'Visionary' work of Professor Jim Dornan singled out following his death at age 73
Fifteen years ago Professor Dornan successfully beat leukaemia and it left him with chronically poor lungs.
16 March, 2021 01:00
Jim Dornan and his wife Samina at a wedding in Finnebrogue in 2019. Picture by Eamonn Mallie
PROFESSOR Jim Dornan, one of Northern Ireland's leading obstetricians, has been remembered as an "original thinker who was larger than life" following his death yesterday at the age of 73.
The father of actor Jamie Dornan, Professor Dornan died after contracting coronavirus within the last month. He had successfully beaten leukaemia 15 years ago.
The former Belfast trust medic was also chair of Health and Life Sciences at Ulster University and former chair in Fetal Medicine at Queens University Belfast.