Dr Wael Berro
Medical Director, Health Consultant, and Health and Integrative Medicine Coach
Dr Wael Berro currently resides in Ireland and holds both Irish and Lebanese passports. He is an expert in medical leadership and advocacy and has experience in programme management, coordination and implementation in the fields of medicine and health. Dr Berro was granted membership of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 2009 and gained ECFMG certification in the same year. In summer 2016 he became a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners, and he still holds this membership today.
Dr Berro is fluent in English, Arabic and French, and he also speaks Spanish at a conversational level. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Zachary Johnson Awardf from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and this organisation also declared him the runner-up prize winner at the Biological Society Research Evening in 2009. In 2010, Dr Berro was the prize winner for best oral presentation, awarded for his presentation ‘Advances in the Treatment of Watermelon Stomach’.
Currently working as a family medicine physician, Dr Berro is responsible for the oversight of the day-to-day operations of the clinic and the treatment and diagnosis of patients on an out-patient basis, as well as follow-up and management.
Dr Berro’s professional topics of interest include wellness, health equality, lifestyle medicine, and healthcare coaching and mentoring, and he is also a dedicated mental health advocate. He is a co-founder of the wellness programme of the Brain Matters organisation, which runs the first centre in the UAE dedicated to neurological assessment and treatment services that can be accessed by all age groups.