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:

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