Professor Mary Horgan, who is the first woman president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and homelessness campaigner Alice Leahy who will receive an honorary fellowship of the RCPI on October 21st. The annual St Luke’s Symposium takes place at the RCPI, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 from October 18th-21st. Public events include a day of heritage lectures focusing on women in medicine and a free public meeting’Living and Ageing Well in the 21st Century’ with talks from former politician, Mary O’Rourke and psychiatrist, Prof Jim Lucey.

Registration on rcpi.ie/stlukes2017/