Declan graduate from UCD in 1987 and did his house jobs at the Mater Dublin before taking an MSc in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Aberdeen. He worked as Registrar in Medicine at Aberdeen Teaching Hospitals and took his MD thesis at The University of Aberdeen in 1992. He moved to King’s College Hospital London in 1994 as Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer in Medicine for Elderly & Honorary Consultant Physician. He moved to his current post in his native Limerick in 1997. He holds an adjunct Chair in Therapeutic Science at NUIG. Declan is former chairman of the Expert Advisory Group on Ageing to the HSE and former Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine in the Mid West Hospital Group. He was Clinical Director (Medicine) at the University of Limerick Hospital Group 2015-2017. He founded Clinisynergy & Doctot Apps in 2008. He is the current Director of Research (Mid West)
Research interests are in the areas of pharmacology of ageing and vascular pharmacology with particular clinical research interests in syncope, hypertension, nitric oxide biology, osteoporosis.