The annual Meath Foundation Research Symposium celebrates and showcases the research projects that we have supported in recent years. This year’s Symposium took place Friday 24th November 2023 from 9am in the Centre for Learning Development at TUH. The Symposium is recognised for Continuous Professional Development by awarding bodies.
Prof Colin P Doherty, Ellen Mayston Bates Chair in Epileptology at Trinity College Dublin, opened the Symposium. Prof Doherty spoke on “Global Health, Climate Change & Medical Education”.
The Key note speaker was Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, an internationally recognised expert in his field; Co-Director of the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit within the University of Cambridge. He spoke on “Hormones, metabolism and behaviour”.
The programme included presentations from former Research Grant recipients; Research Fellows and MSc (RCSI) Graduates from The Meath Foundation Fellowship Programme as well as recipients of a number of Meath Foundation awards.
