TRINITY MEDICINE POISED FOR FURTHER SUCCESS

For centuries, the Trinity College School of Medicine has contributed to medical education, research and practice not just in Ireland but at a global level. Eminent physicians such as William Stokes and Robert Graves not only wrote the textbooks used in medical education around the world but were the clinical researchers of their day, identifying and describing the conditions that to this day bear their names. These were the medical leaders of their time and we intend to preserve their legacy by educating and preparing exceptional doctors who can lead the profession in the 21st century.

Furthermore, it is our responsibility will help improve and save the lives of academics to help us leverage the to ensure that excellence in medical many. Research in bioengineering is School’s existing strengths and to education and research at Trinity has producing new medical devices some of enhance other areas where we can a real impact on the lives of patients. which are now entering clinical trials. have major impact. In our School and teaching hospitals, with their public service ethos, we are I am committed to building on our To do this, we need the support and extremely fortunate to have world- strong traditions combined with latest involvement of a wider community and class doctors who are committed to achievements to further strengthen we hope that our alumni can lead the making a difference. At Trinity College the School’s international standing, way. The Tercentenary Board members Dublin, we are very excited about the ranking highly at a global level. We that include outstanding Trinity alumni fantastic opportunities we have with are all immensely excited at the and supporters are guiding us in our such talent, particularly as the School new opportunities brought about development efforts. occupies its new home in the Trinity by moving into a new building, a Biomedical Sciences Institute where powerhouse of research activity which I look forward to interacting with all the students will study in an environment brings the biomedical sciences into stakeholders who deeply care about rich in knowledge and innovation. close proximity with chemistry and the School’s progress. I invite you to pharmacy, creating the environment engage with us as we celebrate our past Today, Trinity’s discoveries in the area for successful translation from bench and plan for our exciting future. of neuroscience, immunology and to bedside. cancer constitute important medical Professor Dermot Kelleher research on a par with work being Plans for the School are not just about MD, FRCPI, FRCP, F Med Sci undertaken anywhere in the world. building buildings. What is important Head of School of Medicine Groundbreaking research in areas such is to drive the activity that takes place Vice Provost for Medical Affairs as psychiatric disease, lung cancer and inside the buildings to provide high eczema published in premier league quality education and research. The journals are examples of research that key task is continuing to attract top

