Angela trained as a Registered General Nurse in the Mercy Hospital, Cork where she worked for 6 years post-graduation. She then travelled abroad for more than 12 years, working in Australia, the Middle East and United Kingdom. Angela returned home to Dublin in 2010, then began working in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. There, she worked in the Gastroenterology Department for 12 years, initially as an Endoscopy nurse, then quickly progressed into a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in IBD. In that time, she completed her BSc (RCSI), became a Registered Nurse Prescriber RNP (UCD), completed as an MSc as Advanced Nurse Practitioner ANP (UCD) and is currently an NMBI registered ANP. She is currently working as an IBD CNS in Cork University Hospital, after having joined the IBD team in June 2022, working within a multidisciplinary team. Her IBD interests include adherence and compliance to medications and treatments, patients' self-management of their chronic disease, the medical and surgical management of perianal Crohn's disease and optimising
treatment of complex and challenging IBD patients.

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Angela was a board member of Crohn's and Colitis Ireland (CCI) for a number of years, and during that time helped to raise awareness of IBD nationally, assisting in CCI's double- up campaign. She is an avid supporter of nurse education, which she has long championed through her previous role as treasurer and current role as secretary of the IBD Nurse Association Ireland (IBDNAI). Since 2012 she has worked tirelessly with IBDNAI to highlight IBD throughout Ireland.