SENSIBLE LIVING & OPTIMIZING WELLBEING

UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Email: childpsychiatry@ucd.ie

Website:www.ucd.ie/medicine/capsych

Organised by Professor Fiona McNicholas &

Research Assistant Rachael Quirke

09:00-09:15 Introduction.

09:15-10:15 Sleep and Mental Health.Prof. Andrew Coogan

10:15-10:45 Introduction to Mindfulness & Bodyscan.Mr. Cormac Lynch

10:45-11:00 Tea/Coffee Break.

11:00-12:30 The Importance of Nutrition for Health.Ms. Louise Burke

12:30-13:00 Sitting Meditation.Mr. Cormac Lynch

13:00-14:00 Lunch.

14:00-15:00 Role of Literature in Everyday Life, and for Mental Health Wellbeing.Dr. Eliabeth Barrett and Elaina Ryan

15:00-15:30 Mindful Movements.Mr. Cormac Lynch

15:30-15:45 Tea Break.

15:45-16:30 How Exercise Helps Keep You Healthy and Live Longer.Dr. Noel McCaffrey

16:30-17:00 Cultivating Compassion in Your Life.Mr. Cormac Lynch

17:00 Wrap up and Close.

PROFESSOR FIONA MCNICHOLAS

Prof M cN icholas? clinical and research interests lie in ADHD, eating disorders, psychotropic medication use and mental health disorders in 22q11DS. She has published extensively in these areas. An active teacher, she runs postgraduate courses in child mental health, and training events for teachers and other professionals working with children. She is passionate about increasing public, professional and family awareness of mental health problems in children and providing information regarding treatment and prevention.

Prof M cN icholas trained in Psychiatry in Guys Hospital, London, and in Child Psychiatry in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. She carried out a research fellowship in Stanford University, CA in 1999-2001 and returned there as Visiting Professor in 2013/2014. She was Assistant Professor at Columbia University, N Y prior to her appointment as chair in UCD in 2001.

Rachael Quirke graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a BA in Psychology and Leadership. She has also completed a certificate programme in Behavioural N utrition at the Institute of Eating Psychology.

Rachael has a particular interest in disordered eating, behaviour change, and the role of nutrition in illness prevention and management and has worked with a broad range of organizations to promote awareness of same.

Rachael has worked with Boulder N utrition, where she assisted in the development of online nutrition classes, the Health Promotion Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she managed a stress reduction outreach series, and with Feeding Fearlessness an organisation focused on increasing awareness of and fighting the stigma of mental health issues.

Rachael has also worked as a counsellor and advocate. She is currently working as a research assistant at the UCD School of M edicine and as a facilitator for an eating disorder support group with the voluntary organization BodyWhys.

RACHAEL QUIRKE

UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Email: childpsychiatry@ucd.ie

Website:www.ucd.ie/medicine/capsych

Professor Coogan is a behavioural neuroscientist who specialises in the field of circadian rhythms, chronobiology and sleep. He is the director of the Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory at M aynooth University. H is research interests are in the area of how circadian rhythms and sleep support physical and mental health. He has a Bachelors degree from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from University College Dublin. H is PhD worked examined the links between the immune system and the processes thought to underpin memory formation. After his PhD work, he spent a further 10 years as a post-doc and lecturer, prior to joining M aynooth University in 2008. At M aynooth he teaches biological psychology, research methodology and statistics and advanced modules on sleep and circadian rhythms and comparative psychology on the undergraduate degree programme in psychology, as well as supervising undergraduate research projects and M Sc/PhD research students. He is Head of the Department of Psychology since February 2015. Professor Coogan has published 60 peer reviewed papers in neuroscience to date in international journals, is a member of several scientific societies and has been an invited speaker at a number of international conferences and symposia. He has a number of research collaborators throughout Europe. H is research work has been funded by Science Foundation Ireland, The Health Research Board, N AR SAD, The Royal Society, Help the Aged and others.

