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Virtual
CHARTER MEETING
‘CHARTER GOES GLOBAL’
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 February 2021
R C S I C H A R T E R D AY 2 0 2 1
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 7
19.00 – 20.00 In Conversation With… 8
,
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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 9
17.00 – 19.00 31st Annual VideoSurgery Meeting 11
19.00 – 21.00 15th Annual Intercollegiate Case Presentations 13
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Thursday, 4 February 2021
FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINER’S PROGRAMME
09.30 – 09.35 Welcome & Introduction 14
09.35 – 10.00 Surgical Training in Times of Stress 14
10.00 – 10.25 Surgical Fellowships in the COVID Era – An International Perspective 14
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10.25 – 10.40 The Future Delivery of Surgical Education in Multiple Sites. What Is 14
Possible in Model 4 and Model 3 Hospitals
10.40 – 10.45 Close 14
THE MILLIN MEETING
11.00 – 12.40 Session I: Innovation 16
12.40 – 13.10 28th Carmichael Lecture 16
Saturday 6
13.10 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 16
14.00 – 15.30 Session II: Global Perspectives 17
15.50 – 17.20 Session III: President’s Symposium 18
17.30 – 18.15 43rd Millin Lecture 18
18.15 – 18.40 Honorary Fellowship: Professor Chung-Mau Lo 19
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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 28
11.15 – 11.30 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 28
10.00 – 11.30 Parallel Sessions I – RCSI Faculties & Irish Institute of Pharmacy 29
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(IIOP)
11.30 – 13.00 Parallel Sessions II – RCSI Specialty Groups 33
13.00 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 44
14.00 – 14.30 Johnson & Johnson Lecture 46
14.30 – 14.45 Awards & Presentations 46
14.45 – 15.45 Plenary Session II: Ethnic Diversity 47
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15.45 – 16.15 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 47
16.15 – 17.00 96th Abraham Colles Lecture 48
Saturday, 6 February 2021
09.00 – 12.00 Irish Surgical Training Group Meeting (ISTG) 54
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 MEETING PROGRAMME
Tuesday 2
KINDLY SPONSORED BY...
RCSI would like to thank our industry sponsors who are supporting Charter Week 2021.
We encourage all delegates to visit the Virtual Exhibition Hall throughout Charter Week to connect with the
sponsors' teams, find out more about their products and services to support you as clinicians and healthcare
professionals.
Opening hours for the Virtual Exhibition Hall are listed in the programme at a glance.
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Thursday
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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
Wednesday 3
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
Thursday 4
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)
Friday 5
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
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Emergency Medicine, enable surgeons, consultants in emergency medicine doctors,
nurses, health and social care professionals, and hospital managers with expertise in their
clinical 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 evidenced-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
Operations. 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,
patient 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
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current 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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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
31st ANNUAL VIDEOSURGERY 17.00 – 19.15
17.00 – 18.00 SESSION I
Co-Chairs: Professor P. Ronan O’Connell
President, RCSI
Mr Gerry McEntee
Wednesday 3
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
17.05 – 17.14 REDO LAPAROSCOPIC PARAOESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR
Professor Mayilone Arumugasamy
Beaumont Hospital and Connolly Hospital, Dublin
17.14 – 17.18 REPAIR OF BOERHAAVE’S PERFORATION
Mr Tom Murphy
Mercy University Hospital, Cork
Thursday 4
17.18 – 17.26 THE CONVERGENT LAA CLIP FOR A FIB
Professor Karen Redmond & Ms Kathryn Mulryan
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
17.26 – 17.35 DOUBLE TROUBLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE ON CHRISTMAS EVE
Professor Arnold Hill
Head of the School of Medicine, RCSI
17.35 – 17.43 TRANS-ANAL EXTRACTION SIGMOID COLECTOMY
Mr Sean Martin
Friday 5
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
17.43 – 17.50 R-TAMIS
Mr Colin Peirce
University Hospital Limerick
17.50 – 18.00 Q&A SESSION
18.00 – 18.10 VIRTUAL COFFEE BREAK
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VideoSurgery kindly supported by Medtronic
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021
Tuesday 2
18.10 – 19.15 SESSION II
Co-Chairs: Professor Dermot Hehir
Midland Regional Hospital at Tullamore
Professor Carmel Malone
Consultant General and Breast Surgeon, Head of School of Medicine NUI Galway, & Chair
of the Irish Medical Schools Council
Wednesday 3
18.15 – 18.22 SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY
Professor Helen Heneghan
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
18.22 – 18.29 EMERGENCY DECOMPRESSIVE LOOP COLOSTOMY
Mr Des Toomey
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
18.29 – 18.37 THE HORRIBLE GALLBLADDER
Ms Naomi Fearon
Thursday 4
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
18.37 – 18.44 DISTAL INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME
Ms Naomi Fearon
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
18.44 – 19.00 LIVER INJURY
Professor Majella Doyle
Professor of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
&
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Ms Ola Ahmed
Research Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine
19.00 – 19.10 Q&A SESSION
19.10 – 19.15 CLOSING COMMENTS
Professor Tom Walsh
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VideoSurgery kindly supported by Medtronic
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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.
Click here to join this session
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13RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
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
General and Colorectal Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Grattan street,
Melbourne, Australia.
Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery
Mr Niall McGoldrick,
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Clinical Fellow in Adult Reconstruction Surgery (Hip & Knee), The Ottawa Hospital,
Canada
Vascular Surgery
Mr Mekki Medani
Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Limerick
Urology
Professor Damien Bolton
Professor of Urology Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia
Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
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Mr Conall Fitzgerald
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, USA
Plastic Surgery
Ms Anne Collins
Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgeon, Dunedin Hospital, 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
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Professor Dara Byrne
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
development and further improvement of surgical training will contribute to the goal of
developing 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
improved training experience and ultimately better patient outcomes.
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• 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
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and clinical training sites
• The Faculty will support specialities in the delivery of the Core and Specialty
curriculums
• 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
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multi-disciplinary working environment
• 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
THE MILLIN MEETING
11.00 – 11.05 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Professor P. Ronan O’Connell
President, RCSI
11.05 – 12.40 SESSION I: INNOVATION
Wednesday 3
Co-Chairs: 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
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14.00 – 15.30 SESSION II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Co-Chairs: 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
Friday 5
17.20 – 18.15 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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18.15 – 18.40 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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SESSION I: INNOVATION
Professor Walter Eppich to the COVID pandemic has seen her lead the Digitally
Walter Eppich, MD, PhD is Professor and Chair of RCSI Engaged Learning project within RCSI, a cross-functional
SIM, the Centre for Simulation Education and Research project that has brought together a team including
at RCSI. Walter teaches extensively on basic and educational developers, IT, Media Services, Programme
advanced simulation educator courses and has spoken Administrators, academic and students to develop
about simulation, feedback, and debriefing around the and deliver an extensive digital education training
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world. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles programme to RCSI academic and student support
and book chapters and co-founded Debrief2Learn.org, staff and enhance the infrastructure to support digital
an online, open access resource for healthcare simulation learning.
educators. Her research interests lie in socio-cultural perspectives on
Building on a clinical background as a paediatric identity and learning, in particular teacher identity; online
emergency physician, Walter’s research uses qualitative orientation process and the development of presence
methodologies to study team reflection, healthcare and community in online programmes.
debriefing, and team adaptation. He earned a PhD
in Medical Education from Maastricht University with Professor Fergal O’Brien
a thesis entitled “Learning through Talk: The Role of Fergal O’Brien is Professor of Bioengineering &
Discourse in Medical Education”. He collaborates with Regenerative Medicine, Director for Research &
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team and organizational psychologists to study team Innovation and Head of the Tissue Engineering Research
processes both in and outside of healthcare. In 2018, Group in the RCSI. He is also Deputy Director of the
he travelled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic SFI-funded Advanced Materials and Bioengineering
field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews Research Centre (AMBER). His research focuses on the
to understand what enables Antarctic research teams development of natural polymer-based biomaterial
to adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme “scaffolds” for the repair of bone, cartilage, tympanic
environments. Healthcare is also characterized by membrane, skin, respiratory, neural and other tissues.
