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Dr Michael Capra is a Paediatric Oncologist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin.

Michael 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 Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 1995 and 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.

He is a member of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), SIOPEL Childhood Liver Tumour Study Group, SIOPE Brain Tumour Group, the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG).