Category: Orthopaedic Surgeons

Mr Andrew Moriarity, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in Foot and Ankle, Dublin.

Andrew Moriarity

About

Andy Moriarity, MB BCh BAO, BSc (Hons), MD, FRCS (Tr & Orth) is an adult foot and ankle surgeon who specialises in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), degenerative conditions, sports injuries and arthroscopy.

Andy completed his undergraduate medical studies at University College Dublin and then a Medical Doctorate (MD) at Trinity College Dublin in 2014. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland in 2021 and graduated from the higher surgical training programme in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2022. He then completed the foot and ankle fellowship at Nottingham University, UK.

Returning to Ireland he began practicing as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in foot and ankle surgery. He currently works in both St James’s Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital.

Education & Experience

BSc (Hons), University Western Ontario, 2003
MB BCh BAO, University College Dublin, National University Ireland, 2008
Medical Doctorate (MD), Trinity College Dublin, 2014
FRCS (Tr&Orth), Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, 2021
Fellowship in Foot & Ankle Surgery, Nottingham University, 2023

Appointments

• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin

Professor Cathal Moran SSC

Professor Cathal J Moran

About Professor Moran

Professor Cathal Moran is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic and the Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in Knee Surgery and Shoulder Surgery. His sub-specialty interest is in sports injuries, including ACL reconstruction, cartilage injury, meniscus surgery, rotator cuff repair and shoulder stabilisation surgery. He also performs Shoulder Replacement and Knee Replacement Surgery.
Professor Moran completed his training in the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine and Shoulder Fellowship at Hospital for Special Surgery and Cornell Medical College in New York, the Cartilage Repair Centre at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Antwerp Orthopaedic Centre in Belgium.  He has worked extensively with professional athletes and teams across Ireland, the US and Europe. He is a Principal Investigator at Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, RCSI Bioengineering and AMBER research centres, as well as a lead surgeon for SSC’s participation in international multi-centre clinical trials. He links this research to the development new options for cartilage and ligament injury at UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic.

Knee Surgery:                                   

ACL Reconstruction
Rotator Cuff Repair
Knee Sports Surgery
Shoulder Sports Surgery
Cartilage & Meniscus Surgery
Shoulder Stabilisation
Patella Stabilisation
Shoulder Arthroscopy Surgery
Shoulder Replacement
Knee Arthroscopic Surgery

Education & Training

• Orthopaedic Sports Medicine & Shoulder Fellowship Program,
Hospital for Special Surgery & Weil Cornell Medical College, New York
• Knee & Shoulder Sports Surgery Fellowship,
Antwerp Orthopaedic Centre, Antwerp, Belgium
• Cartilage Repair Visiting Fellowship, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
• Higher Surgical Training Programme in Orthopaedic Surgery,
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• MFSEM, RCSI
• FRCS (Tr & Orth)
• MD, National University of Ireland, Galway (Research Doctorate)
• MB, BAO, BCh, NUI, Galway (Medical School Degree)
• BSc in Pharmacology, NUIG & University of California San Francisco
• PhD, Biological Augmentation / Tissue Engineering in Cartilage Repair
NUI Galway

Professional Memberships & Achievements

  • European Society for Sports Traumatology and Knee Surgery
  • Arthroscopy Association of North America
  • American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
  • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • International Cartilage Repair Society
  • Irish-American Orthopaedic Society
  • ESSKA DePuy Synthes Degenerative Joint Fellowship
  • Biomet Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship
  • International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) & Zimmer Cartilage Travelling Fellowship
  • The President’s Gold Medal, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • National Orthopaedic Residents Prize, Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital (Joint Winner)
  • National Specialist Registrar Academic Fellowship Programme
  • Clinician-Scientist Training Award from HRB & HSE
  • Prize Session Winner, Annual Meeting of Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland (ASGBI)
  • First Place RCSI Basic Surgical Training Program
  • Graduate Student Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
  • HRB Science Degree Scholarship for Medical Undergraduates
  • Health Research Board Student Research Scholarship
  • National Gold Medal in Pharmacology, Irish Universities

Research

In addition to his research role as a lead surgeon for SSC’s participation in international multi-centre clinical trials, Professor Moran is a Principal Investigator at Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, RCSI Bioengineering and AMBER research centres. He links research at these centres to the development new options for cartilage and ligament injury at UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic.  Professor Moran has completed orthopaedics and sports medicine research training at the Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI) in Ireland; University of California, San Francisco; UC Irvine,California;  Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; and Hospital for Special Surgery / Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.  He has published over 50 papers and given over 200 presentations.
Selected publications include:
Moran CJ, Pascual-Garrido C, Potter H, Chubinskaya S, Cole BJ, Rodeo SA.
J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2014 Feb 19;96(4):336-44.
Fabricant PD, Taylor SA, McCarthy MM, Moran CJ, Kang RW, Cordasco FA
J Bone Joint Surgery, February 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2.
Moran, CJ, Busilacchi,A., Lee CA, Athanasiou, KA., Verdonk, PC
Arthroscopy. 2015 Feb 14. pii: S0749-8063(14)00976-1.

