Winter Scientific Meeting

Wednesday 4th December 2019 Approved for 6 CPD credits

Is fearr an tsláinte ná na táinte.

Health is better than wealth

Wednesday 4th December 2019

Time Title Speaker Chair

08:45 – 09:05 Registration and Coffee Giorraíonn beirt bóthar. Two people shorten a road.

09:05 -09:10 Welcome and Introduction by Professor Emer Shelley Dean, Faculty of Public Health Medicine

Session 1:

Three Minute Magic Presentations Luigh leis an uan, agus éirigh leis an éan. Lie with the lamb, and rise with the bird. (Early to bed and early to rise.)

09:10-10.10

HSE Smoking Cessation Services – who is attending our service?

Awareness and use of e-cigarettes remains low in a hospital

population: findings in patients, staff and visitors

Effect of smoking on survival following Non Hodgkin Lymphoma

in the Republic of Ireland

Living with a smoker: key risk factor for secondhand smoke

exposure during pregnancy

Counting the toll of smoking-attributable hospitalisations in

Ireland

Allocation of Funding to Support General Practice in Areas of

Deprivation – Procedural Considerations

Geospatial Analysis – a tool to aid health service planning

Predictors for non-attendance at Diabetic Retina Screen; data

from TILDA, the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Factors associated with bowel screening in Ireland: results from

the TILDA study.

Self-reported online screen time and self-reported sleep

outcomes in 17 to 18-year-old adolescents living in Ireland

The Longitudinal Association between Physical Activity and

Mental Health in Irish Adolescents

Using Visual Display of Population Profiles to Improve Targeting

of Public Health Interventions

Are Irish head circumferences “getting ahead” of the WHO

standards?

Ms Aishling Sheridan Dr Ailsa Lyons Prof Patricia Fitzpatrick Dr Kate Frazer Ms Aishling Sheridan Dr Mark O'Loughlin Dr Paul Mullane Ms Lorraine Fahy Ms Pratiksha Mohan Kembhavi Ms Caroline Walsh Dr Andrea Bowe Dr Bernadette O’Keefe Dr Fiona McGuire

Session 2: Data Anaylsis and Service Developments

Time Title Speaker Chair

Doras feasa fiafraí. The door to knowledge is to question.

10.10-10.20 Trends in the prevalence of Gestational Diabetes among women

giving birth in maternal hospitals in Ireland during the study

period 2015-2018, including the identification of risk factors and

outcomes

Ms Lorraine Tham

10.20-10.25 Discussion

10.25-10.35 Mixed methods evaluation of a new service development to

deliver group-based smoking cessation support using Facebook

Dr Laura Heavey

10.35-10.40 Discussion

10.40-10.50 The Chronic Disease GP Contract – A Clinical Model built by Public

Health Practitioners in Clinical Programmes

Dr Orlaith O’Reilly

10.50-10.55 Discussion

10:55-11.25 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing (Cheyne room) Déanann tart tart. Thirst makes (for) thirst.

Session 3: 11.25- 12.55

Guest Speakers An té nach gcuirfidh greim cuirfidh sé dhá ghreim

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

11.25 – 12.10 Nutritional issues in Ireland – Managing malnutrition in an

obesogenic environment

Ms Margaret O’ Neill,

National Dietetic

Lead, HSE

Dr Sharon Kennelly,

Clinical Specialist

Dietitian, HSE

Ms Karen Gaynor,

Programme Lead,

Obesity Management

Clinical Programme,

RCPI/HSE

12.10 – 12.20 Discussion

12:20 – 12:45 Truth, Trust and Transparency: conspiracy theories and immunisation campaigns

Dr Elzbieta Drazkiewicz Grodzicka, Social Anthropologist and Lecturer, NUI Maynooth

12:45– 12:55 Discussion

Session 4: Three-Minute Magic Presentations – Health Protection

Chíonn beirt rud nach bhfeiceann duine amháin.

Two people see a thing that an individual does not see

12:55- 13:15

Rotavirus vaccination impact, Ireland, vaccine hesitancy and harm minimisation

Uptake of influenza vaccine in Rural and Urban Irish adults aged

over 50 – data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing?

Influenza vaccine effectiveness in Ireland during the 2018/2019

influenza season

Dr Heather Burns

Dr Triona McNicholas

Dr Lisa Domegan

13:15 – 14:00

Lunch/Lón. Is deacair a bheith ag feadaíl agus ag ithe mine. It is hard to whistle and eat at the same time.

