Réalta Annual Keynote: Why Arts? Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny

The Well Festival partners are thrilled to welcome Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny for the Annual Réalta Keynote Event, to talk about the significance of the arts in her life.

Rose Anne Kenny is Regius Professor of Physic* (Medicine) and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is the founding Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Ireland’s largest adult population study on the experience of ageing in Ireland. Regius Kenny is the Director of the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St James’s Hospital, where she is also director of a large national falls and syncope and autonomic function laboratory. She is also Director of the new WHO Collaborating Centre for Longitudinal Studies in Ageing and the Life Course.

A Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, London and Ireland, Regius Kenny is also a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland, and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Her many books include Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life.