Mr Kenneth Mealy has been elected as Council Member of RCSI. Mr Mealy is a General Surgeon with a special interest in gastrointestinal (GI) surgery and is based at Wexford General Hospital.

Mr Mealy has an active interest in surgical training and held the post of Chairman of the Dublin Region Basic Surgical Training Committee from 2001 until 2006 and has been Chairman of the National Basic Surgical Training Committee since then.

He also held the position of President of the Surgical Section of The Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) in 2008. 

The council election was held in order to fill the vacancy following the untimely death of Mr J. Bosco O’Mahony.