Mary McAuliffe is a general nurse and midwife and a founder member of the nursing team having joined the clinic in 2003. Mary has gained a vast amount of knowledge in the field of Reproductive Medicine through her work at Waterstone Clinic. She completed a certificate in counselling from the Cork Institute of Technology and is also a certified fertility ultrasonographer having completed a specialist course at the University of Derby, UK. Mary regularly mentors student midwives on female health placements at the clinic, and has represented Irish fertility nurses on the steering committee of Insights and at infertility nursing conferences in the UK. She is an active member of the Senior Infertility Nursing Group (SING, UK) and the Irish Fertility Society.