Patrick Treacy


Patrick Treacy is a general practitioner with an interest in aesthetic medicine and author based in Dublin, Ireland. Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic and practices in Dublin and Cork. Treacy was the lead cosmetic doctor for Michael Jackson's aesthetic treatments during the period he lived in Ireland. and is Irish Regional Representative to the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors. He was awarded 'Global Aesthetic Practitioner of the Year 2019' as well as 'Top Aesthetic Medical Aesthetic Practitioner 2019', earning himself a spot in the Aesthetic Medicine Hall of Fame.
He was also given a special MyFaceMyBody Award recognition in 2018 for his scientific contribution to Aesthetic Medicine
and cited amongst their 'Ultimate 100 Global Aesthetic Leaders' both in 2019, 2018 and 2017.
Treacy has also been a contributor to television and radio shows such as RTÉ Television, BBC and Dr. Drew on CNN.

Early life and education

Treacy was born in Garrison, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland where his parents ran a shop, garage, and filing station. In 1978, he completed a degree in biochemistry at Queens University in Belfast during the height of The Troubles. Due to the conflict in Northern Ireland, he transferred to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin to study medicine. He states that he took a break during his education and travelled for a period with David Bowie's Serious Moonlight in Europe. In 1986, Treacy graduated as a doctor.

Career

In 1987, Treacy became a practicing doctor in Dublin. In that same year, he was accidentally jabbed in the leg with a needle used on a HIV patient while working in a Dublin hospital. This resulted in him having to cut out an area of his leg as this was before protease inhibitor treatments for AIDS existed and he never developed the illness. In his memoir, he states that this incident led to being involved in humanitarian work in Africa and later to pioneer new aesthetic treatment surgeries to help people with AIDS and HIV.
Treacy moved to New Zealand in 1988 to work as a respiratory and cardiology registrar with Dunedin Public Hospital. In the 1990s, he worked with HIV patients in Africa and Australia as a flying doctor in Broken Hill N.S.W. with Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. He became a staff health doctor at Ibn 'al Bitar Hospital in Baghdad during Saddam Hussein's reign and that he was arrested 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. He was ship's surgeon with Carnival Cruise Line from 1993 through 1994. In 2000, Treacy founded the Ailesbury Clinic in Dublin and another Ailesbury Clinic in Cork in 2005. 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 €137,897 settlement with the Irish Revenue as a result of unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.

Affiliation with Michael Jackson

sought him for cosmetic treatment after reading about his experience with HLA fillers and his charitable work in Africa. He was Jackson's personal dermatologist and developed a friendship with the singer. Treacy and Jackson worked on humanitarian projects together. In 2011, Treacy became an ambassador for the Michael Jackson Legacy foundation, and in 2012 opened Everland Children's Orphanage in Liberia and orphanages in Haiti in 2013. In 2009, Treacy was on the special witness list for the trial of Conrad Murray, however, he was not called to testify. He released a memoir entitled Behind the Mask : The Extraordinary Story of the Irishman who became Michael Jackson's Doctor in 2015.

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, 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.

Accolades

In 2003, Treacy won the "Professional Medical Media" category at the GlaxoSmithKline Medical Media Awards for articles that appeared in Irish Medical Times. He was awarded best non-surgical treatment at the inaugural "My Face My Body Awards" in London in 2012. Treacy received an AMEC Aesthetic Award for novel techniques in facial rejuvenation in Paris in 2014 and the 20th World Congress in Aesthetic Medicine Lecture Award in Miami in 2015.
In 2016 he was Highly Commended in the 'Doctor of the Year' Award at the Safety in Beauty Awards in London. Treacy also won lecturing awards regarding reversal of dermal necrosis post filler vascular occlusion in 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 and the Irish Healthcare Award 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 in September 2017. The first ever Abu Dhabi International Conference in Dermatology & Aesthetics 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 2019-

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.