Faculty of Medical Sciences

Dr. Margaret O’Shea

Dr. Margaret O’Shea

Lecturer in Surgery

Elective Coordinator

FMS
Clinical Sciences

Bio

Dr O’Shea is a Lecturer in Surgery in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and  Associate Consultant General and Renal Transplant Surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados.
Dr O’Shea  graduated from the UWI with a Doctor of Medicine in General Surgery in 2006. In 2008 Dr O’Shea completed fellowship training in Renal Transplantation at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. She returned to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados in 2009 and was promoted to Consultant General and Renal Transplant surgeon.

Dr O’Shea served as  Head of the Dept of  Surgery at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados, between 2013 to 2016 before  joining the UWI as lecturer in Surgery. She is the Caribbean Coordinator for the Commonwealth Tribute to life project and is passionate about the development of ethical organ and  tissue donation and transplantation in the Caribbean region.

Dr O’Shea serves an Associate editor of the Journal of the Caribbean Colleges of Surgeons.

Qualifications

MBBS, UWI,  1997 DM, UWI Gen Surg 2006

Publications

Fellowship Renal Transplantation ,  Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland Australia 2008