Samuel McConkey
Samuel McConkey is an Irish doctor specialising in internal medicine, tropical medicine, and infectious disease.Background
McConkey attended medical school at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1989. McConkey obtained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in 1992 followed by a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1993. He completed specialist training in 2000 and underwent fellowship training at Washington University School of Medicine, including a Masters in Statistics. He became a Wellcome Trust research fellow in 2001, completing a Doctor of Medicine research degree at Trinity College Dublin in 2002. McConkey undertook a clinical fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was seconded to the Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia. From 2001 to 2005, he was an Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
In 2006 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a consultant physician at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
McConkey is a professor of medicine, Deputy Dean for International Curriculum Development, and head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is a former board member of the Health Information and Quality Authority and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Vaccine Initiative.
