Biography
Achievements/Experience:
First in Final Medical Class UCD 1990
1941 Medal UCD 1990
The Reuben Harvey Prize and Diploma 1990
Bellingham Gold Medal for Clinical Medicine 1990
O'’Ferrell Gold Medal for Clinical Surgery 1990
Membership Royal College of Physicians Ireland 1993
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Achievements/Experience:
- First in Final Medical Class UCD 1990
- 1941 Medal UCD 1990
- The Reuben Harvey Prize and Diploma 1990
- Bellingham Gold Medal for Clinical Medicine 1990
- O'’Ferrell Gold Medal for Clinical Surgery 1990
- Membership Royal College of Physicians Ireland 1993
- Health Research Board Research Fellowship 1995
- Best Oral Paper Prize, Irish Society Gastroenterology 1997
- Registrars Prize, RAMI 1997
- MD Thesis, University College Dublin 1998
- Janssen Travelling Fellowship, Vienna 198
- Best Oral Presentation, American College Gastroenterology, Phoenix AZ 1999
- Clinical Effectiveness Course, Harvard School of Public Health 2004
- Secretary of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology 2007 -2010
- Over 100 peer-review articles, editorials and book chapters
Certification:
- 1991 Medical Council of Ireland #14533
- 2004 Irish Gastroenterology and General Medicine Register of Medical Specialists #476361
- 2004 Irish Certificate of Specialist Doctor #478206
Training
- Graduate of University College Dublin, First Place in class, 1990
- Federated Voluntary Hospitals Medical SHO Scheme 1991 – 1993
- Clinical Research, Sir Patrick Dun’s Laboratory, TCD, 1995-1997
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, 1997 – 2000
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2000 – 2005
- Co-Director, Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, 2001 – 2005
- Director Clinical Clerkship Program, BIDMCM, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 2002 – 2005
- Appointed Consultant Gastroenterologist and Physician, Connolly Hospital and RCSI 2006
Areas of Interest
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, IBS, Coeliac Disease, Colorectal Cancer Screening, Haemachromatosis, Fatty Liver and Therapeutic Endoscopy
Referrals to Prof Farrell can be sent via Healthlink, posted to his private rooms in the Bon Secours Consultants Clinic or by secure email.
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