Professor Celine Marmion and Cara McVeigh have been named as this year's winners of the Dean's Award. The announcement was made at the annual Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Dinner, which took place on Friday, 21 October.

Professor Celine Marmion, Associate Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry, received the Academic Award while Cara McVeigh, Conference and Events Manager, Conference and Events Department, was the recipient of the Support Award.

The Dean's Award scheme was created as a way of acknowledging the diverse and essential contributions of all staff members at RCSI. Both winners were presented with a commemorative award by Professor Hannah McGee, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Professor McGee said: “The principle behind this award scheme is to acknowledge the diverse and essential contributions of staff members who perform a vast array of critical duties that support the College's commitment to Growth and Excellence using the RCSI's core values of Respect, Collegiality, Scholarship and Innovation. The Dean's Award is the College's opportunity to honour these exceptional accomplishments. Both Celine and Cara are remarkably able people, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to present them with these awards.”

The evening's events commenced with the Inaugural Lecture delivered by Professor James Paul O'Neill, Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, entitled ‘Head and Neck Cancer Surgery - Where we are.... Where we need to be...'.