CHURCHTOWN MEDICAL - Key Persons
Dr Mehtar is a graduate of Royal College of Surgeons Ireland. As one of the founder members of the Irish College of General Practitioners, Dr Mehtar is highly acclaimed and very keen on the development of general practice in Ireland.
He has been practicing in Churchtown for many years and his special interests include minor surgery, preventative medicine, travel medicine and women's health.
Dr. Aisling Hayes, MB BAO BCh MICGP. As a graduate from UCD in 2000, Dr. Hayes has worked in general practice since 2005. Dr. Hayes has a special interest in women's health.
Dr Rovenca graduated from the State Medical and Pharmaceutical University N. Testimitanu Chisinau . R, Moldova in 1990. On completion of registration examinations, she moved to Ireland, working as a Hospital doctor in SJH, Tallaght & Navan across multiple fields - A&E, Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Medicine for Elderly, Hem-oncology and Respiratory Medicine before settling into her career as a GP.
Dr Mondoh is a graduate of Warsaw Medical University when he completed is undergraduate training,
He did his residency in Family medicine at the Aga Khan International University.
He has special interest in and postgraduate diploma in Women's Health from the Royal College of Physicians Ireland.
He has multiple board certification and international experience working in several countries within urban/rural setting both in primary and tertiary care.
We were very lucky to secure the services of Dr. Morgan in 2018. Amy is a native of Drogheda, She graduated from UCD medical school in 2008. Holds membership of the Irish College of GP since 2015. She is Certified in contraception & long acting contraception fitting (LARC). Amy has worked in full time practice in Ireland since 2015 both in Ireland & in Australia.
Dr Cliona Mulvihill graduated from University College Dublin in 2006 and has been a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners since 2012.
She has spent a number of years working in Perth, Australia. She covers all areas of general practice and has a particular interest in fertility.
Dr Conor Grant graduated from University College Dublin in 2008 and has been a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners since 2015.
He has spent time working in Sydney, Australia and has a keen interest in men's health and paediatrics.
Dr Conor McGrane graduated in medicine from UCD in 1994. He subsequently worked in worked in hospitals across Belfast as part of his GP Training, before taking up his position in in general practice in 1998. Dr McGrane has worked in North Dublin since 2002.
His special interest in Sports Medicine has seen him participate as a doctor for many sporting organisations and clubs including the FAI (Football Association of Ireland), medical officer for Cycling Ireland and extensively as a volunteer including as Race Doctor for the Ras Tailteann from 2005 to 2014.
Dr McGrane has also completed minor surgery training, through the RCGP and supplemented with courses led by the RCSI, ICGP, FAI and BASM(UK). He has also worked in disability assessment and was involved in setting up the out of hours service in North Dublin.
Dan is a graduate of the College of Surgeons in Dublin where he graduated in 1989. He studied surgery in Perth, Western Australia before returning to Ireland in 1992. He then studied Orthopedic Surgery for 8 years before working in psychiatry in Dublin & Wicklow for 4 years then in 2003, commencing a full time family medicine practice with Orla in Ashford.
He is married to Orla and has 3 daughters, living locally in Moneystown. His interests include sports in general, rugby in particular & staying fit.
Dr. O'Malley graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland in 2010. After completing her internship, Dr. O'Malley completed a year on the medical training scheme and then worked as a clinical medical tutor for the Department of Medicine in the RCSI in Beaumont. Dr. O'Malley completed her general practice training in the mid-Leinster scheme in 2017. In the final year of the GP training scheme, Dr. O'Malley conducted research which was accepted and presented at the European Patient Safety Conference in 2017.
Dr. O'Malley has completed part of 1 of the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK, has a European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care and an Irish College of General Practitioner's Certificate in Contraception. Dr O'Malley is currently in her second year of the Diploma in Practical Dermatology in Cardiff University.
Dr Emma O'Carroll graduated in 2003 from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She completed the Beaumont Hospital medical training scheme and achieved membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007.
She took a year out to travel and see the world before returning in 2008 to embark on the Mid-Leinster vocational GP training scheme and completed her MICGP examinations in 2011.
Dr O'Carroll has an interest in Women's health and Paediatrics. Her qualifications include a diploma in Obstetrics and Women's Health (2010) and a diploma in Child Health (2012).
Dr. Eric Yelverton, graduated UCD medicine in 1984. He undertook his GP training in Leven, Fife Scotland 1987/1988 and worked as a GP in Rural Canada in 1988/1989. In 1989 he returned to Ireland and became a GP Assistant/Partner in a GP group practice in Drogheda 1995 where he has remained to date, becoming a GP training Practice in 2012. Centric Health Primary Care joined with Dr Yelverton in 2017.
