Dr. Conor O'Brien
Neurophysiology
Specialities
Locations
Blackrock Clinic, Suite 26
Dr. Conor O’Brien is currently based in the Blackrock Clinic, Dublin. He worked as a team doctor for the Irish Olympic team in 1996 and as the Leinster Rugby team doctor from 1997 to 1999. Dr O’Brien was the Chairman of the Irish Sports Council Anti-Doping Committee from 1999 to 2005, and a member of the World Anti-Doping Committee from 2005 to 2007.
He was awarded the prestigious Leonard Abrahamson Medal for Medicine by the RCSI in 1986 and was the first non-American to be certified by the American Board of Sports Medicine. Dr O’Brien was also named Nova UCD Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 for his Fitfone invention.
MB Bch; MSc; ABSM[USA]; DCSCN [EMG]; DSMSA; DSMLU; DSMRSC; DMskel; FACSM; FSEM; FFSEM[UK]; FRCPI
- MB BCH BAO LRCPSI [Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland] 1986
- Diploma of the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG) 1998
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 2001
- Dip Sports Medicine [London Hospital] 1989
- Dip Sports Medicine [Society of Apothecaries] 1991
- American Boards in Sports Medicine 1992
- Dip Sports Medicine [Combined Scottish College] 1991
- Dip Musculoskeletal Medicine [Society of Apothecaries] 1992
- Fellowship of the American College of Sports Medicine 1993
- MSc [Masters of Science] The London Hospital Medical College 1995
- Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine [UK] 2007
- Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine 2003
Books:
- Drugs, Sport and the Young Adult, Original Writing 2013
- Peripheral Nerve Disease, Erin Publication2001
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, ABC publication 2005
- The Fitfone Book of Wellness, Raglan Publishing 2010
- MCQ`s in Sports Medicine, Butterworth Heinman 1999
- The Little Green Book of Golf Secrets, Raglan Publishing 2009
