Gregory Swanwick MD, FRCPI, MRCPsych
(Ireland), Board of Directors
Gregory Swanwick is a consultant psychiatrist in psychiatry of old age with the South Western Area Health Board and is coordinator of postgraduate medical education at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin. He qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1986 and trained as a house officer in the Adelaide Hospital Dublin. Before entering the Dublin University psychiatric training program, he worked in general medicine in both Ireland and New Zealand. From 1995 to 1997 he undertook additional higher professional training in psychiatry of old age and general psychiatry on the Irish National Higher Training Scheme in Psychiatry.
Having obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, 1990, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992, Dr. Swanwick joined the Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing as a research fellow. His research there primarily concerned biological markers in Alzheimer’s disease, and he was awarded the Woodford-Williams Prize by and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1994 for original work relating to the prevention of dementia. This work led to an MD from Trinity College Dublin in 1995 for his thesis, “Predictive biological markers in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.”
Dr. Swanwick is a past secretary of the Psychiatry of Old Age Section of the Irish Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a member of the Executive of the Irish College of Psychiatrists. He is a past president of the Psychiatry section of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Ireland and past secretary of the Irish Association of Consultants in Psychiatry of Old Age. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin.
His main research interests are biological markers in dementia, post stroke depression, and the integration of liaison psychiatry and psychiatry of old age. An IPA member since 1997, Greg Swanwick is the assistant editor of the IPA Bulletin for Ireland, a member of the IPA Service Delivery Task Force, was involved in updating the IPA’s BPSD Project modules, and participated at the IPA’s second Consensus Conference on BPSD.
Gregory Swanwick is a consultant psychiatrist in psychiatry of old age with the South Western Area Health Board and is coordinator of postgraduate medical education at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin. He qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1986 and trained as a house officer in the Adelaide Hospital Dublin. Before entering the Dublin University psychiatric training program, he worked in general medicine in both Ireland and New Zealand. From 1995 to 1997 he undertook additional higher professional training in psychiatry of old age and general psychiatry on the Irish National Higher Training Scheme in Psychiatry.