Dr Heidi Kinsella graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2001. She completed two years of general
medical training after graduation gaining valuable experience in various medical specialities. She
Dr Helena Healy graduated from University College Galway in 1998, completing the Northwest Specialist training programme in General Practice in 2004.
She now specialises exclusively in Dermatology. She is a member of The Primary Care Dermatology Society of Ireland ( PCDSI ), The Primary Care Surgical Association ( PCSA ) and the Skin Cancer College of Australia ( SCCA ).
Her areas of interest include mole and lesion appraisal, skin cancer surveillance and management, the management of chronic skin disease and supportive minor surgery.
She is based solely in Blackrock Medical, Frascati Shopping Centre.
Dr Irene le Roux did her primary training in medicine in the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2003. She worked in various fields, including Emergency Medicine, until she moved to Ireland in 2007. She then worked in a wide variety of various hospital specialities across Ireland, before joining the South East GP training scheme. She completed vocational training in General Practice in 2018, after which she joined Centric Health. She has a special interest in Women's Health, Paediatric Medicine and Occupational Health.
Originally from Pakistan, Malik graduated with honours from Karachi University, Pakistan back in 1998. He completed his Membership training in Family Medicine from College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan (MCPS) and also became a Member of American College of Physicians (MACP) before moving to Ireland.
He started working in Ireland from 2005 and completed his initial two years General Professional medical training at Tallaght University Hospital and Naas General Hospital and later worked in different Irish hospitals (mostly in Dublin) for his higher Specialist training in General Internal medicine including Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Medicine for Elderly and Critical emergency care. He attained his membership with Royal College of Physicians in UK (MRCP) and actively involved in education and medical research with published articles.
He completed his General Practice training on Mid-Leinster GP training Programme in 2017 and obtained Membership of Irish College of General Practitioners (MICGP) and started working as GP in Lucan. He joined Ballyowen Medical Centric in January 2020, a large urban practice with a diverse population, which offers especially a great opportunity to migrant Irish community as he can better understand their socio-economic problems as well as he can speak multi languages which is of a great help to these communities.
He is particularly interested in Person-centred care and in developing patient and Physician leadership. He has a keen interest in Cardiovascular related medical diseases, including Hypertension, Ischaemic heart Disease, Heart Failure, Stroke, Lipids disorders as well as Diabetes, Men's health and chronic Disease management. He also has an interest in joint injections and minor operative procedures including Cryotherapy.
Malik has a special interest in teaching and is a GP trainer at Trinity College Dublin(TCD/HSE), Irish College of General Practitioners. He is married with 2 boys and lives locally in Lucan. When he is not at work, you may find him walking out in local Parks, playing Cricket with his kids, doing charitable work and feeding the homeless in Dublin City centre on weekends.
Dr Maurice Cox joins with Dr Ray Power to form Centric Health and acquires its first practice in Phibsbora, Phoenix Medical. Over the following years, more and more GP practices join the network. In 2005 Vhi SwiftCare Clinics, Ireland's first urgent care clinics, are established as a joint venture between Vhi and Centric Health.
Dr Orla Halpenny qualified in NUI Galway and is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners.
She has a special interest in medicine for the older person.
Orla is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, where she grew up. She returned home to Ireland in 1992, and after completing her GP training she joined a group practise in Wicklow Town where she worked for 3 years before setting up her own practise in Ashford in 1998.
She is married to Dan, has 3 daughters and has lived in Moneystown for the last 20 years. her hobbies include horseriding/showjumping and triathlons, in particular sea swimming around Wicklow.
Dr Carroll graduated from University of Western Australia in 1992 and worked in Australia and the UK until he arrived in Ireland in 2001. He holds Membership of the Irish College of General Practitioners and has special interests in paediatrics, skin cancer, cardiology, preventative medicine and travel medicine.
Originally from Galway, Dr Paula Greally graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2012 with honours. From there, she undertook her internship in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, rotating through General Practice, Infectious Disease, Neurosurgery and Urology/Kidney Transplant.
She graduated from General Practice training in 2017 and gained Membership of the Irish College of General Practitioners (MICGP).
She also has an interest in Women's Health and is Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) certified and has a Certification in Contraception from the ICGP. She is proficient in the insertion of all LARC including Copper Coils.
Dr Greally has a number of special interests. She is particularly interested in Sports Medicine and has completed a Diploma through the ICGP/FSEM in Musculoskeletal Medicine. She is a member of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) International Team Doctors Panel. She has worked as an expedition doctor with Earth's Edge and her highest peak to summit to date was Mount Kilimanjaro in 2018.
