Dr John Latham has been a general practitioner for 40 years. He graduated from RCSI and after hospital training in Connolly Hospital, the Rotunda and Temple Street. He completed GP vocational training in Edinburgh and his intern jobs were in Jervis Street which included nephrology and renal transplant surgery . John commenced GP practice in the Liberties, Dublin 8 in 1984. Having developed an inner city group practice within a primary care team (Thomas Court), he retired from clinical practice in 2019. His areas of expertise included, addiction, diabetes care and deprivation and homeless medicine.
John has been an undergraduate tutor for RCSI and TCD for many years, a continuing medication (postgraduate tutor) for the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) and a GP trainer for the UCD Dublin Mid Leinster GP Training Scheme. John was an assistant programme director for the North Dublin City GP Training scheme. During 2020 and 2021 he assumed the role of first National Clinical Director of the Malaysia / Ireland Training Programme for Family Medicine (MInTFM) in Malaysia. John was based in RUMC, RCSI & UCD Malaysia Campus, Penang. Medical writing and journalism has been one of john’s non clinical activities, including 9 years as editor of Forum, the journal of the ICGP