ProfessorDr Des Crowley

Dr Des Crowley is a General Practitioner and addiction medicine specialist with over three decades of experience in community-based and prison healthcare in Ireland. He is a Clinical Professor at University College Dublin and serves as GP Specialist in Addiction and Clinical Lead for Addiction Services with the Health Service Executive in Dublin North City and County.

Dr Crowley has been a national leader in the development of opioid substitution treatment, hepatitis C community care, and inclusion health services, with a particular focus on people who use drugs, prisoners, and marginalised populations. His work has been central to advancing integrated, evidence-based models of care in both primary care and custodial settings.

His research interests include community-based hepatitis C treatment, optimisation of opioid agonist therapy, prisoner health, HIV prevention, LGBT health, drug policy, and the application of digital and AI technologies in healthcare. He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and has received multiple national awards for research excellence and healthcare innovation.