Meet the Team
We are dedicated to listening to you, discussing your physical and mental concerns in an honest and open fashion. We will provide you with up to date, evidence-based medical advice to make informed choices when it comes to managing your health.
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​For many years our practice has been involved in the education of medical students and students may visit the practice to observe consultations as part of their curriculum. We always advise patients in advance if a student is present and will only invite a student to observe your consultation with your full permission.
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The practice is also a training practice for specialist trainees in general practice from the Irish College of General Practitioners training scheme. These trainees are qualified experienced doctors and are undertaking further experience and training in general practice. They remain in the practice from periods of 6 months to 1 year.
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Dr Julie Mac Fadden
MB, BCh BAO, MICGP, PgDip.Hsc.(Clin.Ed.)
Dr. Julie has been a GP partner at Castleknock Medical Centre since January 2015.
She completed her medical degree in NUI Galway in 2006, achieving a 2nd class honours degree.
During her training, she participated in fundraising for voluntary services abroad, and spent a summer doing volunteer work in the Philippines. After graduation she travelled and worked in Australia for 1 year before returning to her native Donegal to complete her GP training (MICGP) from 2008 - 2012.
She has a keen interest in teaching, and during her final year of GP training, she also completed a diploma in Clinical Education through NUI Galway (PgDip.Hsc. (Clin.Ed.)).
She holds a certificate in contraception and is qualified in Mirena/IUD and Implanon insertion. She is a registered smear taker with Cervical Check. She has also completed the Princess Alice European Certificate in Essential Palliative Care.
Dr Julie has trained in aesthetics with the ATAI (Aesthetic Training Academy Ireland) and will be offering anti-wrinkle treatments in the surgery from Summer 2023.
Dr Julie thoroughly enjoys her work as a GP and the variety it brings.
She has worked in both rural and urban practices throughout Donegal and Dublin, where she is now settled with her family. Outside of work she loves travel, music and running after her 2 young kids!
Dr John O’Brien
MUDr, MICGP
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Dr John has been a GP partner in Castleknock Medical Centre since June 2014
He completed his medical degree in the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague in 2009. During this training he familiarised himself with different health systems and languages.
Upon completion of his undergraduate training he worked in the NHS in Scotland for a year before returning to Ireland and undergoing formal GP training in the Northeast. He worked in both Navan Hospital and Our Lady of Lourdes Drogheda. He completed his GP training in 2014.
He has a great love of everything that comes into general practice and engages in a lot of work in the area of intellectual disability and mental health. He has completed the Diploma in Paediatrics in Primary care through RCPI obtaining a distinction.
More recently he has been providing teaching to undergraduate students and has done further education in Clinical teaching through Queens University Belfast. He is a GP trainer.
He is welcoming of all patients and all concerns.
Dr Jenny Linders
MIXGP, FRCGP, HDipPaed RCPI, PGD Dermoscopy
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Dr Jenny Linders qualified from RCSI in 2009 and spent a number of years in hospital medicine, gaining experience in General Medicine, Haematology, Pathology and Adolescent Mental Health. She is now a qualified GP with 3 young children. She has a special interest in skin cancer and higher qualifications in paediatrics.
Dr Annmarie Soden
MB, Bch, BAO, MICGP
Dr Annmarie is from Dublin and graduated from Trinity College in 2009.
She completed her GP training in Dublin in 2015 and prior to this has worked in Dublin, Cork, Kilkenny, Wicklow and Australia.
She has been working in Castleknock Medical Centre since 2015. Dr Annmarie enjoys the mix of general practice and patients of all ages. She has a higher diploma in Musculoskeletal Medicine.
When not at work she can be found in the outdoors with her children or practicing yoga. She is also a yoga instructor.
Dr Rhona Wherity
MB, BCh BAO, MICGP, DRCOG, Dip MSK ICGP
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Dr Rhona has been working in Castleknock Medical Centre since August 2022.
Dr Rhona qualified from NUIG in 2014. She worked in Australia for two and a half years after her intern year and qualified from the Western GP scheme in 2022.
Her special interests include women's health and she has a cert in dermatology.