Gallagher Louise
Dr. Louise Gallagher (MB MRCPsych PhD) is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry in Trinity College Dublin and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the HSE/ National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght. She completed her medical training in University College Dublin in 1994 and trained in Psychiatry in the Dublin University Training Scheme at St. Patrick’s and St. James’s Hospital.
Following the award of a Wellcome Trust Mental Health Training Fellowship, she completed her PhD on autism genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College and subsequently completed Higher Specialist Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. During the course of her PhD she established a research group in Autism Genetics and this group is actively involved in the investigation of genetic vulnerability factors contributing to autism. The group is part of a large international collaboration of autism researchers, the Autism Genome Project (AGP) and Dr. Gallagher is one of the Senior Investigators of this research program. She is the principal investigator of The Autism Simplex Collection (TASC), which is an international collaborative effort to establish a repository of autism trios in association with Autism Speaks, AGRE and the NIMH (see link).
Dr. Gallagher has a busy clinical practice involving an autism spectrum disorders pre-school assessment service in the National Children’s Hospital and a community based Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Clondalkin.