Name:
Professor Martina Hennessy
Organisation:
Trinity College Dublin
Year elected:
2024
Primary professional setting:
Clinical
Professor Martina Hennessy is a clinical pharmacologist and consultant physician at St James'sHospital Dublin with clinical expertise in hypertension, cardiovascular risk and medication safetyand research interests in advanced therapies, antiretroviral pharmacology, and medical education. She is the Director of the Wellcome-HRB Clinical Research Facility at St James’s, a collaborative partnership between the Hospital and Trinity College. As Director, she has led a three-fold increase in clinical research activity, integration with cancer clinical trials, commissioning of a state-of-the-art aseptic compounding unit for advanced therapies and increased access for patients to advanced gene and cellular therapies, early phase trials and complex interventions. The CRF has conducted over 300 clinical research studies and 100 regulated clinical trials over the last 7 years, including the first gene-therapy studies in Ireland for variants of haemophilia, SMA and ALS and more recently the first cellular therapy trial in Myeloma. Prof Hennessy is Associate Professor of Medical Education and Director of Internship inthe School of Medicine at TCD. In 2023 she was appointed as Chief Academic Officer for the Dublin Midlands Health Region which comprises 9 acute hospitals and serves a population of over 1 million people.