Assoc Professor
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Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Orcid identifier0000-0003-2896-5210
- Associate ProfessorSchool of Medicine
- 01-221-3323
- University College Dublin, School of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Elm Park Dublin 4
BIO
Prior to being appointed in 2018 as Associate Professor of Medicine in UCD and Consultant Respiratory Physician at St. Vincent's Hospital Group Associate Professor of Medicine in UCD, Cormac McCarthy was the Rare Lung Disease Scholar at the Rare Lung Disease Consortium in the United States, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. His primary research areas were on the molecular mechanisms of lung disease, utilising pathogenesis approach to develop new therapies. He continues to have a strong interest in all lung diseases, with a particular focus on interstitial lung disease, rare lung disease, and diffuse cystic lung diseases.
Cormac McCarthy is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), obtaining an Honours degree in Medicine in 2007. He completed higher specialist training through the Royal College of Physician of Ireland (RCPI) and was awarded a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Specialist Training by the Irish Committee on Higher Specialist Training (Respiratory and General Internal Medicine) in 2017. He completed a PhD in Medicine in RCSI in 2015 with a thesis entitled “The role and importance of glycosylation for the function of alpha-1 antitrypsin and alterations in response to acute infection”.
Cormac McCarthy continued post-graduate training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where he completed an ACGME-accredited Clinical Fellowship in Genetic Pulmonary Disease, and he continued his training there as a Rare Lung Disease Scholar where he conducted research, resulting in many high impact publications
Cormac McCarthy is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), obtaining an Honours degree in Medicine in 2007. He completed higher specialist training through the Royal College of Physician of Ireland (RCPI) and was awarded a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Specialist Training by the Irish Committee on Higher Specialist Training (Respiratory and General Internal Medicine) in 2017. He completed a PhD in Medicine in RCSI in 2015 with a thesis entitled “The role and importance of glycosylation for the function of alpha-1 antitrypsin and alterations in response to acute infection”.
Cormac McCarthy continued post-graduate training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where he completed an ACGME-accredited Clinical Fellowship in Genetic Pulmonary Disease, and he continued his training there as a Rare Lung Disease Scholar where he conducted research, resulting in many high impact publications
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS
- Associate Professor of MedicineUniversity College Dublin, School of Medicine, Dublin, Ireland3 Dec 2018
- Senior FellowConway Institute, UCD, Dublin 4, Ireland1 Jun 2022
- Deputy DirectorClinical Research Centre, UCD, Ireland22 Jul 2024
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Associate ProfessorSchool of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland3 Dec 2018
- Consultant Respiratory PhysicianSt. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland3 Dec 2018
- Rare Lung Disease ScholarCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, United States1 Jul 2016 - 30 Nov 2018
- Genetic Pulmonary Disease FellowUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center, Pulmonary, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States1 Jul 2016 - 1 Jul 2018
- Specialist Clinical LecturerRoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Medicine, Dublin, Ire9 Jul 2012 - 13 Jul 2014
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Specialist Registrar; Internal MedicineSt. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, Ireland11 Jan 2016 - 10 Jul 2016
- Specialist Registrar; Internal MedicineSt. Vincent's University Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland13 Jul 2015 - 10 Jan 2016
- Specialist Registrar; Respiratory MedicineBeaumont Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland14 Jul 2014 - 12 Jul 2015
- Specialist Registrar; Respiratory MedicineSt. Vincent's University Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland11 Jul 2011 - 8 Jul 2012
- Registrar; Respiratory MedicineBeaumont Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2010 - 10 Jul 2011
- Senior House Officer; Internal MedicineBeaumont Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2008 - 1 Jul 2010
- Intern; Medicine/SurgeryBeaumont Hospital, Medicine/Surgery, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2007 - 1 Jul 2008
DEGREES
- FRCPIRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland
- FRPCI, Fellowship of The Royal College of Physicians of IrelandRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland
- MB BCh BAORoyal Coll Surgeons in Ireland
- MRCPIRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland
- PhDRoyal Coll Surgeons in Ireland
- Prof Cert University Teaching & Learning, Professional Certificate University Teaching and LearningUniversity College Dublin
CERTIFICATIONS
- MRCPIRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland9 Jul 2009
- ECFMGEducational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, Philadelphia, United States1 Jan 2013
- FRCPIRoyal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, IrelandApr 2020
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Genetic Pulmonary Disease FellowshipUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, United States1 Oct 2016 - 1 Oct 2018Clinical Fellowship
- Rare Lung Disease ScholarNational Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Rare Lung Disease Consortium, Cincinnati, United States1 Jul 2016 - 1 Dec 2018Other
LANGUAGES
- IrishCan read and understand
- FrenchCan read and understand