1 1953 1971 1992 A PROUD HERITAGE INSPIRING EXCELLENCE The Moyne Institute of Preventive St. James’s Hospital (formerly Opening of clinical phase of the new Medicine was built. It was funded by St. Kevin’s Hospital) established. St. James’s Hospital. Grania Guinness (now the dowager 1973 1993 School of Medicine is a unique institution, which is Marchioness of Normanby) in memory Temporary teaching centre for Trinity First Professorship of General Practice of her father, the first Baron Moyne. 300 years old. It has a proud tradition of scholarship and research and has College in St. James’s Hospital established. One wing would house the Department established. made a significant contribution to development of medicine. of Bacteriology and the other the 1994 Department of Social and James McCormick appointed Professor Trinity Centre for Health Sciences Preventive Medicine. of Community Health. at St. James’s Hospital, providing accommodation for academic Print by Tudor (1753) 1959 1975 departments and a medical library, of the Library, showing W.J.E. Jessop was appointed Dean the Anatomy House John Bonnar appointed first full-time opened. at the end of the of the Medical School and he led a Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. colonnade to the right major reform of the school and its 1998 of the picture. relationship with its teaching hospitals Tom Hennessy appointed first full-time Closure of the Meath and Adelaide – Dr. Steevens’ Hospital (1720), Mercer’s Professor of Surgery. Hospitals and the National Children’s 1711 - 2011 Hospital (1734), Meath Hospital (1753), 1980 Hospital and their transfer to a new Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital (1808), teaching hospital, the Adelaide & 1711 1827 1883 Construction of new teaching hospital National Children’s Hospital (1821), Meath Hospital, Incorporating the First medical school building opened on Robert James Graves appointed Daniel John Cunningham appointed at St. James’s Hospital begins. Baggot Street Hospital (1832) and the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH) August 16. The building stood on a site Professor of the Institutes of Medicine Professor of Anatomy and Chirurgery. Adelaide Hospital (1839). 1982 in Tallaght. now occupied by the Berkeley Library. (physiology/pathology). Graves achieved His anatomy textbooks were used Donald Weir appointed Professor of renown on both sides of the Atlantic widely and for a considerable period 1960 2000 Medicine. Together with John Scott, 1713 as a clinical teacher as well as for his of time. Robert Steen of the National Children’s The completion of the Trinity Centre for Death of Sir Patrick Dun, a leading they elucidated the role of folic acid description of hyperthyroidism. Hospital, Harcourt Street, was Health Sciences at AMNCH. physician in Dublin and former 1904 in the prevention of spina bifida William Montgomery appointed first appointed first Professor of Paediatrics. President of the College of Physicians Board of Trinity College agrees to the and other neural tube defects. This 2001 Professor of Midwifery (obstetrics). Peter Gatenby appointed first full- of Ireland. He left a substantial bequest admission of women to study medicine. helped to promote the consumption New chairs of medicine and surgery Montgomery wrote a classic book on time Clinical Professor of Medicine. to support the appointment of a of folate tablets by women about to created at AMNCH. pregnancy and delivery in 1837. 1912 He developed a clinical medicine become pregnant which prevented the Professor of Physic. Bicentenary celebrations with guests professorial unit in the Meath Hospital. 2002 1845 development of these defects. from over one hundred universities Edward Kennedy Professorship 1745 William Stokes elected Regius 1961 Rotunda Hospital, the first charitable and medical organisations worldwide. of Health Policy and Management Professor of Physic. He is Formation of the Federated Dublin 1983 maternity hospital in these islands, Several distinguished guests including Sir Patrick Dun’s Research Laboratory established. acknowledged internationally as Voluntary Hospitals. The seven teaching opened. Sir William Osler received honorary constructed at St. James’s Hospital. one of the founders of cardiology. hospitals associated with Trinity were 2003 degrees. 1761 brought together under the control of The first research laboratory to be built The John Durkan Leukaemia Research 1847 on a hospital campus in the Republic George Cleghorn appointed Professor of 1914-18 a Central Council on which the College Laboratories and the Institute of Robert William Smith appointed of Ireland. Anatomy and Chirurgery. He is credited Sixty graduates of the School of Physic was represented. Molecular Medicine at St. James’s Professor of Surgery. He described with the first description of infectious lost their lives and many more were Hospital officially opened. Smith’s fracture of the wrist and he 1962 Closure of Mercer’s Hospital and the hepatitis. wounded in the Great War. wrote the first detailed description of Chair of Pharmacology established. movement of the services to St. James’s 2005 Hospital. The other voluntary hospitals 1808 neurofibromatosis. 1922 1967 Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Alexander Charles O’Sullivan appointed designated to move to St. James’s all (TCIN) established. Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital established 1864 George Fegan appointed Professor of as a teaching hospital with funds first Professor of Pathology. Chair of closed within a few years. Sir Patrick 2006 Work began on erecting several new Surgery. He became famous for his Dun’s laboratory, which provided derived from the Sir Patrick Dun’s Physiology established. The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing buildings for the medical school. The pioneering work on varicose veins. He new research facilities at St. James’s bequest. (TILDA) launched. work proceeded over 30 years and 1935 established a Department of Surgery Hospital, opened. 1813 resulted in the fine range of buildings Denis Burkitt graduated. He would in Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital. 2008 now facing College Park on the west become famous for his work on 1987 James Macartney appointed Professor Establishment of Chair in of Anatomy and Chirurgery. He helped side. Burkitt’s Lymphoma. General Practice student attachment Colm O’Morain and his team show scheme set up by Professor James that the elimination of helicobacter Population Health. establish the fame of the medical 1870 1937 school and he had a major influence on McCormick. pylori with antibiotics prevented the 2009 Diploma of State Medicine (preventative William Hayes, who would become students such as Graves and Corrigan. recurrence of duodenal ulceration. Refurbished laboratory, the Sir Patrick medicine) established. It was the first in one of the leading geneticists of the 1969 Dun Translational Research Laboratory 1825 Ireland and Great Britain. twentieth century, graduated. Peter Beckett appointed first Professor 1988 of Psychiatry, in association with Mercer’s Institute for Research at TCD’s School of Medicine and Opening of a new medical school known 1873 1952 St James’s Hospital, opened. as Macartney’s Medical School at the St. Patrick’s Hospital. on Ageing at St. James’s Hospital Edward Hallaran Bennett elected W.J.E. Jessop appointed to first chair of west end of the College. established. 2011 Professor of Surgery. He is remembered social and preventive medicine. 1970 Opening of Trinity Biomedical Sciences for his description of Bennett’s fracture Trinity College entered into a teaching 1826 Institute, the new home of the School of Coombe Lying-In Hospital founded. of the thumb. agreement with the Federated Dublin 2 Voluntary Hospitals. Medicine. Tercentenary celebrations. 3 TRINITY MEDICINE TODAY

