Doctors conferred with postgraduate awards at postgraduate conferring ceremony
Approximately 120 doctors were conferred with postgraduate awards at the postgraduate conferring ceremony at RCSI today.
These include Fellowships of RCSI in Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology; Paediatric surgery; Plastic Surgery; Trauma and Orthopaedic surgery and Urology. New Members and Fellows of the Faculties of Radiology, Dentistry and Sports and Exercise Medicine were also conferred.
Professor Joseph McKenna, former President and Registrar of RCSI was awarded the College’s highest honour - an Honorary Fellowship - at the postgraduate conferring ceremony.
Joe McKenna is a graduate of University College Dublin. He completed his residency in Georgetown University in Washington and following completion of this in 1972, he became a Fellow in Endocrinology in Vanderbuilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1978, he was appointed Consultant Endocrinologist in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, where he remains to the present day.
In 1988 as a tribute to his status in the medical scientific research community, he was appointed the first Director of the Education and Research Centre in St Vincent’s University Hospital and in 1994 Professor McKenna was appointed Professor of Investigative Endocrinology at University College Dublin.
Reading his citation, RCSI Council Member, Professor John Hyland said: "Joe, in the true sense, is a great educationalist, being involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate education at many levels. Not only has he mentored many distinguished endocrinologists, but he was also instrumental in setting up the forum of postgraduate educational bodies, which has been an inspired move to ensure that the royal colleges remain central to all educational and research developments in this country.”
Speaking at the conferring ceremony, Ms Eilis McGovern, President of RCSI, congratulated new Members and Fellows on their success in reaching this exciting milestone in their careers and wished them all the very best as they continued to strive for their goals.
