Irish Medical Lives

Hosted by Dr Chris Luke, Irish Medical Lives is a podcast that features conversations with the most inspirational movers, shakers and pioneers of Irish Medicine in the 21st Century. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Irish Medical Lives is a health podcast hosted by Chris Luke, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chris Luke hosts Irish Medical Lives, a health show with 21 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  Ep. 13 Irish Medical Lives with Dr.Chris Luke

  Dec 3, 202445 minS1

  Professor Trevor Duffy, Consultant Rheumatologist at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown in Dublin, is one of the best known ‘medical politicians’ of his generation, having started his political career as an NCHD during the health service disputes of the late 1990s and risen through the ranks to become President of the Irish Medical Organisation, in 2014. In this episode, the remarkably self-deprecating physician recalls his early years in Kilmacud and a small rural town in Iran, his time as the first Chief Resident in St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin and then Chef de Clinique in Geneva’s University Hospital, and his serendipit...

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  Episode #24

  Ep. 24 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke

  Oct 10, 202452 minS1

  <p>Dr Peter Keenan was Ireland’s first consultant in paediatric emergency medicine. Appointed in 1984,</p><p>at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, he was immediately thrown in the deep end in an</p><p>emergency department that catered for around 50,000 attendances annually.</p><br><p>In this podcast episode, Peter recounts how he set about the management of the huge number of</p><p>patients, which he compares to dealing - afresh every day - with ‘a great military retreat’. He talks</p><p>about the crucial importance of reducing the number of ‘reflex’ admissions by managing as many</p><...

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  Episode #23

  Ep. 23 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke

  Oct 10, 202456 minS1

  <p>Dr Diarmuid O’Shea is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at St Vincent’s</p><p>University Hospital in Dublin, former President of the Irish Gerontological Society and</p><p>National Clinical Programme Lead for the Older Persons Programme of the HSE and RCPI</p><p>and, presently, the 143 rd President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.</p><p>Dr O’Shea’s clinical and research interests include syncope, drug metabolism, and dementia,</p><p>and his organisational initiatives have been largely directed towards the enhancement of</p><p>patient care and of medical training in Ireland...

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  Episode #22

  Ep. 22 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke

  Oct 10, 202452 minS1

  <p>Professor Jean O’Sullivan is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Tallaght University</p><p>Hospital, in Dublin, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, and</p><p>Chair of the Board and Founder of Global Emergency Care Skills (a.k.a. GECS),</p><p>a voluntary, non-profit charity organisation which she founded in 2008, and which provides</p><p>high quality emergency care training to healthcare professionals in Africa. To date, GECS has</p><p>provided training courses for over 600 doctors, nurses and clinical officers in six African</p><p>countries, where sepsis and trauma are the le...

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  Episode #21

  Ep. 21 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke

  Jul 23, 202443 minS1

  <p>Professor Cliona Ni Cheallaigh is Consultant in General Medicine and Infectious Disease at</p><p>St James’s Hospital in Dublin, Associate Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin,</p><p>and Lead Clinician in the world’s first ‘Inclusion Health Service’ at St James’s Hospital.</p><br><p>Professor Ni Cheallaigh’s academic work includes dozens of peer-reviewed publications and</p><p>over 9000 citations for which she has achieved a Hirsch or ‘H-index’ of academic</p><p>productivity of 32 (which, for those unfamiliar with the grading of academics, is</p><p>exceptionally high). Remarkably, too, she has obtained over €8...

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