Rene Angelo Garcia, Clinical Nurse Manager 2 ICU
Rene is undertaking an MSc in Healthcare Management at the RCSI as part of the Meath Foundation/TUH Leadership Fellowship programme 2023 – 2025.
“Undertaking an MSc in Healthcare Management with RCSI has given me the opportunity to see our Healthcare organisation in a different perspective and appreciate its complex environment. The programme has also given me a deeper understanding of the functions of a leader and how they affect employees and the working environment around them. I encourage all my colleagues to apply for the fellowship programme offered by The Meath foundation to gain better understanding of our system and see how they can contribute to improving care delivered for our patients.”
Prof Sean Kennelly, Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine
Sean and his colleagues in the research team in age-related healthcare have received research grant funding from the Meath Foundation.
“These research grants have been an invaluable opportunity to develop early-stage research questions which in turn supported larger grant applications and network collaborations to take questions to the next level. The Meath Foundation support also enabled us to train and support several early career researchers as they begin their journey towards becoming independent investigators, and develop their own research interests. The Meath Foundation has massively supported me as a clinician in my efforts to translate the questions we are posed when caring for people in clinic into answers that positively impact on their care.
The funding has supported several research strands which investigate how we can better understand the risk factors and biological pathways which contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related memory conditions. A particular focus has been how changes in the immune system and exposures to previous infections might influence someone’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life.
During COVID-19 a Meath Foundation grant supported research to investigate why frail older populations were most impacted by the virus, and how we might address this in future pandemics. This facilitated collaboration with other national and international research groups, all mobilised in the effort to understand as much as possible about this new virus as quickly as possible- and in particular the factors at play in high risk populations.”