MrColin Ryan

Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Pharmacy

  • Honorary Clinical Lecturer
    Pharmacy

BIOGRAPHY

Colin Ryan is a Sports Pharmacist specialising in medicines governance in elite sport.

 

He has clinical experience across Premier League football, professional rugby, elite cycling, and Olympic programmes, and works with MedsOnTrack as a Consultant Sports Pharmacist.

 

At RCSI, Colin designed the first formally structured Sports Pharmacy module in any EU or UK university pharmacy programme. He currently leads this Sports Pharmacy module in his role as Honorary Clinical Lecturer.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Honorary Clinical Lecturer
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, School of Pharmacy & Biomolecular Sciences, Dublin, Ireland8 Apr 2026

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Consultant Sports Pharmacist
    MedsOnTrack, London, United Kingdom1 Apr 2025

DEGREES

  • MPharm (First Class Honours)
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2009 - 1 Sep 2010
  • BSc (Pharmacy)
    Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland3 Oct 2005 - 1 Jun 2009

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Drugs in Sport
    International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland1 Aug 2021

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak and understand

RESEARCH SUB-AREAS

  • Sports Exercise
  • Clinical Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy Education

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (UNSDGS)

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

RESEARCH CLUSTERS