Professor Cunningham completed his Doctor of Medicine (MD) thesis in the field of alzheimer’s disease, dementia and oestrogen while working as a research fellow at the Mercer’s Institute for Research in Ageing between 1996 and 1999. He was appointed a senior lecturer in 2006 and clinical associate professor at Trinity College Dublin in 2018. 

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Professor Cunningham continues to be active in research in the areas of malnutrition, frailty, rehabilitation and falls and has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals.