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Top post for Carn surgeon
16.07.09
by Liam Porter, Inishowen Independent
CARNDONAGH surgeon - Professor Cathal Kelly - has
been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and will take
up the position in 2010, the Inishowen Independent
has learned.
Son of the late Seamus Kelly and Bridie Kelly,
Tiernaleague in Carndonagh, Professor Kelly’s family
are well known across Inishowen.
His late father was owner of Inishowen Oil Company
where his brother Conor now works while his brother
Seamus is a doctor working in General Practice in
Carndonagh. He also has two other brothers - Raymond
and Brian. |
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Professor Kelly is
currently Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health
Sciences with the Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland since 2006.
A graduate and Fellow of RCSI Professor Kelly took
up the post at the end of September 2006. Prior to
his appointment, he was a Consultant General and
Vascular surgeon with a special interest in
endovascular surgery in Beaumont Hospital.
He combined this role with chairmanship of the
surgical division and an academic position in RCSI |
as vice Dean for
curriculum change. In addition to completing his
basic and higher surgical training in Dublin,
Professor Kelly pursued a research fellowship at the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.
He has also won the prestigious Patey Prize of the
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
for research he conducted at Beaumont Hospital and
he has also obtained first place in the
intercollegiate Specialty Board Exams. |
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