Dr Mairead O’Riordan graduated from Medical School in University College Cork in 1995. She became a member of member of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists in 2001. She pursued higher specialist training in the Rotunda Hospital, St. James’s Hospital, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and The National Maternity Hospital in Dublin and In the Unified Maternity Services (proceeded Cork University Maternity Hospital) and the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital in Cork.

In 2006 she took a training post in the Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine in National Women’s Hospital and was appointed a Senior Lecturer in the University of Auckland. She took up her current post in UCC/CUMH in 2008.

She has taken a central role in the delivery of medical education within the university. She is the lead in the provision of undergraduate obstetrics and gynaecology. Year head for GEM3/ DEM4 and a module coordinator (Maternal Medicine) within the MSc programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a contributor to the other modules.

Her research interests include perinatal asphyxia and maternal medicine – diabetes, Vitamin D and long-term maternal health outcomes. She also has an interest in patient quality and safety and the interface of technology and clinical medicine and education.

Her clinical practice is undertaken at the Cork University Maternity Hospital and at Cork Obstetrics and Gynaecology Associates. She works in the Perinatal Medicine Service (includes diabetes). She is the clinical lead the area of Quality and patient Safety and is also the Clinical lead in the labour ward (deliveries approx 9,000/ annum)

My research interests include perinatal asphyxia and maternal medicine – diabetes, Vitamin D and long-term maternal health outcomes. I also has an interest in patient quality and safety and the interface of technology and clinical medicine and education.

I am passionate about both undergraduate and post graduate education. I lead the undergraduate programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology where we directly provide the curriculum and teaching for in excess of 400 Undergraduate student per year. Obstetrics and Gynaecology is consistently rated very highly in the qualitative assessments by students on both quality  of teaching and organisation.

I am Year Head for Direct Entry Year 4/ Graduate Entry Year 3 ensuring that the curriculum is appropriately delivered and providing organisational and pastoral support for the that student body and to provide a conduit for information for students and the School of Medicine.

I coordinate the Postgraduate Module in Maternal Medicine and teach across the wider Masters in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. We have provided teaching across a variety of platforms including face to face teaching ,distance learning and eLearning. We have innovated in our assessments which have included guideline and patient information development webpage and podcasting while also examining using more traditional routes.

I actively lead and participate in Continued Professional Development for both our doctors and Midwifrey and Nursing staff introducing evidence based courses  to Cork University Maternity Hospital over the last number of years. These include the RANZCOG Fetal Surveillance P. K2  Training program and PROMPT (PRactical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training) course.