Professor Nuala Healy has been appointed Chair of Radiology at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. In her role, Professor Healy will lead RCSI’s academic Department of Radiology while providing patient care as a consultant radiologist at Beaumont Hospital.

Professor Healy completed her undergraduate medical training at University of Galway. Following basic surgical training, she undertook a lab-based MD and was awarded a Molecular Medicine Ireland Clinician Scientist Fellowship, and she also completed a master’s in clinical education at the University of Galway.

Her radiology training was undertaken at St James’ Hospital, Dublin, followed by a breast imaging fellowship at the Mater Hospital, Dublin. She moved to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK as a clinical fellow and was subsequently appointed as a breast and oncology radiologist.

Throughout her career, Prof. Healy has had multiple educational roles – from an early foundation as clinical lecturer and anatomy demonstrator for University of Galway, to more recently as Deputy Training Programme Director for Cambridge University Hospital radiology trainees.

She is the research lead for the British Society of Breast Radiology, a trustee of Symposium Mammographicum and chair of the organising committee for the Cambridge Conference on Breast Cancer imaging. She is member of the editorial board for Cancer Imaging, where she is editor of the breast section, and a member of the scientific editorial board of Insights into Imaging.

She is involved in multiple breast imaging studies, and her research interests include AI in radiology, novel techniques in breast imaging, MRI (including abbreviated breast MRI), surveillance and postoperative breast imaging, and novel ways of measuring bone health in women with a history of breast cancer.

Prof. Healy is chair of the organising committee for the Cambridge Conference on Breast Cancer Imaging. She also has a clear focus on issues around well-being and the contribution of role models and mentors in medicine.