The Dean of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences leads a diverse faculty comprising six schools and numerous departments and centres. Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences is renowned for global leadership in health research, policy and practice.
Professor Mike McGuckin was appointed Interim Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences in July 2025. He is responsible for the strategic oversight of a broad spectrum of health research across the Faculty.
As Deputy Dean, as well as the research portfolios, he oversees portfolios of people and culture, diversity and inclusion, engagement, healthcare sustainability and international relations.
He is a biomedical research scientist who now devotes his energy primarily to leadership in the academic and broad health research and education sector, where he is committed to enhancing capability and career development, research quality and integrity, and helping realise real world impact.
Professor McGuckin is the author of over 170 scientific publications with his research focused on mucosal infection, chronic inflammation and cancer in the gastrointestinal tract, and has held four patents. His research investigated disease pathophysiology across three major fronts connected by the common thread of inflammation: cell surface mucins in cancers, chronic inflammatory diseases of the gut and beta cell stress in diabetes.