ProfessorProfessor Colin Cantwell

Colin Cantwell is a Full Clinical Professor at UCD and Consultant Interventional Radiologist at St. Vincent's University Hospital. He obtained his medical degree through RCSI, membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2001, his MSc in Radiological Science through UCD in 2004 and Irish and UK Radiology Fellowship in 2004. He completed Interventional Radiology fellowships in Hershey Medical Centre/Pennsylvania State University with Professor Peter Waybill in 2006 and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School with Professor Peter Muller in 2008. He returned to Ireland in 2008 as the Consultant Radiologist at St. Vincent's University Hospital. Professor Cantwell is an editorial board member for CVIR endovascular. He is or has been a member and vice-chair of the European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) Examination Council, board of Examiners for the European Board of Interventional Radiology Certification Examination, member of the European Board of Radiology (EBR) examination council for the European Diploma in Radiology (EDiR), Team leader of EDiR Interventional Radiology exam content editors, member of the online Education Committee of CIRSE, member of the Interventional Radiology Scientific Committee for the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), member of the Cardiovascular Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) Relative Value Unit Task Force, Union of European Medical Specialities (UEMS) representative for Irish radiologists, Secretary and board member of the Union of European Medical Specialities (UEMS) radiology section, council member and assessor of the International Accreditation System for Interventional Oncology Services (IASIOS), council member and lead assessor of the European Training Assessment Platform of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), President of the Irish Society of Interventional Radiology, board member of the Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists of the RCSI, chair of the Interventional Radiology committee and National Training Coordinator and Education Development Officer of the Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists, Chair of the Radiology Audit committee St. Vincent’s University Hospital. 
He is a contributor to the curriculum of the Irish higher specialist training programme in Radiology, the curriculum and programme for interventional radiology training, the CIRSE curriculum and syllabus for interventional oncology and interventional radiology and the ESR radiology curriculum.
He acts as a journal reviewer for over 10 international imaging and medical journals including Radiology, the American Journal of Roentgenology and European Radiology. He has published over 55 international peer-reviewed articles and over 13 book chapters. He is an active lecturer in the undergraduate medicine, radiography, postgraduate nursing in the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, and of the postgraduate Fellowship program of the Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists in Ireland. He is an invited speaker, moderator and faculty at international conferences including CIRSE, ECIO, SIR.
His research is supported by grants from Irish Research Council, Cappagh Trust, Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists and Industry partners. He is an expert reviewer for European Union Health Technology Assessment.