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CHARTER MEETING
‘CHARTER GOES GLOBAL’
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 February 2021
CPD ACCREDITATION
2 FEBRUARY 2021 3 FEBRUARY 2021 4 FEBRUARY 2021
NOCA = 2 CREDITS NCPS = 2.5 CREDITS FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINERS = 1 CREDIT
ICW = 1 CREDIT VIDEOSURGERY = 2 CREDITS MILLIN MEETING (AM) = 2 CREDITS
MILLIN MEETING (PM) = 4 CREDITS
5 FEBRUARY 2021 6 FEBRUARY 2021
CHARTER DAY (AM) = 3 CREDITS ISTG MEETING = 4 CREDITS
CHARTER DAY (PM) = 3 CREDITS
* CPD only awarded for sessions attended. All delegates must use personal attendee link to ensure attendance is recorded.
RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
As President, it is my great pleasure to invite you to
participate in our Charter Week in which
we celebrate the heritage of the College in a meeting
to commemorate the Royal Charter of King George III
in 1784. In doing so we extend a warm welcome to our
Fellows, Members, Alumni, Faculty, Students, Staff and the
broader healthcare community in Ireland and overseas.
This year, COVID-19 has forced changes and sadly I cannot
welcome you to the College in person. The meeting will
be entirely online. However far from diminishing the depth
and quality of the meeting, digital technology has allowed
us to transform and enhance the programme to include
Symposia on sepsis, innovation, ethnic diversity, research
120 speakers from 5 continents who will contribute to 4
in surgical training, the inaugural meeting of the Faculty
days of clinical and scientific discourse.
of Surgical Trainers, symposia in each of the surgical
and Faculty disciplines, the annual NOCA and Clinical
There are many highlights in the programme including
Programmes in Surgery meetings, the annual Video
the Millin Lecture to be delivered by Mr Colin Peirce from
Surgery meeting, the intervarsity clinical case competition,
Limerick, the Carmichael Lecture by Mr Fintan O’Toole,
the Irish Surgical Training Group meeting and Máire
Irish Times journalist, the J&J lecture by Professor Vivian
Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, a current medical student and
McAlister from Ontario Canada, the 96th Abraham Colles
sports broadcaster, interviewing RCSI graduates Grace
Lecture by Professor James Lau from Hong Kong and the
O’Flanagan Irish field hockey international and Danielle
Bosco O’Mahony Lecture by Professor Peter Gillen.
Mah former chief physiotherapist with Rugby Canada
complete the programme in which I believe there is
We are honoured to have the participation of H.E. Dr.
something of interest to all.
Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of
Bhutan, who is also a trained urological surgeon, Professor
I would like to thank our industry sponsors who are
Sergelen Orgoi, a leading transplant surgeon from
supporting Charter Week 2021. RCSI is delighted to work
Mongolia, Professor Dhananjaya Sharma from Jabalpur,
collaboratively with industry and I am particularly pleased
India, Professor Godfrey Muguti, President of COSESCA
to welcome this year’s industry sponsors to our first online
and Dr Barbara Bass, Honorary Fellow of the College and
Charter Week meeting. I encourage all delegates to visit
past-President of the American College of Surgeons - as
our virtual exhibition area on our Charter Week platform
speakers on the symposium on Global Perspectives in
to find out more about each sponsor, connect with their
Surgery.
teams and learn about their products and services to
support you as clinicians and healthcare professionals.
On Thursday 4th February I will confer RCSI’s highest
recognition, Honorary Fellowship, to Professor Chung-
I wish to acknowledge the enormous efforts of the
Mau Lo, CEO The University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen
organizing committee, Vice-President Prof Laura Viani,
Hospital, China and director of Liver Transplant Surgery,
Prof Sean Tierney, Mr Kieran Ryan, Mr Padraig Kelly, Ms
Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong in recognition of
Louise Loughran, Ms Cara McVeigh, Ms Aoife Mahon, Ms
his seminal work in transplantation and outstanding
Claire Phelan, Ms Paula Curtin, Ms Robyn Byrt, Mr Gordon
achievement in the reform of the public hospital system
Jamieson, Mrs Kate Smith and the Conference and Events
in Shenzhen. Mr David Costello, Irish Consul General to
office. Thank you all.
Hong Kong and Macao has graciously agreed to act as my
intermediary.
Professor P. Ronan O’Connell
President
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RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
THE RCSI ROYAL CHARTER
In 1765 Sylvester O’Halloran, a surgeon from Limerick, had proposed a College of
Surgeons in Ireland along the lines of the College de St. Cosme in Paris, which had
been regulating French surgery since its creation by Royal Charter by Louis IX in 1255.
O’Halloran called for a college of surgery to be founded in Dublin to train, educate and
examine persons in the art of surgery. This led to a group of Dublin surgeons joining
together and forming the Dublin Society of Surgeons in 1780. The main goals of the
society were to separate surgeons from the Barber Surgeons Guild and provide surgical
training, education and regulation in Ireland. They lobbied for a Royal Charter in 1781
and presented the Lord Lieutenant with their petition. The Lord Lieutenant presented
the petition to King George III who saw it fit to grant a Royal Charter on 11 February 1784
establishing the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The first President was Samuel
Croker-King (1728-1817) and the first Professor of Surgery was William Dease (1752-1798).
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RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
Tuesday 2 February 2021
Tuesday 2
Time Title Page
National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) Webinar
in conjunction with RCSI Charter Meeting
14.00 – 16.00 NOCA Webinar
19.00 – 20.00 In Conversation With…
Wednesday 3
Wednesday 3 February 2021
National Clinical Programmes in Surgery Webinar NCPS
in conjunction with RCSI Charter Meeting
14.00 – 16.30 National Clinical Programmes in Surgery Webinar
17.00 – 19.00 31st Annual VideoSurgery Meeting
19.00 – 21.00 15th Annual Intercollegiate Case Presentations
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Thursday, 4 February 2021
FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINER’S PROGRAMME
09.30 – 09.35 Welcome & Introduction
09.35 – 10.00 Surgical Training in Times of Stress
10.00 – 10.25 Surgical Fellowships in the COVID Era – An International Perspective
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10.25 – 10.40 The Future Delivery of Surgical Education in Multiple Sites. What Is
Possible in Model 4 and Model 3 Hospitals
10.40 – 10.45 Close
MILLIN MEETING
11.00 – 12.40 Session I: Innovation
12.40 – 13.10 28th Carmichael Lecture
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13.10 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
14.00 – 15.30 Session II: Global Perspectives
15.50 – 17.20 Session III: President’s Symposium
17.30 – 18.00 43rd Millin Lecture
18.00 Honorary Fellowship: Professor Chung-Mau Lo
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Friday 5 February 2021
Tuesday 2
Time Title Page
CHARTER DAY MEETING
10.00 – 11.15 Welcome and Plenary Session I: Sepsis
11.15 – 11.30 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
10.00 – 11.30 Parallel Sessions I – RCSI Faculties & Irish Institute of Pharmacy
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(IIOP)
11.30 – 13.00 Parallel Sessions II – RCSI Specialty Groups
13.00 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
14.00 – 14.30 Johnson & Johnson Lecture
14.30 – 14.45 Awards & Presentations
14.45 – 15.45 Plenary Session II: Ethnic Diversity
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15.45 – 16.15 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
16.15 – 17.00 96th Abraham Colles Lecture
Saturday 6 February 2021
09.00 – 12.00 Irish Surgical Training Group Meeting (ISTG)
Friday 5
including the Bosco O’Mahony Lecture
Virtual Exhibition Hall Opening Hours
Tuesday 2 February Wednesday 3 February Thursday 4 February Friday 5 February
13.30 – 14.00 13.30 – 14.00 09.00 - 09.30 09.30 - 10.00
16.00 – 17.00 16.00 – 17.00 13.10 – 14.00 13.00 – 14.00
15.30 – 15.50 15.45 - 16.15
Saturday 6
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RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
TUESDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
NATIONAL OFFICE OF CLINICAL AUDIT (NOCA) WEBINAR
QUALITY TIME - THE VALUE OF GETTING IT RIGHT 14.00 – 16.00
Moderator: Dr Philip Crowley
Wednesday 3
National Director, National Quality Improvement Team (NQIT), HSE
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome Address
Mr Kenneth Mealy
NOCA Chair
14.15 – 14.45 KEYNOTE: QUALITY ASSURES BEST OUTCOMES
Professor Pat O’Mahony
Chair of HIQA and Director of Clinical Research Development Ireland
14.45 – 15.15 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - SHIFTING THE PARADIGM
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Dr Joan Power
Consultant Haematologist, Irish Blood Transfusion Service
15.15 – 15.35 COVID-19 IN IRELAND; HOW ICU COPED
Dr Rory Dwyer
Clinical Lead, Irish National ICU Audit, NOCA
15.35 – 15.50 NOCA REFLECTIONS AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Dr Brian Creedon
Clinical Director, NOCA
Friday 5
15.50 – 16.00 NOCA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT CHAMPION AWARD & CLOSING ADDRESS
Ms Collette Tully
Executive Director, NOCA
Saturday 6
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Tuesday 2
IN CONVERSATION WITH... 19.00 – 20.00
THE IMPORTANCE OF RESILIENCE - FROM SPORT TO HEALTHCARE
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the resilience of healthcare professionals and healthcare
systems across the world. In light of this, RCSI Alumni Team are honoured to invite two RCSI Alumni to
speak to the importance of resilience and to discuss how healthcare professionals can learn from the
experiences of those in high performance sporting environments.
Dr Grace O’Flanagan (Class of 2019), an Ireland Women’s field hockey international and surgical
trainee in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, as well as Danielle Mah (Class of 2008), former
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Head Physiotherapist and Medical Manager with Rugby Caanada, will join our MC, Máire Treasa Ní
Cheallaigh, Newstalk Sports Broadcaster and current RCSI Medical Student, on the panel.
Tune in as they identify the links between high performance sporting and medical settings as well as
discussing a range of topics including resilience, teamwork, balance and equality.
Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh
The MC for ‘In Conversation With’ is Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, who is a third
year RCSI GEM student. A fluent Irish speaker with over a decade working
bilingually in radio, television and print journalism with Raidió na Gaeltachta, TG4,
RTÉ, The Irish Times, Eir Sport, Sky Sports and Newstalk. She is also a podcast
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host and a Sport Ireland accredited sport psychologist.
Grace O’Flanagan
Grace graduated with a first class Honours degree in Medicine and Surgery
(MB BCh BAO) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2016. Prior
to her medical studies she obtained a Bachelor of Commerce (hons) from
University College Dublin (UCD). She is a current surgical trainee, specialising in
otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital.
She has previously trained at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Northwestern Memorial
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Hospital and St. Vincent’s University Hospital. Grace has represented Ireland in
the hockey World Cup, World League, and European Championships. She has
two hockey All-Ireland titles, two national cup titles, and European club bronze and gold medals.
Danielle Mah
Danielle Mah obtained a BSc (Hon) in Physiotherapy from the Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland in 2008 having started her academic journey at the University
of British Columbia where she completed a BSc (Hon) in Human Kinetics. Her
passions lie in professional sport and pelvic health. In addition to private practice
in Ireland, Danielle’s background spans time working for the FAI as well as the
Irish Club Rugby, Bective Rangers, which bridged her move back to Canada in
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2013, to work with Rugby Canada. Danielle served as the Head Physiotherapist
and Medical Manager for Rugby Canada for 7 years, most recently, travelling to
the qualifier for the Olympics in Tokyo 2020 (*2021) with the Men’s Sevens Team. Currently, with the
birth of her daughter in December 2019, Danielle has transitioned from her full-time work in sport to
Private Practice.
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
NATIONAL CLINICAL PROGRAMMES IN SURGERY 14.00 – 16.30
MODELS FOR SCHEDULED CARE DELIVERY
14.00 – 14.10 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Professor Deborah McNamara
Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for National Clinical Programme in
Surgery
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Mr David Moore
Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Programme
14.10 – 14.30 SLÁINTECARE – THE VISION FOR AMBULATORY DAY CARE
Mr Kenneth Mealy
Past President RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for National Clinical Programme
in Surgery
Ms Laura Magahy
Executive Director Sláintecare
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14.30 – 15.00 KEYNOTE
GETTING IT RIGHT FIRST TIME (GIRFT)
Professor Tim Briggs (CBE)
National Director of Clinical Improvement for the NHS and Chair of GIRFT
15.00 – 15.15 BREAK
15.15 – 15.45 DAY SURGERY – THE UK EXPERIENCE AND LESSONS LEARNED
Dr Kim Russon
President of British Association of Day Surgery (BADS)
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15.45 – 16.15 PANEL DISCUSSION WITH SPECIALTY LEADS
Clinical Advisors for Surgery and T&O
16.15 – 16.30 CLOSE
Professor Deborah McNamara
Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for National Clinical Programme
in Surgery
Mr Paddy Kenny
Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Saturday 6
Programme
NCPS
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National Clinical Programmes
The RCSI National Clinical Programmes in Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Emer-
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gency Medicine, enable surgeons, consultants in emergency medicine doctors, nurses,
health and social care professionals, and hospital managers with expertise in their clini-
cal service area, to work in collaboration to develop standardised care pathways, clinical
guidelines and models of care for the patient journey. These models of care emphasise ev-
idenced-based pathways and new ways of working to support better patient access and
quality of care.
https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/practice/national-clinical-programmes
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The programmes have three main objectives:
• Improve the quality of care we deliver to all users of HSE services
• Improve access to all services
• Improve cost-effectiveness
Harnessing multidisciplinary expertise supports the development of improvements that are
patient-centred and have a positive impact on health service delivery. Quality Improvement
methodologies are the cornerstones to all RCSI programmes and are used to continually
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improve and enhance our patients’ journey in what can be a complex health system.
The RCSI National Clinical Programmes report directly into both the RCSI Committee for
Surgical Affairs (CSA) and the HSE’s National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead, Acute Oper-
ations. This CSA Committee meets regularly and its membership includes the clinical leads
and representatives of all 11 surgical specialties.
The RCSI’s Programme Office works closely with the other National Clinical Programmes,
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notably the National Clinical Programme in Anesthesia and Critical Care. It also works with
other programmes, when requested, as well as hospital groups, specialty associations, pa-
tient advocacy groups and all relevant stakeholders across the healthcare system.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on emergency medicine, surgeons
and surgical practice. You will face many challenging situations across every aspect of your
practice.The RCSI Clinical Programme has collated a series of resources for surgeons in
practice, trainees and other professional involved in front line patient care during the cur-
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rent COVID-19 epidemic. These rources are available through the Clinical Programmes
COVID Hub.
https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/coronavirus/surgical-practice
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RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
31st ANNUAL VIDEOSURGERY 17.00 – 19.00
EMERGENCY SURGERY
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Thursday 4
Friday 5
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
15th ANNUAL INTERCOLLEGIATE CASE COMPETITION 19.00 – 21.00
The Intercollegiate Case Competition is an annual event hosted by RCSI among the surgical societies of the medical
schools in Ireland in which the winner of each of the individual university case competitions presents his / her clinical
case to an audience of medical students from all 7 medical schools. The winner is selected by an independent panel
and is awarded the Bouchier-Hayes Medal named in honour of the late Professor David Bouchier-Hayes former
Professor of Surgery in RCSI.
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Judges for 2021:
• Professor Rory McConn Walsh, RCSI
• Ms Bridget Egan, Council Member, RCSI; Chair Faculty of Surgical Trainers
• Professor Aoife Lowery, Associate Professor of Surgery, NUI Galway
• Professor Rustom Manecksha, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin
The medal is presented by Professor David Bouchier-Hayes, Consultant Urologist and Robotic Surgeon, Galway
Clinic and Honorary Associate Professor, RCSI.
The current RCSI Student President is Ms Reem AlShimali and the Faculty President is Professor Camilla Carroll,
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Council Member RCSI.
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINER’S PROGRAMME
09.30 – 09.35 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Ms Bridget Egan
Chair Faculty of Surgical Trainer’s; Council Member, RCSI
09.35 – 10.00 SURGICAL TRAINING IN TIMES OF STRESS
Professor Richard Reznick, FRCSI (Hon)
Wednesday 3
Queen’s University, President Elect Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada
10.00 – 10.25 SURGICAL FELLOWSHIPS IN THE COVID ERA - AN INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
General Surgery
Mr Peadar Waters
Australia
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Mr Niall McGoldrick,
Clinical Fellow in Adult Reconstruction Surgery (Hip & Knee), The Ottawa Hospital,
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Canada
Vascular Surgery
Mr Mekki Medani
Canada
Urology
Professor Damien Bolton
Professor of Urology Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia
Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
Mr Conall Fitzgerald
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, USA
Plastic Surgery
Ms Anne Collins
New Zealand
Ms Christine Quinlan
Senior Fellow in Limb Reconstruction, Oxford University Hospitals
10.25 – 10.45 THE FUTURE DELIVERY OF SURGICAL EDUCATION IN MULTIPLE SITES.
WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN MODEL 4 AND MODEL 3 HOSPITALS
Professor Dara Byrne
Saturday 6
Professor of Simulation, NUI Galway, Director of Simulation ICAPSS
Mr Sean Johnston & Mr Eoin Sheehan
Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore,
National Training Programmes, Orthopaedics & Surgery
10.40 – 10.45 Session Close
Ms Bridget Egan
Chair Faculty of Surgical Trainer’s; Council Member, RCSI
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The Faculty of Surgical Trainers role is to promote, enhance and support the role of the
surgical trainer.
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The establishment of a Faculty of Surgical Trainers is a recognition by RCSI that the devel-
opment and further improvement of surgical training will contribute to the goal of develop-
ing the highest standards of professionalism and patient care.
The Faculty will pursue the following objectives:
• The Faculty’s core objective is the pursuit of excellence in surgical training with the
specific goal of improving how postgraduate training is delivered leading to an im-
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proved training experience and ultimately better patient outcomes.
• Recognise the role that trainers play in the delivery of surgical training
• Advocate on behalf of trainers
• Develop programs that will support and develop consultant surgeons in their roles as
trainers
• Reward excellence in training Improve the standard of teaching of postgraduate medi-
cal education within the RCSI and clinical training sites
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• The Faculty will support specialities in the delivery of the Core and Specialty curricu-
lums
• Explore the development and recognition of professional pathways for surgical trainers
• Champion the continuing excellence in postgraduate surgical training as a whole
• Develop training initiatives that focus on equipping trainees to work in a multi-disci-
plinary working environment
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• Design and deliver a communication strategy that promotes and disseminates the
messages that excellent postgraduate training means excellent and safe patient care
You can get more details on the Faculty of Surgical Trainers via the following link:
https://msurgery.ie/home/trainer-support-section/faculty-of-surgical-trainers/mission-
and-terms-of-reference/
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
MILLIN MEETING
11.00 – 11.05 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Professor P. Ronan O’Connell
President, RCSI
11.05 – 12.40 SESSION I: INNOVATION
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Co-Chair: Mr Eamon Mackle
Council Member, RCSI; Consultant General Surgeon, Craigavon Area Hospital,
Northern Ireland
Dr Sarah Early
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Clinical Lead of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
St James’s Hospital, Dublin
11.05 – 11.20 INNOVATION IN SIMULATION
Professor Walter Eppich
Chair of Simulation Education and Research, RCSI
11.20 – 11.35 DIGITALLY ENHANCED LEARNING
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Dr Dara Cassidy
Head of Online Education, RCSI
11.35 – 11.50 TISSUE RE-ENGINEERING
Professor Fergal O’Brien
Director of Research, RCSI
11.50 – 12.05 NEXT GENERATION IMAGING
Dr Brendan S Kelly
ICAT HRB/Wellcome Trust Academic Fellow, St Vincent’s University Hospital and
Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCD
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12.05 – 12.20 NEXT GENERATION PLATFORMS FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY
Professor Ronan Cahill
Professor of Surgery, UCD Centre of Precision Surgery, UCD/Mater Misericordiae
University Hospital
12.20 – 12.40 DISCUSSION
12.40 – 13.10 28th CARMICHAEL LECTURE
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC WEALTH
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Mr Fintan O’Toole, Irish columnist, literary editor, and drama critic for The Irish Times,
for which he has written since 1988. O’Toole was drama critic for the New York Daily
News from 1997 to 2001 and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of
Books.
Introduced & Chaired by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI
Medal Presentation by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI
13.10 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
14.00 – 15.30 SESSION II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Co-Chair: Professor Mark Shrime
O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery, RCSI
Professor Camilla Carroll
Council Member, RCSI; RCSI Chair, Committee for International Co-operation &
Development
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14.00 – 14.15 CHALLENGES IN THE DELIVERY OF SURGICAL SERVICES AND SURGICAL
EDUCATION IN BHUTAN
His Excellency Dr Lotay Tshering
Prime Minister Royal Government of Bhutan
14.15 – 14.30 DEVELOPMENT OF SURGICAL CARE IN MONGOLIA
Professor Sergelen Orgoi
Head of Department of Surgery, Liver Transplantation Team Leader, Mongolian
National University of Medical Science; Vice President of the Mongolian Surgical
Association
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14.30 – 14.45 THE ‘GLOCAL’ IDEOLOGY: KEY TO GLOBAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION
Professor Dhananjaya Sharma
Head, Department of Surgery, NSCB Government Medical College, Jabalpur, India
14.45 – 15.00 DEVELOPING PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY IN ZIMBABWE AND
THE COSECSA REGION
Professor Godfrey Ignatius Muguti
President, College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa; Professor of
Surgery and Chair, University of Zimbabwe; Clinical Professor of Surgery, Stanford
University
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15.00 – 15.15 ACTIVITIES OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN GLOBAL SURGERY
Dr Barbara Bass MD, FRCSI (Hon)
Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences,
Chief Executive Officer, The GW Medical Faculty Associates, Professor of Surgery,
George Washington University
15.15 – 15.30 DISCUSSION
15.30 – 15.50 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
15.50 – 17.20 SESSION III: PRESIDENT’S SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Professor P. Ronan O’Connell
President RCSI
15.50 – 16.05 THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN TRAINING
Professor April Roslani
President of the College of Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Malaysia.
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16.05 – 16.20 RESEARCH IN SURGICAL TRAINING - PROMOTING OPPORTUNITY AND
FLEXIBILITY
Professor Aoife Lowery
Associate Professor of Surgery, NUI Galway
16.20 – 16.35 HOW TO ORGANISE REGIONAL MEANINGFUL RESEARCH
Professor Søren Laurberg
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
16.35 – 16.50 BENEFITING PATIENTS THROUGH SURGICAL RESEARCH NETWORKS
Professor Dion Morton
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Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Barling Professor of Surgery, Head of Academic Department of Surgery, University of
Birmingham
16.50 – 17.05 POACHER TURNED GAMEKEEPER: THINGS I’VE LEARNT SINCE BECOMING A
RESEARCH FUNDER
Professor Sara Marshall
Head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences, Wellcome Trust
17.05 – 17.20 DISCUSSION
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17.20 – 18.00 43rd MILLIN LECTURE
ELECTRODES TO ROBOTS - EVIDENCE BASED CHANGE IN SURGICAL
PRACTICE
Delivered by Mr Colin Peirce, MD, FRCSI
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospital Limerick
Introduced & Chaired by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI
Medal Presentation by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
18.00 – 18.20 RCSI HONORARY FELLOWSHIP VIRTUAL CONFERRING
We welcome you to join us for the virtual Honorary Fellowship Conferring which will
be awarded to Professor Chung-Mau Lo.
Hospital Chief Executive
The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital;
Chin Lan-Hong Professor and Chair of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery,
The University of Hong Kong;
Director of the Liver Transplant Center, Queen Mary Hospital
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The citation will be delivered by Mr Kenneth Mealy, Past President, RCSI
and the Honorary Fellow will be admitted by the
President of RCSI, Professor P. Ronan O’Connell.
RCSI extends thanks to Mr David Costello, Consul General of Ireland to Hong Kong &
Macau for hosting a special event in Hong Kong in honour of our Honorary Fellow.
