Keelin O’Donoghue

Keelin O’Donoghue is a medical graduate of University College Dublin (1995) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists, London (2012).

She received her PhD from the University of London in 2005, following studies at Imperial College London.

She completed RCOG sub-speciality training in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital London in 2007.

Keelin took up a post as Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Senior Lecturer at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) and University College Cork (UCC) in September 2007.

Keelin is a member of the Speciality Training Committee and the Executive Council of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 2019.

Keelin joined the INFANT centre at UCC as a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)-funded Principal Investigator in 2016. She has led the Obstetric Programme of work at INFANT since 2017 and is the Obstetric PI for the HRB-funded Mother and Baby Clinical trials Network in CUMH.

In 2017, she took up the role of National Implementation Lead for the National Standards for Bereavement Care following Pregnancy loss and Perinatal Death, working within the HSE’s National Women and Infants’ Health Programme.

Keelin’s research interests include prenatal screening and diagnosis, fetal anomaly, miscarriage, stillbirth, perinatal palliative care, complicated multiple pregnancy, and qualitative research in Clinical Obstetrics.

She heads the multi-disciplinary pregnancy loss research group at CUMH/UCC/INFANT, combining supervising a large group of postgraduate and Doctoral students with collaborative clinical research in this area.

Current grant awards include SFI, the HSE and the Health Research Board. Keelin’s work has resulted in >130 peer-reviewed original papers and >320 published conference proceedings (current h-index; 34).