Please join the Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health Research (ACWHR) on the 25th February at 1pm for a seminar with Dr Rohna Kearney on 'Prolapse, Past Present and Future'. The talk will be held virtually via MS Teams. Please contact Kelly Gray (kelly.gray@abdn.ac.uk) for the link to join.
Professor Rohna Kearney is a Consultant Urogynaecologist and Hospital Medical Director for Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service, Manchester University NHS Trust.
She trained in Ireland, US and UK, completing a research MD on the clinical and radiological pathogenesis of obstetric pelvic floor dysfunction. This research was completed whilst working with Professor John Delancey at the University of Michigan, identifying injuries to the levator ani muscles with MR imaging after vaginal delivery and further research at University College Dublin with Professor Colm O’Herlihy researching obstetric risk factors for the development of these injuries. After completing subspecialty training in urogynaecology at University College London Hospital she commenced a consultant post at Cambridge University Hospital. In 2014 she moved to take up a Consultant post at Saint Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. She was awarded an honorary chair by the University of Manchester in 2025.
In her current leadership roles Professor Kearney is the National Specialty Advisor for NHS England Women’s specialised services CRG and Hospital Medical Director for Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service in Manchester which is one of the largest women’s health, genomic medicine and newborn services in the UK providing care for over 16,000 births and a large neonatal, genomic and gynaecology service. She has been a topic lead for prolapse on the NICE NG 123 published in 2019, a clinical representative on the RCOG Women’s Network and is currently a member of the RCOG Scientific Advisory Committee.
Professor Kearney was a co- chief investigator, alongside colleagues from Glasgow Caledonian University, of the TOPSY trial, researching self-management of vaginal pessary for prolapse and is a co-applicant on the PEPPY trial researching the use of pessary as an adjunct to pelvic floor muscle training for prolapse. She supervises PhD students, 3 of which have been awarded NIHR fellowships in the last 4 years. Her current research interests are in postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction, mesh complications, pelvic floor imaging and pelvic organ prolapse.