Prof. Keelin O’Donoughue – Clinical Lead for Obstetric Research
Clinical Lead for Obstetric Research / Principal Investigator
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Prof. Keelin O’Donoghue is a Consultant Obstetrician and Senior Lecturer at Cork University Maternity Hospital and University College Cork (UCC), where she was promoted to Professor in 2020. A UCD medical graduate with a PhD from Imperial College London, she is a trained Subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and a Fellow of both the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Prof. O’Donoghue leads the Pregnancy Loss Research Group at UCC, the only research group in Ireland focused on pregnancy loss and perinatal death and is a PI in the INFANT Research Centre, supervising a large group of researchers and postgraduate students. She has led implementation of National Standards for Bereavement Care in collaboration with the HSE’s National Women and Infants’ Health Programme (NWIHP) and is HSE-NWIHP Clinical Lead for Guideline Development in Maternity & Gynaecology.
Prof. O’Donoghue has served on the IOG’s executive and specialty training committee, and as a national specialty-training director for the RCPI’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology HST scheme and she was recently elected to RCPI Council. Prof. O’Donoghue is a member of the RCOG’s Scientific Advisory Committee and the Life and Medical Sciences Multidisciplinary Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.
Her research has led to >240 peer-reviewed original papers and >370 published conference proceedings.