Our Directors
Prof Glen Doherty
Prof Laurence Egan
Prof Laurence Egan
Prof Doherty graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1998 with a Gold Medal and 1st Class Hons Degree in Medicine. He completed a PhD degree (2006) in eicosanoid signaling in colorectal cancer at RCSI medical school and the Conway Institute at UCD. Following the award of his Certificate of Specialist Training in Gastroenterology and Inte
Prof Doherty graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1998 with a Gold Medal and 1st Class Hons Degree in Medicine. He completed a PhD degree (2006) in eicosanoid signaling in colorectal cancer at RCSI medical school and the Conway Institute at UCD. Following the award of his Certificate of Specialist Training in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine in 2008, he spent a period of further specialist training in the USA at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. There he undertook a post-doctoral research programme with Professor Simon Robson. He returned to Ireland in 2010 to take up a position as a Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Vincent's University Hospital and UCD. Glen has numerous peer-reviewed publications in the areas of inflammatory bowel disease and colorectal cancer. He established INITIative, a national research network for Crohn's and Colitis research in 2016 and chairs the network steering committee. He is former Honorary Treasurer and Board member of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology (ISG), former National Representative and former Chair of the Guidelines Committee (GUI-COM) of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and former member of the Quality of Care Taskforce of UEGF, the European Gastroenterology Federation. He is currently a member of the Education Committee (EDU-COM) of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation and national training lead for GI endoscopy with the HSE Endoscopy programme.
Prof Laurence Egan
Prof Laurence Egan
Prof Laurence Egan
Prof. Egan graduated from UCG in 1990 (M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.), and completed internship, house officer and registrar training, based at University College Hospital Galway. He received Membership of RCPI in 1992, and Masters in Medical Science from UCG in 1994. From 1994 to 1999, at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota he completed further train
Prof. Egan graduated from UCG in 1990 (M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O.), and completed internship, house officer and registrar training, based at University College Hospital Galway. He received Membership of RCPI in 1992, and Masters in Medical Science from UCG in 1994. From 1994 to 1999, at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota he completed further training in Internal Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology & Gastroenterology, receiving American Board certification in those 3 disciplines. NUI Galway conferred an MD in 1999. Prof. Egan then undertook post-doctoral training from 2000 to 2002, in the Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology at the University of California, San Diego, before returning to the Mayo Clinic to take up a consultancy in Gastroenterology, with joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. His research focuses on molecular characterization of signaling pathways involved in intestinal epithelial cell stress, death and malignant transformation, and optimization of personalized approaches to biological therapy in inflammatory bowel diseases. In 2005, Prof. Egan joined NUI Galway and the Health Service Executive Western Region as Professor of Clinical Pharmacology/Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist and Head of the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, a position he took up in August 2005. Prof. Egan has served as Interim Director of the HRB Clinical Research facility Galway, as Vice-Dean of Research at the College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences at NUI Galway, and as Head of the discipline of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He is a past-President of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology. He was associate editor at Gut, and has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis since 2014.
Dr David Kevans
Prof Laurence Egan
Dr David Kevans
Dr Kevans graduated from University College Dublin in 2001 with an Honours Degree in Medicine. He obtained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and then entered higher specialist training in Gastroenterology in 2005. During this period of training he undertook a Medical Doctorate (MD) focusing on novel prognosti
Dr Kevans graduated from University College Dublin in 2001 with an Honours Degree in Medicine. He obtained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and then entered higher specialist training in Gastroenterology in 2005. During this period of training he undertook a Medical Doctorate (MD) focusing on novel prognostic markers in stage II colorectal cancer. Having been awarded specialist registration in Gastroenterology in 2011 he undertook a three-year fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto / University of Toronto specialising in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. While in Toronto he was awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship award to support Inflammatory Bowel Disease focused research. David returned to Ireland in 2014 to take up an appointment as Consultant Gastroenterologist at St James’s Hospital, Dublin. In 2018, he was co-appointed as Associate Director of the Wellcome Trust HRB Clinical Research Facility at St James’s Hospital. He became a Clinical Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin in 2020. He has a special interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and leads a programme at St James’s Hospital which provides both regional and tertiary level care for patients with these disorders. He has an active clinical and translational research programme in the Inflammatory Bowel Disease field.
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