Colm McDonald is an Irish

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

and a professor of

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

at the

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(NUIG).

Education

He graduated

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in University College Dublin, and then became a resident physician at the Department of Psychiatry

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. He also received his Ph.D. from the

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a centre for mental health and neuroscience research, education and training in Europe. It is dedicated to understanding, preventing and treating mental illness, neurological co ...

at King's College, London.

Academic career

McDonald is professor of psychiatry and director of the Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory at NUIG.

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* Alumni of the University of Galway Academics of the University of Galway Academics of King's College London Living people Irish psychiatrists Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 21st-century Irish medical doctors {{Ireland-med-bio-stub