Dr Noel McCaffrey

Dr Noel McCaffrey is founder and CEO of ExWell Medical, a social enterprise that offers structured, medically-led exercise programmes in community settings to people with diverse chronic illnesses, on referral from health care professionals. He developed a Masters Programme in Sports and Exercise Medicine in University College Dublin in the early 1990’s before spending 12 years in Dublin City University where he led the growth of ExWell’s predecessor programme (called MedEx). In 2019 he left DCU to drive the national rollout of ExWell.

He is a consultant in Sports Medicine in Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital where he runs a musculoskeletal injury clinic and is also a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine. In 2022 he was named as a United Nations 2022 Healthy Ageing Top 50 World Leader.

His main passion is ExWell and he is committed to the mission of making the service available through partnerships to everyone in Ireland and beyond who would benefit from it.