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INFANT Centre Welcomes Two Principal Investigators

2 Jun 2016

INFANT鈥檚 directors and Executive Management Team are delighted to announce Dr Keelin O鈥橠onoghue and Prof Jonathan Hourihane will join the INFANT Centre team as Principal Investigators.

The INFANT Centre world-leading research centre in perinatal healthcare, funded by Science Foundation Ireland, based in Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Maternity Hospital. Its mission is to make pregnancy safer and improve health outcomes for newborn babies.

Dr O鈥橠onoghue and Prof Hourihane鈥檚 addition to the PI team is a very exciting time for INFANT. Prof Louise Kenny noted, 鈥渂oth Keelin and Jonathan bring a wealth of experience and knowledge which will extend the research areas of our centre. They are experts in their fields and we are really looking forward to working together to expand the impact that INFANT can have鈥�. Prof Geraldine Boylan added that 鈥渢he appointment of these PIs will help INFANT gain even more momentum as a world-leading research centre and will further our goal of improving health outcomes for mothers and their children鈥�. The Vice President for Research and Innovation at UCC, Professor Anita Maguire welcomed the addition of these talented researchers to the innovative INFANT Research Centre, stating: "The complementary expertise these researchers bring to the INFANT team will further support the more rapid translation of important research to the cot-side, and support the development of solutions to unmet global needs in perinatal healthcare."

Keelin O鈥橠onoghue heads the multi-disciplinary pregnancy loss research group at CUMH. She is an RCOG sub-specialist in maternal and fetal medicine. She established and leads the multiple pregnancy, fetal medicine and pregnancy loss services at CUMH, and is part of the Perinatal Medicine team. Keelin took up a post as Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer at CUMH and 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork in 2007and in 2008, Keelin established the first Irish Masters programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at UCC. From 2010-2014, Keelin was Obstetric Lead on the Division of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology at CUMH and was Clinical Director for Women and Children at Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Hospital from 2013-2014.  Keelin is a member of the National Working Party for the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinical Programme, the Clinical Advisory Group of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Speciality Training Committee of the RCPI, the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre Perinatal Mortality Group and the HSE Bereavement Care Standards Development Group. Keelin鈥檚 main research interests include prenatal diagnosis, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, stillbirth and multiple pregnancy.

Jonathan Hourihane has been Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health in 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, Ireland since 2005. He is co-PI of the BASELINE birth cohort study. He has ongoing projects in the following areas: clinical and proteomic characterisation of emerging food allergy syndromes, exploration of the link between skin barrier dysfunction and systemic allergic disorders, threshold doses of food allergens, immunomodulation of established allergic responses, prevention of allergic sensitisation, including use of pre-and probiotic-enhanced infant formulae and evaluation of quality of life in food allergic children. Jonathan鈥檚 primary area of clinical and research interest is in paediatric food allergy and anaphylaxis.

All staff at the Centre look forward to working with both Keelin and Jonathan, and warmly welcome them to the team.