Date/Time
Date(s) - 17/02/2025
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Réalta/ Waterford Healing Arts Centre for Arts + Health
Categories
The Well Festival partners are thrilled to welcome Dr Austin O’Carroll for the Réalta Keynote Event, to talk about the significance of the arts in his life.
Dr Austin O Carroll has been a GP in Dublin’s inner city since 1997. He is passionate about improving access to quality primary healthcare for communities affected by marginalisation or deprivation. He has founded or initiated several programmes in this regard, including Safetynet, providing GP services to over 6000 marginalised patients annually throughout Ireland; GPCareforAll, a social enterprise creating new GP practices in areas of deprivation; North Dublin City GP Training Programme, to train GPs to work in communities affected by deprivation or marginalisation; and Partnership for Health Equity, a research, education, policy and service delivery collaboration. Austin has received many awards for his work. Outside his medical career, he is a keen cyclist, and also represented Ireland in the 2016 Paralympics in sailing.
Austin will be in conversation with well-known Waterfordian Dermot Keyes, a communications specialist and author with 25 years’ experience in the newspaper and broadcast industries. Away from journalism, Dermot is a highly regarded baritone who has performed across the South-East.
Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts Centre for Arts + Health, University Hospital Waterford
Mon 17 Feb, 6pm
Adm free but booking required.
To book: info@realta.ie / 051 842664