Beatrice M. Doran is an Irish historian, author, and former chief librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).
[6][7] She attended Muckross Park College and University College Dublin (UCD), where she received a Bachelor of Arts and a Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Master of Business Administration.
[7] She obtained a PhD from UCD in 2011 with her thesis Knowledge Management: An Empirical Analysis in Relation to Irish Healthcare, which included research carried out at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.
She was appointed librarian at RCSI in 1986[10][11] where she worked until her retirement in 2007.
[9] Doran is a former vice president and council member of Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.