DrGrace O'Malley

Dr. Grace O'Malley leads the Obesity Research and Care Group in RCSI. She holds a joint position in the School of Physiotherapy, Division of Population Health Sciences, RCSI and at the Child and Adolescent Weight Management Service, Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street. She is a clinician-scientist working in the field of childhood obesity research and practice. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin as a Physiotherapist in 2004 and thereafter commenced working clinically in paediatrics at Temple Street Children's University Hospital, Dublin. She was awarded a scholarship from Trinity College to undertake a research M.Sc. (2006) to explore how obesity affects physical fitness in children and adolescents. In 2008, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research the pathophysiology of Type-2 diabetes in children with obesity at the Yale School of Medicine (USA) and in 2011 she commenced a PhD at University College Cork, investigating the treatment of paediatric obesity with novel interventions. This research encompassed a series of patient-orientated and health service delivery studies and led to the establishment of Ireland's first multidisciplinary clinical service for paediatric and adolescent obesity. In 2017 Grace joined the team at RCSI as part of the Strategic Academic Programme where her research focuses on clinical, eHealth and public health aspects of paediatric obesity.