Session 5:

Guest Speaker Session Ní bhíonn tréan buan. Strength is not enduring

14:00 – 14:30 Self Care, a Luxury?

Or Professional Responsibility?

Dr. Lynda Sisson, National Clinical Lead for Workplace Health and Well Being

14:30 – 14:40 Discussion

Session 6: .

Three-Minute Magic Presentations – Part Three : Health Protection Imíonn an tuirse ach fanann an tairbhe The tiredness leaves but the profit remains

14:40 – 15:50

‘Water, water everywhere’: Seawater contamination of the

drinking water at a sea port

Role of asymptomatic catering staff in a foodborne norovirus

outbreak at a leisure club in Dublin, August 2019

A New Irish Epidemic of TB and TNF Blockers

Review of radiographic screening activities to detect Pulmonary

Tuberculosis in Refugees, representing a hard-to-reach

demographic of the migrant population.

VTEC O136 in Ireland, Emerging threat or background noise?

Influenza-associated complications and mortality in patients at

St James’s Hospital over a two-year period.

Dr Louise Hendrick Dr Aisling O'Mahony Emer O Donohue Dr Agnes Hurter Ms Anne Carroll Dr Niamh Dever

Influenza management packs for Long Term Care Facilities

(LTCF)

Mushroom poisoning, a public health issue

Improving The management of VTEC notifications in the South

East: Sustainable Quality Improvement in day-to-day Health

Protection work

Development of modelled estimates to monitor the HIV care

continuum in Ireland.

Characterisation of Salmonella genetic clusters in Ireland, 2017-

2018

Mrs Michelle Connolly Dr Douglas Hamilton Dr Marrita Mahon Dr Kate O'Donnell Dr Patricia Garvey

Session 7:

Gheibheann pingin pingin eile. A penny gets another penny.

15:50 – 16.00 Presentation of Prizes and Close of Meeting

Professor Emer Shelley Dean, Faculty of Public Health Medicine

Go n-éirí an bóthar leat, is do chosán cóngair-. May your journey, long or short be a success. Slán go foil!

Biographies

Aishling Sheridan

Aishling is a science graduate from NUI Maynooth and later completed a Masters of Public

Health (UCD). As a Researcher in the Department of Public Health, North East, Aishling worked

on a range of topics including child health, tobacco, health profiles, RTC-related injuries,

ACSCs, health service planning & evaluation.

Her current role with the HSE Tobacco Free Ireland Programme is project managing the

development of new national stop smoking clinical guidelines.

Professor Patricia Fitzpatrick

Professor of Epidemiology & Biomedical Statistics and Head of Subject (Public Health), School

of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science, University College Dublin,

Consultant in Preventative Medicine, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin

& Consultant Epidemiologist & Director of Evaluation for the National Screening Service

Dr Kate Frazer

Kate is a lecturer, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems.

Mark O'Loughlin

Mark is a specialist registrar in public health medicine, presently based in the Health

Intelligence Unit.

Dr Paul Mullane

Paul is a third year Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine currently based at the HSE

Health Intelligence Unit. He qualified in medicine from University College Cork in 2010. He

completed Basic Specialist Training in general internal medicine and subsequently worked in

geriatrics and stroke medicine at registrar level in the NHS. He was awarded an MSc in Public

Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 2015. His interests include

non-communicable disease prevention, health inequalities and health policy.

Lorraine Fahy

Lorraine Fahy is a Statistician with the Programme Evaluation Unit in the HSE’s National

Screening Service (NSS), and provides statistical analysis on data relating to the four national

screening programmes. She has worked in the public sector for the past sixteen years,

conducting data analysis on a range of health and public health issues. Lorraine holds a

Masters in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her

research interests include health inequalities, diabetes and obesity.

Pratiksha Mohan Kembhavi

Pratiksha Mohan Kembhavi is a public health worker. She studied her undergraduate in

dentistry from India and completed a masters in public health from University College Dublin

this year.

Caroline Walsh Caroline Walsh recently completed her Masters in Public Health in University College of

Dublin, and currently works as a Health Promotion Officer in the Preventive Medicine and

Health Promotion Department in St. Vincent's University Hospital. Caroline has a background

in Physiotherapy, in which she graduated with an honours degree from Trinity College Dublin

in 2010.

