Research team:

Dr. Brian E. McGuire (Lead Investigator). 

http://www.nuigalway.ie/psychology/b_mcguire_page.htm

Dr. McGuire is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Training Programme, School of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Galway. He is also founding Co-Director of the recently established Centre for Pain Research (CPR) at NUI, Galway. The CPR is an interdisciplinary organization of academics, researchers and clinicians across NUI, Galway and the HSE. The activities of the CPR are organized into five research clusters – Dr. McGuire leads the cluster ’Psychological and Neuropsychological Aspects’ and co-leads the ’Population, Policy, Economic and Social Aspects’ cluster. He is also a member of the Centre for Clinical Health Services Research and Development at NUI, Galway. In addition, he is a member of the Research Ethics Committee and a member of Academic Council. He has around 40 peer reviewed publications and two book chapters.

Dr. McGuire works clinically as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Galway and works on a sessional basis at the Pain Clinic and the Diabetes Centre at University Hospital, Galway. His clinical expertise lies in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with chronic health problems and/or disability such as chronic pain.

E-mail Brian McGuire or  Ph: 091 492954

Ms. Miriam Raftery – Study Coordinator.

Miriam is a researcher in the Centre for Pain Research and School of Psychology at NUI Galway.  She holds a  BA in Psychology (NUI, Galway) and MSc in Health Psychology  (QMU, Edinburgh).  Miriam has worked as a researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University and as an Assistant Psychologist within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Edinburgh before  returning to Galway in 2008 . She currently coordinates the Pain Disability Prevention Project and the PRIME study within the school of Psychology. 

E-mail: miriam.rafterynuigalway.ie or 091 495830.

Professor Andrew Murphy

http://www.nuigalway.ie/general_practice/staff_pages/andrewmurphy.html

A 1988 graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Prof. Murphy is currently the Foundation Professor of General Practice at the National University of Ireland, Galway and a rural general practitioner. Prof. Murphy has published nationally and internationally on his research interests of management of cardiovascular disease in the community, professional practice, patients' perspectives and medical education. He is PI of the HRB funded five-year research programme on the provision of community secondary cardiac care (www.spherestudy.com). This is the largest non-pharmaceutical RCT ever conducted in general practice on the island of Ireland. As Chair of the Primary Care subcommittee of the National Cardiovascular Advisory Forum, he was closely involved in the establishment of 'Heartwatch' (www.icgp.ie) - currently the only national universal chronic disease management programme. He is also Chair of the all-island Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland and the first Chair of the multi-disciplinary Centre for Clinical Health Services Research and Development (http://www.nuigalway.ie/cchsrd/).

Professor Eamon O’Shea

http://www.nuigalway.ie/icsg/oshea.htm

Professor Eamon O’Shea is Professor of Economics and Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI, Galway. His qualifications include an MA from University College Dublin, an MSc from University of York and a PhD from University of Leicester. His previous posts included Statutory Lecturer in Economics at NUI, Galway and Personal Professor of Economics 2000-2005.
Since 1990 he has published around 40 articles in journals of economics, health policy, gerontology and mental health. He is the author or co-author of 14 books and monographs and has also contributed 22 chapters to various books, mainly on ageing and inequality issues. He was Chair of the National Economic and Social Forum Expert Group on Care of the Elderly in 2005/06 and has prepared various commissioned policy reports for Dept. of Health and Children, Health Research Board, the European Commission and the European Council, among others. He has undertaken a number of research studies on the cost of illness including: cost of dementia, cost of suicide, costs of falls and fractures, cost of mental illness            

Collaborators

Professor Michael Sullivan – McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Prof. Sullivan is the originator of the PDP programme in Canada. He is an internationally recognized expert in psychosocial interventions for pain management and disability prevention and has been a keynote speaker at the Irish Pain Society conference (2005). He has published widely in pain-related research and is co-author of the latest revision of the textbook “Pain Management”.  Prof. Sullivan will act as an advisor for the study.

Professor Chris Main

Prof. Main is an international authority on pain management and is the author of several important textbooks on pain management. He was a keynote speaker at the Irish Pain Society conference (2007) and recently attended at NUI, Galway where he was a guest speaker at the official launch of the new Centre for Pain Research (Dr McGuire is Joint Director of the Centre). Prof Main has expertise in the identification and amelioration of psychosocial risk factors for chronic pain-related disability, and he recently convened an international “think-tank” at Keele University to review and quantify progress in the psychosocial “flags”, the outcome of which is to be a book which will be published early 2008. He has agreed to act as an advisor for the study.

Dr. Brenda Gannon

Her main research interests include: Health and Labour Economics focusing primarily on policy issues relating to disability and social inclusion in Ireland (including work for the National Disability Authority and Equality Authority); Economics of Ageing focusing on retirement decision and interaction with health, Cost of illness studies for ageing population, Applied Econometrics, in particular the application of panel data methods. Internationally, she is a member of the International Health Economics Association and many European research networks including ECuity (led by Prof. Andrew Jones and Prof. Eddy van Doorslaer).

Educational achievements include a B.A. M.A. (Economics) from NUI Galway and Ph.D. (Economics) from NUI Maynooth. She has presented at many national and international conferences, including the National Disability Authority Annual Conference, (2004, 2005) the World Health Economics Association, (2005, 2007) and the European Conference on Health Economics, (2006, 2008). She was recently an invited speaker to the EU Commission seminar (2008) on ’Economic Aspects of Ageing in Europe’.

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