Biography

Prof. Joe Eustace is the Director of the HRB Clinical Research Facility at UCC (https://crfc.ucc.ie/) and Professor of Patient Focused Research at UCC. The CRF-C facility is co-funded by the University and by the Health Research Board and supports the design, conduct and analysis of Patient Focused Research throughout UCC and its affiliated Medical Centres. He also is the founding Director of the National Clinical Trials Office (https://ncto.ie/) and a Consultant Renal Physician at Cork University Hospital. He serves as National Coordinating Investigator on the WHO Solidarity-Ireland Trial (2020-current).

He graduated MB, BAO BCh (UCD) 1990 and undertook postgraduate training in General Internal Medicine and Nephrology in Dublin (1990-1996), Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore (1996-1999), and a NIH funded Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, (1997-1999),.

His research has been funded by the NIH (NIDDK), NKF, the HRB and EI is focused on the methodological issues in Clinical Trial design, nutritional management of Chronic Kidney Disease and investigations into bone and vascular health in renal transplant recipients.

He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer reviewed papers.

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