Name

Professor Aoibhlinn O'Toole

Professor Aoibhlinn O'Toole graduated with honours from University College Dublin in 2004. She completed her specialist training in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in St Vincent's University Hospital, Sligo General Hospital and Beaumont Hospital. She was the UCD Newman Scholar in Inflammatory Bowel disease and obtained an MD from UCD for her research on colorectal cancer and immune evasion. She subsequently moved to Boston where she completed inflammatory bowel disease fellowships in the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Programme for Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. 

She returned to Dublin in 2015 to join the Gastroenterology team in Beaumont Hospital and as a clinical lecturer with RCSI. Her areas of interest include clinical and translational research in IBD, Endoscopy, Hepatology and Nutrition. She supervises RCSI Star MD candidates and is a principal investigator on numerous phase two and phase three clinical trials. 

In her role as Gastroenterology National Specialty Director for Training, Aoibhlinn contributed to the development of The Competency Model for Skills Training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Higher Specialist Training in Gastroenterology Outcome Based Education Curriculum and is actively involved in teaching basic endoscopy skills and colonoscopy skills to RCPI and RCSI trainees. She is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.