Mary byrne

Mary Byrne has been a half-time Lecturer in Primary Care at the Department of General Practice, NUI Galway since November 2007. She is responsible for co-ordinating Postgraduate Education in the Department. This includes courses in Primary Care (Masters, Postgraduate Diploma), Clinical Primary Care (Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate) and Clinical Education (Masters, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate). She has a PhD and a Masters in Health Promotion, a BA in Psychology & Music, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education.

Research Interests

I am interested in researching the transfer of postgraduate learning into the primary care workplace. In particular I aim to explore educational tools for promoting knowledge transfer, and techniques for assessing the transfer of learning to the workplace. Previous research experience includes the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in general practice, the promotion of positive mental health in post-primary schools, and the evaluation of community-based mental health promotion initiatives. 

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching:

• MHSc Primary Care & MHSc Clinical Education:
  Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
  
• Postgraduate Diplomas in Primary Care, Clinical Primary Care, Practice & Community Nursing:
  Health Research Methods
  Concepts & Principles of Primary Care
  Academic Writing
• Postgraduate Diploma in Education:
  Emotional and Mental Health Issues for Young People.

Undergraduate Teaching 4^th Medical Year:

• Effective practice in facilitating behaviour change.

Postgraduate Supervision

• Mary Tinnelly (MHSc). Occupational therapy in primary care: What are the current practices and perceptions of therapists in Ireland? 2011.
• Jane Campion (MHSc). Multimorbidity - The Practice Nurse Perspective: A Qualitative Study. 2009.
• Clare Robinson (MHSc). What are the perceptions and experiences of general practitioners in the former Western health Board area on the management of chronic disease in general practice? 2007.
• Anne Marie MacCrossain (MHSc). A Quantitative Study to determine the prevalence of parent-reported sleep disturbance in children with an intellectual disability. 2006.

Selected Publications

Logue-Kennedy M, Lyons R, Carroll C, Byrne MC, O'Hagan L, Dignan E. Services for children with (Central) Auditory Processing Disorders in the Republic of Ireland: current and future service provision. American Journal of Audiology 2011; 20:9-18.

Gillespie P, O’Shea E, Murphy AW, Smith SM, Byrne MC, Byrne M,  Cupples ME, for the SPHERE study team. Relative cost effectiveness of the SPHERE intervention in selected patient subgroups with existing coronary heart disease. European Journal of  Health Economics, 2011, May 3.

Campion J and Byrne MC (2011). Multimorbidity in Primary Care (part 1). Nursing in General Practice, 4(5): 20-23.

Campion J and Byrne MC (2011). Multimorbidity – the Practice Nurse Perspective (part 2). Nursing in General Practice, 4(6): 20-23.

Buckley B, Byrne MC, Smith SM. Service organisation for the secondary prevention of ischaemic heart disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2010; Issue 3). 

O’Donovan B, Armstrong P, Byrne MC, Murphy AW. Prospective cross-sectional study of death certification in General Practice and associated uncertainties. Family Practice, 2010; 27:351–355.

Gillespie P, O’Shea E, Murphy AW, Byrne MC, Byrne M. The cost-effectiveness of the SPHERE intervention for the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2010; 26(3):263-271.

Murphy AW, Cupples ME, Smith SM, Byrne M, Byrne MC, Newell J.  Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial of tailored practice and patient care plans. British Medical Journal 2009; 339:b4220 doi:10.1136/bmj.b4220. 

Leathem C, Cupples ME, Byrne MC, O’Malley M, Houlihan A, Murphy AW, Smith S. Identifying strategies to maximise recruitment and retention of practices and patients in a multicentre randomised controlled trial of an intervention to optimise secondary prevention for coronary heart disease in primary care. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2009; 9:40. 

MacCrosain AM, Byrne MC. Are we ignoring the problem of sleep disorder in children with intellectual disabilities? Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2009; 178:427-431. 

Leathem CS, Byrne MC, Cupples ME, Byrne M, Corrigan M, Murphy AW, Smith SM. Using the opinions of coronary heart disease patients in designing a health education booklet for use in general practice consultations. Primary Health Care Research & Development. 2009; 10: 189–199. 

Cupples ME, Byrne MC, Smith SM, Leathem C, Murphy AW. Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in different primary healthcare systems, with and without pay-for-performance. Heart. Dec 2008; 94:1594 - 1600.

Byrne MC. Health for all. In Downes P. & Gilligan AL. (Eds) Beyond Educational Disadvantage. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2007. (Book chapter).

Spillane V, Byrne MC, Byrne M, Leathem C, O’Malley M, Cupples M. Monitoring treatment fidelity in a randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention. Journal of Advanced Nursing 2007; 60(3):343–352.

Byrne M, Cupples ME, Smith SS, Leathem C, Corrigan M, Byrne MC, Murphy AW.  Development of a complex intervention for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care using the UK Medical Research Council framework. American Journal of Managed Care 2006; 12:261-266.

Byrne M, Barry MM, Nic Gabhainn S, Newell J. The Development and Evaluation of a Mental Health Promotion Programme for Post-Primary Schools in Ireland. In Jensen BB & Clift S. (Eds) The Health Promoting School: International Advances in Theory, Evaluation and Practice. Copenhagen: Danish University of Education Press, 2005.

Murphy AW, Cupples ME, Smith SS, Byrne M, Leathem C, Byrne MC. The SPHERE Study. Secondary prevention of heart disease in general practice: protocol of a randomised controlled trial of tailored practice and patient care plans with parallel qualitative, economic and policy analyses. Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine 2005; Jul 29;6(1):11.

Byrne M, Barry MM, Sheridan A. Implementation of a School-Based Mental Health Promotion Programme in Ireland. International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 2004; 6(2):17-25.

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