Innovative, research-driven, interdisciplinary and international – that’s RESEARCH Trinity College School of Medicine as we celebrate the Tercentenary. Our academic leaders demonstrate excellence in scholarship by conducting, in We are striving to be in step with the latest advancements in medical collaboration with our teaching hospitals, primary care practices and other partners, education, science and practices to enhance the School’s position as a groundbreaking research and publishing regularly in peer-reviewed journals. leader in Irish medicine and internationally. NEW AUTISM GENES DISCOVERY EDUCATION Genes contributing to the development of and their families from across Ireland; the Key to the development of medical doctors of are on offer: MSc in Neuroscience, MSc in autism have been discovered by researchers production of the vast amounts of data on the the future is a familiarity and competence in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention; MSc at Trinity College Dublin and University College genetic variation in the individuals and their clinical research. A critical component of this in Physical Sciences in Medicine; MSc in Dublin (UCD) as part of a Global Autism families; the analysis of the data, and the aspiration is the need to expose the future Respiratory Physiotherapy; Intercalated MSc Genome Project, involving 50 institutions coordination of The Autism Simplex Collection medical doctor to a significant investigational in Biomedical Sciences for Medical Students. worldwide. The findings were published in (TASC) project across the international experience at an early stage in order to embed Future plans include the introduction of a new ‘Nature’ in 2010. The study highlighted subtle clinical sites. Prof. Michael Gill and Prof. Prof. Michael Gill an understanding and appreciation of the MSc in Translational Medicine, MSc/Diploma changes in the genome in genes involved in Louise Gallagher from the TCD Department neurodevelopment in young people with ASD. of Psychiatry and Prof. Andrew Green and Dr. relevance of research to healthcare delivery. in Biostatistics, MSc in Healthcare Infection The Irish component of the work of the Autism Sean Ennis from the UCD School of Medicine Making research a consistent feature of the Management and MSc in Clinical Microbiology Genome Project involves a collaboration and Medical Science are co-lead investigators curriculum is an educational focus. and Molecular Diagnostics. between TCD and UCD and is focused on the in the Global Autism Genome Project. UNDERGRADUATE identification and study of children with autism Research degrees: The School of Medicine The School has reduced the curriculum from has nearly 200 students registered for six to five years. The hybrid pedagogic model NEW GENES FOR COELIAC DISEASE postgraduate research degrees. We aim to now used involves lectures, problem-based increase access to postgraduate research Coeliac disease is a condition in which learning and small group case-based teaching. the lining of the small intestine becomes degrees, particularly for medical graduates, Students are introduced to clinical medicine damaged by exposure to dietary wheat and and following on from the success of the early in their first year and special attention related cereals. Ireland has one of the highest integrated PhD programmes in Molecular is placed on the teaching of clinical skills in incidences in the world. New studies involving Medicine and Neuroscience we plan to broaden a purpose-built laboratory. Bedside teaching the joint efforts of researchers in the UK, the the scope of PhD programmes on offer in the remains a major focus of the curriculum. Netherlands and Trinity College Dublin have School. In this regard, a new PhD programme resulted in the identification of 8 new regions Dr, Ross McManus Prof. Con Feighery Prof. Dermot Kelleher POSTGRADUATE – the International Doctoral School in Global of the genome which are linked to susceptibility Specialist MSc programmes: Currently Health (Indigo) led by Trinity College in to coeliac disease development. The first of Trinity researchers led by Dr. 20 MSc courses are offered by the School collaboration with partner universities in Africa these to be discovered was the IL2 / IL21 region Ross McManus with Prof. Con of Medicine to over 300 students. A major and other countries – was established in 2009. which was the first identification of a non-MHC Feighery, Prof. Dermot Kelleher task is to develop research capability of Furthermore, work is underway to develop gene for this disease and was published in and other Irish researchers graduate students consistent with the overall structured PhD programmes in Experimental ‘Nature Genetics’ in 2007. Follow-on studies contributed to this work which have revealed further susceptibility genes also now permits new insights into research strategy of the School of Medicine. Cancer Medicine and in Community Health published in ‘Nature Genetics’ in 2008 and 2010. the mechanism of the disease. The following newly-developed courses and Primary Care. 4 5 THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA) POTENTIAL FOR NEW THERAPIES IN THE TREATMENT OF ECZEMA

