Louise Kenny was appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College Cork in 2009, and Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool, in 2017, and she has won umpteen awards over the years, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Enterprise Ireland, and Science Foundation Ireland. Other non-medical accolades include the Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Award for STEM, a UK Northern Woman Power Listing for advocating for women’s healthcare and her appointment as CBE (or Commander of the British Empire) for Services to Research in the NHS. But, in this moving and inspirational conversation with Professor Kenny, what stands out is her passionate devotion to the welfare of mothers and their babies and the well-being of our future doctors, along with the wisdom she has gleaned as a former ‘young medical mum’, and the courage and irrepressible good humour she brought to dealing with her own diagnosis of breast cancer.

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