depress the production of prostacyclin in the endothelium, thereby increasing cardiovascular risk,[9] was instrumental in the withdrawal of Vioxx (rofecoxib) from the U.S. market in 2004 Michael Fitzsimons – 8-time All-Ireland Senior Football Champion for Dublin Noëlle Healy – 4-time All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Champion Tony Holohan – Chief Medical Officer for Ireland Maura Lynch – Catholic nun, doctor, women's rights advocate, founding member of the Association of Surgeons in Uganda, North–South Prize recipient Jack McCaffrey – five-time All-Ireland Senior Football Champion for Dublin Gerry McEntee – two-time All-Ireland Senior Football Champion for Meath, Consultant Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Eilis McGovern – 168th President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and first female President of any surgical Royal College in the world Patrick Meenan – President of the Medical Council of Ireland, lawyer, president of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, acting President of UCD and dean of the faculty of medicine in University College Dublin Bill Mulcahy – Irish rugby international, British and Irish Lion Josh Murphy – Connacht and Leinster Rugby player Seán Murphy – three-time All-Ireland Senior Football Champion for Kerry Lucy O'Brien – Missionary nun, medical doctor Paul O'Byrne – Pulmonologist, Dean and Vice President-elect of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Dean of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, former Chair of Respiratory Medicine at McMaster University Medical School Mona Tyndall – medical doctor and missionary nun in Nigeria and Zambia List of deans Below is a list of the deans of the UCD School of Medicine, Cecilia Street School of Medicine and the Catholic University Medical School: See also Mater Misericordiae University Hospital St. Vincent's University Hospital Dublin Hospitals Rugby Cup References External links School of Medicine University College Dublin Medical schools in the Republic of Ireland 1855 establishments in Ireland