St John of God Research Conference 2024

Welcome to the St John of God Research Conference 2024 (formerly St John of God Research Study Day). Join us on Tuesday, 12 November 2024 at 9:00 AM at the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan for a day filled with insightful discussions and groundbreaking research presentations. This in-person event is a great opportunity to network with fellow researchers and learn about the latest advancements in the field of healthcare. Don't miss out on this exciting conference!

2024 Theme: Building Lifelong Health: Insights from Intellectual Disability and Mental Health Research.

Our Guest Speakers incude:

• Prof. Gordon Harold, Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health @ University of Cambridge
• Prof. Sean Kennelly, Consultant Physician in Geriatric Medicine @ Tallaght University Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor, Medical Gerontology @ Trinity College Dublin
• Dr. Dominic Trepel, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Health Economist @ Trinity College Dublin

CPD Points will be available

Registration/Tea/Coffee/Breakfast Treats

Welcome

Session 1: Prof. Gordon Harold

Q&A

St John of God Staff Oral Presentations

Session 2: Dr. Dominic Trepel

Q&A

Lunch

St John of God Staff Oral Presentations

Session 3: Prof. Sean Kennelly

Panel Discussion

Session 4: Competition Results

Close

Professor Gordon Harold is the inaugural Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health at the University of Cambridge, having previously held appointments as the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex, the Alexander McMillan Chair and Professor of Childhood Studies at the University of Otago, and Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cardiff University. His primary research interests and activities focus on:

• examining the interplay between family relationship dynamics and child-adolescent mental health and development, including education and academic outcomes,
• understanding the interplay between genetic factors, pre-natal, post-natal environmental factors and mental health outcomes,
• promoting the development and implementation of evidence-based practice and policy guidelines and recommendations aimed at enhancing mental health outcomes for young people and that reduce the propensity for the intergenerational transmission of mental health problems and adverse family and interpersonal relationship processes.

Gordon is a member of UKRI-ESRC’s Strategic Advisory Network (SAN), a member of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Methods Advisory Group (MAG), and an advisor to multiple UK and international government departments and scientific committees.

Dr. Dominic Trépel (PhD) joined Trinity in 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Economics and is jointly appointed as faculty for the Global Brain Health Institute (www.gbhi.org) and Trinity School of Medicine. Trépel is also primary investigator in Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) where he directs Trépel lab (www.healtheconomics.ie). Trépel has been an academic health economics for over 15 years, has published over 100 research articles and much of this research efforts are dedicated to the study of dementia, brain health and ageing. Trépel lab currently includes ten PhDs and Postdoctoral researchers working on grants funded by: Health Research Board (HRB), Irish Research Council (Ireland), Research Collaborative in Quality and Patient Safety (RCQPS), Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (R&D Division), Global Brain Health Institute, Brainlat and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

Trépel has previously held Senior Research Fellowships with leading centres in health economics including University of York and the Academic Unit for Health Economics (AUHE) at University of Leeds. His PhD examined the 'Economics of Dementia in Ireland and Europe' was supported by the prestigious Government of Ireland Scholarship (IRCHSS) and a Cochrane Fellowship (HRB), and outputs were presented to members of the Irish Parliament.

Professor Sean Kennelly is a consultant physician in geriatric and stroke medicine in Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) and Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Gerontology in Trinity College. He is Director of the Institute for Memory and Cognition, and the Cognitive Clinical Trials Unit in Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin. He is clinical director of the National Intellectual Disability Memory Service in TUH. He is co-lead investigator on Dementia Trials Ireland, a national clinical trials network, and is lead-PI and chair of Dementia Research Network Ireland (DRNI). A fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London & Ireland, he has extensively published in his main research areas of ageing, brain health and dementia. He has served as chief and principal investigator on several international clinical trials in early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. He is principle investigator and lead-clinical advisor on several industry collaborations investigating novel applications of digital gait and speech biomarkers in detection of cognitive decline. He is a member of the clinical and research advisory panel for the Alzheimer's Society Ireland and a principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is a faculty member for the Global Brain Health Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

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