Marie Cassidy

Professor Marie Cassidy
Born 1951 (age 66–67)
Rutherglen, Scotland
Nationality Scottish
Education University of Glasgow
Known for State Pathologist, Ireland
Medical career
Specialism forensic pathology

Professor Marie Therese Jane Cassidy (born 1951) is the State Pathologist for the Republic of Ireland.[1]

Background

Marie Cassidy was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow, United Kingdom, in 1951, the granddaughter of emigrants from Donegal.[2] She presently lives in Dublin and is married with two children.

Career

Cassidy studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, graduating in January 1978. She became a member of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1985 and a forensic pathologist the same year, making her the first female full-time forensic pathologist in the United Kingdom. She held a professorship of forensic medicine at the University of Glasgow before moving to Ireland in 1998 to take up the position of Deputy State Pathologist.[3] She was appointed to the position of State Pathologist in January 2004, succeeding Professor John Harbison to become the first female State Pathologist in Ireland.[4] She is also Professor of Forensic Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and Trinity College, Dublin.

Cassidy has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations, helping to identify the remains of victims of war crimes in Bosnia.[5]

She has acted as a consultant to the television crime series Taggart. A character in the book The Human Body is based on her.

Cassidy announced her intended retirement as State Pathologist of Ireland on 7 September 2018.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "State Pathologist's Office". Department of Justice and Equality:. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Moonan, Niall (2005). "STATE PATHOLOGIST MARIE CASSIDY TELLS OF HER GRUESOME WORK". The Mirror.
  3. ↑ Quinlan, Ailin (13 December 2010). "What I did today... Professor Marie Cassidy State Pathologist". Irish Independent. Dublin: Independent News & Media. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Press release on appointment as state pathologist Archived 12 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Raleigh, David. "Meet Marie Cassidy - Ireland's first female state pathologist". The Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2 July 2014.


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