Launched in November 2006, The Irish Geriatric Medicine, Director of the Mercer’s An international collaboration between TCD in children is associated with mutations in Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is the Institute for Successful Ageing at St. James’s scientists and researchers in Scotland and a gene called filaggrin. In this new study the most comprehensive study on ageing in Ireland. Hospital is TILDA’s principal investigator. Japan has developed a new animal model that collaborative team has identified an identical It will provide a study of a representative TILDA is funded by the Department of Health, reproduces a major genetic cause of human genetic mutation mechanism (technically cohort of over 8,000 Irish people over the the Atlantic Philanthropies and Irish Life. eczema. The TCD team was led by Prof. known as a frame-shift mutation) in the age of 50 years charting their health, social Padraic Fallon. This new discovery, which has mouse strain as was previously identified in and economic circumstances over a 10-year the potential of assisting the development children with eczema. Detailed immunological Prof. Alan Irvine Prof. Rose Anne Kenny period. First wave of TILDA was completed of new therapies in the treatment of the studies on the mouse revealed that this defect in 2011. TCD is leading the study, which is disease, was published in ‘Nature Genetics’ in the filaggrin gene leads to a loss of barrier being undertaken by a cross-institutional, in 2009. Previous groundbreaking work by key integrity, making the skin more permeable to multidisciplinary team of experts from collaborators in the study Prof. Irwin McLean, allergens that eventually leads to the induction several Irish academic institutions. A group University of Dundee, and Prof. Alan Irvine, Our of allergic skin inflammation, comparable of international scientists advises the TILDA Lady’s Children Hospital Crumlin and TCD, on to that seen in human eczema and related investigators. Rose Anne Kenny, Professor of Irish children with eczema, had identified allergic diseases. that up to one in two cases of severe eczema Prof. Padraic Fallon

… My father left me but one legacy, Better to build a fence at the top of the cliff “ the blessed gift of rising early. “ than park an ambulance at the bottom. ” Denis Burkitt (1911-1993), discovered, described and diagnosed Burkitt’s” Lymphoma, William Stokes (1804-1878), physician, Class of 1826. Class of 1933.

