Prof. Sean Carroll
Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Specialities

Locations
Blackrock Clinic
Prof. Sean M. Carroll MB, BCh, MD, FRCSI, FRCS (Plast), PGCert LLM, Assoc. Clinical Professor of UCD School of Medicine is a fully accredited specialist Plastic Surgeon in Dublin, Ireland. He is registered with the Irish Medical Council and a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in St. Vincents University Hospital Dublin 4, St. Michaels Hospital Dun Laoghaire and visiting Consultant to The National Rehabilitation Hospital Dun Laoghaire as well as at Blackrock Clinic.
Prof. Carroll qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and did his basic surgical training in Dublin before starting his plastic surgery training in Dublin, then in Oxford, London and Cork. He then moved to the USA where he did research into methods for improving muscle flap survival in plastic surgical operations. This work was awarded the prestigious higher degree of MD from UCD. He finished his general plastic surgery training in the UK and then went onto do a Fellowship in Hand Surgery at the world-renowned Kleinert Institute Of Hand Surgery in the USA. Prof. Carroll then joined the staff of the Sick Children's Hospital, Toronto for a year and then did a Fellowship in Cosmetic Surgery in the Toronto Institute of Cosmetic Surgery. In 2000 Sean returned to Dublin and has been a Consultant Plastic Surgeon since.
Prof. Carroll has over fifty publications in national and international journals with most of these being in leading Journals and in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the most widely read and respected of all plastic surgery journals. He continues with his research still and his area of interest now lies in the development of skills training and skills assessment in plastic surgery. He has helped develop for The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, skills assessment parameters currently in use in the selection of plastic surgical trainees.
Fellowship in Hand Surgery at the world-renowned Kleinert Institute Of Hand surgery in the USA.