Qualifications

 


• Locum Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Beaumont Hospital. June 2023 - June 2024.

• Senior Clinical Lecturer, RCSI Department of Psychiatry, Dublin 2. July 2023 - June 2024.

• Aspire Post CSCST Fellowship in the Psychiatric Morbidity of Long Covid, under the supervision of Dr Helen Barry, Beaumont Hospital, and the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. January 2023 - January 2024

• Higher Specialist Training (HST) scheme in general adult psychiatry, July 2019-December 2022.  Various approved senior registrar training posts under the auspices of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland including:

• Senior Registrar in Liaison Psychiatry, James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. July 2022-January 2023. (Acted up as a consultant for 6 weeks of this post).

• Senior Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry with a special interest in dialectical behavioural therapy, Kildare West Wicklow Mental Health Services, Celbridge, Kildare; July 2021 – July 2022. (Acted up as a consultant for 12 weeks of this post).

• Senior Registrar in General Adult Psychiatry with a special interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, Cluain Mhuire Community Mental Health Services, Dublin; July 2020 – July 2021.

• Senior Registrar in Neuropsychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry with a special interest in liaison psychiatry, Beaumont Hospital; Jul 2019-July 2020.

• Crisis Assessment Team Registrar & RCSI medical student clinical tutor (dual role), Cluain Mhuire Community Mental Health Services; Jul 2018 - Jul 2019.

• Basic specialist training (BST) scheme in psychiatry. Various approved training posts under the auspices of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland including general adult (inpatient and community), eating disorders, liaison, psychiatry of later life, and forensic psychiatry; Jul 2014 - Jul 2019. (Inclusive of an approved career break travelling Far and South-East Asia Sept 2016 - Jan 2017).

• General Adult Psychiatry Registrar, Cluain Mhuire Community Mental Health Services, Dublin; Aug 2013 - Jul 2014.

• Emergency medicine SHO, St Columcille's Hospital; Jan 2013 - Jul 2013. Medical SHO, Global Medics; Jul - Aug 2013.

• Basic specialist training (BST) scheme in surgery, Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, and St James Hospital, Dublin; Jul 2011 - Jan 2013.

• Medical & surgical intern, St James Hospital, Dublin, & Wexford General Hospital; Jul 2010 - Jul 2011.

Publications

 

 

• “Long Covid – a guide.” Walkin S, Jackson A, McAndrew J. Forum Journal, November 2023.

• “One year of psychiatric presentations to a hospital emergency department during COVID-19”. Hartnett Y, Alshurafa K, McAndrew J, Daly D, Alsaffar M, Cotter D, Cannon M, MacHale S, Murphy KC, Barry H. Ir J Psychol Med, March 2022, doi: 10.1017/ipm.2022.6.

•Restrictive interventions on a psychiatric admission ward before and after Covid-19 Feeney L, Bonner N, McAndrew J. Ir J Psychol Med, April 2022, doi: 10.1017/ipm.2022.9

• “The Natural History of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy in an Irish Population and Assessment for Prognostic Biomarkers”. Stephenson K, McAndrew J, Kenna P, Cassidy L. Neuro-Ophthalmology, March 2022, doi: 10.1080/01658107.2022.2032761

• “Neuropsychiatric manifestations in a patient with prolonged COVID-19 encephalopathy: case report and literature review” O’Leary J, McAndrew J, Shukralla A, Murphy KC. Ir J Psychol Med, September 2021, doi: 10.1017/ipm.2021.67

• Impact of initial COVID-19 restrictions on psychiatry presentations to the emergency department of a large academic teaching hospital. McAndrew J, O'Leary J, Cotter D, Cannon M, MacHale S, Murphy KC, Barry H. Ir J Psychol Med. 2020 Sep 30:1-8. doi: 10.1017/ipm.2020.115. This paper was the recipient of the John Dunne award for outstanding trainee contribution to psychiatric research for 2020, issued by Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine.

