Title:	Dr Deirdre Kelleher-Dowling Memorial Medal
Award Type:	Medal
Long Description:	Dr Deirdre Kelleher-Dowling was Assistant Professor in Children’s Nursing at the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. She was widely known and respected within the academic community and among the nursing staff at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), Crumlin, and Children’s Health Ireland, Temple St. A UCD graduate (BNS 1998), she first joined the School in 2006 and played a significant role in the development of the first BSc Children’s and General Nursing integrated degree programme, which commenced in that same year. She was a dedicated educator and brought her own vision and values for children’s nursing to her teaching Dr Kelleher-Dowling passed away in September 2020 following a cancer illness and her passing was attended with great sadness among the academic and professional community in children’s nursing. Having discussed the proposal with her husband, the School now proposes to award a medal in her memory. Such a medal would be a fitting tribute to the late Dr Kelleher-Dowling and would preserve her memory in minds of her colleagues.
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