On 3 June 2016, the Founder of the Professional Register of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Prof Tom Shanahan, was honoured to meet the Irish President at the Presidential palace.

Tom Shanahan founded the PRTCM in 1983, and since then has been promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine in all its forms, in Ireland, Europe and beyond.

During the reception Professor Shanahan provided President Higgins with some literature about the PRTCM, and its TCM College in Dublin, the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine - the Alma Mater of most members of the PRTCM.