Faculty of Paediatrics
Autumn Conference and A.G.M.
Incorporating the 22nd Annual Ralph Counahan Memorial
Lecture
Friday 12th October 2018
Approved for 6 CPD credits
Friday 12th October 2018
Time Title Speaker Chair
08:30 – 09:00 Registration – Tea & Coffee
Session 1
09.00 – 9.10 Deans Welcome Dr Ellen Crushell, Dean of the Faculty of Paediatrics
Prof Mary King
& Dr Carol
Blackburn
9.10- 9.25 Promoting early diagnosis and Preventing DKA in New Onset Diabetes
Prof Edna Roche, Paediatric Endocrinologist Tallaght
09.25 – 09.35 Model of care for Paediatrics– progress
Prof Alf Nicholson, National Clinical Lead for Paediatrics
09.35 – 10.05 The Paediatric Epilepsies- what’s New and what’s not so New but remains important
Dr Mary O’Regan, Paediatric Neurologist, OLCH Crumlin
10.05 – 10.35 Neonatal MRI – to scan or not to scan
Dr Michael Boyle Neonatologist, Rotunda Hospital
10.35 – 10.50 Therapeutic hypothermia Prof John Murphy, National Clinical Lead for Neonatology
10.50- 10.55 Europaediatrics 2019 launch Prof Hilary Hoey, Chair Scientific Committee, Europaediatrics2019
10.55 – 11.20 Coffee Break
Session 2
11.20- 11.45 The Paediatric decision unit, from concept to fruition
Dr Hilary Stokes, Paediatrician Mayo University Hospital
Dr Paul
Gallagher & Dr Davina Healy
11.45 – 12.05
Growing up in Direct Provision Ms Leonie Kerins, CEO Doran Luimni, Limerick
Time Title Speaker Chair
12.05 – 12.30 Inclusion medicine-a paediatric perspective
Dr Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Physician specialist in inclusion medicine, St James Hospital, TCD
12.30 – 12.50 Advocating effectively for
children
Senator Jillian Van Turnhout, Children’s Rights Advocate
12.50 – 13.50 Lunch
Session 3
13.50 – 14.20 Psychological Medicine, from
basics to cases
Prof Elizabeth Barrett,
child and adolescent
psychiatrist, Temple St
Dr Ellen Crushell & Dr Judith Meehan
14.20 – 14.50 All Ireland Paediatrics-the way
forward
Dr Karl McKeever, RCPCH Lead for N.Ireland, Paediatric Nephrologist Belfast
22nd Annual Ralph Counahan Memorial Lecture
14.50 – 15.30 Nec sorte, nec fato. Neither by chance nor by fate?
Prof Sir Alan Craft, Paediatrican/Oncologist, Past President RCPCH
15.30– 15.45 Presentation of the Kathleen Lynn Medal 2018 for Outstanding Contribution
Prof Mary Horgan, President RCPI
Closing remarks Dr Ellen Crushell, Dean
15.50 – 17.15 Faculty AGM Lecture Theatre
Evening Programme
18.30 Admission Ceremony RCPI, 6 Kildare Street
19.15 Drinks Reception RCPI, 6 Kildare Street
20.00 Gala Dinner (Black Tie) RCPI, 6 Kildare St
Guest speaker biographies
Professor Edna Roche
is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Dublin, Trinity College and a consultant paediatrician and paediatric endocrinologist at the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght. She holds an M.B., BCh, BAO, M.D, and MBA from the University of Dublin, postgraduate qualification from the NUI, Membership and Fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Edinburgh and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health London. She has extensive academic experience: established the MSc in Health Services Management and MSc in Paediatrics at the University of Dublin. She has supervised many postgraduate students in both clinical medicine and management and published over 50 peer reviewed papers. Professor Roche is Director of Research at Down Syndrome Ireland and a member of the Steering Group of the Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group (DSMIG) Ireland and UK. She Chairs the Nutrition Council of the Irish Heart Foundation and is a member of the Clinical Advisory Group of the Faculty of Paediatrics, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Her research interests include: Diabetes–epidemiology and clinical care. Founder and Director of Irish Childhood Diabetes National Register. Member, Hvidore and EURODIAB Research Groups. Down Sydrome – epidemiology, health issues/medical guidelines, health service utilisation, and clinical care. Founder and Director of National Register for children with Down Syndrome. Growth and development (SGA and Obesity) and rare disorders of Prader willi and Turner Syndromes.
