RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) has announced the election of Professor Laura Viani as the new President of the College and Professor Deborah McNamara as Vice President. Professor Viani takes up office following the College’s biennial Council Elections which have seen a female President and female Vice President taking up office together for the first time in RCSI’s history.
Professor Laura Viani is a consultant otolaryngologist and neurotologist at Beaumont Hospital and the Children’s University Hospital Temple Street. She is Director and Professor of the National Cochlear Implant Programme and Hearing Research Centre and is founder of this national specialty. She replaces outgoing President, Professor P. Ronan O’Connell.
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