The Honorary Fellowship of RCSI is the highest distinction the College bestows.
The award recognises outstanding achievement in surgery and other areas. Previous
recipients of this honour include Louis Pasteur, Harvey Cushing, Mother Teresa,
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Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Ed Copeland, Tom DeMeester, John Manning.
A full list of RCSI Honorary Fellow recipients can be found here
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021
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SESSION I: INNOVATION
Professor Walter Eppich recent rapid transition to online teaching in response
Walter Eppich, MD, PhD is Professor and Chair of RCSI to the COVID pandemic has seen her lead the Digitally
SIM, the Centre for Simulation Education and Research Engaged Learning project within RCSI, a cross-functional
at RCSI. Walter teaches extensively on basic and project that has brought together a team including
advanced simulation educator courses and has spoken educational developers, IT, Media Services, Programme
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about simulation, feedback, and debriefing around the Administrators, academic and students to develop
world. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles and deliver an extensive digital education training
and book chapters and co-founded Debrief2Learn.org, programme to RCSI academic and student support
an online, open access resource for healthcare simulation staff and enhance the infrastructure to support digital
educators. learning.
Building on a clinical background as a paediatric Her research interests lie in socio-cultural perspectives on
emergency physician, Walter’s research uses qualitative identity and learning, in particular teacher identity; online
methodologies to study team reflection, healthcare orientation process and the development of presence
debriefing, and team adaptation. He earned a PhD and community in online programmes.
in Medical Education from Maastricht University with
a thesis entitled “Learning through Talk: The Role of Professor Fergal O’Brien
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Discourse in Medical Education”. He collaborates with Fergal O’Brien is Professor of Bioengineering &
team and organizational psychologists to study team Regenerative Medicine, Director for Research &
processes both in and outside of healthcare. In 2018, Innovation and Head of the Tissue Engineering Research
he travelled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic Group in the RCSI. He is also Deputy Director of the
field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews SFI-funded Advanced Materials and Bioengineering
to understand what enables Antarctic research teams Research Centre (AMBER). His research focuses on the
to adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme development of natural polymer-based biomaterial
environments. Healthcare is also characterized by “scaffolds” for the repair of bone, cartilage, tympanic
extreme environments in instances of intense time- membrane, skin, respiratory, neural and other tissues.
pressure and high patient acuity. This work contributes A major focus of ongoing research has been to
to his research program with the goal of delineating the functionalise these scaffolds for use as delivery systems
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contribution of workplace talk and team interactions to for regenerative biomolecules such as nucleic acids
learning and performance. (pDNA, siRNA, miRNA), enhancing their therapeutic
potential; these scaffolds are also used as advanced 3D
Dr Dara Cassidy pathophysiology in vitro systems for drug development
Dr Dara Cassidy is Head of Online Education at RCSI, and understanding disease states in cancer,
with responsibility for developing and executing RCSI’s angiogenesis, immunology and infection. Significant
digital learning roadmap. Over a 20-year career she has research is focused on 3D-printing technologies and the
been immersed in the world digital learning, including development of new bioinks for tissue repair.
many years at Hibernia College, an early leader in O’Brien has published over 240 journal articles,
blended education in Ireland, where she established and supervised >40 doctoral students to completion, filed
developed the Digital Learning Department. She has led 20 patents/disclosures and translated 2 regenerative
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numerous online and blended education initiatives for technologies for bone and cartilage repair to the clinic.
EU-funded projects – including the Innovative Medicines His current h-index is 73 (Google Scholar). He has
Initiative, Pharmatrain and EUPATI projects; philanthropic secured over €23M in research funding as PI including
organisations including the Bill and Melinda Gates three prestigious European Research Council Awards,
Foundation and commercial enterprises, including HP, most recently a €3M Advanced Grant (2018). In 2018
Novartis and Pfizer. he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest
She has been engaged in a range projects with the academic honour in Ireland.
National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and
Learning, most recently as Lead Developer of an online
CPD course for HE staff to support attainment of a
digital badge, a novel form of micro-credential. The
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Dr Brendan S Kelly MB BCh BAO BSc MSc MRCSI
28th CARMICHAEL LECTURE
Dr Brendan Kelly is an ICAT Clinical academic fellow at
UCD and a Radiology Specialist Registrar at St Vincent’s
University Hospital. The Wellcome-Health Research
Board Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme
is a unique all Ireland cross-institutional, comprehensive
national programme for Clinician Scientists based at
six major Irish universities and their affiliated hospital
groups. A UCD graduate of Radiography and of
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Medicine, Brendan received his Membership of the
Royal College of Surgeons in 2016, and MSc from NUI
Galway in 2017. His research interests are in the clinical
application of Artificial Intelligence to radiology. In
2020 as a Fulbright HRB HealthImpact scholar, Brendan
attended the Stanford Department of Radiology and the
Stanford Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and
Imaging to investigate potential novel applications of AI
to radiology, with the goal of establishing collaborations
to achieve cutting edge clinical developments both in
Ireland and the US.
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Professor Ronan Cahill
To Follow Mr Fintan O’Toole
Fintan O’Toole is a columnist with The Irish Times,
Leonard L. Milberg visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at
Princeton University and a regular contributor to the New
York Review of Books. He has won both the Orwell Prize
for Journalism and the European Press Prize. His most
book is The Politics of Pain: Post War England and the
Rise of Nationalism (Liveright) and he is working on the
official biography of Seamus Heaney.
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Born in Dublin in 1958, he has been drama critic of In
Dublin magazine, The Sunday Tribune, the New York
Daily News, and The Irish Times and Literary Adviser to
the Abbey Theatre. He edited Magill magazine and since
1988, has been a columnist with the Irish Times.
Other books include A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
(2013). Enough is Enough (2010). Ship of Fools (2009),
The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (2006), White
Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
(2005), After the Ball (2003), Shakespeare is Hard but so is
Life (2002); The Irish Times Book of the Century (1999); A
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Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1997);
The Lie of the Land: Selected Essays (1997); The Ex-Isle
of Erin (1996); Black Hole, Green Card (1994); Meanwhile
Back at the Ranch (1995); A Mass for Jesse James (1990)
and The Politics of Magic: The Work and times of Tom
Murphy (1987).
