Biography
Karen Boland graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2007 with first class honours and multiple undergraduate awards. She completed Higher Specialist Training in 2016 in gastroenterology and advanced IBD fellowship training at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto from 2016-2018.&nb... read more
Karen Boland graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2007 with first class honours and multiple undergraduate awards. She completed Higher Specialist Training in 2016 in gastroenterology and advanced IBD fellowship training at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto from 2016-2018. In 2018, Karen was appointed as consultant gastroenterologist at Beaumont Hospital and combines her interest in translational research with a busy clinical practice.
Karen is an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at RCSI and a board member of IrSPEN and the Irish representative on the European ESPEN Council. She is the recipient of a number of competitive research grants and current research interests include therapeutic drug monitoring in IBD, nutrition and exercise in IBD and liver disease and the intestinal microbiome. Karen has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, national and international clinical guidelines in inflammatory bowel disease and clinical nutrition.
Areas of Interest
- Direct access endoscopy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Clinical Nutrition
- General Gastroenterology
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