Alan Byrne graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985. He commenced in General Practice in South Dublin in 1990. He has worked in Sports Medicine since 1993.
Dr. Byrne completed a Masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine at UCD in 2000. He was the team doctor at Shelbourne F.C. from 1993-1999. He has been the team doctor and consulting sports physician at Shamrock Rovers F.C. since 2000.
Dr. Byrne has worked with several teams at the Football Association of Ireland since 1999. He has been the Senior International team doctor since 2003. He worked as the team doctor with Fulham F.C in 2011.
Dr. Byrne was the first appointed Medical Director of the Football Association of Ireland. He held that position from 2006-2012. During that time he established several programmes, including the underage International and League of Ireland player cardiac screening initiatives.
Dr. Byrne is a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine. He was appointed to the Board of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2011. He is on the specialist register of Sports and Exercise medicine.
Dr. Byrne has a particular interest in sports Cardiac Screening and assessment and management of chronic groin problems.
Professor Vaughan is currently a Consultant Cardiologist at the Mercy University/Cork University Hospital in Cork. He earned his medical degree from University College Cork in 1989 and did his early medical training in Cork. He then began training in Cardiology in Cork and pursued an MD degree in University College Cork before moving for further training to Cornell Medical Centre in New York in 1996. There he pursued fellowship training in Cardiology and participated in research on the molecular genetic basis of cardiovascular disease. He joined the faculty at Cornell Medical Centre in 2001 and returned to Cork in 2004. Prof Vaughan has published widely on many aspects of cardiovascular disease including studies on the molecular genetic basis of inherited heart disease and dyslipidaemia.
Dr. Heather Cronin is a Consultant Cardiologist working in Cork University Hospital. She graduated from University College Cork and pursued her Cardiology training between Cork and Dublin. Dr. Cronin completed her fellowship training in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital London before returning to Ireland. She has completed an MD in the clinical and genetic basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and has published in this area. Her specialist interests are inherited cardiomyopathies, cardiac genetics and sports cardiology.
Dr. Ronan Curtin is a consultant cardiologist at Cork University Hospital. He is a graduate of University College Cork and completed his Higher Specialist Training in Cardiology in Ireland, followed by an Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship in Cleveland Clinic, USA. During his training years, he completed a Masters Degree in Cardiology (Trinity College, Dublin) and a Medical Doctorate (Royal College of Surgeons) on the topic of resistance to antiplatelet drugs. He was the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the European Society of Cardiology in 2003. He went on faculty in the section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Cleveland Clinic in 2007, before returning to Ireland and Cork University Hospital in 2009. His special interests in Cardiology include cardiac imaging, valvular heart disease and heart failure.
Dr Edmond Donovan graduated from UCC in 1973. He currently practices out of two locations (Douglas & Camden Place). He is doctor to Cope Foundation, Eircom & An Post in Cork.
Linda is a qualified nurse who specialises in Heart Failure. She obtained Bachelor of Nursing in Christchurch New Zealand in 1998. She has completed postgrad papers in Health Economics and Nursing Leadership. She has previously worked in Respiratory and Bone Marrow Transplant but mostly Cardiology. Following her return to Ireland in 2006, she worked in Cardiology however had a special interest in Heart Failure going on to obtain an MSc in Nursing (Heart Failure) in 2012.
Her role within AMS is that of a Heart Failure Nurse supporting a number of Heart Failure clinics around Munster.
