Dr David Galvin

Associate Professor and Conway Fellow, University College Dublin
Consultant Urologist, Mater and St Vincent’s University Hospitals, Dublin

I graduated RCSI in 1996 and completed a fellowship in Urological Surgery (oncology) in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York in 2011. Subsequently appointed a Consultant in Urological Oncology in Essex Cancer center and later in the Mater and St. Vincent’s University hospitals as part of the National Cancer Control Program (NCCP). My work focuses on Pelvic Oncology and research focuses on prostate cancer screening, prostate cancer outcomes and quality improvement initiatives.

Other appointments include: 
Associate Professor in College of Medicine, UCD.  
Principal Investigator of the Irish Prostate Cancer Outcomes Research (IPCOR) study, funded by Movember and the Irish Cancer Society for €1.75 million in 2016, and again in 2024 to the value of €3 million.
Chair, National Cancer Urology Leads group from 2012 to 2018, and co-chaired the Prostate biopsy infection committee in the NCCP. 

Chair the National Prostate cancer guidelines committee at the NCCP 2014-current
Awarded HRB SDAP grant in 2023 valued at €250,000
Lead Investigator of the EU PRAISE-U Prostate cancer screening pilot in Ireland
Vice-president Irish Society of Urology