Patrick Treacy is a cosmetic physician, laser surgeon, medical innovator and author based in Dublin, Ireland. He is President of the Royal Society of Medicine Aesthetics faculty council, and is Irish Regional Representative to the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors. He co-founded the Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors. He was given a special MyFaceMyBody Award recognition in 2018 for his scientific contribution to Aesthetic Medicine and cited amongst their 'Ultimate 100 Global Aesthetic Leaders' in 2017.
He founded the Ailesbury Clinic and has practiced in Dublin, Cork, London and the Middle East. Treacy was the lead cosmetic doctor for Michael Jackson's aesthetic treatments during the period he lived in Ireland. He was among the first doctors in the world to use the permanent facial endoprosthesis BioAlcamid for HIV dystrophy patients and to use botulinum toxin as a medical treatment for migraine. In 2003 he won the Irish "Professional Media Journalist of the Year" award for his work regarding HIV in Africa in his award winning column 'The Cutting Edge' for Irish Medical Times. Treacy has been a regular contributor to international television and radio shows on RTÉ Television, BBC World Service, TV3, and Discovery Health, and Dr. Drew on CNN. He featured on RTÉ television series about cosmetic surgery Desperately Seeking Surgery (2004) and their more recent production Body Shopping (2017).
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Early life and education
Treacy was born in Garrison, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland where his parents ran a shop, garage, and filling station. In 1972, he won the Irish Aer Lingus "Young Biochemist of the Year" award. In 1973, he won the Northern Ireland section of the British Amateur Young Scientist of the Year Award for an innovative project using sound waves to help make plants grow. In 1978, he completed hons biochemistry at Queens University in Belfast during the height of The Troubles. Due to the conflict in Northern Ireland, Treacy transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin to study medicine. He took a break from his education in 1982-83 and traveled for a period with David Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour in Europe. The tour opened in May 1983 in support of David Bowie's album Let's Dance (1983) at the Vorst Forest Nationaal, Brussels, on 18 May 1983 and visited 15 countries, IN 1985, While still an elective oncology student at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota he researched and published a sentinel paper recognising the rising incidence of malignant melanoma within the Rochester MN. population in the period 1950 through 1985 .. The Mayo clinic specialises in treating difficult oncology cases through tertiary care and employs over 3,000 full-time research personnel. In 1986, Treacy graduated Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
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Career
In 1987, Treacy became a practicing doctor in Dublin and sustained a needlestick injury from a young HIV patient while working in the Emergency Room of a Dublin hospital in the period before protease inhibitor treatments for AIDS existed. The incident resulted in him going directly to theatre and getting his medical colleague to cut out an area of his leg as there was no known treatment for the disease. He had then to be serotested regularly for three years to confirm he never developed the disease. He moved to New Zealand in 1988 to work as a respiratory registrar with Dunedin Public Hospital where an asthma mortality epidemic was occurring and the death rate was the highest in the world. In 1989, a case-control study reported that inhaled fenoterol was associated with the epidemic of asthma deaths that had affected New Zealand since 1976. He was a staff health doctor at Ibn 'al Bitar Hospital in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's reign before the Gulf War in 1990 when he was arrested in Erbil and jailed for five days by the Iraqi Army while writing an article for the Fermanagh Herald about the gassing of the Kurds in Halabja Kurdistan. The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. In 1991, Treacy worked in emergency medicine in Gibraltar and later in cardiothoracic surgery in Cape Town Africa. He was ship's surgeon with Carnival Cruise Line in Los Angeles, California and in Miami and Port Canaveral, Florida from 1993 through 1994. In 1996 he worked as a flying doctor in Broken Hill, NSW Australia with Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and from 1997 to 1998 worked in a skin cancer centre in Toowoomba, Queensland. Skin cancer in Australia kills over 2,000 each year, with more than 750,000 diagnosed and treated and Queensland has the highest melanoma incidence rate in the world of 76 cases per 100,000 people . In 2000, Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic in Dublin, which was the first in Ireland to specialize in all aspects of non-surgical aesthetic skin treatments. He opened another Ailesbury Clinic in Cork in 2005. The Dublin clinic was awarded "Best Clinic in Ireland" at the Irish Healthcare Awards in 2005 and again at the Irish Hair & Beauty Awards in 2016. In April 2016, the High Court in Dublin granted a possession order over Treacy's clinic buildings in favour of a bank-appointed receiver. In June 2016, Treacy made a EUR137,897 settlement with the Irish Revenue as a result of unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.
