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Appointment of Dr Alwin Sebastian

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Dr Alwin Sebastian has been appointed Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician at UL Hospitals Group

September 4th, 2023 ¦ UL Hospitals Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Alwin Sebastian as a Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician.

From Sri Lanka, Dr Sebastian has been working in Ireland since 2011, and completed his dual-specialty training in General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology here in the Midwest, Galway, Dublin and in the UK.

As a Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician, Dr Sebastian has general rheumatology clinics at University Hospital Limerick and Ennis. He has general medical and rheumatology in patients at University Hospital Limerick.

He also specialises in diagnostic Muscular-skeletal and vascular ultrasound and ultrasound-guided joint and soft tissue injections at the rheumatology day ward in Croom Orthopaedic Hospital.

Dr Sebastian recently completed PhD research at the University of Essex into Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), an inflammation of the lining of the temporal and large arteries. He developed and authored the pre-test probability-based algorithm for suspected GCA, which is used in many centres internationally.

Keenly interested in research, Dr Sebastian is also an enthusiastic teacher. Funded by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, he completed a two-year fellowship in GCA at Southend University Hospital under the mentorship of Prof Bhaskar Dasgupta, and in 2020 was honoured by the British Society of Rheumatology with the Paul Bacon Vasculitis Award for Best Research in Vasculitis.

He is currently leading an international, multi-centre, prospective study in developing a quantitative ultrasound Halo Score for monitoring and assessing outcomes in GCA and large vessel vasculitis. His ambition is to develop a fast-track GCA and Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) service here in the Midwest.

With a Masters (MSc) in Rheumatology at Kings College London, and postgraduate qualifications from MRCP Ireland and MRCP UK, Dr Sebastian’s other previous posts include:

  • Honorary research fellow at Southend University Hospital, UK;
  • External tutor for Musculoskeletal (MSK) First Contact Practitioner MSc programme at the University of Essex;
  • A faculty member of the international annual GCA and PMR ultrasound workshop

Outside of his work in medicine with UL Hospitals Group, Dr Sebastian’s main interests include cricket and soccer.

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