Eric Kelleher

DR ERIC KELLEHER, MB, BMED(SCI), MRCP, MRCPSYCH, MCPSCYHI, DIP (COG PSY), PHD I am a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at Cork University Hospital and Mercy University Hospital, Cork and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at University College Cork. I specialise in disorders and presentations that sit at the interface between medicine and psychiatry. I deliver neuropsychiatry focused and general liaison psychiatry outpatient clinics weekly alongside consultant colleagues as well as a consult based service to hospital wards and the Emergency Department. At present, I run a functional neurological disorder study, measuring clinical outcomes of patients with functional Motor Disorder following physiotherapy intervention. I am also measuring alterations in inflammation and the microbiome pre and post this intervention along with Professor John Cryan, APC, University College Cork (UCC). This work is funded through the Translational Research Access Programme, UCC. I have previous support from the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience for research into Autoimmune Encephalitis. I am a previous recipient of the Richard Steevens’ Fellowship award from the Health Service Executive (Ireland). I undertook training in neuropsychiatry and functional neurological disorders at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London (Prof Eileen Joyce). I trained in medicine at University College Cork and completed basic specialist training in both internal medicine (Southern regional training scheme) and psychiatry (Trinity College training scheme) before completing a PhD in the field of autoimmune encephalitis through the University of Dublin, Trinity College. I completed Higher Specialist Training in psychiatry in Ireland, and intercalated specific training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) during this time. I am a member of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Physicians. I sit on the editorial board of the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine