IMO President

Dr Paul McKeown is President of the Irish Medical Organisation. Dr Paul McKeown is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine and a Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Paul graduated in medicine from University College Dublin, trained as a General Practitioner in the UK, and returned to Ireland where he trained in Public Health Medicine.

In 2001 he was appointed a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in Dublin, which is Ireland's specialist agency for the surveillance of communicable diseases. Dr McKeown has responsibility for surveillance and provision of expert advice on gastroenteric and zoonotic diseases, vectorborne disease and emerging disease. He has served on a number of national and international advisory and guidance groups in the area of infectious diseases, and is a participant in EU and international surveillance and research initiatives in the field of infectious disease. His research interests include gastrointestinal, zoonotic and vectorborne disease, outbreak management and the epidemiology of emerging infections. In addition, he has a deep interest in the impact of social inequalities on health status.