Education & Experience- Member Royal College of Physicians of London, 1997
- Member Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1998
- Clinical Research Fellow, Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing, 1998-2002
- Certificate of Completion for the RCSI and King’s Fund Leadership & Management Programme for Senior Registrars, 2003
- Senior Registrar, Dublin Rotational Training Scheme, 2002-2006
- Consultant in Psychiatry of Later Life, HSE and Tallaght University Hospital, 2006 onwards
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Areas of Interest- Liaison Psychiatry for Older People
- Capacity and Consent
- Diagnosis and management of Dementia and Challenging Behaviour
- Diagnosis and management of Delirium
- Integrated Care Pathways across care-giving settings, providing continuum of patient care
- Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Parkinson’s Disease and related conditions
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Achievements- Principle Investigator for a three year health services research project funded by a Mental Health Commission grant-‘Measurement of needs in the HSE-SWA: a measure of needs and correlation with intervention in home and community-based services in general adult psychiatry and psychiatry of later life’; 2006-2009
- Chair, Dementia Services Information and Development (DSIDC), 2011-2014
- Clinical Director, Mental Health Services, Dublin South Central, 2012 to date
- Chair, Tallaght University Hospital Medical Board, 2014 to 2018
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