RCSI extends deadline for Women in Leadership Scholarship Programme

RCSI wishes to notify all intending applicants that due to the

national response to COVID-19 pandemic, the deadline for submission

of application for the 30% Club Women in Leadership Scholarship

Programme has been extended to 15 July

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Meena Ramphul

Professional Diploma in Clinical Leadership

Dr Meena Ramphul is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in the Rotunda Hospital. Meena is passionate about improving the wellbeing of women throughout their lives and providing personalised care throughout their pregnancy journey. She went to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, to pursue a fellowship in complex benign gynaecology. She has a keen interest in advanced laparoscopic surgery, ambulatory gynaecology and pelvic floor surgery. Meena also has established experience in labour ward management, complex births and postnatal care. She runs specialist clinics in menstrual dysfunction, endometriosis, outpatient hysteroscopy, manual vacuum aspiration (award winning clinic) as well as a multidisciplinary complex postnatal clinic in the Rotunda Hospital.

Christina Fleming

Professional Diploma in Clinical Leadership

Christina is currently completing her final year of higher surgical training as a Specialist Registrar in General and Colorectal Surgery at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. In the autumn she will commence an International Robotic Colorectal Surgery Fellowship in Advanced Pelvic Malignancy at the University of Bordeaux, France following which she will return to Ireland as a Consultant Surgeon. She has completed a PhD in basic surgical science and has a keen interest in academic surgery, mentoring in clinical and research skills and developing collaborative National and International networks to develop high quality research that positively impacts on patient care.

Katherine Browne

MSc in Leadership

Katherine Browne is a medical graduate of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She completed a Higher Surgical Training scheme in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery in Ireland, followed by fellowships in Leeds (microsurgery/ hand surgery) and Oxford (hand surgery).

"The 30% Club Scholarship has been hugely valuable, allowing me to undertake this higher degree. The breadth of course material has helped me to refine my leadership knowledge and skill set. The diverse group undertaking this course has allowed me to network with individuals I might not usually meet on a daily basis. Coupled with skills learned on fellowship, I hope that this scholarship will enable me to become a valuable leader in the Irish healthcare system."

Thara Persaud

MSc in Leadership

Thara is a consultant paediatric radiologist working for Children's Health Ireland at Tallaght. She has worked and trained in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, including as a Consultant in Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Royal Manchester Children's Hospital before returning home to Dublin to take up a post with CHI.

“The 30% Club Scholarship into the Masters of Leadership has been a rewarding and transformative experience. This is a time of unprecedented change and stress in healthcare. Within Ireland, a new Care Programme is in the process of transforming paediatric services, merging three independently governed hospitals into a single organisation in history's largest public capital investment.Covid-19 pandemic and the recent cyber-attack on the health system have impeded and exacerbated this process straining the system even further. The Leadership course has provided an invaluable insight to navigate the journey both for myself through self-awareness, compassion, and resilience and to be more aware of the decisions, structures, and processes in place around me. This will allow me to contribute to, and lead a better, safer patient journey and join my team in enhancing the future of children's care.

In 2018, RCSI Institute of Leadership, in collaboration with the 30% Club, announced the

Women in Leadership Scholarship Programme, offering scholarships for its MSc in

Leadership and Professional Diploma in Clinical Leadership. The scholarships reflect RCSI's

commitment to promoting greater gender diversity in healthcare as well as the critical

importance of effective and impactful leadership in healthcare.

The scholarships are supported by the 30% Club, a global movement committed to better

gender balance at all levels of organisations, fostering greater representation of women at

executive levels of business and large organisations.