Caroline Mcintosh BSc, MSc, PhD

Caroline McIntosh is Chair of the Discipline of Podiatric Medicine, at NUI Galway and programme director for the BSc Podiatric Medicine programme, the MPhil Podiatric Medicine research degree and the PhD Podiatric Medicine programme. Prior to this role Caroline was a senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK, and before that she was employed as a senior podiatrist for an NHS Trust in North Yorkshire, UK. Caroline has a specialist interest in tissue viability and diabetic foot disease and she holds an honorary contract as a Diabetes Specialist Podiatrist in University College Hospital Galway.

Caroline has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the field of tissue viability, particularly on the diabetic foot, and has presented at national and international conferences. Caroline has co-edited the text “Lower Extremity Wounds”, and undertook her PhD in the need to build and disseminate evidence-based wound care. Caroline has acted as co-applicant and Principal Investigator (PI) for a number of clinical trials including two randomised controlled trials of topical therapies for wounds. Prof. McIntosh was PI for a large multi-centre randomised controlled trial in conjunction with York’s Trials Unit (The EverT Study- Effective Verrucae Treatments).