Dr. Eoghan Mooney, MBChB, MRCPI, FRCPath, FFPath (RCPI), was born in Dublin, Ireland, where he now lives and works. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland (University College Dublin). Following pathology training in Dublin and in Duke University, North Carolina, USA he completed his Fellowship in Gynaecologic and Breast pathology in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington DC. He has been a consultant pathologist for 17 years, based in the National Maternity Hospital and St Vincent’s University Hospital and has published in the area of placental pathology for 20years.