AGM 2024, Saturday 13th 2024

Our Members’ AGM takes place on Saturday 13th April 2024, with Guest Speakers Professor Geraldine McCarthy, Consultant Rheumatologist, Mater Hospital Dublin and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Fiona Colclough, Beaumont Hospital Dublin. There will be an option to attend both in-person or online at the IBTS building in St. James’s Hospital, James Street, Dublin. Tea and coffee will be available from 10.30am and the business of the AGM will start at 11am. Our Guest Speakers this year will be Professor Geraldine McCarthy, Consultant Rheumatologist, Mater Hospital and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hepatology, Beaumont Hospital. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there on the day! For more information and to attend in-person, email miriam@haemochromatosis.ie To attend online via zoom, you can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd-igrD8uH9HtoMmvEDN_eEDf9pACbs7c

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