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TRINITY MEDICINE 300 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE OF 300 YEARS TRINITY COLLEGEDUBLIN TRINITY MEDICINE POISED FOR FURTHER SUCCESS For centuries, Trinity medics have contributed I am committed to building on our strong to medical education and practice around traditions combined with latest achievements the world. William Stokes and Robert to further strengthen the School’s Graves and other famous physicians were international standing, one that ranks among clinical researchers of their day. They made the best in the world. And the Tercentenary in observations, they wrote them up, they 2011 provides, I think, the stimulus to take the published them, they treated their patients, necessary actions to achieve our ambitious and they taught their students. These were goals. the leaders, and we, at the School of Medicine, intend to preserve their legacy of preparing Plans for the School are not just about exceptional doctors who can lead the medical building buildings. What is important is the profession in the 21st century. activity that takes place inside the buildings to provide high quality education. The key task I firmly believe that it is our responsibility to is continuing to attract top academics to help ensure that excellence in medical education us leverage the School’s existing strengths and research at Trinity has real impact on the and to enhance other areas where we can lives of patients. In our School and teaching have major impact. hospitals, with their public service ethos, we are extremely fortunate to have world- To do this, we need the support and class doctors who are committed to making involvement of a wider community and we a difference. I am excited about the fantastic hope that our alumni can lead the way. The opportunities we have with such talent. Tercentenary Board that includes outstanding Trinity alumni and supporters are guiding us Today, Trinity’s discoveries in the area in our development efforts. of immunology and how these might be applied in the treatment of poverty-related I look forward to interacting with all the diseases constitute some of the most stakeholders who deeply care about the important medical research currently School’s progress. I invite you to engage being undertaken anywhere in the world. with us as we plan for our exciting future In collaboration with the teaching hospitals and primary Groundbreaking research in lung cancer and and make our Tercentenary a real cause for eczema published in premier league journals celebration. care practices the School of Medicine will facilitate, foster are other examples of research that will help and provide professional training of medical students to the improve and save the lives of many. Professor Dermot Kelleher MD, FRCP, FRCPI, F Med Sci highest international standards in education and research. Head of the School of Medicine Vice Provost of Medical Affairs A PROUD HERITAGE INSPIRING EXCELLENCE Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine is a unique institution, which is 1936 1967 1988 Denis Burkitt graduated. He would George Fegan appointed first full time Mercer’s Institute for Research almost 300 years old. It has a proud tradition of scholarship and research become famous for his work on Professor of Surgery. He became on Ageing at St. James’s Hospital Burkitt’s Lymphoma. famous for his pioneering work on established. and has made a significant contribution to development of medicine. varicose veins. He established a 1937 Department of Surgery in Sir Patrick 1993 William Hayes, who would become Dun’s Hospital. First Professorship of General Practice one of the leading geneticists of the established. Print by Tudor (73) General Practice student attachment of the Library, showing twentieth century, graduated. scheme set up by Professor James 1994 the Anatomy House McCormick. Trinity Centre for Health Sciences at the end of the 1944 colonnade to the right at St. James’s Hospital, providing Department of Social Medicine of the picture 1969 accommodation for academic established. Peter Beckett appointed first Professor departments and a medical library, 1711 - 2011 of Psychiatry, in association with St. opened. Patrick’s Hospital. 