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Professor Colm Bergin

CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN /Clinical Professor (Clinical Medicine)
ST JAMESS HOSPITAL
      
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Professor Colm Bergin

CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN /Clinical Professor (Clinical Medicine)
ST JAMESS HOSPITAL

 cobergin@tcd.ie

 3531 4162507


Professor Bergin is a Consultant Physician and Academic Lead in Infectious Diseases, St James's Hospital, Dublin and Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. His clinical and research expertise is focussed on chronic viral infections and their treatment outcomes, health services research with particular interests in complications associated with HIV-HCV co-infection, health-related outcomes, medical education, clinical trials and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment interventions. Professor Bergin developed the clinical specialty of Infectious Diseases at St James's Hospital and integrated the specialty with the previously established Department of Genitourinary Medicine. He has led the political advocacy to establish the field of social inclusion health and in advocating for patients from underserved and disadvantaged populations. Professor Bergin's Directorships encompass his role as Associate Director of the Wellcome - Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Research Facility and Clinical Director of the Surgical and Medical Subspecialties Directorate at St. James's Hospital. Professor Bergin's holds an outstanding track record in academia and scientific research. His lifelong career has been dedicated to clinical and translational investigations into the causes and etiology of serious infectious diseases such as HIV, SARS and Covid. With over 200 peer reviewed articles and four book chapters which have been widely cited worldwide, he has made an important contribution to furthering the understanding of infection and viruses. Professor Bergin has secured over €20 million grant funding from Irish and International funding sponsors to support his research work. Professor Bergin is a dedicated teacher and has mentored a diverse portfolio of candidates to successful completion of MSc, MD and PhD degrees covering research topics in medical education; cost effectiveness of medical care (HIV and HCV); molecular and clinical epidemiology; immunology of host response to infections (TB and HCV); neurocognitive disease in HIV, HCV and COVID-19 infections and innovative interventions to affect social behaviours in disease modelling. Professor Bergin graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1989 and completed General Medicine and Specialist Training. Subsequently, Professor Bergin completed a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Boston University Hospital (1996-1999) and returned to Dublin in 1999 when he was appointed to his present consultant position in St. James's Hospital. Professor Bergin has worked in Blackrock Clinic since 2002. Prior leadership appointments have included National Clinical Lead, Infectious Diseases, HSE (2020-2022); Associate Director of the Wellcome-Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Research Facility, St. James's Hospital Dublin and Interim Director, CRF (2012-2017); National Specialty Director, Infectious Diseases, Royal College of Physicians Ireland (RCPI) (2002-2017); Dean of Postgraduate Medical Training and Dun's Tutor, RCPI (2012-2015); Clinical Director of the Surgical and Medical Subspecialties Directorate, St. James's Hospital, Dublin (2006-2012); President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland (IDSI) (2009-2012) and National Programme Lead for OPAT, Health Services Executive, Ireland (2010-2012). Other roles include co-Founding lead and past chair of the Irish Hepatitis C Research Outcomes Network (ICORN); Chair, Therapeutic Advisory Committee for COVID-19, HSE; Member, NPHET, DoH; Director, Hospital Site Accreditation, Royal College of Physicians (RCPI) (2017-2019) and Vice-President, RCPI.
