Below are a list of the some of the Consultant Team supporting the Centre for Digestive Health.
Danny Cheriyan graduated from RCSI with an honours degree in 2005 and completed specialist training in gastroenterology in Beaumont and St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin. He was the UCD Newman Scholar in colorectal cancer and was awarded an MD from UCD for his research on colorectal cancer and angiogenesis.
Following completion of specialist training in gastroenterology in Ireland, Danny undertook two fellowships in advanced endoscopy and hepatobiliary medicine; the first at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and the second at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He joined Beaumont Hospital as a consultant gastroenterologist and honorary clinical senior lecturer (RCSI) in 2016.
Danny has authored several publications and book chapters. He is experienced in all areas of general gastroenterology, but his special interests include colon cancer, endoscopic ultrasound, ERCP, and hepatobiliary disease.
All areas of general gastroenterology, but his special interests include colon cancer, endoscopic ultrasound, ERCP, and hepatobiliary
Referrals to Dr Cheriyan can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in Beaumont Private Clinic, sent by secure fax or, by secure email..
Dr Shamindra Direkze is a consultant gastroenterologist and hepatologist. He graduated from the prestigious MB PhD programme at University College London in 2007 and went on to complete his specialist training in gastroenterology in the London deanery which has included experience in a number of advanced gastroenterology and liver centres including University College London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and Kings College Hospital Liver Unit.
On moving to Ireland in 2017, he has held consultant posts in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and most recently St Vincent’s University Hospital, where he was a registered bowel screening colonoscopist and was a part of the inflammatory bowel disease team based there. He has an interest in advanced endoscopic techniques which includes excision of large colonic polyps/lesions. He has number of publications and prizes from his post graduate training.
Shamindra is a member of the following organisations:
Shamindra moved to Dublin in 2017 with wife who is from Ireland and now has a daughter. He is a keen cyclist and a keen hiker and has completed a number of treks throughout Europe and Asia. He has previously played rugby at county and university level.
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Special Interests: General gastroenterology, hepatology, advanced endoscopy
Research Interests: Hepatology, luminal gastroenterology, advanced endoscopy
Referral's from GPs can be sent via Healthlink or by email.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, IBS, Coeliac Disease, Colorectal Cancer Screening, Haemachromatosis, Fatty Liver and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Referrals to Prof Farrell can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic or by secure email.
Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown Dublin 15
Monday AM (Rooms), Wednesday AM and Thursday PM Endoscopy
Dr Hollingswoth qualified from UCD 1979, worked as Gastroenterology register in the Mater Hospital in 1983 and then worked as a Senior Fellow McMaster University in Ontario Canada from 1984 to 1987. Jack has worked as a Consultant in Gastroenterology and General Medicine since 1987
Royal College Physician; British Society Gastroenterology; Irish Society Gastroenterology; American Gastroenterology Association
Haemachromatosis; Crohns Disease; Ulcerative Colitis; Colorectal Cancer, Peptic Diseases incl Reflux, Oesophagitis, Colonic Polyps, and Direct Access Endoscopy .
Referrals to Dr Hollingsworth can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic or sent by secure email.
Tuesday am
Prof Frank Murray is a Consultant Physician/Gastroenterologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1980 and trained in Dublin, Boston USA, and Nottingham, England. He has been a Fellow of RCPI since 1994 and a member of RCPI Council since 2002, serving as Registrar from 2007 until he took up the office of the President in 2014 until 2017. He works in Beaumont Hospital and in the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin.
Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Clinical Pharmacology, Colorectal Cancer
Referrals to Prof Murray can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in Beaumont Private Clinic or by secure email.
Dr Conor O’ Brien graduated from University College Dublin in 1995 and subsequently obtained his MRCPI. He completed his specialist training in gastroenterology and hepatology in St. Vincent’s University Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. He completed his research fellowship in St. Vincent’s University Hospital and the University of Newcastle, UK. He subsequently worked as Consultant Gastroenterologist / Hepatologist at Toronto Western Hospital. He returned to Dublin in 2007.
Colorectal Cancer Screening, Gastro-Oseophageal Disease, Functional Bowel Disorders, Fatty Liver Disease, Hemochromatosis
Referrals to Dr O Brien can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic or sent by secure email.
Every 2nd Thursday - pm
Aoibhlinn O'Toole graduated from University College Dublin in 2004. She completed her Specialist training in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in St Vincent's University Hospital, Sligo General Hospital and Beaumont Hospital. She was the UCD Newman Scholar in Inflammatory Bowel disease and obtained an MD from UCD for her research on colorectal cancer and immune evasion. She subsequently moved to Boston where she completed Inflammatory Bowel Disease fellowships in the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Programme for Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. She returned to Dublin in 2015 to join the Gastroenterology team in Beaumont Hospital.
Her areas of interest include management of complex Inflammatory Bowel Disease as well as colorectal cancer and dysplasia detection.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Colorectal Cancer, Dysplasia detection
Referrals to Dr O Toole can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in Beaumont Private Clinic or by secure email.