Dr Peter Moran, originally from Dublin, completed his medical training in 1985 (Mb BCh
Dr. Raimundas Zaveckis is a graduate of Vilnius University in Lithuania with 17 years of experience in general practice. He commenced practice at Citywest Medical Centre in January 2013. Before moving to work in Citywest he was a General Practitioner in Vilnius, Lithuania from 2002 to 2008 and then as a GP in Duncannon, co. Wexford from 2008 until 2013.
In addition, Dr. Zaveckis worked as an underwriter and doctor expert in one of the largest insurance companies in Central and East Europe for nearly 4 years.
He is fluent in English, Lithuanian and Russian.
He has special interests in General and Preventive Medicine, Children's Health and Pain Management.
Ray is a practicing GP in Blessington Medical since 2019. He completed his specialist training in General Practice after graduating from UCD in 1988.
After completing his MICGP and MRCGP from 1992-99 he worked in Australia both with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the University of Western Australia where he completed an MBA and attained Fellowship from the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. Ray believes that the doctor-patient relationship is at the core of effective healthcare promoting patient health and wellbeing.
This is particularly true of the relationship between GPs and their patients. He has always wanted to shine a light on that relationship.
Dr. Rowan comes from Athy and is a graduate of the Mid Leinster GP training scheme. A 1 st class honours Biology and Chemistry graduate and a Phd postgraduate of Microbiology, Dr Rowan has worked as a research fellow in Dublin Dental School and hospital prior to graduating from medicine in the University of Limerick.
He has worked in multiple specialities including Cardiology, Surgery, Respiratory Medicine and Geriatrics. He also has worked in Paediatrics and as a senior A&E doctor in the NHS in Northern Ireland. Dr Rowan is an instructor of immediate cardiac and immediate trauma care run by the UCD centre for Emergency Medical Sciences and has a keen interests in sports and exercise medicine / musculoskeletal injuries and joint injections and minor surgery. An accomplished triathlete, he recently completed the Dublin half Ironman and is training for the full ironman in Lanzarote in 2020.
Blanchardstown local Dr Rosemarie Keenan initially completed a BSc in Biotechnology at
Dr Sabrina McHale completed her medical degree at the National University of Ireland Galway, qualifying in 2004. She embarked on a Paediatric Specialist Training programme after her intern year, including working for 3 years as a Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics at the National Maternity Hospital and Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin, and 6 months in Melbourne, Australia, in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
Following this, Dr McHale embarked on a GP training scheme in Devon, United Kingdom, which she thoroughly enjoyed. She rotated between Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Care of the Elderly during her GP scheme. She qualified with MRCGP (UK) in 2016 and returned to Ireland. Dr McHale has completed her membership examinations in Paediatrics (MRCPI Medicine of Childhood), the Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (DRCOG 2010) and the Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health (DFSRH 2016). Her special interest areas are Paediatrics and Women's Health.
Dr Saheera Ali Butt first qualified as a doctor in 1990 at Ayub Medical College, Pakistan, but
her learning did not stop there. As well as holding MBBS, MICGP, DCh, Dip Dermatology,
and Dip Musculoskeletal Medicine, Saheera has received comprehensive LARC (long acting
Dr Sarah Whelan graduated from UCD in 2009 and is a member of the Irish College of
Dr Lyons is a graduate of University College Dublin. She became a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners on completion of the specialist GP training scheme in Ireland. She worked extensively in practices across the country and in 2006 worked as an emergency medical doctor in New Zealand before joining Churchtown Medical.
Dr. Lyons has a special interest in dermatology and graduated in 2010 with the Diploma in Practical Dermatology from Cardiff University. As part of reproductive health care at Churchtown Medical Dr. Lyons provides Mirena Coil and Implanon insertion and has also been awarded the Advanced Certificate in Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) by the ICGP in 2013.
Dr Siobhan Anarah-Adoghe graduated from Medicine at Trinity College Dublin in 2001 and then followed with MICGP from the Eastern Regional GP Training Scheme/Trinity College in 2006. During that time, she worked in many areas in St Vincents, Tallaght and Temple Street Hospitals.
She then worked in Kilmacud, Sheehan, Glasthule and Templogue Medical Practices, before taking over Leopardstown Women's Clinic in 2015, where she developed much experience and a Special interest in Women's Health. She is also very interested in Mental Health and Screening and prevention, which combined, well places her to look after all of Women's Health care needs.
Outside work, she has a busy family life, which includes three active teenagers. Her main interests include foreign travel, and gardening & reading
Wardah, who has a particular interest in paediatric medicine, firmly believes that the GP-