Mary is a Registered Children’s Nurse and Registered General Nurse with extensive clinical and academic experience. From February 2020-June 2023, Mary was Director of Teaching and Learning Postgraduate in the Trinity School of Nursing and Midwifery. During her term, she was the school lead for the HCI Microcredentials (MC) Pilot Project; the school is the most successful school in TCD. She leads out on NU9MC1 Nurse Authority to Refer for Radiological Procedures, now in its third year of the MC pilot.
Mary is currently engaged in funded research projects centred on child safeguarding in community care, in the development of innovative digital health services in Advanced Nursing Practice in Children’s Healthcare in Ireland (CHI/NMPD Dublin North), Gravitate Digital Information Provision for Medication Safety (IMI/EU), and Digital Health Provision in the new Regional Health Areas (HSE). She is also supervising PhD students on programmes of research related to child health.
Mary is a recognised national academic leader in Children’s Health, Advanced Practice and Digital Health. She has strong interprofessional networks nationally and internationally and is a member of key committees and groups in relation to these fields. She is an influential contributor to the national discourse on developments in Nursing and Midwifery, representing the school, college and IUA Heads on these matters.