Maeve Durkan
Dr Durkan is an RCSI graduate ,with post graduate and sub specialty Diabetes & Endocrinology training in the UK . Thereafter she completed second residency in Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, USA and subsequently a fellowship in Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism at Brown University School of Medicine, USA. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Diplomat of the American Board of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She was awarded a Masters in Clinical Education NUI Galway in 2012. She is a consultant Endocrinologist , in the BSH Cork and a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Medicine in UCC School of Medicine,' . She also lectures for the UCC School of Pharmacy , She is involved clinical research , presenting annually at both the American Diabetes & American Endocrine International scientific meetings. She has just had two papers accepted for oral presentation at the IFSO ( International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity & Metabolic Disorders) annual scientific meeting in Miami, USA this year . She is an Internal Examiner for the MD Thesis Program at NUI Galway, and a peer reviewer for the Irish Journal of Medical Science.' She is President of UEMS (European Union Committee for Medical Specialties), Board of Endocrinology. She was appointed to the UEMS Examination committee to progress the European Board Exam in Endocrinology in partnership with the ESE (European Society for Endocrinology) with the first specialty exam ( EBEEDM) delivered in June 2018. She is co-author of the UEMS ETR (European Training Requirement) in Diabetes & Endocrinology that was ratified at the UEMS Council meeting in 2017. She is the current Vice Chair of UEMS CESMA (Council for European Specialists Medical assessments), having been appointed to the CESMA European examination appraisals subcommittee in 2016. She is the former Chair of the Diabetes division of the Irish Endocrine Society She was Co – Chair of the National Committee R3i (Residual Risk Reduction) Ireland and is now part of a working national lipid network group currently establish a National Lipid Screening Program.