Dr Barry Kevane is a Consultant Haematologist at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital & Rotunda Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and is the lead for the VTE service of the Ireland East Hospital Group. After completing undergraduate training in 2008 he subsequently undertook speciality training in haematology including sub-speciality training in thrombosis and maternal haematology. He also completed a PhD in translational medicine exploring mechanisms underlying thrombotic diseases in 2017 and following his appointment to his current consultant post in the Mater Hospital in 2019, he joined the UCD Conway Sphere Research Group as a principal investigator and co-director. His primary clinical and research interests are in the field of thrombosis and haemostasis.