Research Assistant based at the Clinical Research Centre.

Gene provides essential support for the arthroscopy research programme and the specialised regional arthritis knee clinic. She provides valuable support to the clinical fellows, research nurses and the patients who attend for arthroscopy, follow-up and clinical assessment.

Research Nurse based at the Clinical Research Centre.

Hazel provides essential support for the arthroscopy research programme and the innovative RA clinical registry. She provides valuable support to the clinical fellows, research nurses and the patients who attend for arthroscopy, follow-up and clinical
assessment.

Kieran Murray graduated from UCD Medical School in 2010. He is a fourth year specialist registrar and has previously worked in Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and University College Hospital Galway. His main research interest is improving outcomes in inflammatory arthritis, through analysing biomarkers, infection risk and management in pregnancy.

Trudy obtained her BSc in Biomedical Health and Disease from University College Dublin in 2011. In the same year, Trudy was awarded a Molecular Medicine Ireland PhD scholarship for their unique cross-institutional Clinical and Translation Research Scholars Programme (CTRSP). During her PhD, she completed a four month Industry internship with Quintiles Transnational as part of the Global Regulatory Affairs department, providing regulatory ‘Roadmaps’ for large Pharma, advising them on the most efficient strategy to file a new drug application in Europe, South America and Asia. Trudy’s PhD research, entitled ‘Synovial inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis is regulated by Toll-like Receptor 2-activated signalling pathways’, was carried out in St. Vincent’s University Hospital and was completed in November 2015. Since this time, she has worked as a Postdoctoral researcher within the Molecular Rheumatology Group and Center for Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases. At present, Trudy is the UCD Novartis Newman Postdoctoral Fellow and her research focuses on identifying the metabolic and cellular mechanisms that mediate inflammation in the joint. Her work is carried out in close collaboration with Industry partners including Janssen Pharmaceutics and Pfizer. She has received numerous travel grants to present her research within Europe and was awarded best oral presentation at both the MMI and New Horizons in Rheumatology national meetings. Trudy is the current Irish Country Lisiason Officer for EMEUNET (Emerging EULAR Network) and her role is to promote education and collaborative work among young clinicians and researchers in rheumatology and to liaise with other national representatives.

Richard Conway, MB PhD, is a rheumatologist and epidemiologist. He has research interests in rheumatoid arthritis, early arthritis, gout, medication-related adverse events, and in vasculitis, in particular giant cell arteritis. Richard has a particular methodological focus in the performance of systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses.