Galway Bay fm newsroom - NUI Galway is to host Ireland's largest surgical conference.
The 42nd Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium provides a platform for healthcare professionals to present their research and clinical work.
It's named in memory of the Galway-born surgeon, Sir Peter Freyer, who performed the first successful surgical operation to remove an enlarged prostate in 1900.
The conference gets underway at NUI Galway this Friday, September 1st.