Doctors
Dr. John Clarke
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr. Clarke qualified from University College Dublin in 1980. He trained in cardiology at the Mater Hospital in Dublin before moving to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital in the UK where he completed his MD (NUI) and PhD (London) theses. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in California. Dr. Clarke returned to Ireland in 1993 to establish the Eagle Lodge practice which has grown significantly in the many years since. He is highly regarded in his field and has trained many young doctors.
Dr. Carla Canniffe
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr. Canniffe graduated from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2004. She completed her specialist cardiology training in Ireland and went on to specialise in the field of congenital heart disease. She undertook fellowships in Ireland – Paediatric Cardiology in Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin and Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital.
She also gained international experience in The Royal Prince Alfred, Sydney and St Barts Cardiac Centre, London. Her fields of expertise include general cardiology, adult congenital heart disease and cardiac maternity. She is affiliated with the National Maternity Hospital Dublin.
Dr. Daniel O’Hare
Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist
Dr. O’Hare graduated from the University of Limerick Graduate Entry Medical school in 2011, and was awarded the Gold Medal in Medicine. His cardiology training in Ireland included Specialist Registrar years in University Hospital Limerick, University Hospital Galway, St. James’ and St. Vincent’s Hospitals in Dublin.
After completing his Irish cardiology training years, he studied for MD in King’s College London in the area of electrical conduction in the atria and the role of Cardiac MRI in the evaluation of the arrhythmia patient. He completed a clinical fellowship in Electrophysiology in St. Thomas’ Hospital Westminster. During this time he was the Cardiology Foundation Lecturer for Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, and was selected for the inaugural cohort of the British Cardiovascular Society’s Emerging Leaders Programme.
Prior to returning to Ireland, he worked as a post CCT Electrophysiology fellow in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He is Clinical Director of Cardiology Blackrock Clinic, Dublin.
Dr. Anthony Buckley
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr. Buckley is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Blackrock Clinic. He has extensive training in Ireland and USA. He performs complex PCI and structural heart interventions including TAVI, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair and septal defect closures.
Dr. Buckley completed three years of subspecialty fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. MGH is the largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and is ranked as one of the best hospitals in the US. Dr. Buckley’s fellowships included Vascular Medicine & Peripheral Intervention, Coronary Intervention and Structural Heart Disease. He served as a consultant interventional cardiologist in the MGH catheterisation lab during his final fellowship year.
Dr. Sorcha Allen
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr. Allen is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Blackrock Clinic and Eagle Lodge Cardiology Clinic. She graduated from University College Cork and completed her post-graduate training in the USA, where she obtained board certification in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Echocardiography and Interventional Cardiology. She performs percutaneous coronary intervention and structural heart interventions, including TAVI, transcatheter edge-to-edge repair and septal defect closures. She has a special interest in Women’s Cardiovascular Health.