Dr Andrea Bowe

Dr. Andrea Bowe is a second year Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine. She has a

special interest in the role of physical activity in medicine and in the prevention of chronic

disease.

Dr Bernadette O’Keefe

Dr Bernadette O'Keefe is a Specialist in Public Health Medicine in the Department of Public

Health, Navan, Co. Meath.

Fiona McGuire

Dr. Fiona McGuire, is a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Public Health Tullamore

and a member of the National Healthy Childhood team. She is part of the team that developed

a range of resources for parents (mychild.ie, My Pregnancy Book, My Child: 0 to 2 years and

My Child: 2 to 5 years books, The Newborn Clinical Examination Handbook to mention but a

few). Her background is in General Practice and she also holds a Clinical Lead post within the

ICGP.

Lorraine Tham

Ms Lorraine Tham is currently a third year Health and Society student in DCU. Lorraine was

awarded a HRB summer studentship under the supervision of Professor Anthony Staines and

Dr Anne O'Farrell. Lorraine carried out this study in the Health Intelligence Unit, conducting all

data analyses in the Health Intelligence Unit under the supervision of Dr Anne O'Farrell.

Lorraine's current research interests include maternal and child health, and wishes to pursue a

career in public health on completion of her degree.

Dr Laura Heavey

Dr Laura Heavey is in her third year of higher specialist training in public health medicine.

Orlaith O’Reilly

Dr. Orlaith O Reilly graduated from UCC in 1982 and did her MPH in UCD in 1985. She

undertook general professional training in medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and psychiatry,

prior to undertaking higher specialist training in Public Health Medicine, under the Faculty of

Public Health of the Royal College of RCPI. Her special interests have included policy and

service development in cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic disease management and

health information. She was the DPH in the South Eastern region of Ireland between 1995 and

2014 and was appointed as the National Clinical Advisor and Programme Group Lead, for

Chronic Disease

Margaret O’ Neill is a Dietitian who has been working in the HSE for the past 24 years and for

the past five years as National Nutrition Lead. She leads on a range of work including the

implementation of the Healthy Ireland framework. She advocates and drives improvements on

a range of nutrition policies and projects across the health services , in communities and in

schools. She works with the national priority programmes focusing on the prevention and

treatment of disease through better nutrition. Projects and policy developments include

improving the healthier food environment, hospital food, infant and child nutrition, diabetes

and chronic disease, obesity, healthy eating in schools and prevention and management of

malnutrition and nutrition support.

Dr Elzbieta Drążkiewicz

Dr Drążkiewicz obtained her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in

2012. She arrived in Ireland in 2014 as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow. Her research

concerns global and local governance, state and identity politics and democracy. To date she

has explored those issues through the studies of foreign aid, public health, and education. She

has a research experience from South Sudan, Poland and Ireland. She is an author of

‘Institutionalised Dreams: the art of managing foreign aid’ (Berghahn, 2020).

Dr Heather Burns

Dr Heather Burns is a Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine currently working in the

Health Protection Surveillance Centre. Dr Burns completed undergraduate medical training

(MB, BCh, BAO) in University College Dublin (UCD) in 2010. Dr Burns completed postgraduate

training in General Practice prior to commencing Higher Specialist Training in Public Health

Medicine in 2016. Dr Burns achieved first class honours in her Masters in Public Health (MPH)

from UCD in 2017. Professional interests include health protection, vaccine preventable

diseases and screening.

Dr Triona McNicholas

Dr Triona McNicholas is a first year Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine, working in

the Department of Public Health, HSE East. Prior to commencing Public Health Medicine, she

worked in Geriatric Medicine and during this time she worked as a research fellow in the Irish

Longitudinal Study on Ageing.

Lisa Domegan

Dr Lisa Domegan completed her undergraduate Science degree and Ph.D in Virology in Trinity

College Dublin. Lisa has worked as a Surveillance Scientist at the HSE-Health Protection

Surveillance Centre since 2001. In September 2018, Lisa commenced a fellowship with the

European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for

Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr Lynda Sisson

Dr Lynda Sisson MB MPH ACOEM FFOMI is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. She initially

trained in general practice in Ireland before specialising in Occupational Medicine in the USA

in 1996. She is American Board Certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and in

Public and Preventive Medicine. She has a Masters’ in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the

University of Minnesota. Following her return to Ireland in 1998, she became a fellow of the

Faculty of Occupational Medicine in the the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI). She

initiated the setting up of national Professional Competence Schemes and Assessment

Processes for Poorly Performing Doctors following legislation in her role as Director of

Professional Competence in the Irish Medical Council in 2007.

