Faculty of Dentistry RCSI prize winners 2013

The Faculty of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has awarded top prizes to its dental students and trainees.

The awards aim to recognise and support achievement of future members of the dental profession.

The Faculty honoured the following dental students and trainees in 2013:

• The Adrian Cowan Medal was awarded to Mr Ronan John O’Leary, the best all-round 4th year dental student at the Dublin Dental University Hospital

• The Leo Heslin Memorial Medal was awarded to Mr Ahmed Sultan, a 4th year dental student at the Dublin Dental University Hospital

• The John McGimpsey Prize was awarded to Ms Emily Lovegreen, who achieved first place in the final BDS examination at Queen’s University Belfast

• The (inaugural) Seamus Keating Prize was awarded to Ms Orna Ní Choileáin, who achieved first place in the final BDS examination in child dental health at University College Cork

• The RCSI/IADR Postgraduate Clinical Research Award was awarded to Dr Emma Warren, graduate of the oral surgery programme Cork University Dental School.

The first four prizes are named after leaders in dentistry in Ireland who made significant contribution to dentistry in general and to the Faculty in particular.

They were also noted as outstanding teachers who made a special effort to encourage excellence among dental students and young dentists.

Further information on these prizes is available from the RCSI website: http://dentistry.rcsi.ie.

Photo: Ms Orna Ní Choileáin, University College Cork, (left), recipient of The Seamus Keating Prize, with Professor Martin Kinirons, Dean Cork Dental School (centre) and Mrs Alison Keating (right)

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