DrDavid Crosby

I am a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and Head of Department of Reproductive Medicine at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Clinical Director and Board Member of Merrion Fertility Clinic, Dublin and Assistant Clinical Professor at University College Dublin.

I am the Clinical Lead of the Ireland East Group Reproductive Medicine Fertility Hub and the Programme Director of the only European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) accredited subspecialist training programme in Reproductive Medicine in Ireland at the National Maternity Hospital and Merrion Fertility Clinic.

I collaborate with the National Women and Infant’s Health Programme and their associated working groups, including the National Fertility Network, to drive national policy in areas of general reproductive medicine, andrology and endometriosis. I was a member of the UCD Fertility Treatment Policy Working Group, which produced a policy document for staff in 2024. I was appointed to the Board of the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority (AHRRA) by the Minister of Health in 2025.

I have been awarded and manage over one million euro in research grant funding and I currently have four School of Medicine UCD Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) students, one Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) Aspire Fellow and an RCPI trainee in Obstetrics and Gynaecology under my co-supervision.

I graduated from Trinity College Dublin with first class honours in medicine and psychiatry and I was awarded my Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Specialist Training (CSCST) in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 2020. Following completion of my ESHRE & EBCOG Accredited Fellowship in Merrion Fertility Clinic and the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin in Reproductive Medicine, I was awarded a M.D. from UCD. For this work, I was granted my own competitive funding from the Clinical Primer Scheme, a UCD and SFI-HRB-Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Partnership. I was awarded the British Fertility Society Young Clinician Award and the prestigious Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) Harold Malkin Prize. I have 49 publications in peer-reviewed journals and a h-index of 16. I have presented research to national and international learned societies. I have served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Quality in Healthcare (IJQHC) and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (JARG) as Apprentice Deputy Editor and I am a regular reviewer for peer-reviewed journals.

Following my initial clinical research fellowship in Ireland, I undertook an international clinical fellowship in Reproductive Genetics and Genomics at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University and I was awarded European Certification in Medical Genetics and Genomics and a MSc in Genomic Medicine with Distinction.

I have a significant interest in leadership and quality improvement (QI). I was awarded a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with Distinction through Edinburgh Business School. I am currently a QI Scholar and Fellow with the RCPI and the International Society for Quality in Healthcare.