Dr Aisling Loy, Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is the national specialty director for GUM training, medical director of Himerus Health (a highly rated private STD clinic in Dublin’s Portobello), a lecturer in Trinity College Dublin and Medical Director for women’s health service and anti-human trafficking HSE clinic. In addition to being an articulate and charismatic advocate for her specialty, Aisling provides an in-reach service to the Coombe Hospital for pregnant women with HIV/STDs, she is Secretary to the Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Ireland and director of the STI Foundation courses in Dublin.
In this podcast, Aisling describes the ostensibly short but surprisingly challenging journey from a Convent Grammar School in Newry to Trinity College in Dublin, she offers powerful advice to young women in medicine (to think ahead and talk about having a family, and what that means in practice), she explains why she is so grateful to the ‘amazing, beautiful, energetic and enigmatic’ woman who is her own primary mentor, she provides a succinct but reassuring review of the epidemiology and management of sexually transmitted disease in Ireland, and she describes the remarkable SH:24 home-testing scheme in Ireland, which has proven so useful in terms of screening and ‘telemedical care’, while simultaneously addressing that age-old obstacle to GUM care – patient embarrassment.
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