Alistair Nichol
Alistair is the Chair of Critical Care Medicine in University College Dublin (UCD), and the Director of the Irish Critical Care - Clinical Trials Network (ICC-CTN). He is the Dept Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Bairbre McNicholas
Dr Bairbre McNicholas is a medical intensivist and nephrologist with basic science training in immunology, having completed a Ph.D. and post-doctoral and nephrology training in Ireland and at the University of Washington, Seattle respectively. She completed a post certificate of specialist training fellowship in Intensive Care Medicine in 2018. She currently practices as a consultant Intensivist and Nephrologist at Galway University Hospital. She is a member of the Irish Critical Care Trials Group Executive Committee, a senior clinical lecturer at University of Galway, School of Medicine and is active in both clinical and translational research.
Aisling McMahon
Dr Aisling McMahon is a Consultant Intensivist and Academic Lead in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH). She graduated in Medicine from Trinity College Dublin before completing specialist training in Anaesthesia in Ireland. She subsequently undertook a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia at MMUH, encompassing transplant anaesthesia and perioperative transoesophageal echocardiography, followed by a fellowship in Intensive Care Medicine across MMUH and Beaumont Hospital. She was appointed as a Consultant Intensivist at MMUH in 2021. Dr McMahon has experience as a Principal Investigator for international observational and interventional studies in critical care, is the Vice-Chair of the MMUH research ethics committee and a committee member of the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. She is Secretary of the Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Group and a member of the Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network.
Gerard Curley
Gerard Curley is Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Beaumont Hospital. He completed clinical and research training in Ireland and Toronto, under the supervision of Professor John Laffey and Professor Brian Kavanagh. His translational research focuses on the role of inflammatory pathways, resolution mediators and innate immune dysfunction in the pathogenesis of critical illness. The group’s aim is to develop novel immunomodulatory therapies to promote the resolution of inflammation.