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RCSI CHARTER DAY 2020
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SESSION II: I have learned during my travels as Honorary Visiting
Professor/ Guest Faculty for teaching a course to
GLOGAL PERSPECTIVES many universities in developed (Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Oxford University, Vienna Medical University)
His Excellency Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering, and developing countries (Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand,
Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Pakistan and
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan
Afghanistan), that the key to Global Surgery is not only
Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering is the Honourable Prime innovations for low-cost surgery but also collaborative
Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan. He is also the internationalism; because ‘Global means together’.
President of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa, a political party
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I have been awarded Honorary/ Ad Eundem fellowships
that formed the government following the elections in of Académie Nationale de Chirurgie France, Royal
2018. College of Surgeons of Thailand, International College
Prior to joining politics, he was the Head of His Majesty’s of Laparoscopic Surgeons and all four Royal Colleges of
Kidu Medical Unit from 2014 -2018 which caters medical Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. I am very proud of
welfare services to people across the country. He is a these academic honours; however, the ultimate reward I
Consultant Urologist with a Urology fellowship from earned is spiritual; as the principle of “Noblesse oblige”
Winconsin Medical College Hospital, USA & SGH, became my code of honour.
Singapore. He graduated with an MBBS degree from My favourite quotation sums up my philosophy:
Dhaka University, Bangladesh and has a Masters in “Attitudes are more important than abilities;
Business Management from the University of Canberra. Character is more important than cleverness”
Dasho Dr Tshering is the recipient of the prestigious Druk
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Thuksey Medal (The Royal Order of Bhutan) from His
Professor Godfrey Ignatius Muguti MS(Syd)
Majesty The King on December 17, 2017. On December
FCS(ECSA) FRCS(Edin) Hon.FRCS(Eng)
17, 2020, His Majesty The King conferred the sacred
Lungmar scarf to the Prime Minister for his efforts and Professor Muguti is the President of the College of
governance in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. With Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA).
the Lungmar scarf, the Prime Minister was conferred the He is the Professor of Surgery and Professorial Chair in the
title Dasho. Department of Surgery in the College of Health Sciences,
University of Zimbabwe. He is also a Clinical Professor
Professor Sergelen Orgoi of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Stanford
University School of Medicine. USA and Medical Director
Professor Orgoi is Head of the Department of Surgery
of The Avenues Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. Professor
and Liver Transplantation Team Leader at the Mongolian
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Muguti has served as a Commissioner on the Zimbabwe
National University of Medical Science. She is also Head
Health Review Commission and Foundation President
of the General Surgery Department of First Central
of the Surgical Society of Zimbabwe. He is past Editor -
Hospital Mongolia and also Vice President of the
in - Chief of the Central African Journal of Medicine. In
Mongolian Surgical Association.
1997 he was awarded the Honorary FRCS (Eng) by the
She is Professor of the Mongolian National University
Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical and
of Medical Science and is Head of the World Health
research interests are in general surgery and plastic and
Organisation collaborating Center MOG-1 for
reconstructive surgery.
Emergency and Essential Surgical Care.
Professor Orgoi has received numerus awards including
Dr Barbara Lee Bass, MD, FACS, FRCSI (hon), FRCS
the Honoured Doctor award from the President of
(hon), FCOSECSA (hon)
Mongolia and is an Honorary Fellow of American College
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of Surgeons. Barbara Lee Bass, MD, Professor of Surgery, serves as the
George Washington University Vice President for Health
Professor Dhananjaya Sharma Affairs, Dean of the GW School of Medicine and Health
Sciences, and Chief Executive Officer of The GW Medical
I am a lifelong activist and campaigner for ‘appropriate
Faculty Associates. In these roles, she leads the academic,
technology for health-care in developing world’ and
clinical, and research missions and has strategic direction
many of my 216 publications are on low-cost surgical
on all aspects of GW’s academic medical enterprise.
solutions to achieve health equity for underserved
Bass’ scholarship has included research in biological
populations. I consider myself truly blessed to be able
basic science, education and simulation, surgical quality
to ‘make a difference’ and do God’s work, even though I
measurement and system development, and most
don’t wear a Priest’s collar.
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recently application of computational sciences to surgical Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, Vice President for the
technology design, processes and disease modelling. Malaysian Society of Colorectal Surgeons, President for
Her professional service has included many leadership the Asia Pacific Federation of Coloproctology and Chair
positions, including as the 98th president of the American of the Conjoint Committee for Postgraduate Medical
College of Surgeons and Chair of the American Board Degrees. Through these and other related roles, she
of Surgery. Over the last 5 years she has had leadership works towards advancing surgical standards, and fairness
responsibilities in the global surgery work of the American in the workplace.
College of Surgeons
Bass is an advocate for equity and diversity for Professor Aoife Lowery
underrepresented minorities and women in surgery and
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Professor Aoife Lowery is Associate Professor of
health care careers, and known for fostering careers Translational Research and Surgery at NUI Galway and
of clinician-scientists and diverse leaders in academic a Consultant Breast & Endocrine Surgeon at Galway
medicine. University Hospital
Bass earned her BS from Tufts University and MD from the Her clinical training was undertaken in the National
University of Virginia. She completed training in general University of Ireland Galway (MB BCh BAO, MRCS)
surgery at George Washington University and a research and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Higher
fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Surgical Training Programme (FRCS). She subsequently
serving as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. completed an International Fellowship in Endocrine
Prior to joining GW, Bass served as Professor and Chair Surgery at France’s pre-eminent Endocrine Surgery
of Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell unit in Marseille, funded by the prestigious Richard
Medicine. Steeven’s Scholarship and further developed her interest
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in minimally invasive endocrine surgery at Kliniken Essen
Mitte, Germany.
