The Cure

Who’s practising across the pond? Missives from UCD medics in North America

Barry D daly (1979) md, MB BCH BAO, FRCR, baltimore, maryland
Professor of Radiology, Chief of Abdominal Imaging and Vice Chair for Radiology Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Back in town: My wife and I return to Ireland every year, dragging our teenage kids with us. The new medical school is an impressive building, both from an aesthetic and functional perspective, and the matured campus compares favourably to US colleges. The medical library is beautiful – I spent an hour there and almost wished I was back in Second Med, sweating before Professor Cannon’s pharmacology exam – UCD’s 1976 version of the Spanish Inquisition! setting sail After training in the UK and Ireland, I spent two wonderful years in Hong Kong and, in 1992, I was appointed on faculty at the University of Michigan. I moved to Baltimore in 1993; it is not unlike Dublin in many respects. school ties I keep in touch with quite a few classmates, some at home, others in the UK, Australia and across the US. We have a reunion every five years and, now that our classmate, Professor Bill Powderly, is head of the Medical School, I’m sure many of us will support future alumni activities.

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