Professor Nuala Healy joins RCSI university as chair of radiology

Professor Nuala Healy has been appointed chair of radiology at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin. In her role, Professor Healy will lead the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)’s academic department of radiology while providing patient care as a consultant radiologist at Beaumont Hospital.

Throughout her career, Professor Healy has had multiple educational roles including more recently as deputy training programme director for Cambridge University Hospital radiology trainees.

Professor Healy is the research lead for the British Society of Breast Radiology, a trustee of Symposium Mammographicum and chair of the organising committee for the Cambridge Conference on Breast Cancer Imaging. She is a member of the editorial board for Cancer Imaging, where she is editor of the breast section, and a member of the scientific editorial board of Insights into Imaging.

Professor Healy is involved in multiple breast imaging studies and her research interests include AI in radiology, novel techniques in breast imaging, MRI including abbreviated breast MRI, surveillance and post-operative breast imaging and novel ways of measuring bone health in women with a history of breast cancer. Professor Healy is chair of the organising committee for the Cambridge Conference on Breast Cancer Imaging.

The RCSI academic department of radiology is based in the radiology department at Beaumont Hospital, an 820-bed tertiary referral centre, with 20 consultant radiologists and 14 specialist registrars in radiology. The department provides the undergraduate radiology teaching programme to RCSI students, which includes a dedicated lecture series on both diagnostic and interventional radiology in senior cycle and the opportunity to take part in clinical electives in the department.

Picture: Professor Nuala Healy.

Published on page 30 of the July 2024 issue of RAD Magazine.