Rose Anne Kenny is an Irish geriatrician, neuroscientist and cardiologist. She is a professor of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), director of the Falls and Black-out Unit at St James' Hospital Dublin,[1] director of the Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing[2] and founding principal investigator for the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).[3] She was admitted in 2014 to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic honour available in Ireland, in recognition of academic excellence and achievement. Kenny is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin and of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, London and Edinburgh.[4]