Honorary Fellows

Two honourees display their Fellowships

Candidates for these awards are nominated and ratified by the Board of the Faculty, prior to review and ratification by the Surgery and Postgraduate Faculties Board (SPFB), RCSI.

2025

Mr Brendan Gleeson, actor and hospice care advocate
Ms Helen Behan, actor and registered nurse

2024

Prof. Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the Institute of Health Equity, University College London (UCL)/Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL/Advisor to the WHO Director-General on social determinants of health in the WHO Division of Healthier Populations
Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe
Dr Diana Loreta Paun, Presidential Advisor on Health in Romania
Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu, Chief Nursing Officer of the World Health Organization

2023

Ray D’Arcy, broadcaster and mental health advocate

2022

Mr James Campbell, Director of Health Workforce, World Health Organization
Professor Jean Watson, Distinguished Founder/Director of the Watson Caring Science Institute
Professor Michael West CBE, Professor of Organisational Psychology at Lancaster University

2020

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization
Ms Elizabeth Iro, Chief Nursing Officer, World Health Organization
Lord Nigel Crisp KBC, Co-Chair of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health; Co-Chair of Nursing Now; (former) CEO of the National Health Service
Ms Vivien Lusted, recipient of the 2019 Florence Nightingale medal

2019

Professor Linda H. Aiken, Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Margarete Sandelowski, renowned nurse scholar in the areas of qualitative research, technology, gender and reproductive health
Dr Judith Shamian, Past President of the International Council of Nurses

2018

Keith Wood, current Chair of the Healthy Ireland Council
Liam Doran, Ex General Secretary, INMOl

Keith Wood, honorary conferring

2017

Niall Breslin, mental health advocate and musician
Emily Logan, Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
John Murray, Vice President, NMBI

Niall Breslin conferring

2016

Norah Casey, TV and radio presenter, author and Chairwoman, Harmonia Publishing
Dr Diane Cooney-Miner, Professor of Nursing and Dean, Wegman’s School of Nursing, St John Fisher College, Rochester, New York
Anna Shakespeare, CEO, St Michael’s House

Norah Casey conferring