As Cork University Hospital is hoping to win the Medray/IIRRT Department of the Year award for their radiation department for the second year in a row, radiation therapist Karen Molan from Ballyporeen is calling for people to vote.

Karen said that they won the department of the year award last year, while Theresa O'Donovan also won the Radiation Therapist of the Year and they are hoping to hold on to those titles this year.

"It's a great achievement to be shortlisted and we will be up against Dublin and Galway, so I hope people will support us and give us their votes if they think we deserve them," she said.

Karen has been nominated for the Radiation Therapist of the Year, along with other colleagues. A qualified radiation therapist for the past 11 years, she has worked in CUH for six years and before that was working in Bristol, Essex, Melbourne, North Queensland and Perth before taking the position as senior radiation therapist in CUH.

Karen went to national school in Ballyporeen, and attended Presentation Secondary School in Mitchelstown before going on to further study. She has a post graduate certificate in Radiotherapy and Oncology at Masters level from Sheffield Hallam University and she did her degree in Bristol. She is currently living in Blackrock in Cork.

The results will be announced on Saturday, October 12 and people have until September 30 to put their votes through online at www.iirrt.ie/archives/3400#sthash.gzF7VfI9.dpuf.

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