Dr Frank O’Leary
Sports & Exercise Medicine Physician

Dr Frank O’ Leary qualified as a Consultant in Sports & Exercise medicine from the London higher speciality training programme in Sport & Exercise Medicine.

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Dr Frank O’ Leary qualified as a Consultant in Sports & Exercise medicine from the London higher speciality training programme in Sport & Exercise Medicine. He has recently returned from the UK to take up a consultant position in the UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic and to act as team doctor with Leinster Rugby. He is also the lead doctor with Irish athletics and Parasport in the Sport Ireland Institute.

Dr O’Leary graduated in medicine from University College Dublin in 2007. He subsequently completed the Trinity College Dublin General Practice training programme in 2012. He practiced as a GP with a special interest in Sports & Exercise Medicine while obtaining roles as Medical Officer with the Sport Ireland Institute and assistant programme director for the TCD/HSE Specialist training scheme in General Practice.

In 2019 Dr O’ Leary moved to the UK where he worked with in Rehabilitation Medicine before obtaining a place on the London Sports & Exercise Medicine Training programme in 2021.

Dr O’ Leary has extensive experience in elite and international sport as a team physician in rugby, athletics and football. He has previously worked as team doctor to the Ireland Women’s rugby team from 2017 to 2019, team doctor to London Irish RFC in 2022 and also acted as independent match day doctor for the European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) Competitions. He has acted as Chief Medical Officer to Team Ireland at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Azerbaijan in 2019 and was a member of the Team Ireland medical support for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics for the Marathon and race walkers. Dr O’ Leary has acted as Team doctor to Tottenham Hotspur FC Youth teams in 2023.

Dr O’Leary is qualified in diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound with post graduate qualifications from the University of East London and AECC University in Bournemouth. He performs targeted Ultrasound Guided musculoskeletal injections.

MB BCh BAO FFSEM (UK & Ireland) MICGP MSc(Sports & Exercise Medicine), Dip MSK Injury & Management, MSc(Clinical Education), DCH, DPD, DRCOG, PGCert(MSK US)

Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine UK: 2024

PG Cert: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, University of East London: 2023

IOC Certificate in Drugs in Sport: 2022

Professional Diploma Clinical Leadership, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: 2021

Fellow of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine Ireland: 2020

MSc Sports & Exercise Medicine: 2019

MSc Clinical Education: 2016

Diploma Musculoskeletal Injury & Management: 2012

Member of the Irish College of General Practitioners (MICGP): 2012

Diploma Child Health: 2011

MB BCh BAO, University College Dublin: 2007

Current Appointments

Consultant Sports & Exercise Medicine UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin: 2024 – present

Team Doctor Leinster Rugby: 2024 – present

Consultant Sports & Exercise Medicine Sport Ireland Institute: 2025 – present

Education committee lead, Faculty Sports & Exercise Medicine: 2024 – present

 

Previous Appointments

Doctor: Tottenham Hotspur FC Youth Academy: 2023 – 2024

Doctor: London Irish Rugby: 2022 – 2023

Honorary Secretary, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in Ireland: 2022 – 2024

Doctor: Team Ireland Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 2021

Independent Match Day Doctor: European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR): 2019 – 2024

Chief Medical Officer: Team Ireland, European Youth Olympic Games, Baku, Azerbaijan: 2019

Doctor: Ireland Senior Women’s Rugby Team: 2017 – 2019

Doctor: Sport Ireland Institute: 2017 – 2019

Doctor: Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Team: 2017 Rugby World Cup

Doctor: Old Wesley RFC: 2015 – 2019

Orthopaedic Surgeons

Ray Moran Medical Director

Adrian Brennan

Jonathan Bunn

Neil Burke

Ann-Maria Byrne

Stefan Byrne

Noelle Cassidy

Gary Colleary

Denis Collins

Ruth Delaney

Professor Brian M Devitt

Michael Donnelly

Niall Hogan

Andrew Hughes

Mark Jackson

Jim Kennedy

Michael Leonard

Sam Lynch

Paul Magill

Tom McCarthy

Gavin McHugh

Johnny McKenna

Ronan McKeown

Diarmuid Molony

Professor Cathal J Moran

Andrew Moriarity

Paul Moroney

Hannan Mullett

Professor Kevin Mulhall

Jacques Noel

Shea (James) O'Flanagan

Maurice O'Flaherty

Robert Piggott

Professor Joseph M Queally

Keith Synnott

Mihai Vioreanu

James Walsh

Dan Withers

Neurosurgeons

Eoin Fenton

Michael Kelleher

Jabir Nagaria

Nikolay Peev

Sports & Exercise Medicine Physicians

Philip E Carolan

Ciaran Cosgrave

Matthew Cosgrave

Paul Dobbelaar

Jamie Kearns

Colm McCarthy

Dr Frank O'Leary

Maxillofacial Surgeons

Mr Padraig Ó Ceallaigh

Plastic Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeons

Richard Hanson

Colin Riordan

Pain Management Physicians

Philip Hu

Kathir Tamilmani

Rheumatologists

Leah Rooney

Barry J Sheane

Catherine Sullivan

Radiologists

Joe Coyle

Dr Oisin Flanagan

Brian Hogan

Mark Logan

Frank McGrath

Respiratory Physicians

Rosemary O'Brien

Cardiologist

Brendan Doyle