extreme environments in instances of intense time- A major focus of ongoing research has been to
pressure and high patient acuity. This work contributes functionalise these scaffolds for use as delivery systems
to his research program with the goal of delineating the for regenerative biomolecules such as nucleic acids
contribution of workplace talk and team interactions to (pDNA, siRNA, miRNA), enhancing their therapeutic
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learning and performance. potential; these scaffolds are also used as advanced 3D
pathophysiology in vitro systems for drug development
Dr Dara Cassidy and understanding disease states in cancer,
Dr Dara Cassidy is Head of Online Education at RCSI, angiogenesis, immunology and infection. Significant
with responsibility for developing and executing RCSI’s research is focused on 3D-printing technologies and the
digital learning roadmap. Over a 20-year career she has development of new bioinks for tissue repair.
been immersed in the world digital learning, including O’Brien has published over 240 journal articles,
many years at Hibernia College, an early leader in supervised >40 doctoral students to completion, filed
blended education in Ireland, where she established and 20 patents/disclosures and translated 2 regenerative
developed the Digital Learning Department. She has led technologies for bone and cartilage repair to the clinic.
numerous online and blended education initiatives for His current h-index is 73 (Google Scholar). He has
secured over €23M in research funding as PI including
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EU-funded projects – including the Innovative Medicines
Initiative, Pharmatrain and EUPATI projects; philanthropic three prestigious European Research Council Awards,
organisations including the Bill and Melinda Gates most recently a €3M Advanced Grant (2018). In 2018
Foundation and commercial enterprises, including HP, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest
Novartis and Pfizer. academic honour in Ireland.
She has been engaged in a range projects with the
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
recent rapid transition to online teaching in response
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Dr Brendan S Kelly MB BCh BAO BSc MSc MRCSI Professor Ronan Cahill
Dr Brendan Kelly is an ICAT Clinical academic fellow at Professor Ronan Cahill was appointed Professor of
UCD and a Radiology Specialist Registrar at St Vincent’s Surgery at University College Dublin (UCD) and the
University Hospital. The Wellcome-Health Research Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) in
Board Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme June 2014 before taking over leadership of the Section
is a unique all Ireland cross-institutional, comprehensive and Subject of Surgery in UCD in 2017. In 2019, he was
national programme for Clinician Scientists based at appointed Director of the Centre for Precision Surgery,
six major Irish universities and their affiliated hospital UCD and the Digital Surgery Unit, MMUH.
groups. A UCD graduate of Radiography and of Ronan graduated MB,BAO,BCh (Hons) from University
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Medicine, Brendan received his Membership of the College Dublin in 1997 and then completed his basic and
Royal College of Surgeons in 2016, and MSc from NUI specialist surgical training in Ireland, gaining both MD by
Galway in 2017. His research interests are in the clinical thesis (Health Research Board Clinical Research Fellow)
application of Artificial Intelligence to radiology. In and FRCS by examination. Thereafter, he was a clinical
2020 as a Fulbright HRB HealthImpact scholar, Brendan fellow at the IRCAD/EITS Institute in Strasbourg, France
attended the Stanford Department of Radiology and the from 2007 to 2008 before moving to the Oxford Radcliffe
Stanford Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Hospitals as senior fellow and then consultant and senior
Imaging to investigate potential novel applications of AI clinical researcher from 2008 to 2010. Ronan returned to
to radiology, with the goal of establishing collaborations Ireland in 2010 as consultant general surgeon (specialist
to achieve cutting edge clinical developments both in interest in colorectal surgery) at Beaumont Hospital
Ireland and the US. before moving to the Mater and UCD. He is a recipient
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of both the Bennett and Millen Medals (RCSI Millen
Lecturer 2010) and was the ASGBI Robert Smith Lecturer
in 2014. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed
publications, five book chapters and four National
Guidelines. He is an editorial board member of five
indexed surgical journals, including Colorectal Disease
and the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and is
a member of the SAGES Research Committee (SAGES
Career Development Award recipient 2009). He has a
major academic interest in Surgical Innovation and New
Technologies and active basic science, clinical and device
development research partnerships both nationally
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and internationally. Most recently he is co-awardee of
a major Disruptive Innovation and Technologies Fund
(DTIF) award by the Irish Government for a project
entitled “The Future of Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis
and Treatment”, a consortium including UCD, RCSI, IBM
Research and Dechiphex using artificial intelligence for
decision support in surgery and pathology.
