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Professor Rose Anne Kenny
Rose Anne Kenny is Regius Professor of Physic (Medicine) and is the Head of the Department and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is the founding Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal study on Ageing (TILDA) and Director of the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St. James’s Hospital, where she is also director of a large national falls and syncope and autonomic function laboratory. She is Director of the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ageing and the Life Course. In 2020, she was elected President of the Irish Gerontological Society. In 2022 she was nominated 24th Regius Professor of Physic at TCD (1637), the first female nominee.
Welcome to the Discipline of Medical Gerontology
Welcome to the Discipline of Medical Gerontology in the School of Medicine. The Department of Medical Gerontology was established in the School of Medicine in 1999 under Prof. Davis Coakley and was the first Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine in Ireland. The first established academic posts in the Discipline were facilitated by generous endowments from Atlantic Philanthropies. Since its creation, the Discipline has seen unparalleled expansion in the areas of education, research, clinical care, and societal outreach. Our mission is to help face the current and future challenges and opportunities of ageing by supporting education and research on successful ageing, geriatrics, gerontology, and preventative care of the older person, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
