Professor Paul Browne is a medical graduate of Trinity College Dublin with over 40 years of clinical and leadership experience in healthcare, research, and education. After completing general medical and early specialty haematology training in Dublin, he spent five years at the University of Minnesota, USA, as a clinical research fellow and faculty member.

Appointed as a consultant haematologist at St James’s Hospital in 1996, Prof. Browne focused on the treatment of blood cancers, in particular leukaemia and myeloma, and led the development of the hospital’s Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation programme. He has a long-standing interest in leadership, education and quality within the healthcare system. Prof. Browne was the founding Director of Ireland’s National Haematology Specialist Training programme and has led multiple clinical trials and investigational programmes, including a term as Chair of the HRB-funded ICORG Cooperative Oncology Research Group (now Cancer Trials Ireland).

In 2010, Prof. Browne became Professor of Haematology at Trinity College Dublin and served as Head of the School of Medicine from 2012 to 2017. He was the first Programme Director for the joint hospital-university initiative to establish the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute, now an Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) accredited comprehensive cancer centre. Prof. Browne has held key leadership and governance roles, including serving on the Advisory Committee for Human Medicines of the HPRA, and as Board member of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. He continues to champion healthcare innovation, education and research, and works closely with the voluntary patient charity sector.