Toranfield House

Our Team

Medical Director: Dr. Michael Doran

Michael currently works as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Kildare Mental Health Services. He previously worked as Consultant Psychiatrist in Trinity College, Dublin.

Michael graduated in medicine from University College Dublin in 1995. He began his psychiatric training in 1998.

After gaining membership from The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Michael became a Health Research Board Fellow.

In 2009, he completed his Higher Specialist Training in Psychiatry with a special interest in addiction.

Michael has worked for nine years within the addiction speciality and has a special interest in cocaine addiction rehabilitation and Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults.

Detox Director
Dr. Hugh Gallager

Hugh trained as a General Practitioner in UK where he worked in General Practice and Palliative Care. Following his work in UK he began work in both Australia and Ireland in Prison Medicine and Substance Abuse Medicine.

Since 1999 Hugh has worked as a Specialist in Substance Abuse Medicine in the Addiction Service of the Health Service Executive for Ireland.

In 2005 he became a General Practice Coordinator in the Addiction Service and Medical Officer to the Lantern Residential Drug Detox Service for County Dublin, Ireland in 2006.

Hugh is a Member of the National Drug Rehabilitation Implementation Committee and National Methadone Protocol Implementation Committee for Ireland.

He is interested in rehabilitation generally and specifically in care planning, case management, interagency cooperation and the continuum of care.

Director of Clinical Governance
Dr. Oscar D'Agnone

Oscar is a member of the Specialist Clinical Addiction Network and Society for Study of Addictions.

He is an international member of the American Psychiatric Association and of the World Psychiatric Association.

Oscar is a founder member of the Latin American College of Psychopharmacology and was a senior secretary of the section Education and psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association.

He is the academic coordinator of the Harvard Medical International – ICONO joint programme and scientific adviser for Argentina’s National Secretary of Drug Related Programmes/SEDRONAR.

Director of Addiction Programme
Stephen Rowen

Stephen Rowen is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. His formal education includes a BA in History from Stonehill College (1970) and a Master’s Degree from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work (1972). In 1994, he graduated from the three-year clinical programme in Group Psychotherapy with the Northestern Society for Group Psychotherapy in Boston.

His career in addiction services began in 1975 when he selected to be the director of Day One, Maine’s first adolescent addiction treatment programme in Portland. Stephen and his family first lived in Ireland in 1978 when he was named administrator of Rutland Centre – the first Minnesota Model residential treatment centre in the Republic of Ireland. Following the successful establishment of Rutland Centre, Stephen moved to Cape Cod (1980) where he worked primarily in private practice.

Stephen returned to Dublin at the time of the millennium when he was invited to direct the clinical programme of Rutland Centre. His retirement from Rutland Centre in the summer of 2008 was with a view to devote more time to teaching, training, clinical supervision, consult ting in programme development and in order to establish a private psychotherapy practice. In September 2008, Stephen was named as Head of the Department of Addiction Studies for both ATI Training & Education as well as for IT Athlone. Stephen lives in Dublin with his wife Annelle and their children.

Advisor
Paddy Creedon

Paddy Creedon (B.A Management and an International MBA) has extensive healthcare management experience including working with Ireland's largest private medical insurer - Voluntary Health Insurance Board (VHI) - for over thirty years.

In VHI he held a number of management positions and was General Manager Member Services from 1993-2000.

In July 2002, he graduated with distinction from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium, when he successfully completed their international executive MBA programme.

Paddy consults to and advises a number of healthcare organisations in Ireland and internationally.