Speciality: Consultant Gastroenterologist
Contact Details:
Email: ferga.gleeson@healthmail.ie – for physicians, hospitals, pharmacy queries.
Email: office.ferga.gleeson@gmail.com – for patients
Tel: (087) 7113535
Biography: Professor Ferga Gleeson is a Gastroenterologist with national and international qualifications, and with experience in Ireland and the United States. She graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons with honours in 1995 and completed her specialist training in Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine in Ireland.
She subsequently obtained an international fellowship in advanced endoscopy/ endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) followed by a fellowship in medical pancreatology at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota, USA). She holds subspecialty expertise in endoscopic precision oncology with EUS, and in benign, premalignant and malignant diseases of the pancreas. In 2017, she was appointed a Full Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic based on her contribution to clinical gastroenterology undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, research and business administration programmes.
Areas of Interest:
- Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy
- Colorectal Cancer Screening
- Endoscopic Ultrasound: diagnostic-therapeutic applications including cancer staging
- Benign pre-malignant and malignant pancreas conditions including pancreas cysts
Professional Affiliations:
- Fellow: Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (FRCPI)
- Fellow: Royal College of Physicians (London) (FRCP)
- Fellow: American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE)
- Fellow: American College of Gastroenterology (FACG)
- Member: Irish Society of Gastroenterology (ISG)
- Member: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE)
- Member: North American Neuroendocrine Tumour Society (NANETS)
- Member: American Pancreatic Association (APA)
Certificate and Licences: IMC 19488