Dr Deirdre Murray has been appointed new Director of the National Cancer Registry Ireland/Professor of Cancer Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UCC.
A Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Professor Murray assumed responsibility in June.
Professor Murray is a medical graduate of University College Cork (UCC), and has a Masters in Public Health from University College Dublin. She undertook her clinical training in Ireland and the UK and has almost two decades of experience as a Specialist in Public Health Medicine.