International Continence Society

16. Ronan O'Connell is Emeritus Professor of Surgery and honorary Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent's University Hospital Dublin. Professor O'Connell is President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and President-elect of the European Surgical Association. He is past President and Honorary Member of the European Society of Coloproctology. He is a past Secretary of the BJS Society and Vice President of the James' IV Society of Surgeons. He has served as editor of the British Journal of Surgery, Associate Editor and Editor in Chief for the European Surgical Association, Associate Editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and is currently an Editorial Board member of the Annals of Surgery.
    Prof O'Connell is widely published in the areas of IBD, colorectal cancer and pelvic floor physiology. He is joint editor of Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery and Rob and Smith's Operative Surgery of the Colon Rectum and Anus. In addition he is joint editor of the European Manual in Coloproctology.

Professor O'Connell has received honorary fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2002), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2014) the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2019) and the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong (2019). In 2015 he was awarded honorary fellowships of the American Surgical Association and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He is the Hunterian Orator of RCS England 2019-2020.