PROFESSOR ANDREW COOGAN

Cormac Lynch has an M Sc in M indfulness-based approaches and has taught mindfulness to groups in the USA and Ireland. He has an M BA from Stanford University and over 30 years experience working in the finance, oil and not-for-profit sectors, holding CEO positions in several organisations. He has also started (and closed down) a number of for-profit and not-for-profit entities. In addition to his mindfulness and business qualifications, he has a 1st class honours degree in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and a M Sc in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London. He is a guest lecturer on University College Dublin's Diploma on Child M ental Health and is a member of the U K N etwork for M infulness-based Teacher Training Organisations and adheres to their professional guidelines.

CORMAC LYNCH

M ost of us think about food as something that fills us up, gives us energy and tastes good. But many of us often reach for a quick fix or the 'sweet stuff', especially if we are busy or stressed. We need to remember that the most important purpose of food is to nourish us and keep us healthy by protecting our immune system. 'Slowing down' can help us make better food choices which has a huge effect on our energy, mood and how we look and feel. Louise will explore the importance of eating a balanced, wholefood diet, containing all the essential nutrients you need to support your health and overall wellbeing.

Learn m ore about :

- Increasing energy, improving mood, sleep, skin & reducing joint pain.

- Banish sugar cravings and feel fuller for longer.- M aintain a healthy gut.- Shift fat around the middle.

LOUISE BURKE

Elizabeth Barrett is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Liaison Psychiatry in Dublin, 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. Clinically she works at Children?s University Hospital Temple St where she is especially interested in the interface between mental and physical health, neuropsychiatry, eating disorders and psychosomatic medicine. She also leads local Balint groups. She is the Clinical Lead for the N ational Paediatric Hospital Project Liaison Psychiatry group.She has a M asters degree in M edical Education, and sees training and interprofessional educational initiatives as crucial to early detection and intervention and longer term in achieving improved health outcomes. 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.

Elizabeth is particularly interested in N arrative medicine and is the Clinical Lead for Schwartz rounds in the paediatric hospital. She was one of the co-founders of the M indreading collaboration at UCD, an ongoing collaboration with groups at Oxford and Birmingham. Its focus is on linking Literature, medical humanities and medical clinicians and with the involvement of several expert by experience groups.

DR. ELIZABETH BARRETT

Elaina Ryan is the Director of Children?s Books Ireland (CBI), an organisation whose mission is to make books central to every child?s life on the island of Ireland. CBI develops audiences for children?s books and supports and celebrates excellent authors and illustrators. Its core projects include an annual International Conference, Inis magazine which is published three times a year, the Inis Reading Guide, an annual reading campaign, and the CBI Book Clinics, which tour Ireland to recommend books for children and young people. CBI administers the Laureate na nÓg project on behalf of the Arts Council. Elaina will speak about the impact of reading on children?s well-being.

Elaina is also Artistic Director (with N iamh Sharkey) of Towers and Tales, the Lismore Story Festival in County Waterford, which was established in 2014. She has two young children and is enjoying sharing her favourite picture books with them.

ELAINA RYAN

N oel M cCaffrey is a sports and exercise medicine specialist and lecturer in DCU ?s School of Health and Human Performance, where he is Chair of the BSc (Athletic Therapy and Training) degree programme and medical director of the M edEx programme which offers supervised exercise programmes to patients with diverse chronic illnesses. He has collaborated with the Irish Cancer Society in developing the M ove On and Living Life cancer rehabilitation programmes in M edEx. He is principal investigator of the HSE-funded evaluation of M edEx. In addition, he served on the steering committee of the DCU -based group that developed a N ational Exercise Referral Template on behalf of the HSE He is a collaborator with surgical and anaesthesiology colleagues in the M ater and Beaumont M isericordiae Hospital on a projects which will investigate the delivery and effectiveness of pre-surgical exercise programmes in cancer patients.

N oel is a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise M edicine. He is medical director of a sports injury clinic (ExWell M edical) in DCU and also runs a musculoskeletal injury clinic in Cappagh N ational Orthopaedic Hospital.

DR. NOEL MCCAFFREY