Mr Gareth Irwin

Mr Gareth Irwin is a consultant breast surgeon at Belfast City Hospital with a private practice at Ulster Independent Clinic. His areas of interest are breast cancer diagnosis and surgery, implant reconstruction, breast reduction surgery, and family history risk assessment.

He gained his medical qualification in 2004 from Queen's University Belfast before completing higher surgical training in general surgery. He completed a PhD in 2016 looking at the poor prognosis in triple-negative breast cancer. He was also a clinical research fellow at the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB) at Queen's University and a member of the breast and ovarian cancer research focus group at the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology. Mr Irwin became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2016. He later undertook a TIG national oncoplastic fellowship at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.

Mr Irwin is a member of the Association of Breast Surgery.