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Dr William (Billy) Stack is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Physician at the Lee Clinic and at The Bon Secours Hospital Cork and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medicine at University College Cork. Billy is a UCD graduate and trained in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin and at The Nottingham University Hospitals Gastroenterology Training Scheme, UK where he completed his MD thesis on gut ion transport prior to returning to Ireland in 1999 as a Consultant at the Bons Cork. His outpatient services are at The Lee Clinic since 2009 and he is in one of the founding consultants of the Lee Clinic Medical Campus. In addition to providing a general inpatient and outpatient Gastroenterology and Hepatology service, he has a specific interest in therapeutic upper and lower endoscopy and ERCP. He also set up the Gastrointestinal Clinic Physiology Unit at the Bon Secours Hospital 1n 2006 and has provided a FibroScan service at The Lee Clinic since 2019 which is currently run in conjunction with Prof Diarmaid Houlihan.
Email: Info@leeclinicgastrohep.ie
Telephone: 021 4348433
Prof Diarmaid Houlihan is a Consultant Gastroenterologist working in the Bon Secours in Cork. He graduated from NUI Galway in 2002. After completing his postgraduate training in Ireland in 2008, he was awarded an MRC clinical research training fellowship and joined the Gastroenterology team in the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, UK. His PhD focused on the therapeutic potential of stem cells in Gut and Liver disease. In 2013 he was appointed as the director of the liver transplant program in St Vincent’s University hospital. He moved back to his native province in 2021 and joined Dr Stack’s team in the Lee clinic in 2021.
Email: Info@leeclinicgastrohep.ie
Telephone: 021 4344714
Rachel has many years of experience in the UK as a Staff Nurse, Sister and of working autonomously as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner (BSc) in Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham UK and then as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner having gained an MSc (hons) at Nottingham University. She has also worked in Cork’s Mercy University Hospital and Swiftcare. She holds a Diploma in Fitness Health and Nutrition and combines her work in the Lee Road Gastroenterology department with lecture work in schools on a variety of Health -related topics for School Fitness Ireland. Rachel also runs fitness dance classes both in the studio and through Zoom.
Caroline qualified with a BSc(hons) in Radiography in London where she worked in both Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospital.
She has since worked as a Senior Radiographer in Tallaght University Hospital Dublin and as Senior CT Radiographer in St James’s Hospital in Leeds. During her time in Dublin, she completed a post-grad Diploma in Nuclear Medicine from Trinity College and whilst in Leeds she completed a post-graduate certificate in Computed Tomography from Bradford University.
On return to Ireland, Caroline is enjoying combining family life with a return to Healthcare in the Lee Road Gastroenterology clinic and has recently completed a QQI Level 5 Nutrition Certificate.