Professor Mary Leader, MD, FRCPath, FRCPI, FFPath RCPI, Dch, LRCP & SI

Nominated by: Med School R.C.S.I.

Professor Mary Leader is a professor of Pathology/Consultant Histopathologist at Beaumont Hospital and RCSI and the chairperson of the Department of Pathology at RCSI with a special interest in Lymphoma and Soft Tissue Pathology. She is currently a Medical School Representative on the Medical Council.

Professor Mary Leader spent six years training in Histopathology in London, after which she returned to Dublin in 1987 to the Richmond Hospital as a Professor of Pathology/Consultant Histopathologist. She was rewarded an MD Thesis for her research on soft tissue sarcomas.

She serves or has served as the Chairperson of Division of Laboratory Medicine at Beaumont Hospital, a Board Member and Vice President of the Irish Hospital’s Consultant’s Association, a Board Member of METR (Medical Education Training and Research Group), a Member of Comhairle Na nOspideal, a Member of CAAC (Consultants Appointments Application Committee), a Board Member of the Faculty of Pathology (RCPI), the President of Irish Society of Surgical Pathology, the Irish Representative to the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Irish Representative to the British Division of the International Academy of Pathology.

She also has past and current experience as a committee member of the National Cancer Registry Board, National Cervical Screening Working Party, Irish Research Council for Science and Technology, Educational Sub-committee Faculty of Pathology Ireland, Irish Association of Cancer Research, Irish Society of Gastroenterology and the Irish Association of Clinical Cytology.

At RCSI, Professor Mary Leader is responsible for pathology education and the assessment of 350 medical students per year in the RCSI Undergraduate Medical Programme, Dublin and provides pathology education material to RCSI students in the RCSI Graduate Entry Programme in Connolly Hospital and also to the RCSI Medical Schools in Perdana, Malaysia and Bahrain. She is also responsible for the Pathology Research Programme in the RCSI in Dublin and has made over 200 publications.

Professor Mary Leader also practices as a Consultant Histopathologist in Beaumont Hospital and the Blackrock Clinic. This includes diagnostic practice, post graduate education and mentoring etc.