About the Clinic and Dr. Collins

We are a General Practice clinic that specialises exclusively in Travel & Tropical Medicine.

We provide vaccinations for international travel for individuals and for groups.

In addition to vaccinations for the general international traveller, we provide preventative, screening and curative healthcare in Tropical Medicine for people travelling to and working in Developing Countries including:

• Members of the general public who are unwell following travel to a tropical country
• Aid agency staff engaged in emergency humanitarian work
• Development workers
• Missionaries
• Diplomats
• Journalists
• Private sector companies and staff (civil engineering, geology/mining sectors)
• Expedition members

About Dr. Collins

I obtained my medical degree in Dublin, completed my postgraduate training to be a GP and became a partner in a General Practice in Ireland for a few years, before deciding to go to Africa in 1999.

I was sent by an Irish Aid Agency to Southern Sudan for a year, to a province (Bahr el Gazhal) struggling with an ongoing civil war, malnutrition and what seemed like every tropical disease in the book. I learned so much that I decided to spend a second year there.

I worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo (North Kivu/South Kivu/Kantanga) in 2002/3 and then joined an international medical aid agency for postings in the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville (2003/4), Sudan (West Darfur 2004/5), Central African Republic (2005/6) and Haiti (February/March 2010).

I have worked full-time in Tropical/Travel Medicine since returning to Dublin in 2006.

Other travel experience in tropical countries

In addition to the countries I have worked in abroad, I have been lucky enough to spend time in Thailand, Eritrea, Chad, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Dominican Republic.

Qualifications

Medical

• Certificate in Travel Health (2011) – International Society Of Travel Medicine
• Diploma in Tropical Medicine (2000) - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Membership, Irish College of General Practitioners (1996)
• Diploma in Child Health (1994) - University College Dublin
• Diploma in Obstetrics (1994) - Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
• Medical degree (1992) - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Non-medical

• MSc in Development Studies (2002), School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.