The amazing journey of Lord Ara Darzi
The Rt Hon Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE received the third RCSI honorary doctorate at the June conferring ceremony 2013 which was held in the National Concert Hall on Thursday 6th June 2013. Lord Ara Darzi, an alumnus of RCSI also delivered the keynote address to approximately 260 graduates.The first Honorary Doctorate was awarded in 2011 to former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. In 2012 Professor Fr. Michael Kelly, Jesuit and internationally renowned expert on HIV / AIDS was awarded the second RCSI honorary doctorate.

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Darzi was born in Iraq to Armenian parents displaced by the 1915 genocide. He moved to Ireland at the age of 17 to study medicine.[19] He studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and subsequently obtained the postgraduate degree of MD at Trinity College, Dublin. He has become strongly identified with reform of the National Health Service (NHS)[5][6] in England and is recognized internationally as an advocate for applying innovative reforms to health systems globally.
He moved to the UK from Ireland in 1990 to further his career in surgery. In 1991 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Central Middlesex Hospital at the age of 31 and then moved to St. Mary’s Hospital in 1994. In 2002 He was awarded a knighthood for his services to medicine and surgery and subsequently elevated to the peerage in 2007. He was appointed to Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in June 2009.
He is married to Wendy with whom he has two children, Freddie and Nina.[