The Meath Foundation Research Symposium

Friday, 29th November 2013 Robert Graves Postgraduate Centre

9:00am
Registration

9.40 am
Opening address  – Alex White T.D. Minister of State Department of Health

Scientific Programme  – Chairman Professor Stephen Lane

10:00am
Professor Thomas Frodl   – “Neural and stress correlates of resilience in an exercise- cognitive- behavioural programme”

10:20am
Ms Michele Hogan Clancy RGN “What do Irish Staff Nurses in the Emergency Department think about future role expansion into Nurse Prescribing”

10:40am
Ms Hilary Moss  –  “Benefits of the Arts for Patients in an Acute Hospital”

11:00am
Refreshments

11:20am
Doctor Tamasine Grimes  –  “Integrated Medicines Management”

11:40am
Doctor James Gibney – “Association between intestinal gene expression, postprandial lipid metabolism and evidence of early vascular disease”

12:00
Meath Foundation Fellowships 2013

Ms Amy Carswell, Business Manager, Diagnostics Directorate

Ms Claire Hartin, Team Leader, Laboratory Medicine

MS Anne Murphy, Human Resources Manager

Ms Kerry Ryder, ICT Applications Support Manager

Ms Niamh Smyth, Clinical Specialist Dietician

Ms Elaine Sweeney, Acting CNM1, Paediatrics Directorate

12:15pm
Research Grant Awards for 2013

Professor Deirdre McNamara, Consultant Gastroenterologist 

Professor Kevin Conlon, Consultant Pancreatic Surgeon and Chair of Surgery,

Doctor John McHugh, Consultant Haematologist and Mr Sean Egan, Pharmacist 

Doctor Richard Walsh, Consultant Neurologist 

Doctor Orla Buckley, Consultant Radiologist 

Ms. Elizabeth Mc Evoy Urology Nurse Specialist

The Edna O’Flynn Research Grant

Professor Veronica O’Keane, Professor in Psychiatry 

12.30pm
Keynote address Professor Mark Little   – “Interdisciplinary Innovations in Vasculitic and Allergic Disorders” 

Announcement of Research Grants available for 2014

Closing remarks Doctor John Barragry