In 2007, Dr Barry was appointed to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne as a post-CCST fellow in Mohs micrographic Surgery (Mohs surgery) and Dermatological surgery under the tutelage of two of the leading Mohs micrographic surgeons in the United Kingdom (Drs James Langtry and Cliff Lawrence).
Dr Barry completed over 700 Mohs surgery cases during his fellowship in addition to having several general dermatological surgical lists each week. Dr Barry was trained in the management of a comprehensive range of skin tumours including common tumours such as facial basal cell carcinomas, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma and other less frequently encountered tumours such as Merkel cell carcinoma, atypical fibroxanthoma and dermato-fibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP).
During his fellowship training, Dr Barry was trained in a wide variety of local flap reconstruction of the face in a local anaesthesia setting. Dr Barry also undertook an observership with the world-reknowned Mohs surgeon, Professor Tri Nguyen, Houston, USA which was a life-changing and inspirational period in his Mohs surgery training and professional career. Dr Barry then took up a locum consultancy in the prestigious Dermatology Surgery and Laser Unit at St Thomas’ and Guy’s hospitals, London, United Kingdom where he was one of the three consultant Mohs surgeons in the hospital. After that, Dr Barry took up a full-time consultancy post in the Mohs Surgery Unit in the Royal Victoria Infirmary hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne and was a consultant there from 2010 until returning to Ireland.
Dr Barry was involved in training specialist dermatology trainees as well as post-CCST Mohs surgery fellows including international fellows.