A NEW TEST FOR LUNG CANCER NEW GENES ASSOCIATED WITH CLEFT LIP AND CLEFT PALATE

Under the leadership of Prof. Joseph Keane, lung cancer elsewhere in the lung with An international collaborative research team, in ‘Nature Genetics’. Dr. Anne Molloy (Clinical the pulmonary group in St. James’s and the high accuracy. In fact, when combined with including researchers from Trinity College Medicine), Prof. John Scott (Biochemistry School of Medicine have recently published a bronchoscopy, it improves the sensitivity of Dublin and the Health Research Board (HRB) & Immunology) of TCD and Dr. Peadar Kirke new test for lung cancer in ‘Nature Medicine’. that test to 95%. in Ireland, have discovered important genes (formerly of the HRB) along with collaborators This test was generated by using samples associated with cleft lip in children. The in the NIH, provided data for a set of Irish from over 100 patients with the disease. Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS), led affected families that confirmed previously In collaboration with Boston University, the by Dr. Terri H. Beaty of the Johns Hopkins unidentified genes (MAFB and ABCA4) and Prof. Joseph Keane Dr. Anne Molloy research team identified 80 genes whose University and four of the National Institutes several recently identified genomic regions in expression in normal airway cells predicts of Health (NIH) in the USA (NIEHS, NICHD, chromosome 8q24 and IRF6 by the Genome NIDCR and NHGRI), was published in May 2010 Wide Association Study. 6 5 7 PARTNERSHIPS INDIGO Over the years the School of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals have produced major In collaboration with international partners, • Ibadan University, Nigeria players of Irish medicine. Working closely with our colleagues in other institutions in Trinity College Dublin established the • Makerere University, Uganda Ireland and internationally is one of the underlying principles of the School’s operation International Doctoral School in Global • University of Malawi, Malawi today. Our academics collaborate with colleagues in Ireland and around the world in Health (Indigo) to provide interdisciplinary • Human Sciences Research Council, a wide range of areas. We are also participating in a number of partnerships as an PhD training in Global Health to students in South Africa institution. Here are some examples. African and other universities. Indigo aims to • Council on Health Research for build capacity in health systems by educating Development, Switzerland IRISH UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLS CONSORTIUM leaders in health research and by creating • UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford, UK In addition to TCD, the Irish Universities Cork, University College Dublin and National sustainable health research networks in sub- • Department of Global Health and Social & Medical Schools Consortium comprises University of Ireland Galway. There is a Saharan Africa. Start-up funding has been Medicine and the Business School at the medical and dental schools in the three strong ethos in pioneering research and a provided by the Irish Government through Harvard University, USA constituent universities of the National commitment to education as the engine for Higher Education Authority and Irish Aid. • Mailman School of Public Health, University of Ireland, University College development. Trinity’s partners in Indigo are: Columbia University, USA

• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Pauline Byakika and Mohammed Lamorde were awarded the Marjorie and Norah Fenton Scholarship, which enables them to do a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology. The Scholarship Prof. Eduard Klasen, Dean, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands, was a guest of was founded in 2006, through the Fair Wind Foundation, by a gift of Mr. & Mrs. Michael honour during the Tercentenary celebrations. Jackson in memory of Mr. Jackson’s mother Marjorie and his aunt Norah, a graduate of Trinity’s medical school. Norah Edith Fenton graduated with B.A. in 1923 and M.B., BCh., B.A.O. in 1927.

Dr. Mohammed Lamorde, Dr. Ceppie Merry (PhD supervisor) and Dr. Pauline Byakika.

EUROLIFE Signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Makerere The Eurolife Network of European Universities • Leiden University Medical Center University, Uganda, and Trinity in Life Sciences has as its principle objectives • University of College Dublin. L-R: Prof. Nelson Sewankambo, Dean the development of a pan-European vision • Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg of Medicine at Makerere University; for high level strategic cooperation, research • Universitat de Barcelona Dr. Ceppie Merry, School of Medicine; Prof. Dermot Kelleher, and training activities. Apart from TCD, the • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Head of School of Medicine; Dr. John Hegarty, then Provost. network includes: • Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm • Medical University of Innsbruck

8 7 9 STUDENTS MOVE While dealing with pressures of a medical student’s life, our students organise a range MOVE (Medical Overseas Voluntary Electives) medical alumni. In the summer after 4th of activities aimed at giving back to the community and participate in Trinity’s various is a charity run by 4th-year medical students year, the MOVE members travel to hospitals clubs and societies. in Trinity College Dublin under the direction of in the developing world. The money raised is the Dean of Health Sciences and senior clinical divided among the members and used to buy ANNUAL MED DAY staff in St. James’s and AMNCH hospitals. equipment, supplies or medications for these TCD Med Day is an annual fundraising event An impressive total of more than €450,000 has The members of MOVE raise money through hospitals. MOVE members spend a month in organised and run by 4th-year medical been raised since the event’s inception in 2002 street collections, bag packing, raffles, these hospitals learning medicine and also students annually in November. The event by Trinity medical student Alan Watts. entertainment nights such as concerts, helping to care for patients. offers students the opportunity to give corporate donations and donations from the something back to the patients they learn from. The action-packed day raises funds for specific TRINITY STUDENT MEDICAL JOURNAL projects in affiliated TCD teaching hospitals. Trinity Student Medical Journal (TSMJ) is their research, as well as voicing their opinions a peer reviewed medical journal aimed at and ideas. TSMJ publishes articles which In 2010 the beneficiaries were a colorectal undergraduate health and natural sciences reflect areas of medicine that students find cancer screening project in AMNCH, Tallaght, students. The aim of the journal is to interesting and pertinent to their development and clinical psychological services for the encourage students to undertake and publish as doctors. National Burns Unit in St. James’s Hospital.