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28th CARMICHAEL LECTURE SESSION II:
GLOGAL PERSPECTIVES
His Excellency Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering,
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan
Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering is the Honourable Prime
Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan. He is also the
President of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa, a political party
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that formed the government following the elections in
2018.
Prior to joining politics, he was the Head of His Majesty’s
Kidu Medical Unit from 2014 -2018 which caters medical
welfare services to people across the country. He is a
Consultant Urologist with a Urology fellowship from
Winconsin Medical College Hospital, USA & SGH,
Singapore. He graduated with an MBBS degree from
Dhaka University, Bangladesh and has a Masters in
Business Management from the University of Canberra.
Dasho Dr Tshering is the recipient of the prestigious Druk
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Thuksey Medal (The Royal Order of Bhutan) from His
Majesty The King on December 17, 2017. On December
Mr Fintan O’Toole 17, 2020, His Majesty The King conferred the sacred
Fintan O’Toole is a columnist with The Irish Times, Lungmar scarf to the Prime Minister for his efforts and
Leonard L. Milberg visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at governance in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. With
Princeton University and a regular contributor to the New the Lungmar scarf, the Prime Minister was conferred the
York Review of Books. He has won both the Orwell Prize title Dasho.
for Journalism and the European Press Prize. His most
book is The Politics of Pain: Post War England and the Professor Sergelen Orgoi
Rise of Nationalism (Liveright) and he is working on the Professor Orgoi is Head of the Department of Surgery
official biography of Seamus Heaney. and Liver Transplantation Team Leader at the Mongolian
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Born in Dublin in 1958, he has been drama critic of In National University of Medical Science. She is also Head
Dublin magazine, The Sunday Tribune, the New York of the General Surgery Department of First Central
Daily News, and The Irish Times and Literary Adviser to Hospital Mongolia and also Vice President of the
the Abbey Theatre. He edited Magill magazine and since Mongolian Surgical Association.
1988, has been a columnist with the Irish Times. She is Professor of the Mongolian National University
Other books include A History of Ireland in 100 Objects of Medical Science and is Head of the World Health
(2013). Enough is Enough (2010). Ship of Fools (2009), Organisation collaborating Center MOG-1 for
The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (2006), White Emergency and Essential Surgical Care.
Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America Professor Orgoi has received numerus awards including
(2005), After the Ball (2003), Shakespeare is Hard but so is the Honoured Doctor award from the President of
Life (2002); The Irish Times Book of the Century (1999); A Mongolia and is an Honorary Fellow of American College
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Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1997); of Surgeons.
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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Professor Dhananjaya Sharma Dr Barbara Lee Bass, MD, FACS, FRCSI (hon), FRCS
I am a lifelong activist and campaigner for ‘appropriate (hon), FCOSECSA (hon)
technology for health-care in developing world’ and Barbara Lee Bass, MD, Professor of Surgery, serves as the
many of my 216 publications are on low-cost surgical George Washington University Vice President for Health
solutions to achieve health equity for underserved Affairs, Dean of the GW School of Medicine and Health
populations. I consider myself truly blessed to be able Sciences, and Chief Executive Officer of The GW Medical
to ‘make a difference’ and do God’s work, even though I Faculty Associates. In these roles, she leads the academic,
don’t wear a Priest’s collar. clinical, and research missions and has strategic direction
I have learned during my travels as Honorary Visiting on all aspects of GW’s academic medical enterprise.
