Dr Barry was appointed as a consultant dermatologist and Mohs micrographic surgeon in St James’ hospital, Dublin 8 and has a full-time public appointment at the hospital.

The Mohs surgery unit was the first Mohs surgery unit opened in the Public Health Service (established by Dr Patrick Ormond) and it remains the largest public service Mohs surgery unit in the country (500 cases in 2017). Dr  Barry  continues to enjoy his teaching duties in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. He has published in peer-reviewed international dermatology and dermatosurgical journals and has frequently presented papers/been an invited speaker at international meetings such as the British Society of Dermatological Surgery meetings, the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology as well as the American College of Mohs surgery.

He is a non-executive board member of the Irish Skin Foundation as well as currently serving as a co-opted member of the board of the British Society of Dermatological Surgery. He is also an advisory member of the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) Skin Cancer sub-committee in Ireland. Regarding aesthetic practice, Dr Barry previously worked as a dermatologist in the S:KN clinic in Newcastle upon Tyne and his practice in Ireland is accredited with SkinMed in the United Kingdom.

Outside of work, Dr Barry enjoys spending time with his young family, hiking, reading and sailing.

He is a graduate of the Medical School in Dublin University (Trinity College Dublin, 1997). He completed his General Internal Medicine (G.I.IM.) Training on the Dublin Volountary Federated Hospital Scheme between 1998-2000. During this time,

he became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (Ireland) in February 2000, passing both Parts of the Membership examination at the first time of sitting. He subsequently undertook two years as a registrar in Respiratory Medicine before embarking on his Dermatology career in 2002.

He worked for two years in Dermatology in Dublin before getting onto the Specialist Dermatology Training Scheme in the Wessex deanery, Hampshire, United Kingdom where he completed his specialist training over 4 years between Portsmouth and Southampton.  

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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.