Clinical Application of Scaffolds for Partial Meniscus Replacement

Moran CJ, Withers D, Kurzweil P,  Verdonk PC
Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review. 2015.
Accepted – PDF Copy Available from Authors.

Cell distribution and regenerative activity following meniscus replacement.

Moran CJ, Atmaca S, Declercq HA, Cornelissen MJ, Verdonk PC.
Int Orthop. 2014 Sep;38(9):1937-44.
PMID: 24993651
Extra-articular Augmentation of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction:  The Monoloop Procedure
Moran CJ, Lagae KC, Verdonk PC, Declercq G
ESSKA Book, 2014
Meniscus Extrusion Following Meniscus Allograft Transplantation
De Coninck T, Moran CJ, Huysse W, Verdonk R, Verstraete K, Verdonk PC
ESSKA Book, 2014
Arthroscopic Meniscal Allograft Transplantation With Soft Tissue Fixation Through Bone Tunnels
Peter Verdonk, Tim Spalding, Ben Parkinson, Cathal Moran
ESSKA Book, 2014
Moran CJ, Verdonk PC, Lagae KC, Declercq G
Arthroscopy Journal – Accepted July 2014
A History of Meniscus Surgery; From Ancient Times to the 21st Century
Cathal J Moran, Berardo di Matteo; Vittorio Tarabella,; M Marcacci, Rene Verdonk
KSSTA – Accepted July 2014
Moran CJ, Barry FP, Shannon FJ, Maher SA, Rodeo SA.
American Journal of Sports Medicine. 2012 Apr;40(4):934-44
Gene-modified mesenchymal stem cells express functionally active nerve growth factor on an engineered poly lactic glycolic acid (PLGA) substrate.
Rooney GE, Moran CJ, McMahon SS, Ritter T, Maenz M, Flügel A, Dockery P, O’Brien T, Howard L, Windebank AJ, Barry FP.  Tissue Eng Part A. 2008 May;14(5):681-90
Neurotrophic Factor-Expressing Mesenchymal Stem Cells Survive Transplantation into the Contused Spinal Cord without Differentiating into Neural Cells. Rooney GE, McMahon SS, Ritter T, Garcia Y, Moran C, Madigan NN, Fluegel A, Dockery P, O’Brien T, Howard L, Windebank AJ, Barry F. Tissue Eng Part A. 2009 Oct;15(10):3049-59.
Moran CJ, Shannon FJ, Barry FP, O Byrne JM, O Brien T, Curtin W.
Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (Br); 2010
Sept; 92(9); 1195-1202
Diarmuid Molony UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic

Diarmuid Molony

Education & Experience

Mr Molony is a graduate of University College Dublin. He completed higher surgical training in Orthopaedic Surgery in Ireland in 2010 and spent the following year as clinical fellow in shoulder and elbow surgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital (University of Sydney) in Australia and as Trans-Tasman Shoulder and Elbow fellow in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also completed visiting fellowships focussing on elbow reconstruction in the Hand and Upper Limb Centre, London Ontario and The Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota.

 

Mr Molony returned to Ireland in September 2011 and has been practicing as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in shoulder and elbow surgery since then. Having initially worked in Waterford, he returned to Dublin in May of 2014 and currently works in UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic, Tallaght Hospital and Blackrock Clinic.

He provides a tertiary referral service for complex shoulder and elbow problems and has a particular interest in post-traumatic elbow and shoulder reconstruction, shoulder and elbow instability and joint replacement of the shoulder and elbow.

 

Mr Molony has a Masters in Surgery and has published over 20 peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter. He has ongoing research interests in traumatic shoulder and elbow injuries and sports injuries. He is involved in higher surgical training in orthopaedics both in Ireland and internationally.

 

He is a founding member and President of the Irish Shoulder and Elbow Society and a member of the British and European Elbow and Shoulder Societies. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a member of the Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery and the Irish Orthopaedic Association. He is an AO trauma instructor and has acted on faculty for international meetings on shoulder and elbow reconstruction and trauma surgery.

