Previous seminars

Tuesday 9th March 2010
Dr Teresa Maguire, Head of Research Management Unit, Health Research Board
Topic: Current activities and perspectives from The Health Research Board
Teresa Maguire Presentation

Tuesday 19th January 2010
Martin O’Donnell, Professor of Translational Medicine, NUI Galway
Topic:  A National Stroke Registry: Implications for HSR

Wednesday 18th November 2009 - European Antibiotic Awareness Day 
Dr Deirbhile Keady, Medical Microbiology, UCH Galway and Ms Akke Vellinga, Discipline of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: Antibiotic Awareness 

Tuesday 27th October 2009
Dr Máire O'Donnell, Disciple of Medicine, NUI Galway
Title: Providing diabetes out-patients with personalised written clinical information: a pilot study and future work
Máire O'Donnell presentation

Tuesday 31st March 2009
Irish DAFNE Study Update
Dr Seán Dinneen – Irish DAFNE Study Principal Investigator, University Hospital Galway and Dept. of Medicine, NUI Galway
Profiling participants at baseline
Dr John Newell – Biostatistician, Clinical Research Facility, NUI Galway
Comparing quality of life tools: ADDQoL versus DSQoL
Ms Mary Clare O’Hara – Irish DAFNE Study Project Manager, University Hospital Galway
DAFNE presentation

Tuesday 17th February 2009  
A joint seminar between the Centre for Clinical Health Services Research and the Clinical Research Facility
Dr John Newell, Clinical Research Facility, NUI Galway
Title:   Sample size calculations – Power to the people* 
*An introductory lunchtime workshop describing the necessary background knowledge and information required to carry out a sample size calculation.

Tuesday 20th January 2008
Professor Andrew Murphy, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: Results of a RCT of a complex intervention to improve secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: The SPHERE study final results 

Tuesday 16th December 2008
PhD Pot Pourri 
PRESENTERS:

Tuesday 11th November 2008
Dr Sean Dinneen, Ms Maire O’Donnell, Ms Lorna Hurley, Ms Laura Kelly, Department of Medicine, NUI Galway
Title: An update on local diabetes HSR activity
http://www.nuigalway.ie/cchsrd/documents/maire_o_donnell__11.11.08.ppt 
http://www.nuigalway.ie/cchsrd/documents/lorna_hurley__11.11.08.ppt

Friday 17th October 2008 (in association with the Department of Economics)
Professor Steve Platt, Head of the Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh.
Title: Socio-economic inequalities in suicide: evidence and challenges for prevention

Tuesday 14th October 2008
Professor Peter Cantillon, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: A double bill of Cantillon  A. Canada: Reflections on a big place and ... B. Clinical teachers: A proposed programme of research

Tuesday 20th May 2008
Dr Eamonn O'Shea, Claddagh Medical Centre, Galway and Western Training Programme in General Practice
Title: An extra year of GP training - does it make a difference? A qualitative study to evaluate the extension of general practice training in the West of Ireland  http://www.nuigalway.ie/cchsrd/documents/eamonn_oshea__20.05.08.ppt

Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Professor Daniel Fahey, Department of Health Science and Human Ecology, California State University, San Bernardino
Title: Cost and Consequences of Chronic Disease Management http://www.nuigalway.ie/cchsrd/documents/daniel_fahey__23.04.08.ppt

Tuesday 19th February 2008
Mr Pádraic De Búrca, Research Support Officer  (EU, Millennium Fund & Ethics), Office of the Vice-President for Research, NUI Galway
Title:    Forthcoming funding opportunities PRTLI5 EU
Presentation and associated documents can only be accessed internally through the university server on the links below:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/ro/internal/documents/fp7/ro_fp7_chsppt.ppt 
http://www.nuigalway.ie/ro/internal/documents/fp7/reflectionpaper.pdf
http://www.nuigalway.ie/ro/internal/documents/fp7/healthfeedbackcall3.doc
http://www.nuigalway.ie/ro/internal/documents/fp7/healthminimanualfp7.pdf

