Professor Seán F. Dinneen

Professor Seán F. Dinneen

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Health Service Executive and National University of Ireland, Galway

Professor Seán F. Dinneen, MD, MSc, FRCPI is the National Lead for the Diabetes Clinical Programme; HSE Consultant Endocrinologist, Galway University Hospitals; and Professor of Diabetic Medicine, National University of Ireland, Galway.

He graduated from University College Cork Medical School. After a period of postgraduate training and work experience in the USA (Mayo Clinic), Canada (McMaster University) and the UK (Addenbrooke’s Hospital) Seán returned to Ireland as an Academic Endocrinologist. He was part of successful bids that brought a School of Podiatry and a Clinical Research Facility to NUI Galway. He served as Head of the School of Medicine from 2013 to 2016. In June 2016 he was appointed National Lead for the Diabetes Clinical Programme of the HSE and received a Personal Professorship from NUI Galway.  His professional interests include developing and evaluating programmes of self-management education and support for people living with diabetes, developing optimal models of community-based diabetes care and understanding the diabetic foot. He is a Regional Editor with Diabetic Medicine, the journal of Diabetes UK and is Clinical Lead for Schwartz Rounds in Galway University Hospitals.

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