Mary Kirwan is a Barrister and lecturer in Healthcare Law and Ethics. Her particular area of specialisation is data protection law, health research regulation, research ethics governance.

Aside from her interest in Data Protection. Mary is a medical law lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral level. She lectures on the RCSI MSc Healthcare Ethics and Law programme and is legal lead for the Royal College of Physicians basic and higher specialist training programmes. She is also an invited lecturer in the Honourable Society of Kings Inns, Trinity College Dublin and is recipient of the Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Award. She acts as legal advisor to a number of academic and hospital Research Ethics Committees and Clinical Ethics Committee.

Mary provides advice on a broad range of health-related projects both at national and international level.