Mission Matters Issue 3 Summer 2026 - Flipbook - Page 6
Team DNI: For Prof. Lynch, the DNI has always been about both the patients and the
dedicated and professional staff that work with him, to make it the place it is
We did it!
The Dublin Neurological Institute has seen exponential
growth over the past three decades and all led by one
man, it’s Clinical Director, Prof. Tim Lynch. Mission
Matters chats with him and quickly learns what
ambition and energy really look like
W
hen Prof. Tim Lynch first
arrived at the Mater, little
did he know what the future
held. 8I trained at the New York
Neurological Institute (9NI9) before
being appointed Consultant
Neurologist at the MMUH and
Beaumont in 1998,9 Prof. Lynch says.
8My ambition was to work in the
public Irish health service to develop a
neurology dept modelled upon the NI
- a centre of excellence underpinned
by teaching, training, research and
innovation i.e., an Academic Health
Science Centre. The Dublin
Neurological Institute at the Mater
(DNI) catalysed Mater neurology to
become a leading centre of neurology
and clinical neuroscience in Ireland
where patients do better,9 he advises.
What kept him motivated during
those early years of development and
renovation? 8In those days, Mater
Neurology and the DNI got huge
support from the Sisters of Mercy,
MMUH and Mater Foundation. Sister
Marguerite Rock, Martin Cowley CEO
MMUH. Mr. Frank McManus Chair of
the Medical Executive even promoted
8the crazy idea of renovating a derelict
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