Professor Alf Nicholson
RCSI Professor of Paediatrics and National Clinical Lead for
integrated care programme for children. Co-author of
paediatric model of care and now on steering group of
integrated care programme for children with a passion to fully
implement national model of care. Over 90 peer –reviewed
publications with a focus on child health and injury
prevention. Professor Nicolson is Co –director of the basic
specialist programme in paediatrics
Dr Mary O’Regan
Presently working as a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
OLCHC and took up my appointment in July 2017 and prior to
that I work as a consultant paediatric neurologist in Glasgow,
Scotland initially at Yorkhill and latterly at the New Children’s
Hospital for 18 years. My interests are the paediatric
epilepsies and neuroimmunology. In addition to my clinical
work in Scotland I was also the Lead Clinician for the Scottish
Paediatric Epilepsy Network and was a member of the team
that produced the SIGN guideline for the Diagnosis and
Management of the Epilepsies in children and Young People.
I was involved in the development of the Paediatric Epilepsy
Training Courses run by the British Paediatric Neurology
Training Courses and continue to teach on these courses
mostly recently in Myanmar.
I qualified in the last millennium in Trinity College Dublin and
undertook my paediatric and paediatric neurology training in
London and Edinburgh.
Michael Boyle MB BCh BAO, PhD, MRCPI (PAEDS)
Dr. Michael Boyle was appointed as a consultant neonatologist
in the Rotunda Hospital in 2016. His particular areas of
interest are newborn infants with neurological issues, infants
with surgical conditions and the care of the extremely preterm
infant.
Dr. Boyle graduated from University College Dublin in 2004.
Michael completed his higher specialist training in Ireland
before further training in the UK. He completed clinical
neonatal and transport fellowships at Addenbrooke’s Hospital,
Cambridge. Michael was also appointed chief resident before
a consultant position prior to returning to Ireland. He
completed his doctoral thesis (PhD) on neuroimaging in
infants with growth restriction in 2016 through the Royal
College of Surgeons in Ireland.
Dr. Boyle has a keen interest in education, particularly in
teaching cranial ultrasound to trainee neonatologists and a
research interest in neuroimaging using ultrasound and MRI.
Prof John Murphy
Consultant Neonatologist, The National Maternity Hospital,
Holles Street, Dublin 2 & The Childrens’ University Hospital,
Temple Street, Dublin 1.
National Clinical Lead in Neonatology
Associate Professor of Paediatrics, RCSI
Editor: The Irish Medical Journal
Prof Hilary Hoey
Director of Professional Competence Royal College of
Physicians in Ireland (2015 to-date) and Chairman of Diabetes
Ireland (2011-to-date). Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics and
currently Lecturer and Examiner the University of Dublin,
Trinity College. Immediate past Dean of the Faculty of
Paediatrics 2011-14) and Vice-President and Censor of the
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (2013-14). Professor and
Head of the Department of Paediatrics in Trinity College
Dublin (TCD) and Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist in the
Adelaide and Meath Hospital incorporating the National
Children’s Hospital and at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital
Crumlin from 1991 - 2011.
President European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology
(ESPE) 2013-2014. Received the ESPE Outstanding Clinician
Award 2016. President ECOG Annual Scientific Meeting Dublin
2012, Chairman Scientific Committee World Congress on
Down Syndrome Dublin 2012. Council member and Chairman
of Scientific Committee and Organizing Committee European
Paediatric Association Annual Conference 2019.
Dr Hilary Stokes
Dr Hilary Stokes is a consultant paediatrician at Mayo
Unversity Hospital, Castlebar. She is a graduate of RCSI,
Dublin, 1993.She has a special interest in childhood disability
and autism. She is currently Associate Clinical Director for
Women’s Health and Children at MUH, and strand lead for
Paediatrics for the NUIG medical students.
Ms Leonie Kerins
Leonie Kerins is a human rights activist with extensive
experience leading one of Ireland's foremost migrant support
NGOs. Leonie joined Doras in April 2007, initially working in a
managerial role with responsibility for the Advice &
Information Centre and now as CEO. A fluent French speaker
who emigrated to France in 1992, Leonie spent over a decade
working for the United Nations Education, Science and Culture
Organisation (UNESCO), as part of a team guiding African
governments through the World Heritage application process.
