Gareth Irwin

Mr Gareth Irwin is a consultant breast surgeon at Belfast City Hospital. 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 poor prognosis triple-negative breast cancers. He later undertook a TIG national oncoplastic fellowship at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. He is an honorary lecturer In the Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research at QUB. He is currently Audit and Governance lead for Breast in the City Hospital and is the Chair of the Surgery QA Committee for Breast Cancer Screening in Northern Ireland.