
W100 Representative
Abi KellyDirector of International Engagement and External Relations
Abi Kelly joined RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2020 as Director of International Engagement and External Relations with responsibility for the Office for Institutional Research and Planning.
Her role is to support the University’s reputation raising strategy and build its brand among key stakeholders. A key ambition for RCSI is to be recognised in the Top 200 of universities in the world.
Prior to her role with RCSI, Abi spent 8 years at Newcastle University (UK) where she was Executive Director of Corporate Affairs managing the external profile of this Russell Group university. She also led communications for the N8 Research Partnership, a collaborative mission group of the eight research-intensive universities in the North of England.
She has spent 28 years working in the Public Relations industry in the UK, including roles in local and regional government, and as a PR Consultant for private-sector clients including Whitbread and Nissan.

Founded as the national training body for surgery in Ireland, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has been at the forefront of healthcare education since its establishment in 1784. As an independent, not-for-profit institution, we chart our own course in the pursuit of excellence in human healthcare.
Today we are an innovative, world-leading international health sciences education and research institution with undergraduate and postgraduate schools and faculties across the health sciences spectrum. We are home to numerous healthcare institutes as well as leading research centres driving pioneering breakthroughs in human health.
A deep professional responsibility to enhance human health through endeavour, innovation and collaboration in education, research and service inform all that we do. We welcome students and researchers into programmes of academic excellence and a lifelong community of colleagues that is clinically led, nurturing and supportive to enable them to realise their potential to serve our global patient community.
The Latest from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
We're looking forward to celebrating our RCSI School of Medicine #Classof2025 at today’s #RCSIconferring ceremony!
Join us live at 14:00 (GMT+1): https://www.rcsi.com/dublin
Five artists have been shortlisted for the 2025 RCSI Art Award.
The shortlisted pieces are Bedlam by Taffina Flood, No Promised Land by Bernadette Kiely, Slope by Vera Klute, The Men/Na Fir by Ally Nolan and With Tomorrow by Francis O’Toole.
More ➡️ https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-events/news/news-article/2025/05/five-artists-shortlisted-for-2025-rcsi-art-award
RCSI was pleased to award an Honorary Doctorate to former Minister of State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor at our Higher Degree conferring ceremony.
#RCSIConferring
Welcome to all those attending the @CHI_Ireland Research and Innovation Day in RCSI today.
RCSI is leading a @COSTprogramme Action to advance patient safety in ICUs across Europe.
The network will focus on three nurse-sensitive outcomes in the ICU - pressure ulcers, healthcare-associated infections and delirium.
Learn more 🔗
#RCSIdiscover

RCSI to lead new EU-funded COST Action tackling ICU patient safety outcomes
A new EU-funded research network led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences will work to advance patie...
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Congratulations to the RCSI graduates who received degrees of MSc, MPharm, MCh, MD and PhD at our #RCSIConferring yesterday!
We were delighted to commemorate this momentous day with you.
Read more ➡️ https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-and-events/news/news-article/2025/05/higher-degree-conferring-ceremony-celebrates-the-class-of-2025
Professor Annette Byrne, Professor of Physiology at RCSI and head of the RCSI Precision Cancer Medicine Group has been elected as a Member of @RIAdawson, Ireland’s foremost body of experts in sciences and humanities.
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/4yx2auwx
#RCSIdiscover
The RCSI Summer Conferrings begin today with our Higher Degree Conferring ceremony! 🎓
Family and friends can join us live at 12:00 (GMT +1): https://www.rcsi.com/dublin
#RCSIConferring
Congratulations to Prof Robert Byrne @RCSIPharmBioMol on being appointed Editor-in-Chief of the @PCRonline -EAPCI Textbook.
He will lead its evolution as a respected educational tool in interventional cardiology for clinicians worldwide.
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#RCSIeducate

The PCR-EAPCI Textbook is pleased to announce a new Editor-in-Chief!
A formal handover took place on Wednesday, 21 May, in Paris during EuroPCR 2025, marking the transition from Steph...
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In 1813 the first Chair of Medicine, Professor John Cheyne, is appointed and medical teaching begins on St Stephen's Green
1916 Easter Rising: Insurgents occupied the College under the command of Michael Mallin and Countess Markievicz. RCSI surgeons worked to treat the injured.
In 1990 David Bouchier-Hayes, RCSI Professor of Surgery, performed the first keyhole gall bladder removal in Ireland
Developing students tobecome ‘world citizens’
RCSI has extensive international partnerships including:
Clinical/research elective agreements and Erasmus partnerships with an extensive list of international institutions including Johns Hopkins University, McMaster University and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Joint undergraduate Pharmacy programme with Soochow University, China
Transnational education operations/partnerships in Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain), Malaysia (RCSI UCD Malaysia Campus (RUMC) and PU-RCSI School of Medicine) and Dubai (RCSI Dubai)
5% of research output produced through international collaboration with 1,758 institutions worldwide (Source: SciVal 2013-2017 accessed February 2019)
Mission and vision
- To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health
- Respect
- Collaboration
- Scholarship
- Innovation
At the global forefront of pioneering medical research
18,000
alumni, practicing in 97 countries
€35.1m
Research grant income 2018
The mission of RCSI’s research strategy is to improve human health through translational research: clinical, laboratory-based and health service research informed by bedside problems, and societal and global health challenges. We promote innovative research that leads to improved diagnostics, therapeutics and devices; tackles important healthcare delivery issues; informs policy and clinical practice and enhances the quality of education of healthcare professionals.
RCSI is developing research centres in areas of excellence and critical mass, focused on clinical and patient-centred research:
- Cancer
- Regenerative Medicine
- Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
- Surgical Science and Practice
- Population Health and Health Services
- Vascular Biology
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