Assoc ProfessorSuzanne Donnelly

I am a career medical educator and practising clinical medicine consultant with experience and expertise in leading the development of strategic initiatives in medical education and more than three decades of clinical practice experience as a Consultant Rheumatologist in the UK and Ireland. 

I am currently serving my second term as  Associate Dean for Programmes & Education Innovation in UCD School of Medicine, having been appointed as the School's Director of Clinical Education in 2008

I have an honours degree in Medicine ( MB BCh BAO) from Trinity College Dublin (1990) and gained membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1993. I trained in clinical medicine, rheumatology and medical education from 1990 to 2002 in both Ireland and the UK.  I was awarded a CCST in Rheumatology in 2002 (University of Oxford Postgraduate Deanery), having capstoned my training with a three year Clinical Lecturership in Rheumatology in the University of Oxford and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.  I hold Specilaist Registration with the Medical Council of Ireland ( Registration 000614)  and have a specialist interest in the clinical management of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus , Connective Tissue Disease including Systemic Sclerosis and pregnancy in the rheumatic diseases. I practice clinical Rheumatology part time in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital to which I was appointed in 2005. 

I was awarded a doctoral degree in medical education (MD) by University College Dublin for my thesis entitled 'Educating for Empathy in Clinical Medicine'. 

I have been fortunate to enjoy a career that has afforded me three decades of doing what I love- caring for patients and designing and delivering excellent education to medical students and generations of medical trainees and I  have made many wonderful friends in so doing.