Rose Anne Kenny

Rose Anne Kenny is an Irish geriatrician. She is the Regius Professor of Physic and a professor of medical gerontology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), director of the Falls and Black-out Unit at St James's Hospital in Dublin, director of the Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing and founding principal investigator for The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). She was admitted in 2014 to the Royal Irish Academy in recognition of academic excellence and achievement. Kenny is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin and of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Ireland, London and Edinburgh.

Kenny is the Strategic Director for the Academic Health Sciences Centre, St James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin in 2021 and is a member of the Advisory Board,  for the Dutch Heart Brain Consortium and of the Association for Physicians, for Great Britain and Ireland since 1994. In 2020, she became President of the Irish Gerontological Society, an all-Ireland interdisciplinary organisation which facilitates research and education on ageing, translating research into improved and enhanced ageing-specific practices and policies. This research is concerned with the study of changes in older people’s physical and cognitive health, and the social changes people experience as they age. She is still active in her role as the Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin, which works to translate its cutting edge ageing research on Ireland’s older population into effective policy to benefit society. Provided by Wikipedia