Donal Buggy is Professor of Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine and Consultant in Anaesthesiology at Mater University Hospital, University College Dublin. He was elected for a 2nd term as Council Member of the College of Anaesthesiology of Ireland, having served as Editorial Board Member of BJA 2009-21. He is currently Chair of the European Society of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care (ESA-IC) Onco-Anaesthesiology Research Group, and Principal Investigator of the ESA-IC research network’s prospective observational study on diabetes, MOPED, which is currently enrolling patients. In June, he will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (DSc), the highest doctorate of National University of Ireland, for his career’s published work as clinician scientist on the influence of perioperative interventions on postoperative patient outcomes.