Leading Northern Ireland obstetrician prof Jim Dornan dies Tributes to doctor who left a ‘lasting legacy’ in obstetrics and foetomaternal medicine
Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 15:39
The North’s chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride has led tributes to professor Jim Dornan, the retired obstetrician and gynaecologist who has died aged 73.
Prof Dornan, father of actor Jamie Dornan, is understood to have been diagnosed with Covid-19. He was previously diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
A native of Holywood, Co Down Prof Dornan had an international reputation and had lectured in Ireland and abroad on obstetrics.
He was professor of foetal medicine at Queen’s University Belfast from 1995 to 2012 and senior vice-president of the Royal College of Gynaecologists from 2004 to 2006.
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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.