Affiliation with Michael Jackson
Treacy met Michael Jackson in 2006. Jackson sought out Treacy for cosmetic treatment after reading about his experience with HLA fillers and his charitable work in Africa. Treacy became Jackson's only doctor when he lived in Ireland in 2006 and 2007. He started as Jackson's personal dermatologist and developed a friendship with the singer. Jackson and Treacy shared a common interest in HIV and Africa, and worked on humanitarian projects together. Jackson had previously helped draw public attention to HIV/AIDS, something that was controversial at the time. He requested the Clinton Administration to give more money to HIV/AIDS charities and research. In 2008, Treacy co-founded the Irish Association of Cosmetic Doctors, a group of medical practitioners campaigning for government regulation of qualifications in the field of cosmetic medicine, where he is chairman. Treacy was due to treat Jackson shortly before the singer's death in 2009. In 2009, he was on the special witness list for the trial of Conrad Murray; however, he was never called to testify. In 2011, Treacy appeared on the Dr. Drew show on CNN and said that he had had given propofol to Michael Jackson on two occasions but the singer always requested an anaesthetist to be present.
Humanitarian work
The 1987 needlestick incident eventually led to Treacy's humanitarian work in Africa and his developing an empathy to people who suffered from HIV/AIDS and were marginalised or discriminated against as a consequence. Treacy pioneered new aesthetic and surgical treatments to help people with LD-HIV, a condition characterized by loss of subcutaneous fat associated with infection with HIV. In 1993, he visited HIV orphanages in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and some of his later medical articles about these experiences won him Irish professional media awards. In 2001, Treacy challenged 'traditional' views on treating AIDS at a medical conference in South Africa, where he had done a placement as a young doctor. Treacy openly challenged Thabo Mbeki for his stance on AIDS when he advocated that the correlation between poverty and the AIDS rate in Africa was a challenge to the viral theory of AIDS. In 2002, he wrote an article for the Irish Medical Times entitled "A Tragedy That Has Resulted in Countless Needless Deaths in Africa" Mbeki's ban of antiretroviral drugs in public hospitals is estimated to be responsible for the premature deaths of between 330,000 and 365,000 people.
In 2011, Treacy became an ambassador for the Michael Jackson Legacy foundation (a charitable organisation dedicated to continuing Jackson's humanitarian legacy), which helped HIV children and built orphanages for abandoned orphans. In 2012, he opened the Everland Children's Orphanage in Monrovia Liberia, which was funded by Jackson's fans through MJL. In 2013, he opened a second Everland Children's orphanage high in the mountains and fifty miles away from the earthquake epicentre in Mireblais, Haiti. This was on the same site where Digicel also built a new school to replace the devastated Miracle Restoration Centre in Tabare.
Behind the Mask: Memoir
In 2015, Treacy released his Behind The Mask (memoir) regarding his financial struggles when becoming a doctor, entitled Behind the Mask: The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman who became Michael Jackson's Doctor. In the book he describes the incident while Working in a Dublin hospital in 1987, getting an accidental HIV needlestick injury and taking blood test after blood test, wondering whether he was going to die. Thus he began a peripatetic existence, working as a doctor around the world. from New Zealand to South Africa. He details chatting with Jackson's long-time physician Dr Arnold Klein about having to correct complications with the singer's aesthetic dermal filler treatments. He mentions that Klein told him about the friendship and trust that Jackson placed in Treacy just a few week before the doctor himself died.
Medical accolades
Treacy has won multiple medical innovation awards during his career. These include one for facial rejuvenation that combined endothelial growth factors, microneedling and 633 red light phototherapy: "My Face My Body Awards" (London 2012), and another the following year for a hair transplant technique using collagen induction therapy (CIT) and platelet rich plasma for androgenetic alopecia: "My Face My Body Awards" (London 2013). The introduction of collagen induction therapy (CIT) with PRP was a variation on a previous technique. Treacy is one of few doctors in the world to have received the prestigious AMEC Aesthetic Award twice (Paris 2014, 2016). The first was for novel research techniques in facial rejuvenation related to patients with cancer cachexia and second for developing the HELPIR technique as a means of managing dermal filler vascular complications. He won the Lecture Award (Miami 2015) at the 20th World Congress in Aesthetic Medicine.
He was 'Highly Commended' in the 'Aesthetic Doctor of the Year' UK & Ireland at the Safety in Beauty Awards (London 2016). The Ailesbury Clinic won 'Best Cosmetic Clinic in Ireland' at the Hair and Beauty Awards (Dublin 2016). Treacy also won lecturing awards regarding reversal of dermal necrosis post filler vascular occlusion in the Emirates, Tbilisi, Georgia and Cairo, Egypt in this period. He was also awarded a special medal for contributions to the field of Aesthetic Medicine at CCME in Cuernavaca, Mexico 2016 as well as being presented with an award for medical excellence at the same conference. He also won the MyFaceMyBody Award (London 2016) and the Irish Healthcare Award (Dublin 2017) for further medical research related to the use of hyalase in dermal filler vascular occlusion and establishing re-epithelialisation of skin by use of hyperbaric oxygen, platelet growth factors and phototherapy accelerating wound healing. He won the 'Quality & Research Award' British College of Aesthetic Medicine (London) in September 2017. The first ever Abu Dhabi International Conference in Dermatology & Aesthetics (AIDA 2017) AIDA Award was presented to Treacy in October 2017 for his contributions to wound healing and for the "HELPIR Technique: Treating Vascular Complications of Dermal Fillers". He was made also the first laureate of the prestigious 2017 'Art of Beauty Trophy' by the members of AAAMC Organizing Committee in Baku, Azerbaijan for his contributions to the development of the field of aesthetic medicine, especially writing the protocols for the use of hyalase. He was also awarded a specialist Azerbaijani Laureate Diploma in Aesthetic Medicine in 2017. Ailesbury Dublin won the John Bannon Award "Best Clinic in Ireland" 2017 at the Aesthetic Awards in London. and Treacy was given another specialist MyFaceMyBody award in 2018 for his scientific research contribution to the aesthetic industry.
International medical awards 2017-2018
- Winner - MyFaceMyBody Specialist Award 'Scientific Contributions to the Aesthetic Industry' (London), March 2018
- Winner - EADV London Congress Royal Soc. Medicine 'Best Lecture Award' (London), February 2017
- Winner - Irish Healthcare Award 'Best Medical Research Award' (Dublin), March 2017
- Winner - MyFaceMyBody Award 'Ultimate 100 Global Aesthetic Leaders' (Los Angeles), August 2017
- Second - AMEC Anti-aging & Beauty Trophy 'Best Global Clinical Case in Laser Medicine' (Monaco), September 2017
- Second - AMEC Anti-aging & Beauty Trophy 'Best Global Clinical Case in Thread lifting' (Monaco), September 2017
- Winner - British College of Aesthetic Medicine 'Quality & Research Award'(London) September 2017
- Winner - AIDA Trophy 'Best Clinical Case in Aesthetic Medicine in Dermatology & Aesthetics' (Abu Dhabi) Oct 2017
- Winner - AAAMC Trophy 'Contribution to Development of Aesthetic Medicine' Azerbaijan Nat. Organizing Committee (Baku) Oct 2017
- Winner - John Bannon Award for the "Best Clinic in Ireland" at the Aesthetic Awards (London), December 2017
International medical awards 2016-2017
- Winner - Irish Health & Beauty Award 'Best Cosmetic Surgery Clinic in Ireland 2016' (Dublin), June 2016
- Winner - Safety in Beauty Award Aesthetic Doctor of 2016' (Highly Commended) (London), June 2016
- Winner - AMEC Anti-aging & Beauty Trophy 'Best Clinical Research Case in Aesthetic Medicine' (Paris), September 2016
- Winner - CCME Mexican Congress Medal for' Excellence in Medical Aesthetics' (Mexico), November 2016
- Winner - MyFaceMyBody Award 'Best medical research for wound healing' (London), November 2016
Published works
Treacy has published many scientific papers, including sentinel papers about the rising incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma in the Rochester, Minnesota population from 1950-1985 and protocols for the reversal of dermal filler complications.
- Treacy Patrick J.; Popescu NA; Kurland LT; Cutaneous malignant melanoma in Rochester, Minnesota: trends in incidence and survivorship, 1950 through 1985, Mayo Clin Proc. 1990 Oct, 65(10):1293-302.
- Treacy Patrick J.; Goldberg D; Use of a BioPolymer Filler for Facial Lipodystrophy in HIV-Positive patients undergoing treatment with Anti Retro Viral Drugs, Journal of Dermatological Surgery, Volume 32, Number 6, June 2006, pp. 804-808(5)
- Treacy Patrick J.; Goldberg D.; Use of Phosphatidylcholine for the correction of lower lid bulging due to prominent fat pads, Journal of Cosm Laser Therapy,September 2, 2006
- Treacy Patrick J.; Combining Therapies for the Aging Face - The Dublin Lift, Prime International Magazine, Vol 2 No 7 Page 20-31 October 1, 2012
- Treacy Patrick J.; The paradoxical effect of Botox on the brain, Prime International Magazine, June 2013 Page 63-69 May 1, 2013
- Treacy Patrick J.; The efficacy of dermal fillers in the treatment of atrophic acne scars, Prime International Magazine, Vol 3 No 2 Page 40-49, March 1, 2013
- Treacy Patrick J.; Treacy Comparative split face study on photoaging with two different CO2 fractionalised resurfacing lasers, PRIME International Magazine, October 14, 2013
- Treacy Patrick J.; Reversal of a dermal filler induced facial artery occlusion, PRIME International Magazine, September 1, 2014
- Treacy Patrick J.; Surgical correction of semi-permanent lip filler nodules, PRIME International Magazine, October 1, 2014
- Treacy Patrick J.; Treating facial cancer related cachexia by aesthetic medicine, PRIME International Magazine, January 2, 2015
- Treacy Patrick J.; Non-Surgical Rejuvenation of the Periorbital Area, PRIME Magazine International, May 3, 2016
- Treacy Patrick J.; Reversal of a nine-day old vascular occlusion by using the HELPIR technique, PRIME International Magazine, November, 2016
References
External links
- Ailesbury Clinic
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