Mr Johnny McKenna

Johnny McKenna

Education & Experience

MB, MCh, FRCSI (Tr & Orth)
• Graduate of National University of Ireland, Cork
• Irish National Trauma & Orthopaedic Training Scheme
• Clinical Fellow – Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
• Honorary Fellow in Foot and Ankle – Royal North Shore Hospital
• Irish Senior Specialist Registrar (2001-2006)
• Clinical Fellow – Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
• Honorary Fellow in Foot and Ankle – Royal North Shore Hospital

Appointments

• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin

Mr Gavin McHugh UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic

Gavin McHugh

About

Gavin is originally from Tyrone where he completed grammar school at the Christian Brothers in Omagh and obviously maintains a high level of support for his native county’s GAA achievements. He then completed his undergraduate training in Trinity College Dublin and subsequently his internship in the AMNCH Tallaght.
He went on to Basic Surgical Training in general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, vascular surgery & plastic surgery in 2003-2005 and at this point realised his interest lay in the field of orthopaedics. He completed his Doctor of Medicine thesis in  2006 – 2008 and worked as Clinical Tutor in both the Royal College of Surgeons & the Health & Human Performance Department in Dublin City University at this time.
He entered Higher Surgical training in Trauma & Orthopaedic surgery in 2009 – 2015 and this included a year’s Fellowship training in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He is married with two children. Apart from spending time with his family, his hobbies include weight training, hiking, cycling & skiing and he has travelled extensively throughout Europe, North & South America, Africa, Asia & Australasia.
Gavin is committed to providing the highest level of care for his patients in a friendly and down to earth manner. Whilst his areas of interest include soft tissue knee reconstruction and Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, he is particularly interested in knee navigation for both unicondylar (partial) and Total Knee Replacements.

Speciality

  • Primary, complex primary & revision Total Knee Arthroplasty
  • Unicondylar knee replacement
  • Patellofemoral joint disorders & replacement
  • Knee arthroscopy & ligament reconstruction
  • Primary, complex primary & revision Hip Arthroplasty
  • Trauma

Education & Training

  • MB BCh BAO BA: Trinity College Dublin 2002
  • Diploma in Sports & Exercise Medicine: 2007
  • Doctor of Medicine (MD): University College Dublin 2011. The role of Prehabilitation on the outcome of Total Knee Arthroplasty.
  • FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery): September 2013
  • Fellowship Training: Christchurch, New Zealand 2014-2015 – Soft tissue knee reconstruction & lower limb arthroplasty
Mr Tom McCarthy UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic

Tom McCarthy

Specialities

Knee Reconstruction Surgery/Joint Replacement, Arthroscopy/Sports Surgery, Trauma

Education & Experience

• Graduate of N.U.I. Cork
• Irish Higher Surgical Training Scheme in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery R.C.S.I
• Clinical Fellow University of Toronto
• Hip and Knee Reconstruction/Arthroplasty
• Mount Sinai Hospital
• Clinical Fellow University of Toronto
• Arthroscopic/Sports Surgery
• St. Michael’s Hospital and Women’s College Hospital

Appointments

• UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic Santry
• St. James Hospital Dublin

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon 2023 Web

Paul Magill

About

Paul Magill MB MCh FRCS (T&O)

Mr Magill is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon working in Dublin, Newry and Belfast.

He attended medical school in Dublin and subsequently completed the Irish post-graduate Trauma and Orthopaedic surgical training scheme. He then completed 2.5 years of subspecialty training in hip replacement and knee replacement. The first 18 months of this were spent in Belfast with Professor David Beverland, a world leader in his field, with whom he learned the skills of efficiency, fluency and objective measurement of outcomes. His final year was then spent at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand, where he worked in computer-assisted surgery.

Mr Magill took up a Consultant NHS post at Craigavon Area Hospital in February 2018. He also has an established private practice in Belfast and Newry.

He is a strong advocate of improving outcomes through audit and research. During his training, he completed a Masters in Surgery (MCh), and he continues to publish in peer-reviewed journals, with 28 publications to date (www.magillorthopaedics.co.uk). He is a trustee of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Research Charity (www.torcni.org).

Specialties

  • Total Hip Replacement
  • Total Knee Replacement
  • Partial Knee Replacement
  • Knee arthroscopy

Appointments

  • Craigavon Area Hospital
  • Newry Private Clinic
  • Ulster Independent Clinic
  • UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic
Web Jim Kennedy

Jim Kennedy

About Mr Kennedy

Mr Jim Kennedy is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon with over a decade  of specialist experience in complex spinal deformity and paediatric orthopaedics.