Liam Townsend, Lisa Domegan, W. Wang, Siobhan Quirke, PRECISE Steering Group, Colm Bergin, Catherine Fleming, Factors influencing healthcare worker symptomatic respiratory infection and vaccine uptake during the post-COVID-19 pandemic period, Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 5, (1), 2025, pe183 - e183, pe183-e183 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Margaret O"Hara, Kiera McDuff, Hannah Wei, Lisa McCorkell, Catherine Thomson, Mary Kelly, Susie Goulding, Imelda O"Donovan, Sarah O"Connell, Ruth Stokes, Nisa Malli, Natalie St. Clair"Sullivan, Soo Chan Carusone, Angela M. Cheung, Kristine M. Erlandson, Ciarán Bannan, Liam Townsend, Colm Bergin, Jaime H. Vera, Richard Harding, Lisa Avery, Darren A. Brown, Kelly K. O"Brien, Community Engagement in Long Covid Research: Process, Evaluation and Recommendations From the Long COVID and Episodic Disability Study, Health Expectations, 28, (4), 2025, pe70365 - e70365, pe70365-e70365 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Minh-Khoi Pham, Tai Tan, Martin Crane, Rob Brennan, Marie Ward, Úna Geary, Declan Byrne, Brian O"Connell, Colm Bergin, Donncha Creagh, Nick McDonald, Marija Bezbradica, Explainable AI for infection prevention and control: modeling CPE acquisition and patient outcomes in an Irish hospital with transformers, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 25, (1), 2025, p391 - 391, p391-391 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Liam Townsend, Fiona Herraghty, Seán Brennan, Conor Grant, W. Wang, Anne Moriarty, Yvonne Lynagh, Lorraine Clancy, Antoinette Power, Brendan Crowley, Suzanne Norris, Darragh Shields, Colm Bergin, Outcomes 10 Years After Implementing an Emergency Department Opt-out Bloodborne Virus Screening Program, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 12, (9), 2025, pofaf547 - ofaf547, pofaf547-ofaf547 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kiera McDuff, Darren A. Brown, Natalie St. Clair"Sullivan, Soo Chan Carusone, Kristine M. Erlandson, Lisa Avery, Ciarán Bannan, Colm Bergin, Angela M. Cheung, Susie Goulding, Richard Harding, Mary Kelly, Jessica Martin, Lisa McCorkell, Sarah O"Connell, Imelda O"Donovan, Margaret O"Hara, Niamh Roche, Ruth Stokes, C S Thomson, Liam Townsend, Jaime H. Vera, Hannah Wei, Patricia Solomon, Kelly K. O"Brien, Experiences of pacing to reduce symptoms among adults living with Long COVID in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States, Discover Public Health, 22, (1), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kelly K. O"Brien, Darren A. Brown, Kiera McDuff, Natalie St. Clair"Sullivan, Soo Chan Carusone, C S Thomson, Lisa McCorkell, Hannah Wei, Susie Goulding, Margaret O"Hara, Niamh Roche, Ruth Stokes, Mary Kelly, Angela M. Cheung, Kristine M. Erlandson, Richard Harding, Jaime H. Vera, Colm Bergin, Larry Robinson, Lisa Avery, Ciarán Bannan, Brittany Torres, Imelda O"Donovan, Nisa Malli, Patricia Solomon, Episodic disability framework in the context of Long COVID: Findings from a community-engaged international qualitative study, PLoS ONE, 20, (2), 2025, pe0305187 - e0305187, pe0305187-e0305187 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Hugo C. Temperley, Fariba Tohidinezhad, Niall J. O"Sullivan, Benjamin M. Mac Curtain, Brian Mehigan, Colm Kerr, John O. Larkin, Peter Beddy, Paul McCormick, David Gallagher, Alison Corr, James F M Meaney, Colm Bergin, Charles Gillham, Michael E Kelly, MRI-based radiomics nomogram to predict complete response to definitive chemoradiation in patients with anal cancer, British Journal of Radiology, 98, (1175), 2025, p1947 - 1953, p1947-1953 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Conor Grant, Emily Duffin, Finbarr O'Connell, Parthiban Nadarajan, Colm Bergin, Joseph Keane, Mary P. O'Sullivan, Human Alveolar Macrophages Detect SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein Through TLR2 and TLR4 and Secrete Cytokines in Response, Immunology, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
O'Doherty L, White A, Almajrafi A, Fennessy A, Heekin A, Bede P, Crowley B, Nabarro L, Nolder D, Rogers C, Moran C, Beausang A, Keane S, Cruz M, Devitt E, Bergin C., Case Report: Reactivation of Chagas disease in a patient with advanced HIV 15 Years after migration, Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 6, 2025, Notes: [DOI: 10.3389/fitd.2025.1588423.], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Nida Munawar, Enas Mohamed, Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Colm Bergin, Elaine Greene, Delirium in hospitalized older adults with COVID-19: a cross-sectional cohort study, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 42, (4), 2025, p289 - 294, p289-294 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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