Dr. John Travers

Clinical Senior Lecturer and Clinical Re, Public Health & Primary Care

Biography

John Travers is a clinical senior lecturer and senior research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a general practitioner in Dublin. He leads research on reversing frailty and building resilience and on interventions to support people experiencing homelessness. He has been the principal investigator for randomised controlled trials, feasibility studies, public and patient involvement, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. He also has an interest in narrative medicine. He completed a PhD with research on building resilience and reversing frailty at UCD, where he also earned honours engineering and medicine degrees. He completed an MBA at Harvard University. He was the founding CEO of international clean energy companies and Chairperson of not-for-profit social enterprises. He has worked as a healthcare volunteer in India, Tanzania, Ghana and Ireland. He has authored over 40 research publications and three books and twice won the Royal College of General Practitioners Sheppard award for medical writing.

Royal College of GPs Dr Jack Sheppard annual prize for medical writing 2023
President"s Award for excellence UCD
Nominated and selected to join the American Academy of Achievement
Presidential award for best annual research presentation, Irish Gerontological Society 2022
Royal College of GPs Dr Jack Sheppard annual prize for medical writing 2020
Co-president of the Harvard Leadership in Politics Society
Irish College of GPs/ TCD GP training scheme Dr Sarah McAnallen annual award for excellence in research 2021
Intel academic scholarship
HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland training award grant 2020

Member of the Irish College of General Practitioners