Practice Staff
Blackrock Medical Centre Doctors
Dr Aoibhe O’Driscoll
MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSc, MICGP, DOWH, FPC, DCH (Diploma in Childrens Health), DOWH (Diploma in Womens Health), Advanced Certificate and ‘Tutor in Family Planning’, Advanced Certificate in the Management of Menopause.
Dr O’Driscoll graduated from UCC. She has been practising as a general practitioner since 1999 and is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners.
She has a special interest in all aspects of women’s health but especially contraception and menopause.
Dr David Lane
MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSc, MICGP, DME (Diploma in Medicine of the Elderly), DCH (Diploma in Childrens Health), Certificate in Diabetics Care.
Dr Lane graduated from UCC in 2000. He is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners.
He has been practising in Blackrock Medical Centre since 2006 and has a special interest in diabetes, travel vaccines and palliative care.
Dr Racquel O’Halloran
MB, BCh, BAO, DCH, DRCOG, MICGP
Dr O’Halloran graduated from the UCD School of Medicine in 2009 and completed a number of years of hospital training. She completed the Cork General Practice Training Scheme in July 2018. She is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners and has a special interest in women’s health, paediatrics and dermatology. She joined Blackrock Medical Centre in September 2018.
OUR NURSE
Joan Cottrell
RGN, RM, CNS in GP Practice
Joan graduated from the Bon Secours Hospital in 1992. She trained in midwifery in the Coombe Hospital in Dublin in 1996. She qualified as a Practice Nurse in 2001 and joined Blackrock Medical Centre in 2007.