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Irish Medical Lives

by Dr Chris Luke

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Ep. 14 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Prof. Dorothy Breen

July 11, 2025 · 53 min

Professor Dorothy Breen, founder of forDoctors.ie, a unique Irish coaching and mentoring service provided by doctors for doctors, is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Healthcare Management at the Royal College of Surgeons in…
Ep. 13 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Dr. Ide Delargy

June 15, 2025 · 50 min

Dr Ide Delargy, a general practitioner in Dublin, has been described by many of her colleagues in all branches of healthcare as truly ‘the loveliest of lifesavers’. A GP Principal in Blackrock, County Dublin, Dr Delargy is Provost and…
Ep. 12 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Professor Ray Walley

June 11, 2025 · 52 min

Professor Ray Walley is a general practitioner, academic and medical politician who’s been responsible for ground-breaking advances in Irish healthcare, ranging from the logistics of Covid vaccine delivery and out-of-hours GP cover in…
Ep. 11 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Professor James Bernard Walsh

May 23, 2025 · 57 min

Professor James Bernard Walsh Professor (‘JB’) Bernard Walsh, Clinical Professor in the Department of Medical Gerontology, at Trinity College Dublin, and Honorary Consultant at the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Treatment Unit of the…
Ep. 10 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Dr. Seamus O'Mahony

March 23, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min

Dr Seamus O’Mahony, retired Consultant Gastroenterologist and Clinical Professor at Cork University Hospital, is the prize-winning author of four highly acclaimed books, the first of which, The Way We Die Now, won the British Medical…

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Ep. 9 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Dr. Declan Kelly

March 12, 2025 · 47 min

Dr Declan Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Eolas Medical, an innovative healthcare technology company based in Belfast, is a remarkable medical entrepreneur who has - over the course of a half-decade - created one of the most influential…
Ep. 8 Irish Medical Lives with Dr Chris Luke and guest Dr. John Waterstone

March 4, 2025 · 49 min

Dr John Waterstone, Director of the Waterstone Clinics in Cork, Dublin, Limerick, and Waterford and former President of the Irish Fertility Society, is one of the true pioneers in fertility medicine in Ireland, and currently the most…
Ep. 7 Irish Medical Lives with Dr.Chris Luke and guest Dr Rachel McNamara

January 16, 2025 · 51 min

Considering a career in public health medicine? Or wondering if there’s any point in getting involved in ‘medical politics’? In this episode, Dr Rachel McNamara, a Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine, former National Fellow for…
Ep. 6 Irish Medical Lives with Dr.Chris Luke and guest Dr Maia Springael

December 24, 2024 · 40 min

What’s it like being a medical student in Dublin these days? And is there more to the Intern Year than exhausting drudgery? In this episode, Dr Maia Springael, a June 2024 medical graduate and Intern at Tallaght University Hospital…
Ep. 5 Irish Medical Lives with Dr. Chris Luke and guest Dr Paddy Barrett

December 24, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min

Are you baffled by conflicting advice about 'bad habits'? Do you really want to live a longer, healthier and more meaningful life? Dr Paddy Barrett, Consultant Cardiologist at Dublin’s Blackrock Clinic, is one of Ireland’s leading experts…
Ep. 4 Irish Medical Lives with Dr.Chris Luke and guest Dr Peter Keenan

December 11, 2024 · 52 min

Dr Peter Keenan was Ireland’s first consultant in paediatric emergency medicine. Appointed in 1984, at Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, he was immediately thrown in the deep end in an emergency department that catered for…
Ep. 3 Irish Medical Lives with Dr.Chris Luke and guest Dr Diarmuid O’Shea

December 11, 2024 · 57 min

Dr Diarmuid O’Shea is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin, former President of the Irish Gerontological Society and National Clinical Programme Lead for the Older Persons Programme of…

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About the show

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. Sponsored by Eolas Medical see https://www.eolasmedical.com/ for further details. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.