• "Through the Looking Glass; Successful Use of Bioactive Glass S53P4 in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis."McAndrew J, Efrimescu C, Cullen E, Niall D, Sheehan E. Published Ir J Med Sci. 2013 Jan 5.

• "Acute lumbar Morel-Lavallee haematoma in a 14-year-old boy". Efrimescu C, McAndrew J, Bitzidis A. Published Emerg Med J 2012;29:433 doi:10.1136/emermed-2011-200660, Oct 2011.

Presentations 

 

“A Natural History Study of Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy in Ireland”. Stephenson K, McAndrew J, Kenna P, Cassidy L (Poster Presentation at Retina Conference 2020, Fighting Blindness Ireland Nov 2020)

• “An Audit of Information Provision to Service Users in the Acute Units of the Central Mental Hospital”. McAndrew J, Brady P, Mullaney R, O’Connell P, Kennedy H (Poster presentation at the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Winter Conference Nov 2017).

• "Therapeutic Laparoscopy in the Treatment of Gastrointestinal Perforation". Hehir D, McAndrew J (Video presentation at The 23rd Annual Videosurgery Meeting, RCSI Charter Day, Feb 2013, RCSI Dublin).

• "Through the Looking Glass; Successful Use of Bioactive Glass S53P4 in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis."McAndrew J, Efrimescu C, Cullen E, Niall D, Sheehan E. Podium presentation at The Atlantic Orthopaedic Club Meeting Nov 2012, Limerick, Ireland. Podium and poster presentation at the EBJIS Conference Sept 2012, Montreux, Switzerland.

• "Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis from oesophagogastric squamous cell carcinoma successfully managed by radical gastrectomy" Mc Andrew J, McCormack O, Cooney J, Doherty C, Muldoon C, Ravi N, Reynolds J. Presented at The Royal Academy of Medicines Ireland Surgery Section Clinical Case Competition Oct 2012, Dublin.

• "Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy for a Failed TEP". Hehir D, McAndrew J. Video presentation at The American College of Surgeons Clinical Conference Oct 2012, Chicago, IL, USA.

• "Severe Inguinalgia Post Inguinal Herniorrhaphy". McAndrew J, Curran T, Hehir D. Poster presentation at The 37th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium Sept 2012, Galway.

• "Mini Grasper - Useful Adjunct for Laparoscopy". Hehir D, McAndrew J. Video presentation at The 22nd Annual Videosurgery Meeting, RCSI Charter Day Feb 2012, RCSI Dublin.

• "Magnesium and Osteoporosis: what is the link?"McAndrew J, Mahon J, O’Keeffe L, Walsh J, Casey M. Poster presentation at The 59th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Irish Gerontological Society Sept 2011, Dublin.

• "Magnesium and Osteoporosis: A Clinical Profile of Hypomagnesaemic Patients Attending a Bone Health Clinic". Mahon J, McAndrew J, O’Keeffe L, Walsh J, Casey M. Poster presentation at the ASBMR Annual Meeting Sept 2011, San Diego, California, USA.

Education and Training 

 


EDUCATION & TRAINING

• Specialist Registrar of Irish Medical Council for Psychiatry, June 2023.  

• Awarded Certificate of Satisfactory Completion of Specialist Training (CSCST), having successfully completed Higher Specialist Training in Psychiatry, under the auspices of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, December 2022.

• DBT Foundational Training. Completed 21st May 2021.

• UKAAN Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD. Completed 5th February 2021

• UKAAN Diagnosis and Assessment of Adults with ADHD. Completed 22nd January 2021

• Mentalisation Based Treatment; Basic Training. Completed 12 November 2020.

• BSc (Hons) Mathematics (part time, level 8, distance-learning, honours degree). The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Ongoing; 180/360 credits complete.

• Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych); Jan 2019.

• Member of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland (MCPsychI); Nov 2017.

• Completed 1.5 years of RCSI delivered Surgical Basic Specialist Training, Jul 2011-Jan 2013.

• MB BCh BAO, June 2010 (Hons). University College Dublin.