This event is run by Anooj Ghadge and Thomas Deane both Medical students at University College Dublin and part of the national MedEd Hubs collaborative. A national project with the goal of revolutionising Medical Education and increasing the accessibility of medical education to students of many different medical schools, regardless of their geographic location.

The speaker is Ciaran McDonnell A Consultant in vascular Surgery at the mater Misericordiae Hospital Dublin and Associate Clinical Professor of Vascular Surgery at University College Dublin.

Professor Ciaran McDonnell is a Consultant in Vascular Surgery at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin. He graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1995 and understood his surgical training in Ireland and Australia. He joined the Consultant staff in the Mater Hospital in 2007. Professor McDonnell is also on the Academic staff of University College Dublin, having been appointed as Associate Clinical Professor of Vascular Surgery in 2015.

His special interests include: aortic aneurysm repair, carotid surgery, endovascular surgery, peripheral vasCular disease and varicose veins. In addition to the Mater Hospital he also treats patients at the Mater Private hospital and the Bon Secours Hospital in Dublin.