Years active 1987 through present | ||
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Citizenship Ireland and United Kingdom Education Queen's University Belfast, Hons Degree Biochemistry, 1978, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, 1986, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, 1986 Occupation Physician, laser surgeon, and author Known for Aesthetic medicine, Michael Jackson's cosmetic physician Profession Physician, derm surgeon Fields Aesthetic medicine, Dermatology | ||
Ryan tubridy show interviews dr patrick treacy
Patrick Treacy is a cosmetic physician, laser surgeon, and author based in Dublin, Ireland. Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic and practices in Dublin, Cork, London and the Middle East. Treacy is known as the lead cosmetic doctor for Michael Jackson's aesthetic treatments during the period he lived in Ireland. He was among the first doctors in the world to use the permanent facial endoprosthesis BioAlcamid for HIV Lipodystrophy patients. He co-founded and is chairman of the Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors and the Royal Society of Medicine Aesthetics faculty council of which he is president elect. Treacy has also been a contributor to television and radio shows such as RTÉ Television, BBC World Service, TV3, Discovery Health, and Dr. Drew on CNN.
Contents
- Ryan tubridy show interviews dr patrick treacy
- Rte dr patrick treacy discusses dermal fillers
- Early life and education
- Career
- Affiliation with Michael Jackson
- Accolades
- Medical Awards 2016 2017
- Published works
- References
Rte dr patrick treacy discusses dermal fillers
Early life and education
Treacy was born in Garrison, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland where his parents ran a shop, garage, and filing station. In 1972, he won the Irish Aer Lingus "Young Biochemist of the Year" award. A year later, he won the Northern Ireland section of the British Amateur Young Scientist of the Year Award for an innovative project to help plants grow. In 1978, he completed hons biochemistry at Queens University in Belfast during the height of The Troubles. Due to the conflict in Northern Ireland, Treacy transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin to study medicine. He took a break during his education and travelled for a period with David Bowie's Serious Moonlight in Europe. In 1986, Treacy graduated Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Career
In 1987, Treacy became a practicing doctor in Dublin. In that same year, Treacy was jabbed in the leg with a needle used on a HIV patient while working in a Dublin hospital. The incident resulted in Treacy having to cut out an area of his leg as this was before protease inhibitor treatments for AIDS existed. This incident led to Treacy's humanitarian work in Africa to pioneer new aesthetic treatment surgeries to help people with AIDS and HIV. He never developed the disease.
Treacy moved to New Zealand in 1988 to work as a respiratory and cardiology registrar with Dunedin Public Hospital. In the 1990s, Treacy worked in Africa and Australia as a flying doctor with Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. He became a staff health doctor at Ibn 'al Bitar Hospital in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's reign when he was arrested and jailed for five days by the Iraqi Army while writing an article for the Fermanagh Herald about the gassing of the Kurds in Halabja. He was ship's surgeon with Carnival Cruise Line in California and Florida from 1993 through 1994.
In 2000, Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic in Dublin. His clinic was the first in Ireland to specialize in all aspects of non-surgical aesthetic skin treatments. He opened another Ailesbury Clinic in Cork in 2005. The Dublin clinic was awarded "Best Clinic in Ireland" at the Irish Healthcare Awards in 2005 and again at the Irish Hair & Beauty Awards in 2016. In April 2016, the High Court in Dublin granted a possession order over Treacy's clinic buildings in favour of a bank-appointed receiver. In June 2016, Treacy made a €137,897 settlement with the Irish Revenue as a result of unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.
Affiliation with Michael Jackson
Treacy met Michael Jackson in 2006. Jackson sought Treacy for cosmetic treatment after reading about his experience with HLA fillers and his charitable work in Africa. Treacy became Jackson's only doctor when he lived in Ireland in 2006 and 2007. He started as Jackson's personal dermatologist and developed a friendship with the singer. Jackson and Treacy worked on humanitarian projects together. In 2011, Treacy became an ambassador for the Michael Jackson Legacy foundation, and in 2012 opened Everland Children's Orphanage in Liberia and orphanages in Haiti in 2013.
In 2008, Treacy co-founded the Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors, a group of medical practitioners campaigning for government regulation of qualifications in the field of cosmetic medicine, where he is chairman. Treacy was due to treat Jackson shortly before the singer's death in 2009. In 2009, he was on the special witness list for the trial of Conrad Murray, however, he was never called to testify. He released his memoirs titled Behind the Mask: The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman who became Michael Jackson's Doctor in 2015.
Accolades
In 2003, Treacy won the "Professional Journalist of the Year" award for his work regarding HIV in Africa for Irish Medical Times. He was awarded best non-surgical treatment at the inaugural "My Face My Body Awards" in London in 2012 and won it again for a new hair transplant technique using platelet rich plasma, microneedling and 633 red light in 2013. Treacy received the AMEC Aesthetic Award for novel techniques in facial rejuvenation related to patients with cancer cachexia (Paris 2014) and the 20th World Congress in Aesthetic Medicine Lecture Award in Miami in 2015.
He received runner up in the 'Aesthetic Doctor of the Year' UK & Ireland at the Safety in Beauty Awards (London 2016). The Ailesbury Clinic won 'Best Cosmetic Clinic in Ireland' at the Hair and Beauty Awards (Dublin 2016). Treacy also won lecturing awards regarding reversal of dermal necrosis post filler vascular occlusion in Tbilisi, Georgia and Cairo, Egypt in this period Treacy won both the AMEC Award (Paris 2016), the MyFaceMyBody Award (London 2016) and the Irish Healthcare Award (Dublin 2017) for medical research related to wound healing and for developing the HELPIR technique as a means of managing dermal filler vascular complications.
Medical Awards 2016-2017
Published works
Treacy has published many scientific papers, including sentinel papers about the rising incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma in the Rochester Minnestoa population from 1950-1985 and protocols for the reversal of dermal filler complications.