Patrick Treacy

Patrick Treacy
Born Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Citizenship Ireland and United Kingdom
Education Queen's University Belfast, Hons Degree Biochemistry, 1978, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, 1986, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, 1986
Occupation Physician, laser surgeon, and author
Years active 1987 through present
Known for Aesthetic medicine, Michael Jackson's cosmetic physician
Medical career
Profession Physician, derm surgeon
Field Aesthetic medicine, dermatology
Institutions Ailesbury Clinics, St. Vincents University Hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Carnival Cruise Line, Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Dunedin Public Hospital, James Connolly Memorial Hospital
Specialism Aesthetic medicine

Patrick Treacy is a cosmetic physician, laser surgeon, medical innovator and author based in Dublin, Ireland. Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic and practices in Dublin, Cork, London and the Middle East. Treacy is known as the lead cosmetic doctor for Michael Jackson's aesthetic treatments during the period he lived in Ireland.[1][2] He was among the first doctors in the world to use the permanent facial endoprosthesis BioAlcamid for HIV Lipodystrophy patients and to use Botulinum toxin as a medical treatment for migraine.[3][4] He is President Elect of the Royal Society of Medicine Aesthetics faculty council co-founded Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors and is Irish Regional Representative to the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors.[3][5][6] He won the "Professional Journalist of the Year" award for his work regarding HIV in Africa in his award winning column 'The Cutting Edge' for Irish Medical Times.[7] Treacy has also been a regular contributor to international television and radio shows such as RTÉ Television, BBC World Service, TV3, Discovery Health, and Dr. Drew on CNN. He featured on RTÉ Television 'Body Shopping' Programme in 2017.[1][8][9]

Early life and education

Treacy was born in Garrison, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland where his parents ran a shop, garage, and filing station.[10] In 1972, he won the Irish Aer Lingus "Young Biochemist of the Year" award. In 1973, he won the Northern Ireland section of the British Amateur Young Scientist of the Year Award for an innovative project using sound waves to help make plants grow. In 1978, he completed hons biochemistry at Queens University in Belfast during the height of The Troubles.[11] Due to the conflict in Northern Ireland, Treacy transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin to study medicine.[12] He took a break during his education and travelled for a period with David Bowie's Serious Moonlight in Europe.[10][12] In 1986, Treacy graduated Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Career

In 1987, Treacy became a practicing doctor in Dublin. In that same year, he was jabbed in the leg with a needle used on a HIV patient while working in a Dublin hospital.[13] The incident resulted in Treacy having to cut out an area of his leg as this was before protease inhibitor treatments for AIDS existed. This incident led to Treacy's humanitarian work in Africa to pioneer new aesthetic treatment surgeries to help people with AIDS and HIV.[11] He never developed the disease.[13]

Treacy moved to New Zealand in 1988 to work as a respiratory and cardiology registrar with Dunedin Public Hospital.[13] He was a staff health doctor at Ibn 'al Bitar Hospital in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's reign before the Gulf War in 1990 when he was arrested and jailed for five days by the Iraqi Army while writing an article for the Fermanagh Herald about the gassing of the Kurds in Halabja Kurdistan.[13][14] In 1991, Treacy worked in Emergency Medicine in Gibraltar and later in cardiothoracic surgery in Cape Town Africa. He was ship's surgeon with Carnival Cruise Line in Los Angeles, California and in Miami and Port Canaveral, Florida from 1993 through 1994.[15] In 1996 he worked as a flying doctor in Broken Hill, NSW Australia with Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and from 1997-98 in a skin cancer centre in Toowoomba, Queensland.[10][16] In 2000, Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic in Dublin, which was the first in Ireland to specialize in all aspects of non-surgical aesthetic skin treatments. He opened another Ailesbury Clinic in Cork in 2005. The Dublin clinic was awarded "Best Clinic in Ireland" at the Irish Healthcare Awards in 2005 and again at the Irish Hair & Beauty Awards in 2016.[17] In April 2016, the High Court in Dublin granted a possession order over Treacy's clinic buildings in favour of a bank-appointed receiver.[18] In June 2016, Treacy made a €137,897 settlement with the Irish Revenue as a result of unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.[19]

Affiliation with Michael Jackson

Treacy met Michael Jackson in 2006.[20] Jackson sought Treacy for cosmetic treatment after reading about his experience with HLA fillers and his charitable work in Africa.[21] Treacy became Jackson's only doctor when he lived in Ireland in 2006 and 2007. He started as Jackson's personal dermatologist and developed a friendship with the singer.[22] Jackson and Treacy worked on humanitarian projects together.[2] In 2011, Treacy became an ambassador for the Michael Jackson Legacy foundation, which in 2012 opened the first Everland Children's Orphanage in Monrovia Liberia and later a second Everland Children's orphanage high in the mountains and fifty miles away from the earthquake epicentre in Mireblais Haiti in 2013.[23][24]

In 2008, Treacy co-founded the Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors, a group of medical practitioners campaigning for government regulation of qualifications in the field of cosmetic medicine, where he is chairman.[5] Treacy was due to treat Jackson shortly before the singer's death in 2009.[25] In 2009, he was on the special witness list for the trial of Conrad Murray, however, he was never called to testify.[2] He released his memoirs regarding his financial struggles to become a doctor in a book entitled Behind the Mask: The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman who became Michael Jackson's Doctor in 2015.[21]

