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Professor Roman Romero-Ortuno

Professor of Ageing Medicine & Frailty / (Medical Gerontology)
      
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Professor Roman Romero-Ortuno

Professor of Ageing Medicine & Frailty / (Medical Gerontology)

 romeroor@tcd.ie

 


Roman Romero-Ortuno is Professor of Ageing Medicine & Frailty (Personal Chair) in the Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, and is a Consultant Physician in St. James's Hospital, Dublin. In 2002, he graduated from University of Barcelona with a degree in Medicine, and in 2003 he completed an MSc in European Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has a music degree from the Conservatory of Barcelona. His basic postgraduate medical training took place in Manchester and London and his higher medical training in Geriatric and General (Internal) Medicine was completed in Dublin. Between 2014 and 2018 he worked as a Consultant Geriatrician in Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and during that time he held an Honorary Visiting Fellowship to the Clinical Gerontology Unit of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Prof. Ortuno is Faculty member of the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) where he brings clinical and academic expertise in frailty, dementia, delirium and comprehensive geriatric assessment. He co-chairs the Irish Frailty Network (IFN) of the Irish Gerontological Society. He is Board Member of the Geriatric Medicine Section of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). His research contributions in the area of frailty have been recognised with the 2015 British Geriatrics Society Rising Star Award, the 2017 Count of Cartagena Award from the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain and the 2018 President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award. Prof. Ortuno leads the delivery of Trinity's online frailty education programme: a 12-week Micro-credential in Assessment and Management of Frailty in Ageing Adults, offered annually in Semester 1, and a one-year, part-time Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Ageing and Frailty Studies. Both courses are open to healthcare professionals across all disciplines: https://microcreds.ie/partners/trinity-college-dublin/offerings/assessment-management-of-tmyx-5 https://www.tcd.ie/courses/postgraduate/courses/advanced-ageing-and-frailty-studies-pgradcert/ On the 1st October 2020, Prof. Ortuno was promoted to the grade of Professor In Medical Gerontology. In December 2020, he was appointed as Associate Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning (M.D. Studies); and in August 2022, he was elected Head of the Discipline of Medical Gerontology in Trinity's School of Medicine (2022-2025). On Monday 24th April 2023, he was elected to Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin. In 2024, he was elected to the EuGMS Executive Board as Director for Education & Training (2024-2027). On 1st October 2024, he was promoted to a Personal Chair in Ageing Medicine & Frailty in Trinity College Dublin.
  Frailty & Resilience   Gerontology and geriatrics
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Irish Gerontological Society
Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Irish Frailty Network for Education, Quality Improvement, Research and Policy
UEMS -Geriatric Medicine section (European Union of Medical Specialists)
EuGMS Executive Board, Director for Education & Training 2024 2027
Romero-Ortuno, R., The evolution of geriatric day hospitals in Ireland, Nature Aging, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Shaz Raja, Ciara Barry, Rohit Upadhyay, Rana Alash, Méabh O"Raghallaigh, Róisín Hayes, Roman Romero-Ortuno, HARMONIOUS AGEING: A NARRATIVE REVIEW OF MUSIC THERAPY IN THE BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE, European Geriatric Medicine, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Sara Solis-López, Dafne Estefania Durón Reyes, Raquel Gutierrez Zuniga, Joaquin Migeot, Brian Lawlor, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Creating Dementia-Friendly Travel: Enhancing Accessibility and Inclusion, Age and Ageing, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Fiona Kennedy, Deirdre Murray, Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Julie Broderick, Evaluation of a Low-threshold Exercise And Protein supplementation intervention for Women (LEAP-W) experiencing homelessness and addiction: Protocol for a single-arm mixed methods feasibility study, PLOS ONE, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Rachel Madden, Ciara P. Rice, Amanda Lavan, Desmond O'Donnell, Conal Cunningham, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Susan O'Callaghan, Rose