Personal Profile
Dr Dempsey also won several undergraduate prizes. After a year working in Glasgow, he moved to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and completed a 2 year “rotation” through various General Medicine specialities. During this time he passed the MRCP (Membership of the Royal College of Physicians) exam on the first attempt.
Thereafter, Dr Dempsey completed 5 years training as a Registrar in Respiratory and General Medicine, taking a break in the middle to obtain his MD thesis, before obtaining his Certificate of Completion of Speciality Training in 2002. He has been a Consultant since 2002.
Dr Dempsey sees patients with all types of lung disease, and has a particular interest in lung diseases which cause scarring in the lungs (known as interstitial lung diseases e.g. lung fibrosis, asbestosis, sarcoidosis).
His day-to-day clinical practice involves teaching at the bedside and in clinics to a wide range of health care professionals. He also work for the University of Aberdeen, leading the development of several hundred online cases, used to teach medical students. In addition to mentoring younger doctors and also physician associates, he also appraise consultant colleagues annually, as required by the General Medical Council, and is invited to give lectures regularly, to both undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as to those in professions allied to medicine.
During the last decade, Dr Dempsey have been an invited lecturer for the British Thoracic Society at their UK Respiratory Trainee “How to pass the Speciality Certificate Exam” training day.
In recent years he has developed a departmental website for his private and NHS practice site:
