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8:45 Registration 9.15 Opening address Doctor Frank Dolphin MA. PhD. AFBPsS. C.Psychol. FMII. A native of Birr, Co Offaly, Doctor Frank Dolphin is the Chairman of Rigney Dolphin, a successful services business with centres in Waterford, Dublin and Cleveland Ohio. He attended UCD, where he completed a PhD in Psychology. Doctor Dolphin worked as a clinical research psychologist at the Children’s University Hospital, Temple St. and later as consulting Psychologist in St Joseph’s Clonmel, working with children in residential care. He lectured at Trinity College Dublin and in Waterford Institute of Technology in Psychology and Consumer Behaviour. Doctor Dolphin is a Registered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland a Fellow of the Marketing Institute and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. In 1990 he established Rigney Dolphin initially providing strategic change and HR consultancy services to multinational companies. The company grew to provide a range of Business Process Outsourcing services for companies in the public and private and health sectors. It was one of the first companies to receive the Deloitte ‘Best Managed Company’ Award. In 2012 both he and his wife and business partner Adrienne Dolphin were short listed for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He is also a director of the US based health care consultancy company Relate Care. In August 2010 the Minister for Health and Children appointed him Chairman of the Health Service Executive, a role he stepped down from in December 2011. He subsequently chaired the Ministerial review Group to advise on the location of the National Children’s Hospital in 2012. He was appointed Chairman of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in October 2013. He conducted a review of Healthy Ireland for the Minister for Health in May 2014. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of Waterford Institute of Technology. He is a former Chairman of The Children’s University Hospital, Temple St., and served on the Board of Governors of the Mater Hospital. He is also a former President of Waterford Chamber of Commerce. 9:30 Scientific Programme Chairman: Professor Stephen Lane Chair of the Research Committee Doctor Vincent Maher, Consultant Cardiologist Determinants of premature cardiovascular thickening and stiffening. Doctor Barry McMahon, Chief Physicist Development of Clinical Applications for the novel FLIP evaluation of Valves in the gastrointestinal tract. Ms Elizabeth McEvoy Cancer Co‐ordinator An exploratory quantitative study of the anxiety levels in Irish men undergoing Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: a single centre study Doctor John McHugh, Consultant Haematologist An investigation to determine the most appropriate dosing regimen for the treatment of Gram‐positive infection with Teicoplanin in patients with Haematological Malignancy and Febrile Neutropenia Professor Des O’Neill, Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine Irish National Audit of Dementia Care 11:00 Refreshments 11:20 Formal Presentation of 2014 Research Grants Ms Sourenu Sara Cheeran, A survey of Irish intensive care nurses' perceptions of sedation management practices in mechanically ventilated patients Professor James Gibney Intestinal gene expression and early atherosclerosis in normal and diabetic subjects Doctor Dominick McCabe, Optimal Antiplatelet Therapy in TIA and Ischaemic Stroke (OATS) StudyDoctor John McHugh, An Investigation to Determine the Most Appropriate Dosing Regimen for the Treatment of Gram‐positive Infection with Teicoplanin in patients with Haematological Malignancy and Febrile Neutropenia Year 3 funding. Doctor Eddie Moloney A Pilot Spirometry Screening Clinic to determine the level of undiagnosed COPD in those at risk in Primary & Secondary care” Doctor Camillus Power, Health literacy and chronic pain: its impact on patients and implications for healthcare professionals’ management in this patient population. The Edna O’Flynn Research Grant Professor Mark Little, The acute, untreated patient with vasculitis: enhancing recruitment and sampling using a national network 11:30 The Mary O’Connor Award Announcement of 2014 recipient

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Page 1: 8:45 Registration Professor Des O’Neill, Consultant Physician in … · 2019. 7. 16. · 8:45 Registration 9.15 Geriatric and Stroke MOpening address Doctor Frank Dolphin MA. PhD

8:45   Registration 9.15   Opening address  

Doctor Frank Dolphin  MA. PhD. AFBPsS. C.Psychol. FMII.

A native of Birr, Co Offaly, Doctor Frank Dolphin is the Chairman of Rigney Dolphin, a successful services business with centres in Waterford, Dublin and Cleveland Ohio.

He attended UCD, where he completed a PhD in Psychology.  Doctor Dolphin worked as a clinical research psychologist at the Children’s University Hospital, Temple St. and later as consulting Psychologist in St Joseph’s Clonmel, working with children in residential care. He lectured at Trinity College Dublin and in Waterford Institute of Technology in Psychology and Consumer Behaviour.  

Doctor Dolphin is a Registered Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland a Fellow of the Marketing Institute and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. In 1990 he established Rigney Dolphin initially providing strategic change and HR consultancy services to multinational companies. The company grew to provide a range of Business Process Outsourcing services for companies in the public and private and health sectors. It was one of the first companies to receive the Deloitte ‘Best Managed Company’ Award. In 2012 both he and his wife and business partner Adrienne Dolphin were short listed for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  

He is also a director of the US based health care consultancy company Relate Care. 

In August 2010 the Minister for Health and Children appointed him Chairman of the Health Service Executive, a role he stepped down from in December 2011.  He subsequently chaired the Ministerial review Group to advise on the location of the National Children’s Hospital in 2012. He was appointed Chairman of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group in October 2013. He conducted a review of Healthy Ireland for the Minister for Health in May 2014. 

He served as a member of the Board of Governors of Waterford Institute of Technology.  He is a former Chairman of The Children’s University Hospital, Temple St., and served on the Board of Governors of the Mater Hospital. He is also a former President of Waterford Chamber of Commerce. 

9:30   Scientific Programme 

Chairman: Professor Stephen Lane   Chair of the Research Committee 

 Doctor Vincent Maher, Consultant Cardiologist  Determinants of premature cardiovascular thickening and stiffening. Doctor Barry McMahon, Chief Physicist  Development of Clinical Applications for the novel FLIP evaluation of Valves in the gastrointestinal tract. Ms Elizabeth McEvoy Cancer Co‐ordinator An exploratory quantitative study of the anxiety levels in Irish men undergoing Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: a single centre study 

Doctor John McHugh, Consultant Haematologist  An investigation to determine the most appropriate dosing regimen for the treatment of Gram‐positive infection with Teicoplanin in patients with Haematological Malignancy and Febrile Neutropenia  

Professor Des O’Neill, Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine Irish National Audit of Dementia Care 

 11:00   Refreshments  11:20   Formal Presentation of 2014 

 Research Grants Ms Sourenu Sara Cheeran, A  survey  of  Irish  intensive  care  nurses'  perceptions  of sedation  management  practices  in  mechanically ventilated patients 

Professor James Gibney Intestinal gene expression and early atherosclerosis in normal and diabetic subjects Doctor Dominick McCabe, “Optimal Antiplatelet Therapy in TIA and Ischaemic Stroke (OATS) Study” Doctor John McHugh,  An Investigation to Determine the Most Appropriate Dosing Regimen for the Treatment of Gram‐positive Infection with Teicoplanin in patients with Haematological Malignancy and Febrile Neutropenia Year 3 funding.  

Doctor Eddie Moloney  A Pilot Spirometry Screening Clinic  to determine  the  level of  undiagnosed  COPD  in  those  at  risk  in  Primary  & Secondary care”  

Doctor Camillus Power, Health literacy and chronic pain: its impact on patients and implications for healthcare professionals’ management in this patient population.   The Edna O’Flynn Research Grant Professor Mark Little, The  acute,  untreated  patient  with  vasculitis:  enhancing recruitment and sampling using a national network 

  

11:30       The Mary O’Connor Award                  Announcement of 2014 recipient    

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 11:40      The Meath Foundation Educational       

  Fellowships presented by Mairéad   Shields to the 2014 recipients           

 

Tracey Brady‐ Accountant   Jacinta Burke ‐Out of Hours Hospital Site Manager 

 Jane Hally‐ CNM2 Bed Management 

 Catriona Higgins ‐Senior Medical Scientist 

 Sharon Larkin ‐Human Resources Operations Manager 

 Ian O’Gorman‐ Head of Catering    11:50  The Brian Keogh Festschrift Award  

     Recipient: Fionnuala Hickey, PhD       Research Fellow,        Renal Inflammation Group       Trinity Health Kidney Centre 

  12:00    Keynote Address 

                  “Translational Medicine, Tallaght                   Hospital in the 21st Century    

Keynote Speaker:   Professor Seamas Donnelly 

  

 

Professor Seamas Donnelly  

 

Professor Seamas Donnelly will shortly take up the Chair of Clinical Medicine at Tallaght Hospital and Trinity College Dublin.  He represents the classical researcher in translational medicine, where clinical problems are brought back to the bench and novel compounds are evaluated and in a classical  bi‐directional approach taken back to the clinical interface as potential therapies.  He has been awarded over €25M in grants as PI or Co‐ PI in the recent past. He has been awarded an Honorary Professorship for “International Leadership in Translational Medicine” by the University of Edinburgh. Building on the strategic alliance between UCD and TCD, he is co‐applicant on the Trinity College Dublin Wellcome Trust/Health Research Board (HRB) Clinical Research Facility  at St James‘s Hospital, Dublin. He was one of the first clinicians to obtain an SFI ‐ investigator programme grants which he has held over the past 12 years. He looks forward to building on the Tallaght Hospital campus additional critical mass in Research and Education which will further improve the care of our patients.  Closing remarks and announcement of 2015 Research Grants  

Professor Stephen Lane 

 

The Meath Foundation

RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM  Friday, 28th November 2014 

 AT 

The Robert Graves Postgraduate Centre 

Centre for Learning and Development Tallaght Hospital 

Dublin 24  THE PURPOSE OF THIS EVENT IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE RESEARCH BEING UNDERTAKEN AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL FUNDED BY THE MEATH FOUNDATION. 

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