Tara Connelly

Biography

Ms Tara Connelly is a Consultant Surgeon specialising in general surgery with a specialist interest in Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital Limerick.

She is the first appointed consultant surgeon with a special interest in paediatric (child) surgery in Ireland and will be working closely with Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin and Temple Street. Her elective paediatric work focuses on general surgical conditions of childhood including:
· inguinal hernias
· umbilical and epigastric hernias
· skin lesions
· endoscopy

Ms Connelly graduated with honours from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 2009. She then received her Masters in surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. She completed her PhD from NUI Galway, with her research performed in Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine in Pennsylvania, USA.

After completing surgical training in Ireland, she completed a colorectal fellowship in Cleveland Clinic in 2022 and paediatric general surgery in King's College Hospital in London in 2023.

With over 130 publications including 7 book chapters on colorectal surgery, Ms. Connelly's research focuses on:
· surgical genetics,
· biobanking and
· inflammatory bowel disease

Her colorectal special interest is inflammatory bowel disease including J pouch surgery.
She is also involved in multiple international collaborations. Ms Connelly started as her role as a consultant at University Hospital Limerick in September 2023 and is looking forward to working with the adult and paediatric patients of Limerick, Tipperary and Clare and their GPs.

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