Professor Patchett is a Consultant Gastroenterologist working in Beaumont and The Bon Secours hospitals and is also an Associate Clinical Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons Dublin. Having graduated from UCD, he commenced his training in Dublin before moving to London to train in St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospitals.
He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Barts in 1996 and returned to take up in current position in Beaumont in November 1998. Professor Patchett’s professional interests focus on diagnostic and therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy and therapeutics of inflammatory bowel disease. He is currently chair of the working group for the national QA programme in endoscopy and represents the College of Physicians on the QA Steering group and the Conjoint Endoscopy Curriculum development group.
Professor Patchett is also the clinical lead for endoscopy services in both Beaumont hospital and The Bon Secours.In addition he is Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee in the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin, and has served as chairman of the division of Medicine in Beaumont and as National Specialty Director in Gastroenterology.
Interventional Endoscopy, Quality Assurance in Endoscopy, Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Referrals to Prof Patchett can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in Beaumont Private Clinic or by secure email.
Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Road Dublin 9
Dr Gupta is a Consultant Gastroenterologist working in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda and the Bon Secours Hospitals and is also a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin. Having completed his Masters degree from UCD and Specialist Training in Gastroenterology from Ireland, he completed his fellowship in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy from Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston USA before taking up the consultant post in Ireland in 2008.
Dr Gupta does diagnostic and therapeutic OGD and Colonoscopy at Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and Louth Hospital Dundalk. He also does National "Bowel Screening' colonospies in Dundalk and advanced hepatobiliary interventional procedures like ERCP and Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.
Dr Gupta is currently the Endoscopy Department lead and also the Endoscopy Training lead for the Louth Hospital group. He is also the honorary secretary of the Irish Society Of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy.
Diagnostic and therapeutic OGD and colonoscopy, National Bowel Screening, Inflammatory bowel disease, ERCP and EUS (Beaumont Hospital), Quality Assurance in Endoscopy.
Referrals to Dr Sengupta can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic or sent by secure email.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda / Louth County Hospital, Dundalk / Beaumont University Hospital, Dublin
Claire graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1994 with an Honours degree. She completed her BST on the Federated Hospitals Scheme and subsequently her HST in Gastroenterology in both St. James’ and Beaumont hospitals. Claire was awarded her MD in Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Trinity College Dublin in 2005 having completed research in RCSI/Beaumont and Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. She also spent a year as Junior Lecturer in Trinity Medical School during her HST. Claire then spent two years abroad, the first in Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia and the second in University College London, completing Fellowships in ERCP and Hepatobiliary Medicine. She returned to Dublin in 2008 to take up her current position as Consultant Gastroenterologist in Connolly Hospital. She became a Fellow of RCPI in 2010 and has been an active member in RCPI, having been the National Specialty Director in Gastroenterology for three years. She has recently been appointed as Senior Lecturer in RCSI.
Claire has a particular interest in IBD, IBS and Hepatobiliary disease, but is experienced in all aspects of general Gastroenterology.
Pancreaticobiliary Disease, Intrinsic Liver Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease,Colorectal Cancer Screening, Coeliac Disease, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Referrals to Dr Smyth can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic or sent by secure email.
Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
Prof Mayilone Arumugasamy graduated from RCSI receiving the Medal in Surgery in 1993. He obtained the FRCSI in 1997 and Masters in Surgery in 2001(RCSI/NUI). Following Irish Higher Surgical Training he obtained the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training with the Intercollegiate Speciality in General / Upper GI (oesophago-gastric) Surgery. In addition to his private practice. he works as a Consultant General and Upper GI surgeon in Beaumont and Connolly Hospital.
1.General Surgery - minor ops (skin lesions/toe-nails/lumps and bumps,cysts) , general - investigation of abdominal pain, weight loss, dyspepsia, heartburn, gallstones, reflux, GI bleeding, iron deficiency anemia. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, hernia repair, laparoscopy, diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy etc. 2.Upper GI (Benign) –investigation of reflux, dysphagia, hiatal hernia, para-oesophageal hernia, achalasia. Gastroscopy and colonoscopy investigations. Laparoscopic anti reflux surgery, management of oesophageal/ gastric disorders. 3.Upper GI (Malignant) - the management and treatment of Upper GI cancer (oesophageal, gastric carcinoma). Investigation of dysphagia, weight loss, Barretts oesophagus, staging, minimally invasive gastrectomy and laparoscopic assisted oesphagectomy.
Mr. Burke is an honours medical graduate of University College Dublin. After higher surgical training in general surgery in Ireland, he completed 2 fellowships in colorectal surgery in world-renowned centers in the USA; at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio focusing on inflammatory bowel disease and complex re-operative surgery and in Florida Hospital, Orlando focusing on advanced minimally invasive surgery. He was appointed to Beaumont Hospital as a consultant general and colorectal surgeon in 2015. He is an editor for the journal Colorectal Disease and is a guideline committee member for the European Society of Coloproctology on the management of Crohn’s disease.
Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Dublin 9
Wednesday PM
Dr McGrath completed his Radiologist training in the Royal College of Physicians Ireland in 1982 and completed his Fellowship Higher specialist training programme in 1989. He went on to complete a further two years specialty fellowship training in Interventional, Abdominal Imaging and Musculoskeletal Radiology.
General Interventional Vascular and and Non Vascular Radiology, Abdominal Imaging, Chest / Thorax Imaging, Musculoskeletal Radiology and Sports Imaging, MRI Musculoskeletal/Spine, Chest/Thorax Imaging, General CT imaging
Laparascopic Hernia, Laparascopic Colorectal Surgery, Anorectal pathology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
1976-1982 Medical Degree, University College Dublin, Ireland
1976-1982 University College Dublin, Ireland - Medical Degree
Graduated June 1982 receiving MB, BCh, BAO.
1982-1985 Intern yr and 2 yrs medicine, Dublin
1985-1989 Radiology Trainee at Mater Hospital Dublin
1989- 1991 Clinical Fellowships in Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
1991 - 1995 Interventional Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
1995- Date Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
Professor of Radiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Interventional Radiology: The Requisites. JA Kaufman, MJ Lee
Series Editor: Technique Handbooks in IR
Fibroid embolization, Varicocoele embolisation, Tumor Ablation, Interventional Radiation, Abdominal Imaging, Liver/ Billary Disease, Fibroid Embolization, MRI & CT Gastro-intestinal, Abdominal, Pelvic, Genito-urinary and vascular imaging
Dr Thornton completed her Radiology Training at Beaumont Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA.
On her return to Ireland, she was appointed radiology lecturer (RCSI) in 2012 and Consultant Radiologist at the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin in 2012.
Cancer imaging, Abdominal and Pelvic imaging including CT, MRI and US. CT Colonography, non-vascular image-guided biopsies and drainages.
Lung Malignancy, Breast Malignancy, Colorectal Malignancy, Genito-Urinary Malignancy, Clinical Trials
Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Road Dublin 9
Gastrointestinal Oncology, Lung Oncology, Breast Oncology, Lymphoma, Cancer Genetics
Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Road Dublin 9
Breast Cancer
Referrals to Prof Grogan can be sent via Healthlink, posted to the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin or sent by secure email.
Beaumont Private Clinic, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9
Dr Durkan is an RCSI graduate ,with post graduate and sub specialty Diabetes & Endocrinology training in the UK . Thereafter she completed a second residency in Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, USA and subsequently a fellowship in Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism at Brown University School of Medicine, USA.
She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Diplomat of the American Board of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She was awarded a Masters in Clinical Education NUI Galway in 2012.
She is a consultant Endocrinologist , in the BSH Cork and a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Medicine in UCC School of Medicine,' . She also lectures for the UCC School of Pharmacy ,
She is actively involved in clinical research , presenting ( pre-COVID ) annually at both the American Diabetes & American Endocrine International scientific meetings. She has recently presented two research papers at the IFSO ( International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders) annual scientific meeting in Miami, USA 2022, and this work specifically highlights her commitment to the BSH Bariatric Program.
Her particular interests also include Type 2 DM & Insulin resistance , Lipid disorders ( including FH ), Reproductive endocrinology ( including sub-fertility, infertility & PCOS ) , Bone and Calcium metabolism ( including Hyperparathyroidism & osteoporosis ) , Thyroid nodules, thyroid cancer and thyroid dysfunction.
She is an Internal Examiner for the MD Thesis Program at NUI Galway, and a peer reviewer for the Irish Journal of Medical Science.'
She lectures nationally and internationally and more recently is involved in the ESE post graduate teaching series.
She has recently been elected Chair of the UEMS (European Union Committee for Medical Specialties), Medical Sub-specialties Group 1.
She has been re-elected to her second term as President of UEMS Board of Endocrinology.
She was also re-elected to her second term as Vice Chair of UEMS CESMA (Council for European Specialists Medical assessments), having been appointed to the CESMA European examination appraisals subcommittee in 2016.
She was appointed to the UEMS Examination committee to progress the European Board Exam in Endocrinology in partnership with the ESE (European Society for Endocrinology) and the RCP UK Federation with the first specialty exam ( EBEEDM) delivered in June 2018. The UEMS and the ESE ( European Society of Endocrinology ) have now agreed a joint UEMS -ESE program to deliver the next European Board Exam in Endocrinology in 2023.
She is co-author of the UEMS ETR (European Training Requirement) in Diabetes & Endocrinology that was ratified at the UEMS Council meeting in 2017, and is currently working with partners to update and amend the curriculum for 2023.
She is the former Chair of the Diabetes division of the Irish Endocrine Society She was Co – Chair of the National Committee R3i (Residual Risk Reduction) Ireland and is now part of a working national lipid network group currently establish a National Lipid Screening Program .
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