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Dr Sinead Duggan

Dr Sinead Duggan
Dr Sinead Duggan
Dr Sinead Duggan

Senior Research Fellow

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Email Address
sinead.duggan@abdn.ac.uk
School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

Sinéad Duggan joined the Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE) as a Senior Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis in August 2026. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Fellow with the Aberdeen-Belfast Evidence Collaboration (ABEC) from January 2024.

Her research focuses on evidence synthesis to support healthcare decision-making and policy. She has contributed to systematic reviews across a range of clinical and public health areas, including biomarkers for sepsis, supplemental imaging for breast cancer detection, risk stratification for breast cancer screening, and artificial intelligence-assisted histopathology for prostate cancer. Her methodological experience includes diagnostic test accuracy reviews, prognostic factor and prognostic model reviews, prevalence reviews, and intervention reviews.

Prior to her work in evidence synthesis, Sinéad was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery at Trinity College Dublin, where she managed a research team and conducted research in areas including acute and chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, osteoporosis, bone metabolism, malnutrition, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, and type 3c diabetes.

Before moving into academic research, she worked for eight years as a clinical dietitian in a university teaching hospital in Dublin across a range of medical and surgical specialties.

Qualifications

  • PhD Nutrition in Chronic Pancreatitis 
    2014 - Trinity College Dublin 
  • Dipl. Medical Statistics 
    2012 - Trinity College Dublin 
  • BSc. Human Nutrition & Dietetics 
    2002 - Trinity College Dublin 

External Memberships

Registered with HCPC

Registered with Coru (Ireland)

Member of Irish Nutrition & Dietetics Institute

Member of Pancreatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Member of the European Pancreas Club

Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA)

Latest Publications

  • Concordance between automated/semi-automated measurement and manual assessment of mammographic breast density in individuals undergoing breast cancer screening: A systematic review

    Robertson, C., Cooper, D., Duggan, S. N., Manson, P., Imamura, M., Hern谩ndez, R. A., Clarke, M., Treweek, S., Brazzelli, M.
    Journal of Medical Screening
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  • Clinical utility of biomarkers for outcomes prediction in adults with suspected sepsis presenting to the emergency department: a synthesis of current evidence

    Imamura, M., Duggan, S. N., Vadiveloo, T., Cooper, J. G., Kaye, C. T., Manson, P., Virgili, G., Aucott, L., Clarke, M., Brazzelli, M.
    Health Technology Assessment, pp. 1-90
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  • Supplemental imaging modalities for breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts: A systematic review with economic considerations

    Duggan, S. N., Azharuddin, M., Hern谩ndez, R., Robertson, C., Cooper, D., McCall, E., Manson, P., Virgili, G., Clarke, M., Treweek, S., Brazzelli, M.
    Breast, vol. 85, 104668
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  • Development of a clinical score to estimate pancreatitis-related hospital admissions in patients with a new diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis: the trinity score

    Keaskin, L., Egan, S. M., Almirall-Sanchez, A., Tewatia, V., Jorba, R., Ferreres, J., Ballest茅, B. B., Memba, R., Ridgway, P. F., O'Connor, D. B., Duggan, S. N., Conlon, K. C.
    HPB, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 962-971
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  • AGA-PancreasFest Joint Symposium on Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

    Whitcomb, D. C., Duggan, S. N., Martindale, R., Lowe, M., Stallings, V. A., Conwell, D., Barkin, J. A., Papachristou, G. I., Husain, S. Z., Forsmark, C. E., Kaul, V.
    Gastro Hep Advances, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 395-411
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Prizes and Awards

Cuthbertson Medal 2016 from the Nutrition Society

Irish Nutrition & Dietetics Institute (INDI) Researcher of the Year (2016)

Honorary Lifetime Member of the Nutrition Interest Group of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (PSGBI)

Research

Research Overview

Evidence synthesis

Research Methodology

Review methodology

Studies Within a Review

Breast cancer supplemental screening 

AI in prostate cancer diagnosis

Biomarkers for sepsis

Risk stratification for breast cancer screening

Nutrition

Pancreatic disease

Chronic pancreatitis

Acute pancreatitis

Pancreatic cancer

Pancreatogenic (type 3c) diabetes

Bone metabolism

Malnutriton and deficiency

 

Research Areas

Nutrition and Health

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Research Specialisms

  • Healthcare Science
  • Medical Sciences
  • Nutrition
  • Dietetics
  • Health Sciences

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Knowledge Exchange

Sinéad has a particular interest in evidence synthesis methodology. She was a founding member of the Ireland GRADE Network and served as its Northern Ireland representative during her time at Queen's University Belfast. She is also a member of the GRADE Working Group. Her methodological interests include Studies Within a Review (SWARs), and she was awarded funding from Evidence Synthesis Ireland to conduct a SWAR examining approaches for communicating systematic review findings to the public. She also established a communications network across the NIHR-funded Evidence Synthesis Groups.

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