Leadership Team at ECNE Research

Dr. Elizabeth Weathers has over 18 years of experience working

across clinical practice, academia, and the MedTech and Pharmaceutical industry. Elizabeth has led clinical protocol

development for ground-breaking, state-of-the-art advanced

radiotherapy devices, blood processing devices, cell

technologies, and topical hemostasis devices in Europe, Asia, and the US. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications.

Elizabeth holds a PhD (Medicine and Health) and is a registered

nurse in Ireland and the US.

Dr. Tom Hopkins has spent the last 15 years working with multidisciplinary life science and medical device teams to define, develop  and disseminate real-world evidence, data science tools and innovative  care-delivery solutions necessary to improve health at scale.  Tom received an MD from Rutgers Medical School and completed his  clinical training in anesthesiology and pain medicine at Duke Health,  where he simultaneously earned an MBA from the Fuqua School of  Business. Tom maintains his clinical practice in anesthesia and pain  management. 

Dr. Kenneth Dion has 35 years of experience in clinical practice, academia, and industry. He implemented the first high-availability EHR in the US at Texas Children’s Hospital and created the first web-based learning management system in healthcare as founder and CEO of Decision Critical, Inc. (1999–2012), specializing in informatics, data presentation, and visualisation for decision-making. 

Dr. Nicola Cornally has over 24 years of experience working across clinical practice, academia, and the industry. With over 170 research outputs, 63 of which are peer-reviewed publications, with a Scopus H-index of 20. 

In the past, Nicola has been a Principal Investigator, Co-Applicant and Collaborator on multi-disciplinary grants worth over €11.5 million. 

Dr. Dawn Farrell has nearly 20 years of experience in clinical practice, academia, and the industry. Dawn is committed to advancing the nursing profession and improving patient outcomes through evidence-based research, education, innovation, and regulation. Her goal is to ensure the highest standard and quality of care is provided in clinical practice. 

Denis has over 40 years of mechanical engineering experience including leadership of projects worth over €80M.

Denis serves voluntarily at the executive board level for several non-profit and limited company organizations and has secured over €7M in funding to support community development initiatives. 

Shane is a distinguished C-Suite Executive with 25+ years of experience in the Medical Device and Cosmetic industries. His visionary leadership, unwavering commitment to excellence, and astute ability to develop and execute innovative sales strategies have consistently driven growth and profitability for the companies he has served