Our Team

Oversight of the day to day governance of the SPHeRE Programme is handled by the Management Team. It is comprised of the Director, two Co-Directors and eight staff employed under the Programme (three Assistant Directors, one Programme Co-ordinator, three Programme Administrators and one Learning Technologist). External advisors also attend as required.

Staff are located across the three partner institutions, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork.

The Current Management Team is:

 

 

 

Prof Ali Khashan, UCC

SPHeRE Programme Director

 

Prof Mary Clarke, RCSI

SPHeRE Programme Co-Director

 

 

 

Prof Sara Burke, TCD

SPHeRE Programme Co-Director

 

Elaine Healy, RCSI

Research Manager

 

 

 

 

Katherine Walsh, RCSI

Programme Manager

Assistant Director: Teaching and Learning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Michelle Caffrey, RCSI

Assistant Director: Academic Affairs

 

Sumeet Bhattacharjee, UCC

Assistant Director: Networks and Knowledge Translation

Programme Administrator

               

 

Ciarán McCarthy

 

Ciarán McCarthy, RCSI

SPHeRE Technology Enhanced Learning Manager

 

Leon McCarthy, RCSI

SPHeRE Programme Administrator

 

 

 

Sheena Cleary, TCD

Programme Administrator

 

 

 

Leadership Team