May 22nd, 2008
Curriculum Vitae
Dr Thomas Cormac Gilhooly
Email: drtom@glasgowsolution.com
Graduated from Glasgow University Medical School in 1983
Entered General Practice in Parkhead in Glasgow’s East End 1989
Became actively involved in management of addiction in practice and is now known nationally and internationally as an addiction expert.
Has published original research on methadone, ecstasy and the abuse of tranquillisers. He has also presented papers at national and international conferences on the subject.
In 1999 he became clinical director of the Lanarkshire Drug Service and was successful in greatly increasing the number of General Practices in Lanarkshire who offered substitution treatment to their patients.
In 2002 he became Medical Co- ordinator of the GP Methadone Programme in Glasgow and introduced omprehensive training for GPs on addiction. This programme was responsible for almost 6,000 patients and was admired throughout the world as an example of best practice. He is Visiting Medical Officer ( VMO) for three addiction projects run by the Charity Turning Point Scotland.
A career long interest in nutrition resulted in the founding of The Centre For Nutritional Studies Ltd in 2002 and Glasgow Health Solutions Ltd in 2005.
He advocates integrative medical approaches to health where natural treatments and nutritional assessment is central to management of medical conditions. He applies this in his daily General Practice and also in a private nutritional clinic which concentrates on multiple sclerosis. He is involved in several ongoing research projects including The Chinese Illness Perception Study and a study into bladder dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis. He is also involved in fund raising for MS research.
Dr Tom is married with three children and two dogs.
News -
08/06/06 - A Glasgow doctor is helping addicts win their battle with heroin - and his secret weapon is fish.
“In what he describes as a holistic - whole person - approach to drug rehabilitation, Dr Gilhooly boosted their Omega 3 intake by getting them to sprinkle flax seeds on their porridge and take high-strength supplements.”
View the full article here.
Posts held -
- GP Parkhead Health Centre from 1989
- VMO Glasgow Drug Crisis Centre from 1994
- VMO Link
Up from 1996 - VMO 218
Bath Street from 2003 - Medical
Co – ordinator Glasgow GP Scheme 2002 – 2005 - Clinical
Director Lanarkshire Drug Service 1999 – 2002 - Managing Director The Centre
For Nutritional Studies Ltd from 2003 - Managing Director Xodia Ltd from 2005
- Clinical Director Glasgow Health Solutions
Ltd from 2005
Appointments -
- Scottish Advisory Committee Drug Misuse 1995 – 2006
- Advisory Council
Misuse Drugs (Technical Committee) 2005 – 2006 - Scottish
Action on Substances 2000 – 2006 - Scottish
Shared Care Network 2000 – 2005 - Medical Advisor Glasgow Association Family
Support Groups 1998 – 2006 - Medical
Advisor Medicor Healthcare Ltd - SACDM
Psychostimulant Working Party 2004 - Scottish
Buprenorphine Advisory Group 2003 - 2005 - Medical
Advisor LDN Research Trust 2005 - 2006 - Presentations –
- Methadone and Beyond – RCGP conference Edinburgh
1996 - Blind
Opiate Prescribing - ERIT Conference – Bologna 1997 - Temazepam
Withdrawal – RCGP Spring Meeting – Perth 1997 - Methadone
Alliance Conference - London 1999 - ERIT Psychostimulant Conference – Paris
2004 - Cocaine Addiction – ACPOS Conference - Dunblane
2004 - High
Dose Methadone – National Opiate Treatment Conference London 2004 - Buprenorphine
in Crisis Centre – Europad Conference
Paris 2005 - Buprenorphine in General Practice – RICGP Conference
Dublin 2005
Publications –
- Reduction in use of temazepam is factor in deaths related to overdose.BMJ. 1997 Nov 29;315(7120):1463-4
- What happens when doctors stop prescribing temazepam?
Use of alternative therapies.Br J Gen Pract. 1998 Sep;48(434):1601-2 - Misuse of diphenhydramine soft gel capsules
(Sleepia): a cautionary tale from Glasgow.Addiction. 1999 Oct;94(10):1575-7 - CYP2D6 deficiency, a factor in ecstasy related
deaths?Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2002 Jul;54(1):69-70 - Mortality in Methadone Maintainence
Programme in Glasgow – Heroin and
Related Clinical Problems 2005 ; 7(3):51 -52