Mari has recently finished her first year studying Graduate Entry Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Prior to this, she obtained a BSc (Honours) in Human Biosciences from University of Exeter in England. She is completing an 8-week research programme with the HRB Centre for Primary Care Research, for which she has been awarded funding by the RCSI Research Summer School. Her project will involve profiling chronic conditions among older people attending primary care, under the supervision of Dr Mary Walsh.