Dr Garrett McGovern

GP and Medical Director, Priority Medical Clinic

Dr Garrett McGovern

Dr McGovern qualified in Medicine in 1995 from Trinity College Dublin and has worked as a GP specialising in the treatment of substance misuse since the implementation of the methadone treatment protocol in 1998. He is Medical Director of the Priority Medical Clinic, a private addiction treatment programme located in South County Dublin and Clinical Lead for the HSE Addiction Services in Louth Meath & The Midlands.

Dr McGovern holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Public Health Aspects of Addiction from The National Addiction Centre, King’s College London, is a Diplomate of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) and holds a Professional Diploma in Clinical Leadership from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is a board member of the New Nicotine Alliance of Ireland and has been an active voice in the media for many years, advocating for safer nicotine alternatives for smokers.

"To denounce e-cigarettes and claim they have no role in the fight against smoking related illness and death is not only senseless, it is irresponsible and flies in the face of the international evidence."

Dr Garrett McGovern,
GP and Medical Director, Priority Medical Clinic

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