Dr. Leah Rooney

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Dr. Leah Rooney is a medical graduate of University College Dublin. She has been a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) since 2015, subsequently completing specialist training in Rheumatology and General Internal Medicine. She was awarded the Bresnihan-Molloy International Fellowship for her research in giant cell arteritis carried out at St Vincent’s University Hospital, where she has also worked as a consultant, before relocating to UPMC-Sports Surgery Clinic to work with Dr. Barry Sheane.

Dr. Rooney has experience in all areas of rheumatology with a special interest in inflammatory arthritis, osteoporosis, vasculitis, and connective tissue diseases.

Education and Training

• Clinical research, St. Vincent’s University Hospital 2021-2022
• Higher Specialist Training in Rheumatology
• Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (2016-2022)
• MRCPI, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (2015)
• MB BCh BAO, University College Dublin (2011)