Vincent Mcgovern

Dr. Vincent McGovern is a sessional general practitioner in Bangor, Co. Down with a particular interest in respiratory medicine. He holds three part-time clinical assistantships , one in adult chest medicine at Belfast City Hospital, one in paediatric asthma at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children and one in accident and emergency medicine at the Ulster Hospital Dundonald. He is a member of both the Primary Care Respiratory Society and the British Thoracic Society and previously sat on the joint BTS/SIGN guideline panel reviewing the asthma guidelines in 2003.
Dr. McGovern was a part-time lecturer at the University of Ulster and continues to lecture widely on respiratory medicine. His research has concentrated mostly on asthma, prescribing trends and the impact of guidelines in particular. In 2009 he was appointed as a General Practitioner with a Special Interest (GPwSI) in COPD by the Belfast Trust. Dr. McGovern also carries out Pulmonary Rehabilitation assessment clinics in the community and was on the steering committee of the National Review of Asthma Deaths.