Barry O'Donnell (6 September 1926 – 26 November 2019) was an Irish pediatric surgeon who worked at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin in Dublin,[1] who along with Prem Puri pioneered the sub-ureteric Teflon injection (STING) procedure for vesico-ureteric reflux.
O'Donnell, a native of Cork, was educated at University College Cork graduating in 1949, training at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and in Boston, USA.
He is also past president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, former president of British Association of Pediatric Surgeons and former chairman of the British Medical Journal.
1926 Cork, eldest son of Michael O’Donnell and Kitty O’Donnell (née Barry) Died: 26 November 2019 Education: Christian Brothers College, Cork; Castleknock College, Dublin; University College Cork MB (hons) UCC, 1949; MCh, NUI, 1954, FRCSI, 1953; FRCS Eng 1953; FRCS Ed (ad hom) 1993; FRCP & S (Glas qua chir), 1999; FRCS Eng (Hon) 2007.
Married 1959: Mary Leydon b.1933 – d.2015; (BA, BComm, BL) only child of John Leydon (KC St Gregory, DLitt, (the most senior civil servant of his day, described by Sean Lemass (Taoiseach 1959–66) as ‘the ablest man I ever knew’) and Nan Leydon (née Layden).