Dr Fahy qualified in medicine at Middlesex Hospital/ UCL Medical
School in London in 1986, and moved into family medicine in 1987. Her
career spans 28 years as a family practitioner with experience in all
aspects of community based medicine. Dr Fahy is an advocate of holistic
practice, offering continuing, and comprehensive whole-person centered
health care to individuals and their families. She successfully
completed her Diploma in Family Planning, Obstetrics and Gynaecology in
1988. She went on to complete her GP training in 1990, and
successfully acquired her membership of the Royal College of General
Practice with distinction in 1992. She completed her teacher training
in 2001, and obtained the Post Graduate Certificate in Education and
Leadership from Kent University in 2015.
Dr Fahy’s areas of particular interest are: women’s health, family
planning, and minor surgery. She is also experienced in fitting IUD and
sub-dermal contraceptive devices. Having three grown up sons of her
own, and years of experience in offering antenatal and postnatal care
as well as baby check clinics enables her to offer these services as
required. She has been working in Surrey UK until relocating to Cayman
in January 2018, joining her husband who has been working in Cayman
since summer of 2014.
For the latter half of her career, Dr Fahy has been heavily involved
in teaching and training new GPs and medical students in south of
England in collaboration with Universities of Brighton and St. George’s
Hospital Medical Schools. She has also held the posts of GP Tutor and
GP Specialty Training Supervisor at Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery
since 2006. As part of her educational role Dr Fahy has been a medical
appraiser for recertification and revalidation of GPs in the Surrey area
of UK since 2006. She has set up educational websites and runs
training sessions for doctors endeavoring to encourage learning from
each other through sharing their experiences as well as case based
discussions. In recent years her particular interest in acute medicine has taken her
to working in ER and offering her services for walk-in patients.
Medicine and helping people has been a passion since childhood,
with both her parents working in the profession. Her father headed
setting up primary health care centers in rural Iran, and her mother was
chief nurse in the local hospital. Her spare time and holiday periods
during her childhood was spent shadowing her parents, observing and
learning, so choosing a career in the health care system was a seamless
journey. During senior school, holiday periods were spent back in the
local hospital initially as a domestic cleaner, then nursing assistant,
followed by intern jobs once qualified, in the same hospital working
alongside her mother. Having left the world of hospital medicine once
qualified as a GP, working in the community and looking after
generations of families through the years, watching the children grow up
and have their own children has been very satisfying. Through personal
experience, helping charities has been a big part of her time outside
of work, raising funds for the local hospice through organizing fund
raising events as well as running in half marathons.
She is married with three grown up sons, and enjoys walking her
lively Yorkie who despite aging still has the energy of a puppy. Moving
to Cayman has been a big step but is a very exciting challenge.
Medicine and health have no borders, and she hopes to be able to
continue her work here and get to know people and offer her services.