Geraldine McCarthy MD, FRCPI, Consultant Rheumatologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin, and full Clinical Professor of Medicine, University College Dublin. She graduated in Medicine from University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, in 1981. She received her Fellowship in Rheumatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1991 and her Doctorate of Medicine (by thesis, National University of Ireland) in 1994. She was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1996 where she remained until her return to Dublin, Ireland, in 1998. In addition to gout, her research has focused on the biological effects of calcium-containing crystals in degenerative joint disease, as well as in atherosclerosis and breast cancer, and has been funded by many sources, including the National Institutes of Health, Arthritis Foundation, American Federation for Aging Research, US Department of Defence, the Wellcome Trust and the Health Research Board in Ireland. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (Rheumatology) and a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. In 2021, she received the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland Institute of Medicine Bryan Alton Medal in recognition of her contribution to clinical and academic medicine. In 2022, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from G-CAN. She is the current President of the Irish Society for Rheumatology.