Dr John Barragry

Nominated by: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Dr. John Barragry is a Consultant Physician and a medical graduate of University College Dublin. His post-graduate medical qualifications include M.D. (NUI), FRCP (Lond.), FRCPI.

Following post-graduate training at the Royal London Hospital, he was appointed Consultant Physician at King's College Hospital, London, where he was also Senior Lecturer in Medicine. He later returned to Dublin as Consultant Physician at the Meath and Adelaide Hospitals, and subsequently Tallaght University Hospital. There, he was successively Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Clinical Director of Medical Services and Lead Clinical Director, retiring in 2011.

His clinical specialty interests are in the field of Endocrinology and Diabetes, where he has carried out laboratory and clinical research particularly in the areas of vitamin D metabolism and thyroid disease, and published in these and other areas. He is a former chairman of the Diabetes Section of the Irish Endocrine Society, and of the Diabetes Service Development Group, and is the current vice-chairman of the Meath (research) Foundation.

He has served on the Boards of Governance of the Meath Hospital (as vice-chairman), Tallaght University Hospital and Mount Carmel Hospital, where he has also chaired the Medical Boards as well as numerous Boards' committees. He is a former Medical Director and non-executive director on the Board of BUPA Ireland.

He is a member of the Irish Medical Council as the nominee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, of which he is currently a member of Council, and a former Examiner, Censor and Vice-President of the College.