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Professor/ Guest Faculty for teaching a course to Bass’ scholarship has included research in biological
many universities in developed (Karolinska Institute basic science, education and simulation, surgical quality
Stockholm, Oxford University, Vienna Medical University) measurement and system development, and most
and developing countries (Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, recently application of computational sciences to surgical
Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Pakistan and technology design, processes and disease modelling.
Afghanistan), that the key to Global Surgery is not only Her professional service has included many leadership
innovations for low-cost surgery but also collaborative positions, including as the 98th president of the American
internationalism; because ‘Global means together’. College of Surgeons and Chair of the American Board
I have been awarded Honorary/ Ad Eundem fellowships of Surgery. Over the last 5 years she has had leadership
of Académie Nationale de Chirurgie France, Royal responsibilities in the global surgery work of the American
College of Surgeons of Thailand, International College College of Surgeons
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of Laparoscopic Surgeons and all four Royal Colleges of Bass is an advocate for equity and diversity for
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Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. I am very proud of underrepresented minorities and women in surgery and
these academic honours; however, the ultimate reward I health care careers, and known for fostering careers
earned is spiritual; as the principle of “Noblesse oblige” of clinician-scientists and diverse leaders in academic
became my code of honour. medicine.
My favourite quotation sums up my philosophy: Bass earned her BS from Tufts University and MD from the
“Attitudes are more important than abilities; University of Virginia. She completed training in general
Character is more important than cleverness” surgery at George Washington University and a research
fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,
Professor Godfrey Ignatius Muguti MS(Syd) serving as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
FCS(ECSA) FRCS(Edin) Hon.FRCS(Eng) Prior to joining GW, Bass served as Professor and Chair
of Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell
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Professor Muguti is the President of the College of
Medicine.
Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA).
He is the Professor of Surgery and Professorial Chair in the
Department of Surgery in the College of Health Sciences,
University of Zimbabwe. He is also a Clinical Professor
of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Stanford
University School of Medicine. USA and Medical Director
of The Avenues Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. Professor
Muguti has served as a Commissioner on the Zimbabwe
Health Review Commission and Foundation President
of the Surgical Society of Zimbabwe. He is past Editor -
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in - Chief of the Central African Journal of Medicine. In
1997 he was awarded the Honorary FRCS (Eng) by the
Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical and
research interests are in general surgery and plastic and
reconstructive surgery.
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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
(Sing), MS (Mal), MBBCh (Wales), BSc (Hons) (Wales)
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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
She is currently Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of is also actively engaged in surgical education, research
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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 Professor Søren Laurberg
harassment in the workplace, in addition to advocacy for
Søren Laurberg is Clinical Professor at the Department of
women, are recent foci of her work.
Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital Denmark,
She is currently President for the College of Surgeons,
Denmark’s largest health science institute. He has
Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, Vice President for the
focused on the looking beyond cancer at the long term
Malaysian Society of Colorectal Surgeons, President for
side effects of cancer treatment. In his postgraduate
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the Asia Pacific Federation of Coloproctology and Chair
teaching career he has pioneered National MDT
of the Conjoint Committee for Postgraduate Medical
and laparoscopic specialist courses, supervising 35
Degrees. Through these and other related roles, she
successfully defended PhDs and has published more
works towards advancing surgical standards, and fairness
than 400 peer reviewed articles.
in the workplace.
In his early career he specialised in the functional
problems of the bowel and worked as a research fellow
Professor Aoife Lowery
at the pioneering intuition, Sir Allan Parks Ano-rectal
Professor Aoife Lowery is Associate Professor of Physiology Unit, St Mark’s Hospital, London. He went
Translational Research and Surgery at NUI Galway and on to found and lead the Ano-rectal Physiology Unit in
a Consultant Breast & Endocrine Surgeon at Galway Aarhus while training to become a consultant in Aarhus.
