DrSheila Loughman

Dr Sheila Loughman, Assistant Professor/ Lecturer in Academic General Practice, UCD School of Medicine. 

She studied Medical Science at St Andrews University, Scotland and Medicine at the University of Manchester, graduating in 2005. Dr Loughman continued training in Manchester for a further 5 years in specialties including Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Palliative Care and Emergency Medicine, completing GP Specialty training in 2010. Following this, she returned to Ireland and worked as a Locum GP in Dublin and Wicklow. She has also volunteered as an Expedition medic in Costa Rica and Borneo with the charity Raleigh International, and provided medical support for the Mongol Derby endurance horse race in Mongolia.

Dr Loughman worked as a salaried GP from January 2014, with a GMS list at Centric Health Sandyford until January 2021. To facilitate a growing commitment to teaching at University College Dublin, she stepped back from her main GP work to work reduced hours in lifestyle medicine and health screening at Beacon Healthcheck.

Her start at UCD was in 2018, with a one year fellowship in pre-hospital medicine with Prof Gerry Bury at the Centre for Emergency Medical Sciences (CEMS). This was followed by a role managing postgraduate programmes in Primary Care with Prof Walter Cullen. She is now working with undergraduate medicine programmes and studying part time for an MD on the topic of specialist graduate education for primary care nurses.

Clinical interests include mental health, diabetes, lifestyle medicine and reproductive/womens health.

Research interests include medical education, pre-hospital medicine and interprofessional learning in primary care.