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Academic Clinical Fellow
UCD Perinatal Research Centre, Ireland
Gillian is a PhD Candidate at the UCD Perinatal Research Centre. Her PhD thesis is centred upon the vaginal microbiome and its relationship with preterm birth.
She is a Specialist Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and is the current Maternal Medicine Fellow at the National Maternity Hospital. She graduated with honours from Medicine at UCD in 2015, interned at the Mater Hospital and has trained through the National Maternity Hospital, the Coombe Hospital, St James's, Mayo and Portlaoise Hospitals. She has also worked in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, Australia.
She has passed membership examinations for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in 2018 and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in 2022, winning the gold medal in the Obstetric and Gynaecology MRCPI Examinations.
She has completed a Masters in Clinical Translational Research with UCD. She has published a number of first author research papers. For her PhD, she is investigating the horizontal transfer of oral lactobacillus crispatus to the vaginal microbiome and subsequent impact on local vaginal microbial composition, systemic inflammation and preterm birth related outcomes.
She has trained on Labour Ward under the guidance of Dr Michael Robson at the National Maternity Hospital, with whom she completed this research.