Rose Anne Kenny

Rose Anne Kenny is an Irish physician-scientist and best-selling author with a clinical and research interest in medical gerontology. She is the Regius Professor of Physic, the first female nominee, and holds the chair of medical gerontology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), director of the Falls and Syncope Unit at St James's Hospital in Dublin, director of the Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing and founding principal investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) (2006). She is the Director of the newly created WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ageing and the Life Course.

Regius Kenny is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin and of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Ireland, London and Edinburgh. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland, the 2022 Valkholf Chair for Radboud University Nijmegen, and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 2020, she became President of the Irish Gerontological Society. She has received a number of international awards and has published widely, authoring over 600 publications including, her recently published book ''“[https://www.easons.com/age-proof-rose-anne-kenny-9781788705066?srsltid=AfmBOoq0Xql4cHQRLi8M29CKpLRioiITHABhC6G8wpXA9qz9fS1am_0W Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life]”'' which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize in 2022. Provided by Wikipedia