ProfJonathan Hourihane

Professor Jonathan Hourihane is the Head and Professor of Paediatrics in RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and consultant paediatrician in Children’s Hospital Ireland at Temple St. He was previously Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health in University College Cork, where he had held the position since 2005. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1987 and obtained his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Southampton in 1996, for his thesis entitled “Clinical and immunological features of peanut allergy”. Professor Hourihane was awarded Fellowships from the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health in 2005, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 2008 and American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology in 2011.

Professor Hourihane is one of the world leading paediatric allergists and is at the forefront of recent and ongoing studies of oral and epicutaneous immunotherapy for peanut allergy.

Professor Hourihane is a founding member of the Clemens von Pirquet Foundation, the Irish Food Allergy Network (IFAN), President of the Irish Association of Allergy and Immunology and is a Board member of the National Childrens’ Research Centre, Dublin.