Peadar Rooney

Peadar Rooney BSc, PhD, CAPM. Peadar Rooney joined the HRB Diabetes Collaborative Clinical Trial Network in May 2022 as Network Program Manager. Trained as a scientist in UCD, were he got a Degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Translational Medicine, specialising in autoimmune diseases. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in UCD and in the SFI centre CURAM on a wide variety of research projects. He has since upskilled and become certified in project management and took on the role of site project manager and national data manager on the PRECISE study in University Hospital Galway, a study looking at health care professionals and their response to COVID-19. As part of the COVID response in the HSE, he played a role in the team that rolled out the vaccines to the frontline healthcare workers. He is aiming to bring the hard work ethic, teamwork and patient centred approach that has been as the centre of his academic and project management career to the Diabetes Collaborative Clinical Trial Network.