| Professor Pearl Margaret Treacy was a former Head of School and was appointed to the first Chair in Nursing at UCD. She held a key leadership role in the School at a time when it transitioned from a small academic department in the Faculty of Medicine, offering postgraduate courses in nursing, to a major research-intensive School in the University, providing undergraduate professional programmes in Nursing and Midwifery, and a suite of taught-graduate courses. She developed the School’s first taught-master’s programme, the Master of Medical Sciences, and she also presided over the introduction of the School’s graduate research programme. Professor Treacy led the early development of the School’s funded research and was the Director of the School’s first academic centre, the National Centre for the Protection of Older People. |