Tuesday 11th December 2007
Ms Pauline Meskell, Department of Nursing & Midwifery Studies, NUI Galway
Title: The Clinical Role of lecturers in nursing in Ireland: How it is perceived by nurse lecturers

20th November 2007
There were two presentations on the theme of: Data Protection and Research - Implications for a National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register
Mr Gary Davis, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner Gary Davis presentation
Ms Siobhan Masterson, Project Manager, Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register (OHCAR) Siobhan Masterson presentation

9th October 2007
Ms Catherine Houghton, Department of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, NUI Galway
Title: The Role of Clinical Skills Laboratories in Preparing Student Nurses for the Real World of Practice 
Catherine Houghton presentation

29th May 2007
Collaborative presentation on DESMOND RCT
Dr Sean Dinneen, Department of Medicine, NUI Galway; Dr Brian McGuire, Department of Psychology, NUI Galway;
Professor Andrew Murphy, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title : Evaluating structured education in type 2 diabetes: lessons from the DESMOND RCT
DESMOND presentation

24th April 2007
There was two presentations
(i) Mr Brian Buckley, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway, on his work with the James Lind Alliance.  
Brian Buckley presentation
(ii) Mr Finbarr Colfer and Ms. Imelda Walsh Worrell from the Peter Bradley Foundation discussed research developments for ABI in Ireland. Finbarr Colfer presentation

27th February 2007
Two presentations on collaborative research:
(i) Dr Anne MacFarlane, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: Understanding the implementation and the integration of ehealth 
Anne MacFarlane presentation

(ii) Professor Andrew Murphy, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: AUDGPI research collaborative meeting: programme grants
Andrew Murphy presentation

5th December 2006
There were two speakers:
Mr Philip Larkin, Lecturer, Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Studies, NUI Galway
Title: Transience – revising transitions towards end-of-life Philip Larkin presentation
Dr Liam Glynn, Lecturer, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: Relationship between chronic kidney disease and mortality and morbidity among patients with established cardiovascular disease: a community-based cohort study

31st October 2006
Dr Tracey Cooper, Chief Executive Officer, Interim Health Information and Quality Authority Title:    Working together to improve quality of care

3rd October 2006
Professor Tom Fahey, Department of General Practice, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
Title: Shared decision making: results from three RCT’s for hypertension, menorrhagia and mode of delivery in pregnant women.  
Tom Fahey presentation

11th July 2006
Ms Deirdre Patterson, Spencer Gulf Rural Health School, University of Adelaide, Australia
Title: Spencer Gulf Rural Health School - What we do

11th April 2006
Professor Chris Dainty, Department of Experimental Physics, NUI Galway
Title: Enhancing vision and retinal imaging using adaptive optics.

21st March 2006
Dr Kathy Murphy, Centre for Nursing Studies, NUI Galway
Title: Quality of life of older people living in long-term care.

21st February 2006
Professor Andrew Murphy, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: The effects of capitation and fee for service on the process of the consultation: A cross sectional study.  Andrew Murphy presentation

13th December 2005
Dr Anne MacFarlane, Department of General Practice, NUI Galway
Title: ­­­­­­­­­ The impact of language as a barrier in primary care for asylum seekers and refugees: A qualitative study.  Anne MacFarlane presentation

15th November 2005
Dr Sean Dinneen, Department of Medicine, NUI Galway
Title: Evaluating diabetes structured education programmes: challenges and opportunities.   Sean Dinneen presentation

20th September 2005
Professor Colin Bradley, Department of General Practice, UCC / Editor of the European Journal of General Practice
Title: Bits of string and sealing wax - getting good outputs from limited inputs.  Colin Bradley presentation

3rd March 2005
Mr Tom Maguire, Deputy Data Protection Commissioner
Title:   Is Data Protection a barrier to Medical Research? 
Tom Maguire presentation

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