Dr Aileen Conway

Dr Aileen Conway
University of Ottawa

A suite of rapid, living evidence syntheses with the University of Ottawa, for the Irish Dept. of Healths Expert Advisory Group on Rapid Testing (RTEAG)

Dr Aileen Conway is a Specialist Registrar in Infectious Diseases currently working at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. She completed her medical degree at University College Dublin and obtained MRCPI in 2020. Aileen has an M.Sc. in Biotechnology (Research) from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in Molecular Pathology from Trinity College Dublin.

Prior to her career in medicine, Aileen worked in the clinical diagnostic industry developing assays for infectious diseases bringing these to clinical trials, full-scale production and FDA/CE mark approval. Aileen also has diagnostic clinical laboratory experience having worked at the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) with a particular focus on Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (Ebola virus, Lassa virus), Arboviruses (West Nile, Dengue), SARS-CoV-1 and potential pandemic Influenza strains (H5N1, H7N9) and other emerging infections.

Aileen is looking forward to working with the team reviewing current evidence which will help inform policies associated with SARS-CoV-2.