TRINITY MEDICINE POISED FOR FURTHER SUCCESS For centuries, the Trinity College Dublin 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 Trinity College Dublin 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.