Prem Puri#
| Membership Number: | 6962 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6930-2491 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/prem-puri-54789a164/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Newman Clinical Research Professor, University College Dublin
- 2010 - present Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Beacon Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- 2019 - 2021 Director of Research of Surgical Services, Beacon Hospital Research Institute, Beacon Hospital, Dublin
- 2010 - 2015 Member (Director), Health Research Board of Ireland (Irish Government Health Research Policy Making Body)
- 2009 - 2016 President, National Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin (the single largest paediatric research institute in Ireland)
- 1989 - 2009 Director of Research, National Children's Research Centre, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin
- 1991 - 2010 Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin
- 1991 - 2010 Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, National Children's Hospital, Dublin
Fields of Scholarship
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Genetics
- Hirschsprung's disease and allied disorders
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Foregut anomalies
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Memberships /Fellowships of the American Surgical Association (ASA), American Academy of Paediatrics, American Paediatric Surgical Association, Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Japanese Society of Pediatric Surgeons, and Argentinean, Austrian, Czech, Croatian, Cuban, Indian, and South African Pediatric surgical associations
- 2015 Abraham Colles Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
- 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Children’s Medical & Research Foundation of Ireland
- 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons
- 2013 Honorary Fellowship of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA)
- 2012 Rehbein Medal Awarded by the European Pediatric Surgeons Association for outstanding contribution to the development of Paediatric Surgery
- 2012 Honorary Doctorate of Science conferred by the President of India
- 2012 1st Prize in Surgical Specialty at the 2012 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards (Newborn Surgery, 3rd Edition)
- 2010 Life Time Achievement Award by the Asian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
- 2006 Kafka Medal for outstanding contribution to Paediatric Surgery
- 2006 Denis Browne Gold Medal by the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons for outstanding contribution to Paediatric Surgery
- 2004 Life Time Achievement Award by the Indian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
- 2004 Asian Society of Paediatric Urology Medal for outstanding contribution to Paediatric Urology
- 2001 Gandhi Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to Paediatric Surgery
- 1996 Franco Soave Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to Hirschsprung’s disease and related disorders
- 1984 People of the Year Award (Irish National Award), for discovering endoscopic treatment of vesicoureteral reflux, the most common urological disorder in children