The School of Medicine is of particular importance to me as many of my family have been through it Dr. Robert Henry Woods (right), a Trinity graduate, Robbie Woods’s spanning over 100 years (including my grandfather and great-grandfather, both with the same name great grandfather (see opposite), was knighted for his contribution to medicine. He was president of the College of Surgeons around the as mine!). Trinity provides a unique environment for studying medicine as it allows one not only to “ 200th anniversary of TCD medical school. He was also elected as an enhance passion for the course but also to immerse fully into the benefits of university life through the MP for TCD. He set up the Trinity College Endowment Fund, which broad spectrum of sports clubs and societies that create a wonderful campus atmosphere. subsequently became the Trinity Trust.

Dr. Robert Rowan Woods (far right), a Trinity graduate, Robbie Woods’s grandfather, was secretary of the Trinity Trust. Robbie Woods, finalist of Trinity Annual Fund 2007-2008 Student Awards, Class of 2010. ”

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION – BIOSOC Established in 1874, BioSoc – is the student medical society at Trinity. It organises a range of activities throughout the year. In 2011 BioSoc hosted an international student debate about medical education in celebration of the Tercentenary of the School of Medicine. It was 10` moderated by Minister for Health Dr. James Reilly. 11 TRINITY MEDICINE TOMORROW

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTRE AND TRINITY PHASE II AT ST. JAMES’S AND AMNCH HOSPITALS

Maintaining the reputation of the School of Medicine as a centre of The School of Medicine and our two main of cutting-edge tertiary and quaternary patient quality education and research means ongoing development. Our plan teaching hospitals, St. James’s and AMNCH, are care. It provides a powerful partnership for leading up to the Tercentenary and beyond will take our educational reorganising into an Academic Medical Centre. development of increased capacity in terms programmes to a higher, and a more international level. The Academic Medical Centre would permit of physical facility and human resource the hospitals to maximise their development infrastructure. Major developments in as centres of knowledge generation and their association with hospitals will be Trinity Phase To achieve this we are planning to accomplish • Facilities development: appropriate integration into the knowledge II facilities for building up areas of excellence economy. The development of such a system in translational research in conjunction with a number of priorities, including: - A new building for the School of Medicine • Development of innovative on Trinity campus will also have significant impact on the quality Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. teaching programmes - Trinity Phase II research facilities • Key appointments in Cancer, Infection in St. James’s Hospital & Immunity and Neurosciences - Trinity Phase II research • Establishment of strategic partnerships facilities in AMNCH in Ireland and internationally • Creating research capacity for Trinity medical history collection

AMNCH Trinity College Dublin St. James’s Hospital

Dr. Charles C. C. O’Morchoe (M.D., 1955) established a fellowship, which is endowed in perpetuity, for a student exchange programme between TCD School of Medicine and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. It is in Our greatest glory consists not in never memory of Dr. O’Morchoe’s wife Patricia Jean O’Morchoe (nee Richardson), a Trinity medical graduate (M.D., 1955), and also in honour of his two ancestors, both famous scientists and professors at TCD. Charles and Patricia Jean were both on the “falling, but in rising every time we fall. faculty of TCD from 1957 to 1968. Dr. Charles O’Morchoe was elected a Fellow of TCD during that time. Subsequently he was a Professor at the University of Maryland, Head of the Anatomy Department of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine ” and then Dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774), writer, poet, and physician, Class of 1752. Patricia Jean and Charles O’Morchoe.