1711 1827 1870 1950 First medical school building opened on Robert James Graves appointed Diploma of State Medicine (preventative Work begins on the Moyne Institute of 1970 1998 August 16. The building stood on a site Professor of the Institutes of Medicine medicine) established. It was the first in Preventative Medicine. One wing would Trinity College entered into a teaching Closure of the Meath and Adelaide now occupied by the Berkeley Library. (physiology/pathology). Graves achieved Ireland and Great Britain. house the Department of Bacteriology agreement with the Federated Dublin Hospitals and the National Children’s renown on both sides of the Atlantic and the other accommodate the Voluntary Hospitals. Hospital and their transfer to a new 1713 as a clinical teacher as well as for his 1873 Department of Social Medicine. teaching hospital, the Adelaide & Death of Sir Patrick Dun, a leading description of hyperthyroidism. Edward Hallaran Bennett elected 1971 Meath Hospital, Incorporating the physician in Dublin and former Professor of Surgery. He is remembered 1959 National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH) William Montgomery appointed first St. James’s Hospital (formerly St. President of the College of Physicians for his description of Bennett’s fracture W. J. E. Jessop was appointed dean in Tallaght. Professor of Midwifery (obstetrics). Kevin’s Hospital) established. of Ireland. He left a substantial bequest of the thumb. of the medical school and he led a Montgomery wrote a classic book on part of which was used to support the major reform of the school and its Peter Gatenby appointed first full time pregnancy and delivery in 1837. 2000 appointment of three professors. 1883 relationship with its teaching hospitals Clinical Professor. He developed a The completion of the Trinity Centre for Daniel John Cunningham appointed – Dr. Steevens’ Hospital (1720), Mercer’s clinical medicine professorial unit in the Health Sciences at AMNCH. 1832 Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery. Hospital (1734), Meath Hospital (1753), Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital established Meath Hospital. 1757 His anatomy textbooks were used Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital (1810), as a teaching hospital with funds 2002 Rotunda Hospital, the first charitable widely and for a considerable period of Harcourt Street Hospital (1821), Baggot 1973 derived from the Sir Patrick Dun’s Edward Kennedy Professorship maternity hospital in these islands, time. Street Hospital (1832) and the Adelaide Temporary teaching centre for Trinity opened. bequest. of Health Policy and Management Hospital (1839). College in St. James’s Hospital established. 1895 established. 1761 1840 Chair of Pathology established. 1960 George Cleghorn appointed Professor of William Stokes elected Regius Robert Steen of the National Children’s 1975 2003 The Durkan Laboratory for Research Anatomy and Chirurgery. He is credited Professor of Physic. He is 1912 Hospital, Harcourt Street, was Tom Hennessy appointed first full time on Leukaemia and the Institute of with the first description of infectious acknowledged internationally as one of Bicentenary celebrations with guests appointed first Professor of Paediatrics. Professor of Surgery. hepatitis. the founders of cardiology. from over one hundred universities Molecular Medicine at St. James’s Hospital established. and medical organisations worldwide. 1961 1977 1813 1849 Several distinguished guests including Formation of the Federated Dublin James McCormick appointed Professor Robert William Smith appointed 2005 James Macartney appointed Professor Sir William Osler received honorary Voluntary Hospitals. The seven teaching of Community Health. Professor of Surgery. He described Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience of Anatomy and Chirurgery. He helped degrees. hospitals associated with Trinity were Smith’s fracture of the wrist and he 1980 (TCIN) established. establish the fame of the medical brought together under the control of wrote the first detailed description of 1913 Construction of new teaching hospital school and he had a major influence on a Central Council on which the College neurofibromatosis. First woman to graduate in medicine in at St. James’s Hospital begins. 2008 students such as Stokes, Graves and was represented. Corrigan. Trinity. Construction of a new biosciences 1864 1983 building begins. 1914-18 1962 Closure of Mercer’s Hospital and the 1825 Work began on erecting several new Chair of Pharmacology established. Building of a new medical school known buildings for the medical school. The Sixty graduates of the School of Physic movement of the services to St. James’s 2011 as Macartney’s Medical School at the work proceeded over 30 years and lost their lives and many more were 1966 Hospital. The other voluntary hospitals Tercentenary. west end of College. resulted in the fine range of buildings wounded in the Great War. John Bonnar appointed first full designated to move to St. James’s all closed within a few years. now facing College Park on the west 1922 time Chair of Obstetrics and 1826 side. Alexander Charles O’Sullivan appointed Gynaecology. Sir Patrick Dun’s laboratory, which Coombe Lying-In Hospital founded. first Professor of Pathology. provided new research facilities at St. James’s Hospital, opened. Chair of Physiology established. TRINITY MEDICINE TODAY Innovative, research-driven, interdisciplinary and international