Nóirín is a medical graduate of University College Cork. She works as a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital and Honorary Clinical Professor at University College Cork. Since 2020, she has worked as Clinical Director of CervicalCheck, the Irish national cervical screening programme. She collaborated with the International Agency for Research and Cancer (IARC-WHO) to produce the 2022 Best Practice Guidelines on cervical cancer screening. She is currently a member of the working group of the European Commission Initiative on cervical cancer (ECcVC), working on the development ofEuropean clinical practice guidelineswith an associatedEuropean quality assurance (QA) scheme.
Nóirín’s clinical and research interests include clinical leadership, cervical cancer screening, risk assessment in pregnancy, patient safety, quality assurance and staff engagement. She is interested in patient-focussed communication and society-wide discussion of harm in healthcare.