Meadbh practices as a lymphoedema nurse consultant & Medical Integrative Healthcare Therapist Director of The Lymph Clinic, Meadbh Mac Sweeney qualified as a Registered General Nurse specialising with a post graduate training in Paediatrics subsequently embarking on a different path by studying comprehensively in the field of integrative medicine at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre and University of West England. Qualifying with the Dr Vodder School in Austria in the specialised training for the treatment of lymphoedema / lipoedema: Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD) and decongestive lymphatic therapy (DLT) subsequently setting up the clinical centre of excellence; The Lymph Clinic, Cork, 2000 ( www.thelymphclinic.ie) and the Dr Vodder School Ireland in 2019. www.drvodderireland.ie                                                                                                 Previous Chair and Co-Founder of the National Lymphoedema Framework Ireland (www.nlfireland.ie)  & Director Education MLD Ireland (www.mldireland.com ), Current member of European Lipoedema Association (ILA) Meadbh completed a Masters in Public Health UCC, 2019 , her thesis was designed to identify and develop key performance indicators (KPI’s) for lymphoedema services in Ireland; and was published the same year in the Journal of Lymphoedema Vol 14 no1 https://www.woundsinternational.com/journals/issue/580/article-details/developing-key-performance-indicators-lymphoedema-service-ireland-using-ic-delphi-technique) . A follow up Pilot Study to test the feasibility of the KPIs at UHL Lymphoedema service proved them to be understandable, objective, reliable, quantifiable and relevant to patient outcome. Meadbh  will collaborate in a 2 year Breakthrough Cancer Research funded project on the ‘Value of Prospective Surveillance for cancer related lymphoedema (CRL) with UCC , Bon Secours Hospital Cork and The Lymph Clinic, commencing December 2021.