Brid o'connor
ob Title: Radiation oncologist
Organisation: Beth lsrael Deaconess Medical center
Employment Sector: edical and healthcare
Department: Faculty ofscience & Engineering, Biology, chemistry
Undergraduate Qualification: Bachelor of science
Year of Graduation:1985
Given Maynooth does not have a medical school, one may not expect to see MU listed as the alma mater of Boston.
based physician Dr. Brid O'connor(Bsc, 1985).
Now a radiation oncologist at Boston's presuigious Beth israel Deaconess Medical center, a teaching hospital for HarvardMedical school located at the heart of the world-renowned Longwood Medical Area, Dr O'connor reflects onhercircuitous route into medicine, which began even before her years in Maynooth.
She had applied to study medicine and got as far as an interview." was asked during the interview ifl had any familymembers who were physicians. When l replied, 'no,’ l was told 'so you have no idea what it is like to be a doctor." she didnot get into medicine at that time, but she wasn't deterred.