Dr Michael Farrell

Michael Farrell (Registered General Nurse) has worked full time in clinical cancer genetics for over 14 years and is an accredited Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in the Cancer Genetic Department of the Mater Private Hospital (MPH) working with Consultant Geneticist Professor David Gallagher.

Prior to working on the Mater campus he has worked as a Research Nurse in cancer genetics in St. James’s Hospital with Professor Peter Daly where he developed a research interest in Lynch syndrome and completed his Masters in Molecular Medicine through TCD.

Michael has given oral presentations at both National and International cancer genetics conferences, he has delivered Grand Roundon “Screening for Lynch syndrome” in St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH) and presented at the Medical Case Conference at the MMUH on “Interpretation of mismatch repair (MMR) variants of uncertain significance”.

Michael is first author on 2 papers published in the journal Familial Cancer and is co-author on a further 9 papers, and has presented 14 poster abstracts as first author, one was selected for oral presentation at the Cancer Genomics Masterclass at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) and has co-authored an additional 14 poster abstracts.

He is a member of the International Society of Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours’ (InSiGHT’s) MMR Variant Classification committee and this group’s paper on strategies for classification of mismatch repair (MMR) variants of uncertain clinical significance was published, with Michael as a co-author, in Nature Genetics in 2014.

He has presented talks on various aspects of inherited predisposition to cancer to health care professionals, in addition to ad hoc presentations to patient support groups such as the Dublin Well Woman Centre, the Gary Kelly Support Centre, Marie Keating Foundation and ARC house.

Michael also supervises clinical teaching for graduate nursing students and lectures on various aspects of clinical cancer genetics in the Mater Campus, St. James’s Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and lectures for TCD and UCD.