DrMaria Pertl

Maria co-leads Lifestyle Medicine undergraduate teaching activities in RCSI, which includes the RCSI Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine and the Lifestyle Medicine Student Choice module. She teaches Health Psychology and Communication Skills for Brief Interventions and Motivational Interviewing to medical, pharmacy and physiotherapy students, including the HSE’s National Undergraduate Curriculum for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management: Making Every Contact Count (MECC). Maria completed the University of Pennsylvania Resilience Train the Trainer programme, and teaches the RCSI Resilience programme to undergraduate medical students as part of the Personal and Professional Identity (PPId) vertical pillar.

Maria supervises PhD students and students taking part in the research summer school and completing the Masters of Surgery (MCh) programme in the RCSI. She has also supervised on the Masters in Applied Psychology and Masters in Applied Social Research courses in Trinity College Dublin, as well as student dissertations in Trinity College Dublin.