Dr Fran Duane 

Professor Duane is a Consultant Radiation Oncologist at St. Luke's Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON), St. Luke's Hospital and St James's Hospital and a Clinical Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She completed the Radiation Oncology National Training Programme in Ireland in 2014 and then a 4-year Medical Research Council clinical oncology research fellowship in the UK. She holds a DPhil degree in breast cancer radiotherapy from the University of Oxford and her clinical research focuses on improving the quality of care received by patients with breast cancer.  .

She is currently Co-Chair of the Breast Radiotherapy Group at SLRON, Co-Chair of the Cancer Trials Ireland Breast Disease Specific Site Group, a member of the Cancer Trials Ireland Safety Monitoring Committee, a member of the National Cancer Control Programme Breast Radiotherapy Guidelines Group and Proton Therapy Group.  She is also a member of the Michael Moriarity Research Laboratory Scientific Committee at St Luke's Hospital.  She has a keen interest in medical education and enjoys supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students.  She is currently Academic Teaching Lead for Radiation Oncology on the St. James's Hospital campus, the Radiation Oncology National Training Programme Co-ordinator, RCSI.and directs the St Luke's Hospital Multidisciplinary Transition Year Programme at St Luke's Hospital, Rathgar.