SESSION III: Professor Lowery’s academic training includes
completion of a PhD on the Molecular Medicine Ireland
PRESIDENT’S SYMPOSIUM Clinician Scientist Fellowship Training Programme,
in addition to a Masters in Medical Science and a
Professor Dr April Camilla Roslani Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education at NUI
Galway. She has contributed extensively to the field of
FAMM, FACS (Hon), FASI (Hon) (India), FCSSL (Hon)
cancer research, with 95 peer reviewed publications and
(Sri Lanka), FAMS (Singapore), FRCS (Glasgow), FRCS
>4000 citations. She is a recipient of numerous national
(Edinburgh), Clinical Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery
and international awards including the Millin and Sir
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(Sing), MS (Mal), MBBCh (Wales), BSc (Hons) (Wales)
Robert Smyth Medals. Her research portfolio includes
Professor Dr April Roslani graduated in 1995, and cancer genetics, biomarker discovery and a focus on
received the Master of Surgery in 2003. In 2007, how emerging biological information integrates with
she established University Malaya Medical Centre’s evolving surgical/locoregional cancer management,
Colorectal Surgery Unit, which is now the largest in the in addition to a focus on survivorship issues for breast
country, and a key stakeholder in colorectal training and cancer patients. Her research is patient-centred and
services nationally and regionally. she values interdisciplinary collaboration with scientists
Until recently, she was Head of the Department of and bioengineers to identify novel solutions to clinical
Surgery, comprising six specialty divisions and six sub- challenges. Current collaborations include investigating
specialty units. As part of the hospital’s COVID-19 Task minimally invasive approaches to tumour ablation as part
Force, she coordinated the surgical pandemic response. of the SFI funded AI for Societal Good Challenge. Aoife
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She is currently Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of is also actively engaged in surgical education, research
Malaya. training and mentorship as Year 5 Head in the School
Her areas of expertise include surgery for colorectal of Medicine NUI Galway and an Associate Director of
cancer, proctology, surgical training and professionalism. the HRB-Wellcome Trust funded Irish Clinical Academic
She is also a local resource person for surgical Training (ICAT) programme.
management of inflammatory bowel disease.
Discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment and
harassment in the workplace, in addition to advocacy for
women, are recent foci of her work.
She is currently President for the College of Surgeons,
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Professor Søren Laurberg Professor Sara Marshall, MBChB, PhD, FRCP(E),
Søren Laurberg is Clinical Professor at the Department of FRCPath
Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital Denmark, Sara is head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences at
Denmark’s largest health science institute. He has the Wellcome Trust, and oversees the clinical careers
focused on the looking beyond cancer at the long term portfolio, which includes the highly successful Clinical
side effects of cancer treatment. In his postgraduate PhD programmes, and the Clinical Research Career
teaching career he has pioneered National MDT Development Fellowships. As part of Wellcome’s
and laparoscopic specialist courses, supervising 35 Science Executive, she helps shape strategic funding
successfully defended PhDs and has published more across the biomedical sciences.
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than 400 peer reviewed articles. Sara did her medical training at RCSI, Class of 1987,
In his early career he specialised in the functional (back in the ancient days of Jervis Street Hospital), and
problems of the bowel and worked as a research fellow she subsequently worked in Blanchardstown, Stanford,
at the pioneering intuition, Sir Allan Parks Ano-rectal Cambridge and Oxford. Most recently she was Professor
Physiology Unit, St Mark’s Hospital, London. He went of Clinical Immunology at the University of Dundee,
on to found and lead the Ano-rectal Physiology Unit in where she led the Dundee Clinical Academic Track,
Aarhus while training to become a consultant in Aarhus. amongst other things.
Professor Laurberg is a Past President of European Sara will talk about things she wished she had known
Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and founder and when she was applying for grant funding.
first chairman of the Research Committee of ESCP. He
is, amongst many others, an Honorary Member of the
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland
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and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of
Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
Professor Dion Morton
Professor Morton is Barling Professor of Surgery and
Head of the Academic Surgery at the University of
Birmingham. He received his degree in Medicine from
Bristol University in 1985. He was given an honorary
consultant appointment at the University Hospital
Birmingham in 1996. Dion was awarded an OBE in the
Queens Honours list 2020 for Services to Innovation in
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the NHS
Since 2017, he has been co-director of the NIHR Global
Health Research Unit on Global Surgery and was Director
of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine
Centre from 2007-2019. He is currently interim CMO
for the Central and South Genomic Medicine Service
Alliance. Nationally he was Director of Clinical Research
at the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2012-2019
and is past President of the Society for Academic and
Research Surgery (2015-17).
His primary research interests are clinical and
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translational research for colorectal cancer and the
development of clinical trials in surgery.
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43RD MILLIN LECTURE HONORARY FELLOWSHIP
CONFERRING
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Mr Colin Peirce, MD, FRCSI
Professor Chung-Mau Lo
Mr Peirce qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 2004
Hospital Chief Executive, The University of Hong Kong -
with 1st class honours in surgery and completed the
Shenzhen Hospital, Chin Lan-Hong Professor and Chair
Basic Surgical Training Scheme in the Dublin Region. He
of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The University
was awarded an MD by thesis from University College
of Hong Kong, Director of the Liver Transplant Center,
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Dublin and subsequently was a Surgical Lecturer there
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Queen Mary Hospital
for a year. He completed the Higher Surgical Training
Professor Chung-Mau Lo is the Hospital Chief Executive
Scheme in General Surgery followed by a 1-year
of The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital
Colorectal Clinical Fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic,
(HKU-SZH) and Chin Lan-Hong Professor of The University
Ohio, USA. He commenced his post in the University
of Hong Kong. He is internationally renowned for his
of Limerick Hospitals Group in 2016, where he is the
expertise in hepatobiliary surgery, liver cancer and liver
Clinical Lead for Robotic Colorectal Surgery and also the
transplantation. He has published 562 original articles
Hospital Based Director of Core Surgical Training.
in refereed international journals. His pioneering work
Mr Peirce has over 40 peer reviewed publications
in adult right liver living donor liver transplantation has
including 3 randomised controlled trials and has received
revolutionalized the practice of liver transplant world-
a number of national research grants and awards coupled
wide. As a result, he and his team were awarded China’s
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with a number of international travelling fellowships. He
top national honour of First-class State Scientific and
has given several invited international lectures including
Technological Progress Award in 2005 and First-class
at the Chinese Summit of Gastrointestinal Laparoscopy
Award in Research Achievements by the Ministry of
in Wuhan in 2017 and 2018. He was the first Irish recipient
Education of The People’s Republic of China in 2013.
of the European Society of Coloproctology Travelling
His academic standing in the field of surgery in general
Fellowship to Japan in 2014 and was awarded the RCSI
and liver transplantation in particular is duly recognized
Ethicon Travelling Fellowship in 2017 to visit Professor
by his appointment in various international professional
Seon-Hahn Kim in Seoul, South Korea. Outside of work,
organizations and in the editorial board of top journals
he is a keen golfer, cyclist and pianist.
in the field of surgery and transplantation. He was the
President of the International Liver Transplantation Society
and the International Society for Digestive Surgery.
