The Bon Secours Hospital Dublin has one of the largest Gastroenterologist teams in the country. There are currently 15 consultants with a variety of interests and expertise focusing on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the digestive tract and liver.
One of the key tools used by the Gastroenterologist team to help in the diagnosis of patients is endoscopy. Endoscopy is a minimally invasive diagnostic medical procedure used to asses the interior surfaces of an organ by inserting a tube into the body. This is done using a rigid or flexible tube which has a built in fibre optic camera, which provides an image for visual inspection and biopsy. More details about the international accredited endoscopy unit and the services provided are available here, The gastroenterology team perform >13,000 procedures in 2016.
The team works very closely with the Nutrition and Dietician team, the Diagnostic Imaging Department and the Upper GI and Colorectal Surgical Team within the hospital to provide a complete and comprehensive service for patients with gastrointestinal complaints.
Conditions treated and services provided by the Gastroenterology team include:
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, IBS, Coeliac Disease, Colorectal Cancer Screening, Haemachromatosis, Fatty Liver and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Monday AM (Rooms), Wednesday AM and Thursday PM Endoscopy
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Coeliac Disease, Gastro-Oesophageal Disease, Assessment of Clinical Competence
Monday & Thursday - 7am - 11am
Colon Cancer Screening, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Non Ulcer Dyspepsia
Peptic Diseases incl Reflux, Oesophagitis, Colonic Polyps, Carcinoma and Screening, Direct Access Endoscopy and Haemochromatosis.
Tuesday am
Hepato-Biliary Disorders, Colorectal Cancer
Hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Clinical Pharmacology, Colorectal Cancer
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
Every 2nd Thursday - pm
Peptic ulcer disease, inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer screening, hepatology
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
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.
Dr Barbara Ryan is Consultant Gastroenterologist and Clinical Lead of the Department of Gastroenterology in Tallaght Hospital and a Clinical Senior Lecturer inTrinity College Dublin. She has a special interest in HPB disease, EUS, ERCP, complex endoscopic intervention and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). She worked in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK before taking up her current consultant post in Tallaght Hospital in 2004.
She was National Specialty Director for higher specialist training in Gastroenterology in Ireland from 2012-2015 and has been a member of the Executive Board of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology since 2005 and is a former Treasurer. She is actively involved in teaching and research and has published widely in her areas of interest.
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.
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
Dr. Shiobhan Weston received her medical degree from The Royal College of Surgeons in 1992. She completed her internship and residency in general medicine as well as one year as a registrar in hepatology at The Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
She left Ireland in 1996 and completed her ABIM requirements in internal medicine and subspecialty training in gastrointestinal motility disorders, cholestatic liver disease, and inflammatory bowel disease at The Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by a 3 year fellowship in gastroenterology and transplant hepatology at UCLA and the UCLA-Dumont Transplant Center in Los Angeles, California.
She was awarded an advanced hepatology research fellowship award and funding for formal training in clinical research, epidemiology, biostatistics, and liver transplant medicine at University of San Francisco, California. Her research more recently has focused on the study of metabolic syndrome and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Weston was Director for the Center for Liver Disease at Winthrop-University Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
Colon Cancer screening, Inflammatory bowel disease, GI Haemostasis, Complications of Cirrhosis, Non alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Metabolic Syndrome
Appointments are made by contacting the individual consultant team directly. Details are below. Please note that a GP / Consultant referral will be necessary.
Direct Access Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy endoscopy appointments can be made by a GP / Medical Consultants using the form available to in the document section below. Appointments for this service are made directly by the endoscopy department with patients referred to the unit.