12 13 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE TRINITY MEDICAL HISTORY COLLECTION

Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute opened in Street in Dublin’s city centre, providing new For centuries, Trinity medics have contributed June 2011. It is a state-of-the-art research facility social spaces, commercial areas, and improved to medical education and practice around the built around the areas of immunology, cancer access to public transport. The facility received world. The aim of creating research capacity and medical devices and linked directly to both, €80 million in state funding under the Higher for Trinity medical history collection is to medical education and industrial collaboration. Education Authority Programme for Research in explore in the national, European, imperial Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute is the Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), co-financed by and global contexts, Trinity’s contribution to University’s most ambitious capital project the European Regional Development Plan, and the world of medicine. Our manuscript, printed to date and reflects the degree of research National Development Plan 2007-13 medical and material collections for the history of prioritisation that has taken place in Trinity over education funding. medicine, which date from the Middle Ages to Prof. Davis Coakley is recent years from building up world-class staff to the present day, are exceptional and are yet to Professor of Gerontology. creating scale of an internationally competitive €3.2 million has been contributed by alumni of be explored. Triggered by the Tercentenary, the He has a lifelong interest in medical history and is dimension. the School of Medicine. We are extremely grateful School of Medicine and the School of Histories the author of a number of and Humanities are collaborating in this area. books on medical history, to them for helping the School of Medicine get a medicine and Irish The €131 million eleven-storey development new home as it celebrates 300th anniversary of To mark the anniversary, the Library mounted literature. (35,000m²) creates a corridor of academic the day of the opening of its first building in 1711. a six-month exhibition in the Long Room “The activity and public interaction along Pearse Best Doctors in the World are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman” - The School of Medicine 1711 to 2011.

Stanley Quek M.B., M.A. (1970) is the Singapore Mary Henry M.A., M.D. (1963) was Jeremy Swan was born in Sligo in 1922. He studied medicine in St. Thomas’s Hospital , and organiser of the Irish Universities & Medical Schools formerly chair of the TCD Association he joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic in 1951. In 1965 he was appointed Professor of Medicine at the Consortium, which recruits qualified applicants for all & Trust and a member of the Trinity University of California in Los Angeles and also Director of Cardiology at the Cedars/Sinai Medical the Irish medical schools. Dr. Quek was the Republic Foundation Board. She was elected Centre. There he established a world-famous centre for cardiology and he developed the Swan-Ganz of Ireland’s Honorary Consul General in Singapore to Seanad Eireann in 1993 and catheter measuring pressures within the heart and surrounding vessels of critically ill patients. He before the Irish Embassy was established in 2000. in 1997. She received 2008 TCD died on February 7, 2005. Prof. Swan and his wife Roma established a fund for teaching ethics to Dr. Quek is a member of the Trinity Foundation Board Alumni Award for her tremendous medical students in Trinity College. and of the School of Medicine Tercentenary Board. contribution to healthcare. Dr. Quek received 2007 TCD Alumni Award for his Roma and Jeremy Swan in Trinity in July 1996, when Jeremy received an honorary degree. outstanding contribution to the School.

14 15 SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT A GLANCE

• Founded in 1711 • Affiliated hospitals – St. James’s and Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Incorporating the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH) – have strong public service ethos • Major figures of Irish medicine came through TCD and its affiliated hospitals • Currently 715 students from 35 countries • The number of EU students increased to over 100 in the first year

TERCENTENARY BOARD • Dr. Michael Asbury, Non-executive • Prof. Dermot Kelleher, Head of School Chairman of Photopharmica Ltd. of Medicine, Vice Provost for Medical Affairs • Dr. Dame Beulah Bewley, Past President • Mr. John Lynch, former Chief Executive of the Medical Women’s Federation, Officer of Merrion Pharmaceuticals former member of the General Medical • Dr. Stanley Quek, Chief Executive of L-R: David Lloyd, Stanley Quek, Council UK Beulah Bewley, Dermot Kelleher, Frasers Property Group Adrian Hill, Dave Shanahan, • Dr. Steven Drury, Consultant • Mr. Dave Shanahan, Global Head of Life Michael Asbury Histopathologist, New Hampshire, USA Sciences, IDA Ireland • Prof. Adrian Hill, Professor of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Scientist, Oxford University • Mr. Fergus Hoban, Chief Executive Officer, Touchstone

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