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The Department Welcomes Prof Brian Walsh as Associate Professor in Neonatology
Professor Walsh joined the Department in December 2022 as Associate Professor of Neonatology.
Professor Walsh’s research has focused on newborns at high risk of cerebral injury. In particular he has studied different methods for the early identification of brain injury, and also in optimizing neuro-protection strategies, to hopefully improve their outcomes.
Professor Walsh graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2004. He was awarded a Molecular Medicine Ireland Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2009, and studied the ability for early blood biological markers to determine the severity of Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy in newborns. He was awarded his PhD for this work by UCC in 2014. He completed his neonatal training, working first as a Fellow, and then Chief Fellow, on the Harvard Neonatal Perinatal Fellowship Program. Following fellowship he became an Attending Neonatologist in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, with an academic appointment to Harvard Medical School, before returning to Cork as a Consultant Neonatologist.
His current research includes leading a multi-site project to improve the early detection of cerebral palsy in Ireland, and is also the site lead for two multi-centre neuro-protection studies for newborns with HIE.