MB BAO BCh FRCPI FRCP (Edin)

Dr SJ Linnane

Employment

Consultant Respiratory and General Physician

Llandough Hospital , Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust

This is a busy teaching trust spread across two acute sites providing secondary care to approximately 500,000 people and tertiary respiratory services to the people of South Wales .

 

Key Roles

Deputy Clinical Director - Medicine Directorate

Lead Clinician - Respiratory Medicine

Lead Lung Cancer Clinician

Clinical Director Pulmonary Function Laboratory

Chairman, South East Wales Lung Cancer Network 

Member of British Thoracic Society Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma Working Group. 

 

Key Achievments

Cardiff Respiratory Services Peer Review

Expanded and reorganised pulmonary function laboratory

Introduced electronic booking and reporting of physiology tests

Introduced rapid access lung cancer diagnostic service

Developed endobronchial stenting service

Created South East Wales Mesothelioma Multidisciplinary Team

Winner: Cardiff and Vale Outpatient Achievement Award in 2003

Hospital Doctor. Team of The Year. Merit Award. 2005. 

 

 

· 2008-Present

· 2002—2008

· 1998—2002

 

 

 

Specialist Registrar Respiratory and General Medicine

All Wales Deanery

 

This scheme rotated from north to south Wales and involved District General Hospital and tertiary respiratory and general medicine experience particularly in the following areas;

· Tuberculosis

· Smoking Cessation

· Asthma/Allergy

· Lung Cancer

· Sleep Medicine

· Acute and Chronic Non-Invasive Ventilation

· Pulmonary Rehabilitation

· Cystic Fibrosis

· Transplantation

· Intensive Care

· Bronchoscopy

· General Internal Medicine

· Thoracic Surgery

 

 

2002 to 2008

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2008 to Present

Consultant Respiratory and General Physician

Blackrock Clinic, Dublin

I am currently engaged in whole time private practice covering the specialities of General Internal Medicine and Respiratory Medicine.

1998 to 2002

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