Professor Eugene Dempsey

Professor Eugene Dempsey is a Consultant Neonatologist in the Cork University Maternity Hospital and Clinical Professor of Paediatrics in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University College Cork. He qualified from University College Cork in 1995, trained in the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, National Maternity Hospital Holles Street and Our Lady's Hospital Crumlin before moving to  McGill University, Montreal where he completed subspeciality training in Neonatology at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University (2002-2005). He returned to Ireland and worked as a Consultant Neonatologist in Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital and Our Lady's Hospital for Children Crumlin. He moved to his current post in Cork University Maternity Hospital in Nov 2007. Prof. Dempsey has a keen interest in clinical research and evidence based neonatology . He is a PI in The INFANT Centre:  The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research. He is also supervising a number of ongoing clinical research studies and higher degrees in the NICU. Prof. Dempsey is a member of a number of national  committees including the Faciulty of Paediatrics and Royal College Research Ethics Committee. He currently lectures at both the RCSI and the RCPI.