She is currently the Vice Dean Elect in the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in the RCPI. She is

a member of the committee in the Faculty of Occupational Medicine that successfully

attracted the ICOH conference to Dublin in 2018

She currently lectures in the Institute of Leadership in the Royal College of Surgeons and is a

trainer for Specialist Registrars in the RCPI

She has many years clinical experience in both the public and private sectors including

pharma, healthcare, tele-communications amongst many others. In 2016 she was appointed

as the National Clinical Lead in Workplace Health and Wellbeing in the Health Sector in

Ireland. In this role she has published Standards for Occupational health Services and a

Strategy for the Health and Wellbeing of Doctors and rehabilitation standards for injured

workers. She is currently working on a Healthy Workplace Framework for health care workers

which will include a Mental Health Strategy for staff.

Louise Hendrick

Dr Louise Hendrick is a Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine, Currently based at the

Department of Public Health HSE East. She qualified in Medicine from UCD and completed a

Masters in Public Health with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to

commencing Public Health Medicine specialist training in 2017, Dr Hendrick qualified as a

Medical Ophthalmologist through RCSI/ICO.

Aisling O'Mahony

Dr. Aisling O’Mahony completed a one year Masters in Public Health Medicine in University

College Dublin following which she trained as a general practitioner on the Mid-Leinster

Vocational Training Scheme. She is currently working as a Senior Medical Officer in the

Department of Public Health East.

Dr Emer O’Donohue

Emer qualified From the Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland in 1986 and is currently working

as a Public Health Doctor in The Department of Public Health Medicine HSE East. She has

worked in Health Protection as part of the TB team for over 25 years with clinical

commitments in the Mater and St James’s Hospitals. She is currently running the TB Contact

Tracing Clinic in St James’s Hospital

Dr Agnes Hurter

Dr Hurter is a Respiratory Physician with an interest in Tuberculosis. She most recently came

from University of Calgary, Canada to complete the MPH programme at UCD. Her clinical

experience includes migrant screening, and her MPH project centered on TB epidemiology in

foreign-born cases in Ireland.

Anne Carroll Anne Carroll is a Specialist Medical Scientist at the National VTEC reference laboratory, Dublin.

Anne has over 17 years experience working in the area of VTEC diagnostics. Anne has a PhD in

molecular biology from UCC and completed ECDCs Public Health Microbiology fellowship

EUPHEM in 2015.

Niamh Dever

Dr Niamh Dever is a first year SpR in Public Health Medicine. She has completed the Master of

Public Health at University College Dublin. Most recently she has worked as a research fellow

in Clinical Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin.

Michelle Connolly

Miss Michelle Connolly RGN, RSCN, Dip Nursing Studies, Post graduate diploma in Nursing

Studies, Sick Children's Nursing, Bachelor of Nursing Management, MSc Nursing Science,

Infection Control Nursing. Currently I work as a health protection nurse in the Department of

Public Health in the Midlands area

Douglas Hamilton

Specialist in Public Health Medicine. Previously worked as a surgeon in Uganda, as a Public

Health systems adviser in Mozambique and Director of the Global AIDS Programme in Irish

Aid.

Marrita Mahon

Marrita Mahon is a Surveillance Scientist working in Health Protection in the Department of

Public Health in Kilkenny

Kate O'Donnell Kate O'Donnell is working as a Surveillance Scientist on the HIV and STI team at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC). She has a PhD in Molecular Biology from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She previously worked in the National Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory (NMSRL).

Patricia Garvey Patricia has been employed at HPSC for 17 years, primarily working on the epidemiology of food and waterborne disease. She has a PhD in Molecular Microbiology from UCC, an MSc in Epidemiology from LSHTM, and is an alumna of the ECDC EPIET programme. She is a member of ECDC Food and Waterborne Disease Network, of the FSAI Biological Safety Committee, and the HSE National Drinking Water Group. She has particular interests in VTEC, Cryptosporidium, Salmonella and Shigella.

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