Eamon O’Dwyer, MAO, LLB, FRCPI, FRCOG, was Professor of Gynaecology & Obstetrics at N.U.I., Galway for 35 years. A graduate of University College, Dublin, he received his training in obstetrics & gynaecology at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin and in London, Liverpool and Manchester, returning as Assistant Master to the National Maternity Hospital where he was subsequently consultant in obstetrics & gynaecology before taking up the appointment in Galway
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London and a member of the Gynaecological visiting Society of Great Britain & Ireland as well as the Italian Gynaecological Society, he was Chairman of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Chairman of the National Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental training and a member of the EEC Committee charged with harmonising medical training in the European Economic Community.
He has been visiting professor to Universities in Canada, United States and Australia and has acted as WHO advisor in Obstetrics & Gynaecology to the governments of Norway and Poland. In addition he was an inspector of medical schools in Libya on behalf of the Medical Council — of which he was a member — and in Iraq on behalf of the Irish Department of Health.
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