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He has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the
American Surgical Association and the American College
of Surgeons, and Honorary Member of the European
Surgical Association.
Under the leadership of Professor Lo, the HKU-SZH
successfully pilots public hospital reform in China by
integrating the management system in Hong Kong
and the mainland. The Hospital became the youngest
High-level Hospital of Guangdong Province in 2018 and
received Shenzhen municipal city Mayor’s Quality Gold
Award in Social Category in 2020.
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More than 100 courses aimed at supporting NCHDs at all stages of their careers
to meet their professional development needs.
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CHARTER DAY
PLENARY SESSION
10.00 Presidents Welcome
Professor P. Ronan O’Connell
President, RCSI
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10.05 – 11.30 PLENARY SESSION I
SEPSIS
Co-Chairs: Professor Steve Kerrigan
Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences,
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor H. Paul Redmond
Council Member, RCSI; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Cork
University Hospital and University College Cork
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10.05 – 10.15 UPDATE ON GLOBAL BURDEN OF SEPSIS
Professor Simon Finfer AO
The George Institute for Global Health
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
10.15 – 10.25 SEPSIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE – WHERE TWO WORLDS COLLIDE?
Dr Fidelma Fitzpatrick
Senior Lecturer RCSI, Consultant Microbiologist Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and
Chair, HSE National Sepsis Governance Committee
10.25 – 10.35 IMAGING INNATE IMMUNITY IN VARIOUS ORGANS DURING INFECTION
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Dr Paul Kubes
Professor/ Lead: VPR Strategic Research Priority- Infections Inflammation and Chronic
Diseases, University of Calgary, Canada
10.35 – 10.45 CELL THERAPIES APPROACHES AS A TREATMENT OPTION FOR SEPSIS
Professor John Laffey
Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, NUI Galway
10.45 – 10.55 STABILIZING THE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM TO PREVENT OR SLOW SEPSIS
PROGRESSION
Professor Steve Kerrigan
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Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences,
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
10.55 – 11.15 Discussion
11.15 – 11.30 BREAK
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10.05 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I
Parallel Session: Faculty of Dentistry
10.05 – 10.08 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Professor Albert Leung
Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI
10.08 – 10.18 COVID-19: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INNOVATIONS IN DENTAL EDUCATION?
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Professor Albert Leung
Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI
10.18 – 10.36 PAEDIATRIC CARIES MANAGEMENT POST COVID-19
Dr John Walsh
Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Faculty of Dentistry RCSI
10.36 – 10.54 SEDATE OR NOT SEDATE: DECISION MAKING IN SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY
Dr Grace Kelly
Consultant in Special Care Dentistry. Board Member, Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI
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10.54 – 11.12 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENT
Dr John Ed O’Connell
Clinical Fellow in Head and Neck Oncology, University of Liverpool
11.12 – 11.30 PROSTHODONTIC RECONSTRUCTION IN THE HEAD AND NECK CANCER
PATIENT
Dr Edward Cotter
Specialist Prosthodontist
11.30 CLOSE
Professor Albert Leung
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Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI
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Tuesday 2
10.05 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I
Parallel Session: Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
10.05 – 10.10 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Professor Michael Shannon, FFNMRCSI
Dean of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
10.10 – 10.30 GLOBAL NURSING PRIORITIES 2021
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Mr Howard Catton
FFNMRCSI CEO International Council of Nurses
10.30 – 10.50 NATIONAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY POLICY CHALLENGES
Ms Rachel Kenna
CNO, Department of Health, Ireland
10.50 – 11.00 TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Dr Edward Naessens
Programme Coordinator, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
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11.00 – 11.10 LEADING IMPACTFUL RESEARCH
Dr Cathy Fitzgerald
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
11.10 – 11.20 SUPPORTING HEALTHCARE AND SOCIETY
COSECSA, RCSI Institute of Surgery and the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
RCSI - Exploring a Collaborative endeavour to strengthen Peri-Operative care for
citizens in Central Eastern and Southern Africa
Professor Michael Shannon, FFNMRCSI,
Dean of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
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Professor Thomas Kearns, FFNMRCSI,
Executive Director, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
11.20 – 11.30 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Dr Mary Boyd, FFNMRCSI
Vice Dean, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI
11.30 CLOSE
Professor Thomas Kearns, FFNMRCSI
Executive Director, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI
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10.00 – 11.00 PARALLEL SESSION I
Parallel Session: Faculty of Radiologists
10.00 – 11.00 LAUNCH OF RADIOLOGY’S MODEL OF CARE
Dr Peter Kavanagh
Dean, Faculty of Radiologists, RCSI
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10.00 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I
Parallel Session: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
Chair: Dr Philip Carolan
Dean, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCPI & RCSI and
Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant, Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin
10.00 – 10.20 FACULTY HISTORY AND THE SEM SPECIALTY
Dr Philip Carolan
Dean, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCPI & RCSI and
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Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant, Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin
10.20 – 10.40 SPORTS MEDICINE / MSK MEDICINE
Dr Ciaran Cosgrave
Consultant Sports & Exercise Medicine Physician, Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin
10.40 – 11.00 EXERCISE MEDICINE
Dr Robert Kelly
Consultant Cardiologist, Beacon Hospital, Dublin
Dr Adrian McGoldrick
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GP, Newbridge, Co Kildare
11.00 – 11.10 HST PROGRAMME
Dr Suzi Clarke
Consultant Sports Medicine Physician, VHI SwiftCare Clinics
11.10 – 11.30 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
11.30 CLOSE
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