Sarah Harney is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Limerick. She graduated with a B.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Ulster and a PhD in Neuropharmacology from the University of Dundee. She has been a research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Trinity College Dublin and was Assistant Professor in Physiology and Course Director for the B. Sc. in Human Health and Disease in Trinity College Dublin before joining the School of Medicine in 2015.

She has taught and coordinated physiology and neuroscience modules for science, health science and medicine courses and is interested in innovative approaches to integrating basic science education into a problem-based learning medical curriculum. Her research interests are in neuroscience, with a focus on ion channels, synaptic neurophysiology and synaptic dysfunction in models of neurodegenerative disease and epilepsy.

Publications

2018

O'Doherty, D., Mc Keague, H., Harney, S., Browne, G. and McGrath, D. (2018) 'What can we learn from problem-based learning tutors at a graduate entry medical school? A mixed method approach', BMC Med Educ, 18(1), 96.

Skelly, D. T., Griffin, E. W., Murray, C. L., Harney, S., O'Boyle, C., Hennessy, E., Dansereau, M. A., Nazmi, A., Tortorelli, L., Rawlins, J. N., Bannerman, D. M. and Cunningham, C. (2018) 'Acute transient cognitive dysfunction and acute brain injury induced by systemic inflammation occur by dissociable IL-1-dependent mechanisms', Mol Psychiatry.