Paediatric Oncologist
Children's Health Ireland (CHI), Ireland
Michael Capra graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1987 following which he completed his postgraduate paediatric and specialist paediatric oncology training in the United Kingdom in London and Nottingham. He obtained his Masters in Medical Education (Nottingham) in 2000 prior to commencing his Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Fellowship in The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto in 2001. He was appointed on staff at the same institution in 2003, a post he held until 2006 when he relocated to Dublin to take up a Paediatric Oncology Consultant post in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital (CHI at Crumlin). He is a Clinical Professor of Trinity College Dublin, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and a member of multiple collaborative childhood cancer organisations including the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).
