Urology

Biography

Mark Broe is a graduate entry medical graduate having first completed Bachelor of Commerce International with French in UCD. He completed his undergraduate medical degree in Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in 2012. He completed his Higher Specialist Training in Urology in 2021. He won numerous awards throughout his training including highest Fellowship Exam score British Isles & Ireland and the Colles Fellowship Travel Bursary from RCSI. He works as a Consultant Urologist in Beaumont Hospital as well as at Bon Secours Hospital Dublin and Blackrock Clinic.

He has completed a Masters in Surgery (MCh) through RCSI in 2015. He has authored over 20 publications in peer reviewed journals, particularly in the fields of prostate cancer and robotic surgery. He has presented at both national and international conferences. As part of his fellowship in Sydney he worked in a dedicated research role with the Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He has had several successful grant applications both home and abroad for research proposals including from Intuitive Surgical (producers of DaVinci Robot). He serves as a regular reviewer for a urological medical journal.

Mark has completed 3 Fellowships in Ireland, Australia and the UK with particular focus on robotic surgery. He began his subspecialist training in robotic surgery in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin where he was independently assessed and accredited by the European Association of Urology Robotic Section (ERUS). He then travelled to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney where he gained further expertise in Robotic-assisted Radical Prostatectomy (RARP) and Robotic-assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN). Here he also learned transperineal (TP) biopsy of the prostate for the diagnosis of prostate cancer, a safer and more effective method of prostate biopsy than traditional transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided biopsy. He spent a further 6 months at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK with specific focus on the complex multi-disciplinary management of muscle invasive bladder cancer. In particular, he trained in Robotic-assisted Radical Cystectomy (RARC) with intracorporeal ileal conduit/neobladder formation.

Areas of Interest

• General Urology
• Urological Malignancy
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia
• Kidney Stones
• Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
• Robotic Surgery

Qualifications

Biography

Mr Tom Creagh qualified from UCD in 1980. After completing his training as a Urologist, he spent time at Guys Hospital London as the European Board of Urology Scholar (1993). He was subsequently appointed as a consultant at Kingston Hospital South West London. In 1995 he returned to Beaumont Hospital where he specialises in female Urology (incontinence and urinary tract infection) and also works in the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin. He was involved in the setting up of the Continence Foundation of Ireland and continues to be active in research and International meetings.

Areas of Interest

Incontinence, UTI and Prolapse

Qualifications

Appointments

Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Road Dublin 9

Biography

Niall is a graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland and undertook basic surgical training with the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland (RCSI). He completed his Higher Surgical Training in urology in 2017 and completed his fellowship in minimally invasive (robotic and laparoscopic) urological surgery in Melbourne in 2019. 

He is a senior lecturer for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and works as a consultant urologist in Beaumont Hospital. 

Mr Davis has also completed a PhD in tissue-engineering in the University of Limerick and has 150 publications in indexed medical journals. 

He has a special interest in undergraduate teaching for medical students. Mr Davis continues to work with his biomedical engineering colleagues in Ireland to develop his research interests.
 

Areas of Interest

• Da Vinci robotic kidney surgery 
• Kidney stone disease
• Urological cancers
• Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
• Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
• General urology
• Urinary tract infections (UTIs)
   

Additional Information

Research Interests
Biomaterials, Kidney stone disease, Kidney cancer, Technology, Uro-oncology
 

Current Membership

1. Panel member on European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines Committee for kidney stone disease
2. Senior Lecturer for Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI)
3. Irish Society of Urology
    

Qualifications

Appointments

Appointments to Mr Davis are by GP referral which can be sent via Healthlink, posted to the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin or by health mail / email to nialldavisurology@bonsecours.ie

Biography

James Forde, an honours medical graduate of University College Dublin (2005), completed his specialist urological training in Ireland in 2015. In 2010 he was awarded the degree of Doctor in Medicine (M.D) from Trinity College Dublin for his investigation of novel treatments for prostate cancer. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Urology in 2014.

More recently, he has completed a Fellowship in Voiding Dysfunction at Weill-Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Under the guidance of renowned international experts, the fellowship encompassed female and male voiding dysfunction issues, in particular the surgical management of female incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse repair as well as post prostatectomy incontinence, urethral reconstruction and the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia. He also developed expertise in novel treatments for the management of these conditions using the latest technology available including GreenLight laser vaporization of benign prostatic disease and sacral neuromodulation for overactive bladder.

James has authored over 30 peer reviewed urology publications to date, and has presented his research at national and international meetings. He was a lead investigator in a national study assessing PSA testing throughout Ireland. He has collaborated on the development of Irish national guidelines for the role of active surveillance for low risk prostate cancer. He has an MSc in Medical Informatics from University College Dublin (2010).  Other awards and grants include the Irish Society of Urology research medal (2010), the RCSI Ethicon Foundation Grant (2015), and the RCSI-Anthony Walsh/Ipsen Travelling Fellowship in Urology (2015). In 2014 he was invited to the annual meeting of The European Section of Oncological Urology (ESOU), an honour awarded to only 15 trainees internationally annually.

Areas of Interest

General urology Renal stone disease Prostate cancer diagnostics Female voiding dysfunction - Overactive bladder treatments - Female incontinence - Urinary tract infection - Pelvic organ prolapse repair Male voiding dysfunction issues - Male lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) - Post prostatectomy incontinence - Urethral reconstruction - Management of benign prostatic hyperplasia

Qualifications

Appointments

Please note: Mr Forde is only accepting new referrals addressed to him and no unamed referrals at this time. 

Biography

Mr Gallagher graduated from the RCSI with honours in 1986 (1st Place). He worked an anatomy demonstrator RCSI 1987-1988 (Awarded BSc (Hons) Anatomy and Anthropology and was a Postdoctorate Research Fellow from 1991 to1993 in the University of Pennsylvania. He completed is Specialist Registrar training in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1997 to 2001

Hubert has worked as part of the Consultant Urologist team in the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin since 2001and in the Beacon Hospital since 2006. He is on the Specialist Register (Urology) with both the Irish Medical Council and General Medical Council (UK).

Memberships

British Association of Urological Surgeons
European Association of Urology
Irish Society of Urology (Secretary 2006/8)
Advisor to Marie Keating Foundation on Men’s Health
Examiner RCSI
MCQ Committee for Intercollegiate Fellowship in Urology Examination (past member

Areas of Interest

Superficial Bladder Cancer, Endourology, Prostate Cancer

Qualifications

Areas of Interest

Urology, Male Infertility, Male Incontinence

Qualifications

Appointments

Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Road Dublin 9

Biography

Mr O Sullivan graduated from UCC with honours and trained in Urology in Dublin and the UK and was awarded a Masters in Surgery for research into prosthetic bladder. He has completed fellowships in the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US in prosthetics, prostate cancer and minimally invasive treatment and research. Denis was an NHS Consultant Urologist in Liverpool for 6 years before returning to Dublin in 2007 to take up full time private practice in Urology in the Bon Secours Hospital Dublin.

Areas of Interest

• Male and female urinary symptoms
• Urinary incontinence: female and male
• Comprehensive stone treatment,
• Prostate bladder and renal cancer
• Erectile and scrotal problems

Additional Information

In addition to seeing patients in his rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic, Mr O Sullivan regularly attends the Bon Secours Cavan Clinic for Outpatient Consultations.  

Qualifications

Areas of Interest

Laproscopic Radical Prostectomy, Minimally Invasive Urological Surgery, Uro-Oncolocgy

Qualifications

Appointments

Please note: Mr Smyth is only accepting new referrals addressed to him and no unamed referrals at this time.