Academic Primary Care Centre (APCC) Public Lecture Series 2023-24

 

Age Proof - The new Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life

Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny

11th April 2024, 2-3pm

Room 5.09-10, Russell Building, Tallaght

Biography

Rose Anne Kenny is Regius Professor of Physic (Medicine) 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 the Falls and Syncope Unit. Her recently published book “Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life” was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022. 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.