ProfFergal Malone

Professor Fergal Malone is currently (since 2005) the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the RCSI School of Medicine in Dublin, Ireland, and is a consultant obstetrician, as well as a sub-specialist consultant in maternal-fetal medicine, based at the Rotunda Hospital Dublin. He served as Master (Chief Executive Officer) of the Rotunda Hospital Dublin from 2016 to 2022, which is the largest maternity hospital in Ireland, looking after 10,000 pregnant women annually, with a workforce of 1,200 people and an annual budget of €100 million per annum.

Prof. Malone graduated from the University College Dublin School of Medicine in 1991, and subsequently completed residency training in obstetrics and gynaecology, together with subspecialty fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine at Tufts University / New England Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. After being appointed a sub-specialist consultant in maternal-fetal medicine in Boston in 1998, Prof. Malone moved to Columbia University Medical Center in New York where he was appointed Director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine as well as Director of Obstetric Ultrasonography. While at Columbia University, Prof. Malone was co-Principal Investigator of the National Institutes of Health FASTER Research consortium, as well as being the New York Principal Investigator for the National Institutes of Health Maternal Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network.

In 2005, Prof. Malone was recruited to his current position as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the Rotunda Hospital Dublin. Since his appointment he has continued to pioneer advances in medical research in the area of fetal medicine, in particular with his development of the Perinatal Ireland research consortium. Prof. Malone is a co-author of the world's leading textbook on fetal medicine, Fetology: Diagnosis and Management of the Fetal Patient (McGraw Hill) and he has published over 350 research papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, the majority of which address diagnosis of fetal diseases.