Diarmuid Molony MCh, FRCS(Tr&Orth), FFSEM
Mr Molony is a graduate of University College Dublin. He completed higher surgical training in Orthopaedic Surgery in Ireland in 2010 and spent the following year as clinical fellow in shoulder and elbow surgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital (University of Sydney) in Australia and as Trans-Tasman Shoulder and Elbow fellow in Christchurch, New Zealand. He also completed visiting fellowships focussing on elbow reconstruction in the Hand and Upper Limb Centre, London Ontario and The Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota.
Mr Molony returned to Ireland in September 2011 and has been practicing as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon subspecialising in shoulder and elbow surgery since then. Having initially worked in Waterford, he returned to Dublin in May of 2014 and currently works in Tallaght hospital and is clinical lead in orthopaedic surgery in that hospital. He provides a tertiary referral service from complex shoulder and elbow problems and has a particular interest in traumatic elbow reconstruction
Mr Molony has a Masters in Surgery awarded for work on biofilm infection in orthopaedic implants and has over 20 peer reviewed publications of which 6 relate directly to the shoulder and elbow. He also has published a book chapter. He is heavily involved in higher surgical training in orthopaedics in Ireland and has established core curriculum programs for shoulder and elbow reconstruction. He is a founding member and treasurer of the Irish Shoulder and Elbow Society and a member of the British Elbow and Shoulder Society. He is an AO trauma instructor and has acted on faculty for international meetings on shoulder reconstruction and trauma surgery.