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Gregory Swanwick MD, FRCPI, MRCPsych
(Ireland), Board of Directors
Gregory Swanwick is a consultant
psychiatrist in psychiatry of old age with
the Health Service Executive 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 past 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 part-time
senior lecturer in the Department of
Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin.
His main research interests are
non-pharmacological interventions in
dementia, post stroke depression, and the
integration of liaison psychiatry and
psychiatry of old age. An IPA member since
1997, Greg Swanwick was involved in updating
the IPA’s BPSD Project modules, and
participated at the IPA’s second Consensus
Conference on BPSD. He is the assistant
editor of the IPA Bulletin for Ireland and a
member of the IPA Task Force on provision of
mental health services in nursing homes and
residential facilities. Dr Swanwick was
re-elected to the IPA Board of Directors in
2007. He may be contacted at Greg.Swanwick@amnch.ie.
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