Gary Meenagh

Biography

Dr Gary Meenagh is a Consultant Rheumatologist based in Antrim Hospital within the Northern Trust. After training in Rheumatology in Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast Dr Meenagh also completed a year of sub specialty training in musculoskeletal ultrasound at the University of Ancona, Italy in 2005. He has published widely in medical journals relating to a variety of rheumatic disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, lupus and osteoporosis. Dr Meenagh was awarded an MD by Queens University Belfast in 2005 and subsequently a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education by Queens in 2013. His first consultant post was in Bristol, UK before returning to Northern Ireland in 2007 to take up his current post in the Northern Trust. Presently Dr Meenagh is Clinical Lead in Rheumatology for the Northern Trust covering clinics in Antrim, Ballymena and Coleraine. 

Research Interest

Musculoskeletal ultrasound – used both in diagnosis and therapeutic intervention in inflammatory arthritis and other soft tissue rheumatic disorders. Management of inflammation arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis with immunosuppressive therapy. Joint and soft tissue injection/ aspiration Treatment of osteoarthritis, gout and osteoporosis