Season 2 - Episode 2 - An Irish perspective on the development of a Human Factors program, Professor Oscar Traynor - RCSI Safe and Sound Podcast

12/09/2024 44 min Temporada 2 Episodio 2

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Professor Oscar Traynor, Director of International Surgical Training Programmes, RCSI

Professor Traynor graduated from University College Dublin School of Medicine in 1974 and completed his basic and senior surgical training with RCSI. He received numerous honours as a student and trainee including the O'Farrell Gold Medal for Surgery, the McArdle Prize for Clinical Surgery and a Fogarty Foundation Fellowship from the National Institutes of Health of the United States.

He was awarded the President's Prize of the Surgical Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland for his research in 1984 and was the first recipient of the RCSI Surgical Travelling Fellowship in 1985. His research into pre-neoplastic and field changes in the colon during carcinogenesis led to the granting of an MCh degree by thesis in 1986.

Professor Traynor was appointed as Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital in 1987. He has published his clinical data in more than 100 peer-reviewed journals and has supervised his trainees in the successful completion, presentation, and publication of their research projects.

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