Annette Fitzpatrick
Annette Fitzpatrick, PhD, is an epidemiologist and Research Professor in the School of Public Health and School of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. She has devoted her career to research in the field of aging with a focus on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors as well as in dementia and…
Read MoreTara Cusack
Tara Cusack is an Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science. Interdisciplinarity, is her key area of teaching and research. She is the principal investigator of the Horizon 2020 project CHAMELEONS (Championing A Multi-sectoral Education and Learning Experience to Open New pathways for Doctoral Students). This project…
Read MoreHenry Duncan
Henry (Hal) Duncan is an Assistant Professor/Consultant in Endodontics in Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin. He completed higher training in Guy’s Hospital, London and a PhD in the University of Birmingham in the area of epigenetics and pulpal-regeneration. He is currently the principal supervisor for several clinical and scientifically-trained PhD students, has received…
Read MoreAmanda Drury
Dr Amanda Drury is an Assistant Professor in Nursing in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, UCD. She is a registered general nurse, with a clinical background in the areas of radiation and medical oncology. Amanda is an Executive Board Member of the European Oncology Nursing Society. She is a graduate of Trinity…
Read MoreSuja Somanadhan
Dr Suja Somanadhan is an Assistant Professor in Children’s Nursing at the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. She is an emerging leader in the field of health care provision for rare diseases in Ireland with a number of publications and ongoing research programmes. She is spearheading rare disease research partnership model called…
Read MoreBrendan Kelly
Dr Brendan Kelly is a Radiology Specialist Registrar at St Vincent’s University Hospital and an ICAT Fellow at University College Dublin. The Wellcome-Health Research Board Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme is a unique all Ireland cross-institutional, comprehensive national programme for Clinician Scientists based at six major Irish universities and their affiliated hospital groups. A…
Read MoreJonathan Hourihane
Jonathan Hourihane has been Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health in University College Cork, Ireland since 2005. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1987. He undertook his higher training in Southampton and London, UK. His primary area of clinical and research interest is in paediatric food allergy and anaphylaxis. He is co-Principal Investigator of…
Read MoreOlga Piskareva
Dr Olga Piskareva is a Principle Investigator studying a childhood cancer called neuroblastoma at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Her work aims to identify and target weaknesses in the way neuroblastoma cells spread to disrupt the metastatic process. As a Fulbright-HRB HealthImpact Scholar, Dr Piskavera…
Read MoreMichelle Flood
Ms Michelle Flood is a lecturer in the School of Pharmacy in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. As a Fulbright HealthImpact Scholar, she will visit the Design Institute for Health at the University of Texas at Austin to undertake a collaboration between Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts dedicated to…
Read MoreAoife DeBrun
Dr Aoife De Brun is a Research Fellow at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems at University College Dublin. As a Fulbright-HRB HealthImpact Scholar, she will undertake research in collaboration with colleagues at Northwestern University mapping leadership configurations in healthcare teams and explore associations with team performance outcomes and staff engagement.
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