MrsMartina Bonner Mullaney

Martina recently joined the Radiography and Diagnostic Imaging team in UCD as a Lecturer / Assistant Professor in September 2023 bringing with her 19yrs+ Radiology Industry experience from both the public and private healthcare sectors. Her areas of speciality include Paediatrics, Radiation Protection, Quality and Risk, Radiology Management, CT and MRI imaging.
Maintaining her clinical skills is important to Martina & she continues to work clinically as a diagnostic Radiographer in several imaging modalities including MRI & CT.

Coming from a strong paediatric background, Martina is incredibly dose conscious and best practice orientated. She has been involved in multiple Radiation safety, Quality and Risk management committees, set up multiple new imaging services (Including the first 64 slice paediatric CT scanner in Ireland) and also was the Irish lead for Affidea's CT Dose Excellence project (2017-2019) which aimed to standardise and optimise protocols amongst all the company's sites in Europe. Martina was also invited to be the European lead for the paediatric project. In 2018 this project was shortlisted in the Irish Healthcare Awards 2018 – "best use of IT" category and was highly commended on the night.

Past roles such as Radiation Protection Officer, PACS, CT and MRI Clinical Specialist Radiographer in addition to Clinic Lead and Radiology Unit Manager has also ensured Martina acknowledges the importance of Radiographers having a deep understanding of their role, obligations and responsibilities in ensuring the smooth and safe operations of departments in delivering best patient care & optimum imaging services.
Martina is passionate about Radiography education, strives for excellence, promoting best practice and furthering the role of the Radiographer.

She has completed digital badge in universal design for learning (UDL) & professional certificate in University teaching & learning. She has commenced her PhD in 2025 on developing & optimising quantitative MRI (qMRI) protocols & assessing their impact on various paediatric cohorts in CHI to revolutionize paediatric MRI services in the new national childrens hospital. She is also a involved in the EU funded Rhythm project which aims to optimise CT imaging & to make it safer for children & yound people in europe.