With the World Gastroenterology
Organisation, Professor Quigley has been involved with the development of 14
training centres for doctors from Central and South America, Africa and
Asia. This year he taught on
"Train-the-Trainers" courses for international leaders in
gastroenterology in Chennai, India and Porto Allegre, Brazil. He also acts as a
volunteer for the Swinfen Charitable trust which provides medical advice to
doctors in the third world, his advice being in the area of
gastroenterology. “It’s good to
give something back when you have had all the advantages of living in the
developed world”, says Professor Quigley.
Eamonn Quigley is Professor of Medicine and
Human Physiology and a Principal Investigator at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic
Centre at University College Cork. He is the immediate past president of the
World Gastroenterology Organisation and past president of the American College
of Gastroenterology. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of
Gastroenterology.
The International Leadership Award is given
to a Fellow or Master of the American College of Gastroenterology in
recognition of outstanding and substantial contributions to gastroenterology,
to the College and to the international gastroenterology community. Substantial
contributions internationally may include, but are not limited to the
following: The training of individuals from other countries who have gone on to
become leaders in gastroenterology in their community; leadership in
international organizations that has resulted in improvement in the care of
patients; and participation in humanitarian efforts.
Eamonn Quigley’s major research interests
include motility, functional gastrointestinal disease, neurogastroenterology,
gastroesophageal reflux disease and probiotics in health and disease. He has
published over 550 original papers, reviews, editorials and book chapters, and
has received numerous awards worldwide.
He has delivered many named lectureships
including: Kullavanijaya International Guest Lecture, the Leeds Course in
Clinical Nutrition; McKenna Lecture, Canadian Association of Gastroenterology;
Mohammed Mashaly Memorial Lecture, Egyptian Society for the Study of
Gastroenterology and Endoscopy; and Mike Moshal Memorial Lecture, South African
Gastroenterological Society.
Professor Quigley graduated in medicine
from the University College Cork in 1976 and completed his residency in
internal medicine at the Western Infirmary and associated hospitals in Glasgow,
Scotland. There followed a two-year research fellowship, leading to an MD
degree by thesis, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. He served as Lecturer in
the Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology) at the University of Manchester
at Hope Hospital in Salford, England before joining the faculty of the section
of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
in Omaha in 1986 eventually serving as division chief. He returned to
University College Cork, his alma mater, in 1998 and served two terms as Dean
of the Medical School from 2000-2007 and also acted as interim director of the
Graduate Entry to Medicine program at UCC.
Picture: Professor Eamonn Quigley
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