Miss Alison McCoubrey

Consultants

Profile

Miss Alison McCoubrey Is an experienced consultant general & colorectal surgeon with special interests in colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease & pelvic floor disorders.

Miss McCoubrey qualified with Honours from Queens University, Belfast in 2000. She completed her basic and specialist surgical training in Northern Ireland before being appointed as a consultant, initially in the Western Health & Social Care Trust in 2013 before taking up her current post in Causeway Hospital in 2017.

Miss McCoubrey welcomes surgical referrals for conditions relating to the gastrointestinal system, hernias, pelvic floor disorders and perianal conditions. She also welcomes referrals for OGD, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy and minor ops.

Current NHS Posts

Consultant General & Colorectal Surgeon, Causeway Hospital, Coleraine

Qualifications

MB ChB BAO(Hons), 2000, Queens University Belfast

MSc Advanced Surgical Practice, 2009, Cardiff University

FRCSEd (GenSurg) 2012

Additional Training

Dr Henry Hutchinson-Stewart Medical Scholarship

Sir Thomas Houston Medal for Microbiology

Musgrave Prize in Pathology

Third MB Scholarship

Final MB Distinction Prize (awarded to medial students achieving distinctions in all medical school exams)

Ulster Hospital Gold Medal

Colin Brennan Medal

Treatment Areas

Treatments and areas of interest

Investigation and management of Gastrointestinal disease - Diverticular disease, Inflammatory bowel disease, Pelvic floor disorders.
Endoscopy services - Colonoscopy, Flexible sigmoidoscopy and OGD.
Treatment of common perianal conditions - Piles, Fistula-in-Ano, Pilonidal disease, Anal fissure.
Surgery for common general surgical conditions - inguinal hernia repair, incisional hernia repair, umbilical hernia repair, excision of minor benign skin lesions.