Dr. Nuala O'Connell

 
Nuala graduated in biochemistry and medicine from NUIG in 1991 and 1994 respectively. She completed a MSc. in clinical microbiology at QMW College, University of London in 1997 before becoming a registrar / lecturer in clinical microbiology at Beaumont Hospital / RCSI Dublin. She finished her clinical microbiology training by doing a PHLS/HPA rotation in the West Midlands, UK during which time she was awarded a MD from the University of Warwick in 2003 for her thesis on Clostridium difficile in a biofilm mode of growth using the Sobarod filter system. Nuala passed her MRCPath in clinical microbiology in 2004 and has been a consultant microbiologist & infection prevention and control doctor at the MWRH, Limerick since 2005. She is also an adjunct clinical lecturer at UL.

Interests include prosthetic joint infections, biofilms and antimicrobial resistance.