Juliet Bressan
Juliet Bressan is the bestselling author of Snow White Turtle Doves, published by Poolbeg Press, Dublin.
Born to an Italian family in Salford, Lancashire, Juliet grew up in Galway, a seaside town on the West coast of Ireland.
She studied medicine in University College Galway, graduating with an honours degree in Surgery. She travelled widely during her medical studies through America and Australia, and took a term to study at the University of Melbourne. She moved to Dublin in 1992 to train as a paediatrician at the National Children's Hospital before branching out into public health and epidemiology.
She took a Masters degree at UCD, and was appointed senior registrar in the Department of Pharmacoepidemiology at Trinity College St James Hospital. From there she developed an immediate interest in the growing epidemic of drug misuse and HIV in Dublin. She now teaches creative writing at the Irish Writers Centre which is the national development centre for writers and literature in Ireland, as well as working two days a week as a GP specialist in the Drugs and Aids service in the inner city. She is married and has two teenage daughters, without whom she would not have been able to write a single thing.
Juliet also is a member of the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine, and is the only doctor in Ireland currently specializing in the health problems of musicians and performing artists. She provides a health service for BAPAM in Dublin for musicians from all over Ireland.
From 1993 Juliet has written hundreds of articles of medical interest for journals, newspapers and magazines in Ireland and the UK. She has been a regular commentator on health and social issues on Irish radio and television and has contributed widely to documentary film and radio in Ireland, in the UK, US and in France. She is currently the resident Television Doctor with TV3's breakfast-time show, Ireland AM.
She is a script advisor and medical consultant with the award-winning RTE medical drama series The Clinic.