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Dr Alwin Sebastian Keenly is also an enthusiastic teacher
UL HOSPITALS Group has announced the appointment of Dr Alwin Sebastian as a Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician.
From Sri Lanka, Dr Sebastian has been working in Ireland since 2011, and completed his dual-specialty training in General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology here in the Midwest, Galway, Dublin and in the UK.
As a Consultant Rheumatologist and General Physician, Dr Sebastian has general rheumatology clinics at University Hospital Limerick and Ennis Hospital.
Dr Sebastian has both general medical and rheumatology in patients at University Hospital Limerick.
Dr Sebastian also specialises in diagnostic Muscular-skeletal and vascular ultrasound and ultrasound-guided joint and soft tissue injections at the rheumatology day ward in Croom Orthopaedic Hospital.
Dr Sebastian recently completed PhD research at the University of Essex into Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), an inflammation of the lining of the temporal and large arteries.
He developed and authored the pre-test probability-based algorithm for suspected GCA, which is used in many centres internationally.
Keenly interested in research, Dr Sebastian is also an enthusiastic teacher.
Funded by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dr Sebastian completed a two-year fellowship in GCA at Southend University Hospital under the mentorship of Professor Bhaskar Dasgupta.
In 2020 Dr Sebastian was honoured by the British Society of Rheumatology with the Paul Bacon Vasculitis Award for Best Research in Vasculitis.
He is currently leading an international, multi-centre, prospective study in developing a quantitative ultrasound Halo Score for monitoring and assessing outcomes in GCA and large vessel vasculitis.
His ambition is to develop a fast-track GCA and Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) service in the Midwest.
With a Masters (MSc) in Rheumatology at King's College London, and postgraduate qualifications from MRCP Ireland and MRCP UK, Dr Sebastian’s other previous posts include honorary research fellow at Southend University Hospital, UK.
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