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Morgan McMonagle will speak on his career as a vascular and trauma surgeon focussing on humanitarian medicine.

Morgan McMonagle is a Consultant Vascular and Trauma Surgeon, Waterford University Hospital. Author, educator and humanitarian surgeon.

This event will take place at SETU Waterford, Cork Road Campus, at the Auditorium.

Trauma surgery is a specialty that focuses on treating patients with severe, life-threatening injuries caused by accidents, violence, or other emergencies. Trauma surgeons have to rapidly assess, stabilize, and operate on injuries to organs, blood vessels, bones, and soft tissues to prevent death or disability.

Vascular surgery diagnosing and treats diseases of the blood vessels. They manage conditions like blocked arteries, aneurysms, and varicose veins, using both surgery and minimally invasive procedures to restore proper blood flow. Vascular surgeons operate on all parts of the body apart from the brain and spine.

Morgan McMonagle MB, BCh, BAO (Hons), MD, FRCSI, FRCPSGlas, FACS, studied medicine at UCD and also trained in Australia, the US and the UK. He has used his skills in conflict zones, recently receiving widespread media attention around his several missions in Gaza.

Shortly after qualification he moved to Australia working in helicopter rescue environments. Following this he trained in general and vascular surgery in the UK, where he operated on many young soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with gunshot and shrapnel injuries. A trauma fellowship in a world-leading environment in the US honed his skills in managing gunshot wounds.  He returned to the UK as consultant trauma surgeon St Mary’s Hospital in London when he joined the David Nott foundation which trains doctors in countries affected by conflict and disaster.

Since moving to Waterford, he has served in the West Bank, Ukraine, Lebanon and several recent missions to Gaza. On one occasion the hospital he was working in was bombed. Because journalists were not allowed into the conflict zone the accounts of humanitarians like Morgan became very important and received widespread international attention.

He recently the 2025 RCSI Humanitarian and Community Award

Mr McMonagle is author of over 60 research papers and 8 books.

FREE event, pre-book is essential!