Medical Accolades

Treacy has won multiple medical innovation awards during his career. These include one for facial rejuvenation that combined endothelial growth factors, microneedling and 633 red light phototherapy: "My Face My Body Awards" (London 2012) and another the following year for a hair transplant technique using collagen induction therapy (CIT) and platelet rich plasma for androgenetic alopecia: "My Face My Body Awards" (London 2013).[26] The introduction of collagen induction therapy (CIT) with PRP was a variation on a previous technique.[27] Treacy is one of few doctors in the world to have received the prestigious AMEC Aesthetic Award twice (Paris 2014. 2016). The first was for novel research techniques in facial rejuvenation related to patients with cancer cachexia and second for developing the HELPIR technique as a means of managing dermal filler vascular complications.[28] He won the Lecture Award (Miami 2015) at the 20th World Congress in Aesthetic Medicine [29]

He received runner up in the 'Aesthetic Doctor of the Year' UK & Ireland at the Safety in Beauty Awards (London 2016).[30] The Ailesbury Clinic won 'Best Cosmetic Clinic in Ireland' at the Hair and Beauty Awards (Dublin 2016). Treacy also won lecturing awards regarding reversal of dermal necrosis post filler vascular occlusion in Tbilisi, Georgia and Cairo, Egypt in this period [31] He was also awarded a special medal for contributions to the field of Aesthetic Medicine at CCME in Cuernavaca, Mexico 2016 as well as being presented with an award for medical excellence at the same conference.[28] He also won the MyFaceMyBody Award (London 2016) and the Irish Healthcare Award (Dublin 2017) for further medical research related to the use of hyalase in dermal filler vascular occlusion and establishing re-epithelialisation of skin by use of hyperbaric oxygen, platelet growth factors and phototherapy accelerating wound healing.[32]

Medical Awards 2016-2017

Published works

Treacy has published many scientific papers, including sentinel papers about the rising incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma in the Rochester, Minnesota population from 1950-1985 and protocols for the reversal of dermal filler complications.

References

  1. 1 2 Dr. Drew (September 29, 2011). "Dr. Drew exclusive: Cosmetic doc says he also used propofol on MJ". HLN. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 Deidre Reynolds (September 28, 2015). "Fermanagh surgeon reveals how he became Michael Jackson's confidante". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Patrick Treacy, Dr.". Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Botox approved for migraines". Irish Medical Times. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Call for regulation of cosmetic doctors". The Irish Times. April 15, 2008. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Rachel Borrill (July 29, 2012). "Served on a platelet". Irish Examiner. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ "'Irish Times' correspondent wins award for medical journalism". The Irish Times. April 3, 2003. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ Ryan Tubridy. "Michael Jackson's Irish Doctor". RTÉ Radio 1. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Stephen Nolan. "The Fermanagh doctor who befriended pop icon Michael Jackson #BBCNolan". BBC. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  10. 1 2 3 Richard Fitzpatrick (October 3, 2015). "Michael Jackson’s former doctor, Dr Patrick Treacey, reflects on his life so far". Irish Examiner. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  11. 1 2 Cahir O'Doherty (November 20, 2015). "Confessions of Michael Jackson's Irish surgeon". Irish Central. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  12. 1 2 Joanna Kiernan (August 12, 2015). "Cosmetic doctor to the stars Patrick Treacy tells about his travels, his famous clients and his tell-all book". Herald.ie. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Donal Lynch (November 23, 2015). "Unmasking Dr Treacy - Michael Jackson's former doctor". Independent.ie. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Local doctor's friendship with the Kurds". Fermanagh Herald. p. 1. April 20, 1991.
  15. ↑ Greg Baxter (May 18, 2015). "Relising the potential for cosmetic medicine at sea". Irish Medical Times. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  16. ↑ Neil Delamere (October 11, 2015). "Michael Jackson’s Irish doctor". TodayFM. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  17. ↑ Deidre Reynolds (November 29, 2005). "Facing up . . . Irish turn their backs on plastic surgery". Independent.ie. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  18. ↑ Unknown (June 17, 2016). "Patrick Treacy's Tax Bill" (PDF). Phoenix Magazine. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
  19. ↑ Peter O'Dwyer (June 8, 2016). "Consultants settle for €46.5m in tax". Irish Examiner. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
  20. ↑ Deidre Reynolds (October 3, 2015). "Jackson’s tears for Irish youngsters burnt in car arson". The Sun. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  21. 1 2 Rebecca Maher (October 9, 2015). "Michael Jackson’s Irish doctor releases memoir". Irish Examiner. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  22. ↑ "Dr. Patrick Treacy’s New Book : "Behind The Mask" (the Irishman who became Michael Jackson’s doctor)". LMJ Magazine. August 4, 2015. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  23. ↑ Jason Johnson (July 1, 2014). "My friend Jacko was a kind man ...Not the child abuser he was made out to be". The Sun. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  24. ↑ "Fermanagh’s doctor’s Christmas Day with African Orphans". Fermanagh Herald. December 24, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  25. ↑ Paul Martin (8 June 2009). "Jacko Goes Green". The Mirror (London, England).
  26. ↑ "Top award for Garrison-born doctor". Fermanagh Herald. December 5, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  27. ↑ "Platelet-Rich Plasma in Androgenic Alopecia: Myth or an Effective Tool= June 26, 2014". J Cutan Aesthet Surg. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  28. 1 2 "Accolades keep coming for Dr Patrick Treacy= December 06, 2016". Aesthetic Medicine. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  29. ↑ "Dr Patrick Treacy receives international award for his Management of Dermal Filler Complications lecture". Aesthetic Medicine. December 1, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  30. ↑ "The Safety in Beauty Campaign Diamond Award Winners 2016= July 13, 2016". Safety in Beauty Awards. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  31. ↑ "Award winning Garrison doctor on the top of his game". Fermanagh Herald. September 15, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  32. ↑ "MyFaceMyBody Awards 2016". MyFaceMyBody. November 22, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
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