Bridget Kiely

Bridget is studying for a PhD, funded by a Collaborative Doctoral Award on Multimorbidity from the Health Research Board. Her research is on the use of link workers to support social prescribing and care coordination for patients with complex multimorbidity in deprived areas. Her work is supported by a team of researchers with expertise in primary care, multimorbidity, occupational therapy, statistics and economics.

Bridget graduated from medicine in Trinity College Dublin in 2005. Since then she has completed post graduate qualifications in tropical medicine, public health and clinical leadership. She initially trained in general internal medicine before completing general practice training in London in 2014 and a Darzi Clinical Leadership Fellowship in 2015. She continues to work as a GP in inner city Dublin and is a member of Deep End Ireland, a group of general practitioners working in the most disadvantaged communities in Ireland.