University Hospital Professor Laurberg is a Past President of European
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Her clinical training was undertaken in the National Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and founder and
University of Ireland Galway (MB BCh BAO, MRCS) first chairman of the Research Committee of ESCP. He
and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Higher is, amongst many others, an Honorary Member of the
Surgical Training Programme (FRCS). She subsequently Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland
completed an International Fellowship in Endocrine and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of
Surgery at France’s pre-eminent Endocrine Surgery Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
unit in Marseille, funded by the prestigious Richard
Steeven’s Scholarship and further developed her interest
in minimally invasive endocrine surgery at Kliniken Essen
Mitte, Germany.
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Professor Dion Morton
43RD MILLIN LECTURE
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
the NHS
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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 Mr Colin Peirce, MD, FRCSI
and is past President of the Society for Academic and
Mr Peirce qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 2004
Research Surgery (2015-17).
with 1st class honours in surgery and completed the
His primary research interests are clinical and
Basic Surgical Training Scheme in the Dublin Region. He
translational research for colorectal cancer and the
was awarded an MD by thesis from University College
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development of clinical trials in surgery.
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Dublin and subsequently was a Surgical Lecturer there
for a year. He completed the Higher Surgical Training
Professor Sara Marshall, MBChB, PhD, FRCP(E),
Scheme in General Surgery followed by a 1-year
FRCPath
Colorectal Clinical Fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic,
Sara is head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences at Ohio, USA. He commenced his post in the University
the Wellcome Trust, and oversees the clinical careers of Limerick Hospitals Group in 2016, where he is the
portfolio, which includes the highly successful Clinical Clinical Lead for Robotic Colorectal Surgery and also the
PhD programmes, and the Clinical Research Career Hospital Based Director of Core Surgical Training.
Development Fellowships. As part of Wellcome’s Mr Peirce has over 40 peer reviewed publications
Science Executive, she helps shape strategic funding including 3 randomised controlled trials and has received
across the biomedical sciences. a number of national research grants and awards coupled
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Sara did her medical training at RCSI, Class of 1987, with a number of international travelling fellowships. He
(back in the ancient days of Jervis Street Hospital), and has given several invited international lectures including
she subsequently worked in Blanchardstown, Stanford, at the Chinese Summit of Gastrointestinal Laparoscopy
Cambridge and Oxford. Most recently she was Professor in Wuhan in 2017 and 2018. He was the first Irish recipient
of Clinical Immunology at the University of Dundee, of the European Society of Coloproctology Travelling
where she led the Dundee Clinical Academic Track, Fellowship to Japan in 2014 and was awarded the RCSI
amongst other things. Ethicon Travelling Fellowship in 2017 to visit Professor
Sara will talk about things she wished she had known Seon-Hahn Kim in Seoul, South Korea. Outside of work,
when she was applying for grant funding. he is a keen golfer, cyclist and pianist.
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HONORARY FELLOWSHIP
CONFERRING
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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
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of Hong Kong, Director of the Liver Transplant Center,
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Queen Mary Hospital
Professor Chung-Mau Lo is the Hospital Chief Executive
of The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital
(HKU-SZH) and Chin Lan-Hong Professor of The University
of Hong Kong. He is internationally renowned for his
expertise in hepatobiliary surgery, liver cancer and liver
transplantation. He has published 562 original articles
in refereed international journals. His pioneering work
in adult right liver living donor liver transplantation has
revolutionalized the practice of liver transplant world-
wide. As a result, he and his team were awarded China’s
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top national honour of First-class State Scientific and
Technological Progress Award in 2005 and First-class
Award in Research Achievements by the Ministry of
Education of The People’s Republic of China in 2013.
His academic standing in the field of surgery in general
and liver transplantation in particular is duly recognized
by his appointment in various international professional
organizations and in the editorial board of top journals
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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