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Reunions

Alumni: Shaping Global Medical Excellence 

Since 1854, our graduates have distinguished themselves in medicine and radiography worldwide. We maintain strong connections with our alumni through UCD Development & Alumni Relations and the Medical Graduates Association (MGA).

Annual Alumni Reunion 

Our flagship event brings together Medicine graduating classes for a day of insights, engagement and celebration. Last year’s reunion was a resounding success and featured:

  • Daytime Symposium with CPD lectures

  • Evening Gala Dinner

  • Networking opportunities for alumni across generations

The MGA Alumni Reunion 2025 took place on Friday 9 May 2025 and celebrated the MB BCh BAO graduating classes of 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2015. 

The event was a resounding success, bringing together alumni from various graduating classes for a memorable day marked by reconnection, reflection, and the celebration of lifelong ties to the UCD School of Medicine.

Congratulations to Prof Niall O'Higgins and Prof Kevin O'Malley, both from the class of 1965, who were honoured with the Distinguished Graduate Award 2025 during the Gala Dinner. This prestigious award recognises the lifelong achievements of its recipients and honours their dedication to advancing the field of medicine. 

Thank you to everyone who joined us! To relive the moments from the day, please click here.

MGA Alumni Reunion 2026

The next MGA Alumni Reunion will take place on Friday 8 May 2026 and will celebrate the MB BCh BAO graduating classes of: 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2016. The event promises to be an unforgettable occasion filled with nostalgia, professional development, and an opportunity to reconnect with past friends and colleagues.

We are currently seeking Class Representatives to assist with disseminating reunion information to other class members. If you are interested in volunteering as a representative for your class, please contact (opens in a new window)mga@ucd.ie. Please see the list of Class Representativeshere.

Further updates will be posted here in due course. In the meantime, if you would like to register your interest, please email (opens in a new window)mga@ucd.ie. 

"Our class were a funny lot. We seemed to rather like each other for the most part.

When it came to organising our (rather ludicrously I felt, I mean how could it be?) 25th class Reunion, the concept of one of us becoming the Class Rep was mooted quietly on our Class WhatsApp group, and in an unlikely moment of humility I acquiesced. 

After the event I am exceedingly pleased to advocate for the role of future Class Representatives given my wholly positive position as same in 2023. The rekindling of so many old relationships - which really were not so repressed and lay just under the surface - was a wonderful and unexpected joy. There was a definite experience of regression, as though we were still in those heady Clinical Res years. The reconnection with colleagues via the Reunion, personally and professionally, has been a hugely positive experience and one which I encourage all to embrace.

We, the UCD Medical Alumni are a lucky lot, with an amazing UCD Alumni Team doing all the ground work and organisation. 

My only suggestion is that if your year doesn’t already have a graduation year WhatsApp (or similar platform) group is to start one…it will gather moss quickly."

Dr Cathy Brogan, MB BCh BAO graduating class of 1998

UCD School of Medicine

UCD Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
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