Dr Séan M. O’Cathail
Speaker: All Ireland Colorectal Cancer Conference
Dr O’Cathail is Consultant Radiation Oncologist in Cork University Hospital and UCC/CUH Cancer Centre, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. He graduated from the School of Medicine, University College Cork with honours in 2008. Following graduation, he completed internship and core medical training at the Cork University Hospitals group during which time he completed membership of both the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Royal College of Physicians in London. In 2011, he moved to the UK for higher specialist training in oncology.
He was awarded a CRUK Clinical Research Fellowship at the Oxford Institute of Radiation Oncology. For his research into mechanisms of radioresistance in rectal cancer, he was awarded his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2019. He also holds an MSc in Oncology from the Institute of Cancer Research, London and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and Royal College of Physicians of London.
Prior to his appointment in Cork, he was an Academic Clinical Oncologist at the Beatson Cancer Centre, Glasgow, for nearly 4 years where he co-led the clinical radiation research work package at the CRUK RadNet Centre. He has been a Principal Investigator on a number of early and late phase clinical trials, published more than 40 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, including the role of SBRT in oligometastatic disease and pelvic re-irradiation.