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Assoc Professor

Cormac McCarthy

Associate Professor

School of Medicine

Orcid identifier0000-0003-2896-5210
  • Associate Professor
    School 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

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
    University College Dublin, School of Medicine, Dublin, Ireland3 Dec 2018
  • Senior Fellow
    Conway Institute, UCD, Dublin 4, Ireland1 Jun 2022
  • Deputy Director
    Clinical Research Centre, UCD, Ireland22 Jul 2024

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland3 Dec 2018
  • Consultant Respiratory Physician
    St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland3 Dec 2018
  • Rare Lung Disease Scholar
    Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, United States1 Jul 2016 - 30 Nov 2018
  • Genetic Pulmonary Disease Fellow
    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Pulmonary, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States1 Jul 2016 - 1 Jul 2018
  • Specialist Clinical Lecturer
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Medicine, Dublin, Ire9 Jul 2012 - 13 Jul 2014

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Specialist Registrar; Internal Medicine
    St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown, Ireland11 Jan 2016 - 10 Jul 2016
  • Specialist Registrar; Internal Medicine
    St. Vincent's University Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland13 Jul 2015 - 10 Jan 2016
  • Specialist Registrar; Respiratory Medicine
    Beaumont Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland14 Jul 2014 - 12 Jul 2015
  • Specialist Registrar; Respiratory Medicine
    St. Vincent's University Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland11 Jul 2011 - 8 Jul 2012
  • Registrar; Respiratory Medicine
    Beaumont Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2010 - 10 Jul 2011
  • Senior House Officer; Internal Medicine
    Beaumont Hospital, Medicine, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2008 - 1 Jul 2010
  • Intern; Medicine/Surgery
    Beaumont Hospital, Medicine/Surgery, Dublin, Ireland1 Jul 2007 - 1 Jul 2008

DEGREES

  • FRCPI
    Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
  • FRPCI, Fellowship of The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
    Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
  • MB BCh BAO
    Royal Coll Surgeons in Ireland
  • MRCPI
    Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
  • PhD
    Royal Coll Surgeons in Ireland
  • Prof Cert University Teaching & Learning, Professional Certificate University Teaching and Learning
    University College Dublin

CERTIFICATIONS

  • MRCPI
    Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland9 Jul 2009
  • ECFMG
    Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, Philadelphia, United States1 Jan 2013
  • FRCPI
    Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, IrelandApr 2020

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Genetic Pulmonary Disease Fellowship
    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, United States1 Oct 2016 - 1 Oct 2018
    Clinical Fellowship
  • Rare Lung Disease Scholar
    National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Rare Lung Disease Consortium, Cincinnati, United States1 Jul 2016 - 1 Dec 2018
    Other

LANGUAGES

  • Irish
    Can read and understand
  • French
    Can read and understand