Medical Alumni & Faculty Scientific Conference 2015

Medical Alumni & Faculty Scientific Conference 2015

September 3rd, 2015

University College Cork

Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences Complex G.05

 

Registration:

http://www.uccconferencing.ie/product/medical-alumni-faculty-scientific-conference-2015/

The Annual Scientific Conference is a multidisciplinary graduate meeting for all medical graduates, staff and friends of University College Cork which is organised by the Medical Alumni Committee.

 

APPROVED FOR 6 CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POINTS

8.30 Registration

8.55 Prof Mary Horgan - Welcome from Dean, School of Medicine

Chair: Mr Peter Gaffney 1965 - Session 1

09.00 Dr Cliodhna Foley-Nolan 1980 - Food, Health, Partial Knowledge and Probabilities
09.25 Dr Sean Manning 2004 - Understanding Susceptibility to the Obesity Epidemic - a Boolean Logic?
09.50 Prof Gene Dempsey 1995 - Recent Advances in Newborn Care
10.15 Mr Emmet Andrews - Through the Keyhole .. Colon Cancer Surgey : A Benefit of the Computer Age

10.40 Coffee Break

Chair: Dr Paula O’Leary 1987 - Session 2

11.15 Dr Suzanne Timmons 1995 - The Confused Older Patient
11.40 Dr Eugene Egan 1970 - Straws in the African Wind - Anaesthesia on the margins
12.05 Mr Christopher Constant 1975 - The Shoulder; has Cinderella finally come of age?
12.30 Dr Jim Mc Carron 1970 - Non, je ne regrette rien

12.55 Lunch

Chair: Dr Siun O’ Flynn 1994 - Session 3

14.00 Dr Eoin Hunt Prof Denis O’Sullivan Fellow - Association of asthma severity with chronic pulmonary aspiration, altered pulmonary microbiota and airway remodelling
14.15 Dr Conor Haugh 2015 Dr Pamela Gilligan Prize - Identifying the learning outcomes for a pre-departure training course for medical students on electives in low-resource settings in Africa
14.25 Dr Stephanie English 2015 Dr Pamela Gilligan Prize - Incidence of acute kidney injury in adult patients with cystic fibrosis
14.35 Award of Dr Pamela Gilligan Prize
14.40 Dr John McEvoy 2004 Dr Raymond Shanahan Prize - Using Modern Phenotyping to Explore the link between Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease

15.00 Coffee Break

Chair: Dr Tom English 1980 - Session 4

15.30 Dr Alan Fleishman 1975 - Family Medicine in the USA and in Abu Dhabi
15.55 Mr Criostóir Ó Súilleabháin 1990 - Advances in treatment of Hepato - Biliary Cancer
16.20 Dr Diarmuid Quinlan 1991 - Update on Diabetes Control in General Practice

16.45 Prof Katy Keohane 1974 - Closing Remarks

19.30 Reception followed by Dinner Staff Dining Room