Dr Peter Kinirons M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., M.R.C.P.I., Ph.D

Professional profile

Dr Peter Kinirons is a Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist at the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork and has private rooms for outpatient consultations in The Cork Clinic, Western Road, Cork.

Dr Kinirons graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1998 where he was awarded the Professors Prize in Medicine. After completing his general neurology training, he obtained a PhD in human genetics focusing on genetic predisposition to neurological disorders and pharmacogenetics. Following this he went on to do specialised fellowship training in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr Kinirons has published extensively in his field and was awarded The Harold Miller Medal for best research presentation at the Irish Neurological Association meeting in 2008. Dr Kinirons returned from America in 2009, to take up his appointment as the Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist at the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Neurology at University College Cork.

Dr Kinirons has an interest in many areas of Neurology including multiple sclerosis, headache and migraine, memory and cognitive disorders, movement disorders including Parkinson’s Disease, muscle and peripheral nerve disease. He continues to have a specialist interest in the diagnosis and management of epilepsy. He has an ongoing research interest in the genetics of neurological disease. He works with a multidisciplinary team of neurology specialists in the Bon Secours Hospital including nursing staff, physiotherapists and occupational therapists. The full range of investigative tests that may be required to evaluate a patient with neurological symptoms is available on site in the hospital.