Thanks to the generosity of our members and supporters, we are able to offer a number of free conferences spaces to students and reduced registration rates for those who are working less than full time.
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Join us for our free webinar from two fantastic solicitors from the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission to learn about your rights, staff or student, to protection against bullying, harassment and sexual harassment in healthcare and academia in Ireland. Register: tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Our Chair, Dr Kate McCann, was delighted to attend the launch today of An Post's collection of stamps celebrating Irish women doctors.
It is wonderful to see this acknowledgment of four great #SundayWiMIN - Dr Emily Winifred Dickson, Dr Kathleen Lynn, Prof Janice Walshe and Dr Rhona Mahony!
Three weeks until our Galway conference!
Come and join us for our thought-provoking conference on Saturday March 21st, and then hop in the sea on Sunday morning to really get the blood flowing!
Register now at www.wimin.ie!
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 8: Prof. Geraldine McGinty, our keynote speaker at #WiMINConference26, March 21st*. Internationally recognized expert in imaging economics. 2018 Chair of ACR's Board of Chancellors. Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs @weillcornell.bsky.social.
*Register now: www.wimin.ie
Just 4 weeks to go until our Annual WiMIN Conference in Galway!
Topics will include:
💡Innovations and advances
🚫 Ongoing challenges
💶 Finances and pay gap
🎶 Medical humanities
🔥 Avoiding burnout
and much more....
We have some fantastic speakers lined up - read more and register now at www.wimin.ie!
Insight: Portraits of Women in Surgery hunterianmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 7: Dr Marion Broderick, sole GP for the three Aran Islands for 22 years, then Inishmore only for a further 20 years. West Coast Search and Rescue Action Committee in the 80s, which campaigned for search & rescue/MediVac services on the West coast.
www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin26
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 6: Dr Áine Daly, HST in Radiology at University Hospital Limerick. Master’s biomedical engineering @uniofgalway.bsky.social, BioInnovate Fellowship 2022/2023, Clinical Research Fellow with start-up Luminate Medical, combatting chemo side effects.
www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin26
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 5: Celebrating St Brigid on her Feast Day which coincides with Imbolc, the pagan celebration of the goddess Brigid.
She was referred to as a physician by Cormac mac Cuilennáin (831-908AD), so we celebrate Ireland’s first female doctor!
Image courtesy of @ciaraioch.bsky.social
Hi Ciara, could we use your image of Brigid (credited of course!!) for a post about her for Women in Medicine in Ireland?
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 4: Dr Bridget Maher (d.2017), GP in Castletownroche. Senior Lecturer in Medical Education @ucc.ie, editor Irish Doctor and Modern Medicine Ireland. Co-edited "Teaching Clinical Skills for the OSCE", developed apps to improve hospital discharge letters.
www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin26
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 3: Dr Caroline Bee Leng Low, recipient of 2024 @rcsi.bsky.social Positive Global Impact Award in acknowledgment of her work with “Kidz Horizon Appeal” in Singapore.
Fellow of American Board of Anti-Aging and Rejuvenation Medicine and Australasian Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
#SundayWiMIN26 Week 2: Prof Una Martin, emeritus professor of clinical pharmacology, formerly deputy pro-vice chancellor for equalities @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Fellow of British Pharmacological Society. Lead of Hypertension Service at University Hospitals Birmingham.
www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin26
To celebrate Nollaig na mBan, why not treat yourself to a guaranteed great day out at our 2026 WiMIN Conference in Galway on Saturday March 21st!
Registration is now open - early bird pricing available until January 21st.
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#SundayWiMIN26 Week 1: Dr Julia Cock (1860-1914), one of first female licentiates @rcpi.bsky.social. Also received license of Midwifery from Rotunda Hospital.
Dean of London School of Medicine for Women from 1903.
President Assn of Registered Medical Women 1895.
➡️ www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin26
#SundayWiMIN25 Week 52: Dr Anna Beug, GP in Dublin’s south inner city. Clinical Senior lecturer and GP trainer @tcddublin.bsky.social, A/Prog Dir North Dublin GP training scheme.
Trained facilitator 'Conversations Inviting Change', interim chair www.anph.org.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 50: Dr Aoibhinn Walsh, Consultant Paediatrician at Childrens Health Ireland.
Leader of pioneering community outreach service for children in highest levels of social adversity.
Central role in medical management of children evacuated from Gaza.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 49: Dr Bríd Shanahan, GP Summerhill Family Practice with GPCareForAll. Dedicated clinic for Roma patients. GP trainer, LARC tutor. Clinical Lead Deep End Ireland www.deepend.ie. EAG national suicide reduction strategy. GP-led menopause clinic pilot.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 48: Dr Karen Soffe, GP Trainer in Tralee. British Menopause Society menopause specialist/trainer. Complex Menopause Clinic at CUH. Board member Menopause Society of Ireland. Prize-winning collaboration Kerry Traveller Health & Development Project.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 47: Dr Aoife Murray, Rehabilitation Medicine SpR completing Advanced Spasticity and Neurorehabilitation Fellowship in Oxford.
BioInnovate Research Fellow, co-led award-winning ICU FamilyLink project, part of her MD @uniofgalway.bsky.social.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 46: Dr Regina Morais, Surgical SHO and Master’s student @rcsi.bsky.social. From 🇦🇴, trained in 🇺🇦, relocated during war to continue surgical career. Strong interests in bariatric surgery, minor surgical procedures, and QI projects.
➡️ www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin25
#SundayWiMIN2 Week 45: Dr Hazel O’Sullivan, Consultant Medical Oncologist Cork University Hospital, leading the cancer predisposition service. Fellowships @royalmarsden.org. Clinical trial PI with UCC Cancer Trials Group, Clinical Senior Lecturer UCC School of Medicine.
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We have a new Chair!
We are delighted to announce that at our AGM yesterday evening, Dr Kate McCann was elected as the incoming Chairperson of the Women in Medicine in Ireland Network.
Congratulations Kate!!
#SundayWiMIN25 Week 44: Dr Joyce Delaney (1925-2022). Psychiatrist, author of 5 books, one of 1st female ship's doctors in British Merchant Navy. Graduate @ucddublin.bsky.social.
Chose psychiatry on the promise "that the food was always excellent in mental hospitals"
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 43: Dr Edel McGinnity, GP in Mulhuddart Co. Dublin. Winner of the GPBuddy Patients Choice Award 2025, co-founder of Deep End Ireland. Lifelong commitment to improving care for marginalised communities in Ireland and abroad.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 42: Dr Elizabeth McGloughlin, co-founder and VP of Strategy, Clinical & Business Development at Tympany Medical, a Galway-based med-tech company transforming surgical imaging with Solascope.
MSc in BioInnovation @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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Pictured: Dr Mary Emily Dowson (left) with her mother Mrs Tee (seated, centre) and two daughters Maud Hamilton and Elinor Mary (right).
#SundayWiMIN25 Week 41: Dr Mary Emily Dowson (1848 – 1941)
Received her licentiate from @rcsi.bsky.social in 1886, becoming the first qualified female surgeon in Britain or Ireland. She practiced at the London School of Medicine and the New Hospital for Women.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 40: Dr Eileen Kiely, GP Principal/Partner and now working in Community Health with migrant communities living in direct provision. Currently studying for Master's in Public Health.
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#SundayWiMIN25 Week 39: Dr Muirne Spooner, Multi award-winning Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, Academic Director of Admissions and Deputy Dean for Interprofessional & Community-Engaged Learning @rcsi.bsky.social. Director of Clinical Education & Training at Vhi.
➡️ www.wimin.ie/sundaywimin25
