Dr Kevin Cahill from Rathmore, County Kerry, now retired in New York who was recipient of the inaugural 'Friend of Kerry' with his sister Anne Buckley nee Cahill from Cahills Bar, Rathmore pictured at Siamsa Tire, Tralee on Tuesday..Picture by Don MacMonagle..BIO:.As a distinguished doctor of medicine, Dr. Kevin Cahill has not only treated patients including Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, but has offered his vast expertise to a number of national and international organizations including the United Nations and the New York Police Department, where he is chief medical advisor for counterterrorism. These efforts to aid human suffering come as no surprise considering that Cahill began his medical career in 1961, studying tropical disease in the slums of Calcutta beside Mother Theresa. Cahill's relief efforts have since spanned the globe and include treating refugees in Sudan, serving concurrently as the special assistant to the governor of health affairs, chairman of health planning commission, and chairman of the Health Research Council of New York State. Cahill has cared for patients in 65 countries in some of the most war-torn places in the world, and was among the first to predict the famine in Somalia and has been caught behind the lines of armed conflict in Beirut and Managua...From 1969-2006 he was chairman of the department of tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where he taught over 4,000 medical students over the course of his career. In addition, he has been director of the tropical disease center at Lenox Hill Hospital, clinical professor of tropical medicine and molecular parasitology at NYU Medical School, and the consultant in tropical medicine for the United Nations Health Services...Cahill's accomplishments are many: He has received 27 honorary doctorate degrees and written a string of influential works that chronicle his experiences as a tropicalist and a physician, as well as articles and essays on his love for Irish