Peter V. Delaney

Peter V. Delaney MB, BSc, MCh, FRCSI (1936 – 2002) was an Irish colorectal surgeon. He founded the Sylvester O'Halloran Perioperative Symposium and Meeting, a fixture of the Irish surgical calendar, and received the President's Medal from the University of Limerick.

Delaney received his first appointment as locum consultant at the Mater Hospital in 1974 and Castlebar General Hospital between 1974 and 1975. He also served as a lecturer in surgery at Trinity College Dublin between 1975 and 1979.

In 1979, Delaney became a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at Limerick University Hospital and professor of surgical science. He was also a clinical lecturer in the Department of Surgery at the University College Cork. Delaney was one of the earliest Irish surgeons involved in laparoscopy in the late 1980s. Over his career, he published 42 scientific manuscripts and has been cited 475 times on topics related to colorectal surgery, Crohn's disease, and early recovery after minimally invasive surgery.

Delaney served on the council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland from 1985 to 1997. He also served as one of the first directors of the Mid-Western Hospitals Development Trust, incorporated in May 1986, along with Anthony Thomas Dempsey, Brendan Anthony McMahon, Patrick Mulcair, and Thomas Henry Peirce.

In 1992, Delaney founded the Sylvester O'Halloran Perioperative Symposium and Meeting with Professor Eamonn McQuaid from the University of Limerick. Since its founding, the Symposium has grown to be a fixture of the Irish surgical calendar and has evolved to comprise general, vascular, colorectal, breast/endocrine, orthopaedic, ENT, and plastic surgery sessions, as well as multidisciplinary, plenary, and practical hand-on surgical educational sessions.

Delaney received the University of Limerick's President's Medal, one of the University's highest and most special honors.

His children include Conor P. Delaney, an Irish-American colorectal surgeon, Chairman of the Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, and Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.