Bernadette McGuinness

Bernadette McGuinness graduated in medicine from Queen’s University Belfast in 1997. She trained in geriatric medicine and general internal medicine, completing specialty training in 2007. During this time she graduated with MD for work on neuropsychological changes in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.

Dr McGuinness was awarded the Paul Beeson Career Development Award in 2007, a prestigious award from Atlantic Philanthropies and the American Federation of Aging Research. This afforded three further years of research into mild cognitive impairment.

She is lead author of 3 Cochrane reviews and lead/co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. She was appointed Senior Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine in NUIG and Consultant Geriatrician University Hospital Galway in 2010.

Her research interests include technology and aging, dementia and falls. She is PI in a FP7 funded project ‘Wireless Insole for Independent Safe Elderly Living’ which commenced in 2011. She has established Galway Connected Health, a research centre containing 7 PIs interested in the area of connected health. She is also module lead for geriatric medicine taught in year 3.2 of undergraduate medicine.