Assoc ProfessorAishling O'Riordan

Adjunct Clinical Professor

School of Medicine

  • Adjunct Clinical Professor
    School of Medicine
  • 012214493
  • University College Dublin, School of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Elm Park Dublin 4

BIO

Dr Aisling O' Riordan was appointed as a consultant nephrologist in 2010 at the Royal Free NHS Trust in London. She moved to the Mater MIsericordiae University Hospital in 2017 and later to St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2018.

She was awarded a UCD Newman Scholarship in 2004 and completed an MD on renal disease in liver transplant patients at the Conway Institute. She then continued this research theme at Kings College Hospital in London as a clinical research fellow.  

Dr. O' Riordan has a prarticular interest in medical education and was the Irish National Specialty Director for higher specialist training in nephrology from 2019 - 2022. She continues to participate in the RCPI specialist training programme. In 2024 she was appointed as a UCD intern tutor and  coordinates intern training in SVUH with the intern lecturer.

Her sub-specialty clinical interests are in the managment of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, conservative care and renal transplantation. 

 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Intern Tutor
    University College Dublin, School of Medicine, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2024

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Consultant Nephrologist
    St. Vincent's University Hospital, Nephrology, Dublin, Ireland2 Jul 2018

CERTIFICATIONS

  • MB, BCh, BAO, LRCP & SI (Hons)
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland3 Sep 1990 - 31 May 1996
  • Membership of the Royal College of Physician’s
    Royal College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland2 May 1988
  • Diploma in health service management (Hons)
    Westmoreland College, Dublin, Ireland31 May 2004
  • Doctor of medicine degree
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland5 Nov 2007
  • Diploma in simulation and human factors
    University of Galway, Galway, Ireland3 Nov 2025

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Higher Specialist Training Nephrology
    Royal College Physicians in Ireland, Dublin, Dublin