Speciality: General internal medicine
Sub specialities: Geriatric medicine
Professor Byrne is a consultant physician in general internal and geriatric medicine at St James’s Hospital. He holds an academic appointment as clinical associate professor in the Department of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. He is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Edinburgh.
Professor Byrne was appointed as the clinical director for the Medicine and Emergency Directorate (MED) in 2019 and was the director of postgraduate education on the St James’s Hospital campus for the period 2017-2020. As the current regional programme director of the RCPI for Basic Specialist Training in general internal medicine, he oversees the professional development of medical senior house officers (SHOs) training across eleven hospitals in the Dublin Midland Hospital Group (DMHG) region and beyond.
He is additionally trained in the areas of falls and syncope, pharmaceutical medicine and nutrition and dietetics.
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- Served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute
- Member of Council in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
- Member of the Management Committee of the Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism
- Between 2017 and 2020 he co-chaired the development of National Clinical Guideline (Number 22) on Nutritional Screening and Supplementation on behalf of the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee in the Department of Health (https://www.gov.ie/en/collection/c9fa9a-national-clinical-guidelines/?referrer=/national-patient-safety-office/ncec/national-clinical-guidelines/).
- Was a member of the Health Information and Quality Authorities expert advisory group that produced the 2016 report on Nutrition and Hydration Care in Public Acute Hospitals (https://www.hiqa.ie/sites/default/files/2017-02/Review-nutrition-hydration-hospitals.pdf).
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As a generalist, Professor Byrne’s clinical and research interests are broad but focus on the areas of acute medicine, health outcomes research, clinical nutrition and health service management.
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Orcid Link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1836-4043
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General Internal Medicine
St James's Hospital
Dublin 8