCPath.

Professor of Pathology and Consultant Histopathologist at Cork University Hospital. 

A medical graduate of UCC.  Postgraduate training was at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and McGill University, Montreal.  Formerly Professor of Pathology at University College Dublin and St. Vincent's University Hospital.  Research interests in human molecular genetics, primarily in mapping and identifying human disease genes.

Tel: +353-21-4901247

Email: n.parfrey@ucc.ie

Dr. John Hogan, MB, FRCPath.

Statutory Lecturer in Pathology and Consultant Histopathologist at Cork University Hospital. 

Trained in Dublin  and Leicester, UK.  Research interests include skin cancer, particularly melanomas, and lymphomas.

Tel: +353-21-4901249

Dr. Margot Bolster, MB, DFM, DMJ, MRCPath.

Statutory Lecturer (Forensic Medicine) part-time.

Trained in Cork.  Acquired specialist Forensic Pathology training in Edinburgh.  Coordinates undergraduate Forensic Medicine course in which Medical Jurisprudence is particularly emphasised.

Tel: +353-21-4901245

Dr. Paule Cotter, MD, FRCP, FRCPath.

Statutory Lecturer (Haematology) part-time and Consultant Haematologist at Cork University Hospital.

Trained in Cork and Birmingham.  Coordinates undergraduate Haematology course.

Tel: +353-21-4922546

Dr. Mary Hayes, MB, MRCP(UK), FRCPath.

Oral Pathology. Consultant Histopathologist, Cork University Hospital..

Trained in Hammersmith Hospital, London, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and Glasgow.  Research interests are in Oral Pathology and Gynaecological Pathology.

Coordinates the Oral Pathology section of the undergraduate course.

Tel: +353-21-4901244

Dr. William Kealy, MD, FRCPath.

Statutory Lecturer (Cytology) part-time and Consultant Histopathologist/Cytopathologist at Cork University Hospital. 

Trained in Dublin and King's College Hospital, London.  Research interests include the role of viruses in the genesis of tumours.

Tel: +353-21-4922509

Dr. Collette Hand, BSc, PhD.

A Science graduaduate of University College Cork who attained her PhD at University College Dublin. Post-Doctoral research at McGill University, Montreal. 

Research interest in human molecular genetics including neurogenetics.

Tel: +353-21-4901293 

Clinical Lecturers and Other Teaching Staff

Dr. Louise Burke Consultant Histopathologist, Cork University Hospital
Dr. James Clair Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Mercy University Hospital, Cork
Dr. Mary Horgan Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Cork University Hospital

Dr. Catherine Keohane

Consultant Histopathologist/Neuropathologist, Cork University Hospital

Dr. Helen Kiely Consultant Histopathologist, Cork University Hospital
Dr. Oonagh Gilligan Consultant Haematologist, Cork University Hospital
Dr. Michael Madden Consultant Haematologist, Mercy University Hospital, Cork
Dr. Mary Cahill Consultant Haematologist, Limerick Regional Hospital
Dr. Olive Murphy Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Bon Secours Hospital
Dr. John O'Mullane Consultant Biochemist, Cork University Hospital
Dr. Eoin O' Murchú Consultant Pathologist, Bon Secours Hospital
Dr. Joan Power Consultant Haematologist, Blood Transfusion Service, St. Finbarr's Hospital
Dr. Nurul Nor SpR in Histopathology, Cork University Hospital/Clinical Tutor in Pathology
Dr. Brendan Fitzgerald SpR in Histopathology, Cork University Hospital/Clinical Tutor in Pathology
Dr. Manal Abdul Rahim SpR in Histopathology, Cork University Hospital/Clinical Tutor in Pathology
Dr. Sri Ganesh Kalimuthu SHO in Histopathology, Cork University Hospital/Clinical Tutor in Pathology
Dr. Michael Jansen SHO in Histopathology, Cork University Hospital/Clinical Tutor in Pathology
Dr. Hind Al Hussein SHO in Histopathology, Cork University Hospital/Clinical Tutor in Pathology
Dr. Paul Ryan SpR in Histopathology, Mercy University Hospital, Cork
Dr. Con Murphy Clinical Tutor in Pathology

Laboratory Technicians

Ms. Mary Crowley Senior Laboratory Technician
Ms. Helen McCarthy Laboratory Technician 
Ms. Vanessa collins Laboratory Technician 
Mr. Patrick Kelly Laboratory Technician 

Executive Assistant

Ms. Carol McAuliffe Tel: +353-21-4901246
Fax: +353-21-4541200
Email: pathology@ucc.ie