Conversations with Jillian - Interview with Dr. P. Ronan O'Connell [S2E06]

Join host Jillian Horton, MD, FRCPC as she speaks with P. Ronan O’Connell, MD, FRCSC (Hon) about the importance of mentorship for surgeons-in-training and early career physicians. They also touch on the experience of bearing witness to changes in medicine throughout his career, as well as insights about the future of medical practice for physicians and surgeons. Royal College members: you can earn 0.5 MOC Section 2 credits for watching this video. Look forward to more credits as you apply reflections to the issues brought forward by Professor O’Connell. 

Professor O’Connell is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at University College Dublin and former president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). In recent years, Prof. O’Connell led the creation of the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, making the College a degree-granting organization. He was instrumental in developing a strategy to reduce the incidence of obstetrical injury to the pelvic floor and is an expert in the surgical treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer – a technically challenging area of surgical oncology. In September 2023, Professor O’Connell became an Honorary Fellow in the Division of Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.