Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus

COVID-19 Guidelines

We know you have concerns about COVID-19 and we hope you find these information sheets useful:

• International Diabetes Federation guidelines
• Steroid Replacement Advice

Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus

The Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus provides care for patients with all types of diabetes mellitus and with a wide range of recognised conditions affecting hormone production.

Services

Our multi-disciplinary team work across the following speciality areas:

• Diabetes mellitus
• Thyroid nodules/thyroid cancer
• Neuroendocrine tumours (MDT includes adrenal lesions)
• Cystic fibrosis
• Solid organ pancreas transplant

Services include:

Diabetes

• Diabetes day care services
• General diabetes outpatient clinics
• Specialist diabetes outpatient clinics
• Inpatient diabetes consult services
• Cystic fibrosis-related diabetes inpatient and outpatient services
• DAFNE courses – structured education in type 1 diabetes mellitus

Endocrine

• General endocrine clinics
• Neuroendocrine tumour clinics, in partnership with Prof. Dermot O’Toole
• Dynamic endocrine function testing
• Inpatient endocrinology consult service
• Podiatry
• Thyroid outpatient clinics
• Radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism, in partnership with nuclear medicine
• Pituitary and gonadal disease clinics
• Complex bone disease clinic and laboratory service
• Venous sampling studies, in partnership with interventional radiology

Consultants

• Dr. Ronan Canavan
• Dr. Rachel Crowley
• Prof. Donal O'Shea
• Dr Carla Moran

Note:

Weight loss management and gender dysphoria clinic services are provided at St Columcille’s Hospital Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin
Please contact (01) 211 5042 for Weight Management and (01) 211 5270  / (01) 211 5307 / martina.kennedy2@hse.ie for The National Gender Service

Clinics

• Complex Bone Disease Clinic
• Diabetes Clinic
• Diabetic Foot Clinic
• Rare and Complex Thyroid Disease Clinic
• Endocrinology (Pituitary / Gonadal; Thyroid; General Endocrine) Clinic
• Neuroendocrine Tumour Clinic
• Young Adult Diabetes Clinic

Contact information

• For endocrinology and neuroendocrine tumour services:
  • tel: (01) 221 4407
  • fax: (01) 221 4029

Referral information

We accept consultant and GP referrals to our outpatient service.  Referrals to the podiatry service should be faxed to (01) 221 3427.

Useful links

• Diabetes Ireland
• HSE Programme for Healthy Eating and Weight Management (PHEW)
• HSE XPERT course for Type 2 Diabetes
• DAFNE UK
• Addison’s Disease Patient Group
• European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours
• European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society
• Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders
• British Thyroid Foundation
• Irish Osteoporosis Society
• Patient group for hypoparathyroidism