During her time at UNESCO, Leonie was routinely seconded to
the Secretariat of the Executive Board, UNESCO’s decision-
making body. Leonie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Social
Sciences from University College Cork and a Master of Science
in Population and Development Studies from the London
School of Economics and Political Science. Doras has extensive
experience in refugee resettlement in Ireland, having
delivered a programme in conjunction with Laois County
Council in Portlaoise in 2015, a further refugee resettlement
programme with Limerick City and County Council in Limerick
in 2017/2018 and currently in 4 locations in Wexford since
May 2017. Doras prides itself in its client-centred approach,
while building individuals capacity to fulfil their own
integration
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, MB, MRCP (UK), PhD
Clíona Ní Cheallaigh is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases and
General Medicine in St James’s Hospital, Dublin, and Clinical
Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Clinical Medicine, TCD. She is
the Clinical Lead of a pilot Inclusion Health Service in St
James’s Hospital dedicated to improving access to specialist
hospital care for socially excluded individuals. Her research
seeks to look at the effect of social exclusion on health from a
number of perspectives, and includes work on health systems
design and evaluation, work funded by the HRB on premature
ageing in homeless adults and work on the effect of social
exclusion on the immune system
Senator Jillian Van Turnhout
Jillian van Turnhout is a former Irish Senator. In her five-year
term in Seanad Éireann, Jillian spearheaded a number of
legislative and policy changes particularly in the area of health
and children’s rights.
Jillian currently runs her own consultancy business. Jillian
completed the INSEAD International Directors Programme and
has a Certificate in Corporate Governance. She is currently
undertaking the Institute of Directors, Chartered Director
Programme at the IMI. Her current Board work includes
serving as Vice Chair of European Movement Ireland, Chair of
Early Childhood Ireland and Director of Irish Girl Guides Trust
Corporation CLG. She is a former Chief Executive of the
Children’s Rights Alliance, former Chair of Children in Hospital
Ireland, former Chief Commissioner of the Irish Girl Guides
and former President of the National Youth Council of Ireland.
For over 12 years Jillian was a member and Vice President of
the EU Advisory Body, the European Economic and Social
Committee. Jillian was rapporteur for the EESC on Alcohol
related harm. Jillian is a co-founder of the European Youth
Forum. Jillian has been awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre
National du Mérite by the President of France.
Dr Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent
Liaison Psychiatry at Children’s University Hospital Temple St,
Ireland and an Associate Professor at UCD. Following initial
training in paediatric medicine, she has worked in Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry in Ireland and the UK. She is the Clinical
Lead for the National Paediatric Hospital Project Liaison
Psychiatry group. Clinically she is especially interested in the
interface between mental and physical health, comorbidity,
neuropsychiatry, eating disorders and psychosomatic
medicine. She has a Masters degree in medical education, and
sees training and inter-professional educational initiatives as
crucial to early detection and intervention and longer term in
achieving improved health outcomes. Elizabeth is particularly
interested in Narrative medicine and is the Clinical Lead for
Schwartz rounds in the paediatric hospital and an accredited
Balint leader. She was one of the co-founders of the
Mindreading collaboration. Elizabeth contributes actively to
the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes at
University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin and with
the Royal College of Physicians and College of Psychiatrists of
Ireland.
Dr Karl McKeever
Dr Karl McKeever has been a Nephrologist at the Children’s
hospital in Belfast since 2011. He is the inaugural co-chair of
the all-island RCPI-RCPCH Committee & Chair of the Ireland
committee of the RCPCH, representing members on central
College council. He sits on the project team of the New Belfast
Children’s hospital. He represents the Children’s hospital on
the Northern Ireland Paediatric Network forum, the
Department of Health’s Hyponatraemia inquiry clinical
workstream and is the Chief Medical officer’s specialist adviser
on child health.
He is interested in the social determinants of health and
reducing health inequalities through developing cross-
departmental health policy reform with local & national
government.
Dr McKeever is committed to developing strong working
relationships between paediatricans across Ireland so that we
can deliver an outcomes based population health service for
Children & young people across the island of Ireland so that
together we can meet the challenges of Brexit and deliver a
future where all our children can live in a healthier, more
equal society. Karl McKeever
Professor Sir Alan Craft
Alan was a paediatrician for 35 years based in North Tyneside
and the Newcastle Hospitals. He specialised in paediatric
oncology as well as throughout his career looking after general
paediatrics
Has been involved nationally as President of the Royal College
of Paediatrics and Child Health and as Chairman of the
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and as an appointed
member of the GMC.
Internationally he was President of the International Society of
Paediatric Oncology
Considerable experience of service reviews and
reconfigurations throughout the UK and the Republic of
Ireland. Has written influential reports for government on
palliative care for children and end of life care, and how to
fund it, for patients of all ages
Was a Board member of the Medical Defence Union for 6
years.
Distinguished academic/research career and still research
active having published over 300 peer reviewed papers
For 6 years was Chairman of the Scout Association, the largest
and most successful youth organisation in the UK
Currently Chairman of Governors of Embleton Primary School
and Non- Executive Director of Northumbria health Care Trust
Having completed 35 marathons and 110 half marathons his
knees are fighting back so now just does regular 5Km parkruns
on Saturday mornings as well as enjoying crosswords and
reading and of course grandchildren currently aged 10 and 8.
This event has been supported by way of unrestricted
educational grants from:
NOTES: