UCC honours medic whose unit inspired ‘ER’

An Irish medic and gunshot wounds expert, who headed up the trauma unit which inspired the hit US TV medical drama ER, is to be honoured by his university.

Leading surgeon Dr John Barrett will be among five distinguished UCC graduates to receive an Alumni Achievement Award from the university at a gala black-tie dinner in UCC this day week.

Acclaimed movie director John Crowley, High Court Judge Ms Justice Marie Baker, internationally recognised internet historian Prof John Naughton, and a former secretary general of the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Brendan Tuohy, will also receive the highest honour UCC can bestow on a graduate.