ProfessorHelen Heneghan

Professor Helen Heneghan is a Consultant Bariatric and General Surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital and Professor of Surgery at University College Dublin. A graduate of the University of Galway, Helen completed her basic surgical training in Galway University Hospital in 2008 and was awarded a PhD in molecular expression of breast cancer and obesity from the University of Galway in 2012. She completed the RCSI Higher Surgical Training scheme in General Surgery and during her training, she spent two years in the Bariatric Metabolic Institute in Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. Helen completed her training with a Bariatric Fellowship in the UK. She has co-authored 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has written 5 book chapters on the topics of bariatric and endocrine surgery. She is the surgical lead for the National Clinical Programme for Obesity. She is co-founder and President of the newly established Society for Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Ireland (SOMSI) and Council member of the British Obesity and Metabolic Specialists Society.