Kieran Sheahan MB, BCh, BAO, BSc, MRCPI, FRCPI, FFPath, FRCPath

Professor Kieran Sheahan: MB,BCh,.BAO B.Sc. M.R.C.P.I. F.R.C.P.I. F.F.Path .F.R.C.Path. is a Consultant Histopathologist & Head of Histopathology at the Department of Pathology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin & Full Clinical Professor, University College Dublin School of Medicine. He graduated from UCD Medical School in 1981 & trained in the Anatomic Pathology Program, Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston, where he was Assistant Professor of Pathology, Boston University until 1992. He took up his present appointment in 1992, became Associate Clinical Professor, UCD School of Medicine in 2007 & Full Clinical Professor in 2014. He is a Director of the Centre for Colorectal Disease, SVUH.

He is currently Director of Education & Training, Faculty of Pathology, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland & a member of the working group of the National QA programme in Histopathology. He is a former Board Member of National Cancer Registry & former President of the Pathology Section, RAMI . He was the founding Treasurer and is a former President of the Irish Society of Surgical Pathology. His research interests include Prognostic & predictive markers in colorectal cancer, familial gastrointestinal cancer, application of immunohistochemical & molecular genetic techniques in cancer & the pathobiology of inflammatory bowel disease. He has over 140 original publications in peer-reviewed biomedical journals and has authored numerous reviews & book chapters.