Mr. Peter Meagher

Mr Meagher studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and qualified in 1989. He did his innitial surgical training in vascular, orthopaedic and colorectal surgery in Dublin before deciding to specialize in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He qualified as a General Surgeon in 1993 and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FRCSI). He then commenced a six-year plastic surgery training program, the first year of which was spent at St James’s Hospital in Dublin and Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin, Ireland. The remaining five years of his training were spent in the UK, where he worked at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospital, University College Hospital (UCH), the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Mary’s University Hospital, Roehampton and St George’s University Hospital where he completed his training in 1999, was awarded his certificate of completion of Surgical Training (CCST) and received a Fellowship of the Plastic Surgery Division of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCSPlast). He subsequently spent two years at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne training in microsurgical techniques prior to his appointment, in 2001, as a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon with a Special Interest in Breast Reconstruction at St George’s University Hospital in London. This is the largest NHS hospital in the UK and is closely linked to St George’s Hospital Medical School where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery. In July 2007 Mr Meagher returned to Dublin to work as a Consultant at St James’s Hospital.