Anne Kenny, Robert Briggs, Can Ambulatory Blood Pressure Biomarkers Predict Future Falls amongst Older People?, Age and Ageing, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Elodia Teresa Bernabeu-Serrano, Eoin Duggan, Román Romero-Ortuño, RELACIÓN ENTRE EL ÁNGULO DE FASE MEDIDO POR BIOIMPEDANCIOMETRÍA ELÉCTRICA CON LA FRAGILIDAD FÍSICA, SARCOPENIA Y COMORBILIDAD EN PACIENTES MAYORES, Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Roman Romero-Ortuno, Victoria Keevil, Advancing Frailty Identification in UK Primary Care with eFI2: Are We There Yet?, Age and Ageing, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Nicolás Martínez Gómez, Nicolás Martínez Velilla, Eoin Duggan, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Bioimpedance-Estimated Metabolic Age in a Falls Clinic: Associations with Multimorbidity and Physical Frailty, Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Feng Xue, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Linking Neurocardiovascular Responses in the Active Stand Test to Adverse Outcomes: Insights from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Sensors (Basel), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Feng Xue, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Characterizing Neurocardiovascular Responses to an Active Stand Test in Older Women: A Pilot Study Using Functional Data Analysis, Sensors (Basel), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Silvin P. Knight, Jose Refojo, Louise Newman, Rossella Rizzo, Hugh Tinney, Roman Romero-Ortuno, "Dancing with Atoms": A tribute to Sheila Tinney, Research Square, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Eoin Duggan, Glenn Jennings, Ann Monaghan, Lisa Byrne, Feng Xue, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Characterising the Blood Pressure Response to Physical Counterpressure Manoeuvres Using Surface Electromyography in Adults with Long Covid, TechRxiv, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ann Monaghan, Nollaig Bourke, Aisling O'Halloran, Mark Ward, Feng Xue, Glenn Jennings, Rose Anne Kenny and Roman Romero-Ortuno, New self-reported exhaustion during the COVID-19 Pandemic, TILDA Report, 2021, Report, PUBLISHED
Aisling O'Halloran, Roman Romero-Ortuno, How can frailty impact access to health and social care services?, HRB Open Research Blog, November, 2021, Report, PUBLISHED
Oscanoa TJ, Vidal X, Carvajal A, Romero-Ortuno R, Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors and severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a meta-analysis, Research Square (Preprint), 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Aisling O'Halloran, Christine McGarrigle, Siobhan Scarlett, Lorna Roe, Roman Romero-Ortuno and Rose Anne Kenny, TILDA Report on Population Estimates of Physical Frailty in Ireland to Inform Demographics for Over 50s in Ireland during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dublin, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED
Roman Romero-Ortuno, Peter May, Minjuan Wang, Siobhan Scarlett, Ann Hever, Rose Anne Kenny, TILDA Nursing Home Data: A short report to inform COVID-19 responses for our most vulnerable, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED
Romero-Ortuño R and Kennelly SP, COVID-19 deaths in Irish Nursing Homes: exploring variation and association with the adherence to national regulatory quality standards, LTCcovid.org, International Long-Term Care Policy Network,, CPEC-LSE, June, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED
Aisling O'Halloran, Christine McGarrigle, Siobhán Scarlett, Lorna Roe, Mary O'Shea, Roman Romero-Ortuno and Rose Anne Kenny, Living with Frailty in Ireland 2018, TILDA, Trinity College Dublin, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED
Roman Romero-Ortuno, Peter May, Minjuan Wang, Siobhán Scarlett, Ann Hever and Rose Anne Kenny, TILDA Participants in Nursing Homes, TILDA, Trinity College Dublin, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
School Award for Teaching Excellence 2024
Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin 24 April 2023
Master in Arts (jure officii), Trinity College Dublin 2022
President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award 2018
Count of Cartagena Award of the Royal National Academy of Medicine of Spain 2017
First Prize of the Catalan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology 2016
British Geriatrics Society Rising Star Award 2015
Elizabeth Brown Prize of the British Geriatrics Society 2010
Trainee Prize, Royal Society of Medicine (Geriatrics and Gerontology Section) 2008
Presidential Medal of the Irish Gerontological Society 2008
Loch Exhibition, University of London 2003
Titmuss Examination Prize (Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science) 2003