Gabrielle is Clinical Associate Professor in Paediatrics, TCD and Assistant Clinical Professor in Women’s and Children’s Health, UCD School of Medicine, UCD. She is also the Head of Department for her discipline of Radiology in the National Maternity Hospital and is the Radiology Lead for the National Fetal MRI program.
Gabrielle graduated from NUI, Galway in 2005 with a First Class Honours degree and completed radiology training in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital before completing 2 years Paediatric Radiology fellowship in Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital from 2014-16. In 2015-16 she was Chief Fellow in Paediatric Radiology and underwent subspecialty training in Fetal and Neuro MR. She has worked for over 16 years as a medical doctor, 11 years as a Radiologist and 5 years as a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist in Ireland following the completion of two years of Paediatric Radiology Fellowship in Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. With close to 40 peer-reviewed research works, she is best known for her early MD work on breast cancer predisposition genetics conducted with Prof Ian Tomlinson and Dr Elinor Sawyer in Cancer Research UK and her more recent work on paediatric applications of contrast enhanced ultrasound and fetal imaging. She is the Section Editor for Paediatric Radiology for the European Journal of Radiology.
Gabrielle is known for her love of and commitment to education and training. She is the lead for Paediatric Radiology education in Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street and she has received multiple awards for teaching including from Harvard Medical School for teaching excellence. She prides herself as working with the enthusiasm and openness of a beginners mind in her quest for quality improvement and innovation in healthcare in Ireland. She is passionate that all patients deserve timely access to quality care.