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Dr. Olwen Murphy
Name: Dr. Olwen Murphy
Title: Consultant Neurologist
Specialty: Neurology
Contact Number: (01) 414 2090
Dr. Olwen Murphy is a consultant neurologist at TUH. She completed her specialist training as a neurologist in Ireland, followed by fellowships at Johns Hopkins Hospital in neuroimmunology, and vestibular and ocular motor neurology. Following her training, she worked as a consultant neurologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital (USA).

Her subspecialty interests include multiple sclerosis, neuroimmunology, and vestibular neurology. She runs a specialised clinic at TUH for patients with multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmune/neuroinflammatory disorders such as neurosarcoidosis, autoimmune encephalitis, and transverse myelitis. She also runs a general neurology clinic.

Her research interests include clinical and imaging biomarkers in multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmune disorders.

Experience

Consultant Neurologist, Tallaght University Hospital (2025-present)

Consultant Neurologist, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA (2022-2024)

Clinical and Research Fellow, Division of Neurovisual and Vestibular Disorders, Johns Hopkins Hospital (2020-2022)

Clinical and Research Fellow, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections, Johns Hopkins MS Centre, Johns Hopkins Hospital (2017-2020)

Specialist Registrar in Neurology (2015-2017)

Education

MBBCh, University College Dublin, 2012

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, 2014

United States Medical Licensing Examination, 2017

MD, University College Dublin, 2021

Special Interests

Multiple Sclerosis

Neurosarcoidosis

Neuroimmune/neuroinflammatory disorders

Myelopathies

Vestibular disorders

Ocular motor disorder