Posts Tagged ‘Interview’
Business of the Future
Sunday, July 30th, 2006
Jean FitzGerald has been managing director of the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine (ICIM) for four years. Established in 2001, ICIM combines conventional medical practices with natural alternatives, offering individual and corporate clients a range of diagnostic services include homeopathy, acupuncture, blood analysis and allergy testing. The company employs six medical staff at its offices in Naas, Co. Kildare.
Q. What are the main responsibilities of your job?
A large part of my job is attending to patient consultations and screenings. Additional responsibilities include general business management, research and project development.
Q. What are you main professional motivators?
My primary motivation is to achieve excellence. Our ethos at ICIM is to strive towards excellence in all of our treatments, diagnostics and patient interactions. It is important for us to educate our patients to help them identify and understand any underlying causes that might be contributing to their ill-health. Seeing patients become healthy again, and empowering them, is rewarding. It is a motivation in itself. (more…)
Face to Face with Jean Fitzgerald
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
Jean FitzGerald, co-director of the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine in Johnstown, is one of Kildare’s brightest minds. She spoke to the Kildare Post about her work at the cutting edge of medical research.
What is your occupation and how long are you in your current position?
I am the co-director of the Irish Centre of Integrated Medicine (ICIM) for the last 7 years with my partner Felipe Reitz.
We both have backgrounds in the medical area: I trained originally in Homeopathy in London and had further experience in Naturopathy whilst working with one of Prince Charles Medical Advisors.
My partner Felipe has a background in Biology of medicine and has a passion for uncovering the underlying cause of patients’ complaints. We call him the medical detective.
Whilst our thinking is more drawn towards scientific and evidenced based medicine we created a medical centre which allows patients to access the best of both conventional and natural medicine. We do this by combining conventional diagnostics to uncover the cause of patients’ problems with natural medical solutions where possible or offering patients an integrated approach of the two. (more…)
United by the hand of destiny
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Fate worked in mysterious ways to bring Jean Fitzgerald and Felipe Reitz together
Writes Sarah Caden
Jean FitzGerald speaks quietly but firmly, her accent just about impossible to pin down. She speaks carefully, as though English is a language she has learned as an adult but, in fact, she is a native of Kildare, her unusual hybrid accent, which some think antipodean, Spanish or even German, is due to an adult life away from Ireland, but must also have something to do with her Brazilian fiancé Felipe Reitz.
They share a clear, deliberate and soothing manner of speech. Some couples are striking for their similarities, some for their drastic differences, but with Jean FitzGerald and Felipe Reitz, it’s about being complementary. In every way.
Felipe Reitz was practising Tai Chi in London’s Regent Park When Jean approached him. She had been intrigued by the sight of him practising this martial art alone in the park and approached in the hope of learning more. And that was that. “He taught me a little,” says Jean. (more…)