Jubilee Study Day Annual General Meeting

Admissions and Awards Ceremony Jubilee Ball

Friday 28th September 2018

RCPI, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Approved for up to 5 CPD credits

Friday 28 September 2018

Time Title Speaker Chair

08:30 - 08:50

Registration Tea, coffee, breakfast bites

Viewing of Historical Exhibition with Harriet Wheelock, keeper of collections

08:50 -09:00 Opening of Meeting: Dr Cathy Allen, Convenor of Meetings

Session 1

09:00 - 09:20

The age of genomics and individualised care

Professor Donal Brennan

Dr Karen Flood & Prof Aisling

Martin

09:20 - 09:30 Prenatal genetic testing – what the future holds

Dr Brendan McDonnell

09:30 - 10:10 Fetal Therapy – new frontiers

Professor Greg Ryan

10:10 - 10:20 Panel Discussion

10:20 - 10:45 Coffee and Exhibition Stands

Session 2

10:45 - 11:15

Cervical Cancer :The Struggles for Prevention

Professor John F Murphy

Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, Dr

Alison Demaoi & Dr Laurentina

Schaler

11:15 - 11:30 Establishing a service for the nation: Trophoblastic disease in Ireland

Dr John Coulter

Time Title Speaker Chair

11:30 - 11:55 Women’s health in Ireland: reflections on a changing political landscape

Former Senator Dr Mary Henry

11:55 – 13:10 Inspirations @IOG Abstract Presentations

13:10 - 14:10 Lunch and Exhibition stands

Viewing of Historical Exhibition with Harriet Wheelock, keeper of

collections

Viewing of Art competition pieces

13:10 - 14:10 Executive Council Meeting in the Winter Hall

Session 3

14:10 - 14:40 Global issues in women’s health

Professor Lesley Regan

Dr Peter Boylan

14:40 - 15:00 Specialist Training, where are we now?

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan and Dr Maeve Eogan

Session 4: Sean Boyle Memorial Lecture

Introduction to Sean Boyle Memorial Lecture Prof Sean Daly

15:00 - 15:30 Sean Boyle Memorial Lecture

Dr Bernard Stuart

Closing address Coffee (outside Winter Hall)

15:30 – 16:30 Annual General Meeting (Lecture Theatre)

Time Title Speaker Chair

18:45 – 19:30 Admissions & Awards Ceremony

19:30 Drinks Reception & Annual Dinner

Guest speaker biographies

Professor Donal Brennan, MB, MRCPI, MRCOG, PhD

Donal Brennan graduated from University College Dublin

School of Medicine in 2003. He was awarded a PhD in

cancer biology by University College Dublin in 2008. His

main research interests are in biomarker development,

tumour inflammation and obesity related carcinogenesis.

Dr Brennan is a fellow of the UCD Conway Institute and

Principal Investigator in Systems Biology Ireland and is

leading the somatic sequencing program on behalf of the

IEHG Cancer Academic Directorate.

He has received several awards for his research and was

awarded European Young Researcher of the Year in

2010. He undertook subspecialist training in

Gynaecological Oncology at the Queensland Centre for

Gynaecological Cancer. He also completed a fellowship in

General and Colorectal surgery at the Queen Elizabeth II

Jubilee Hospital in Brisbane Australia. He was appointed

as Professor of Gynaecological Oncology at UCD, 2016

Dr Brendan McDonnell

Dr Brendan McDonnell is a Specialist Registrar in

Obstetrics and Gynaecology and currently the Bernard

Stuart Fellow in perinatal Ultrasound at the Coombe

Women and Infants University Hospital. After receiving a

degree in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin he

worked for a period in research on gene expression in

osteoarthritis. He later entered Graduate Entry Medicine

in RCSI, qualifying in 2010. Dr McDonnell is currently

studying for a PhD with RCSI and is a Member of the Irish

Society of Human Genetics and the British Society for

Genetic Medicine.

Professor Greg Ryan

Greg Ryan is a perinatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital,

Toronto and is head of the University of Toronto Fetal

Medicine program, which is based at Mount Sinai. He is

the director of the Ontario Fetal Centre.

He is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics &

Gynaecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine,

University of Toronto & is cross-appointed to the

Department of Medical Imaging.

He trained in Dublin, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto,

Glasgow & London, UK. He came on staff at Mount Sinai

in 1992.

His main interests are in the areas of high-risk

pregnancies, obstetric ultrasound, fetal anomalies,

monochorionic twin complications and fetal therapy,

including intrauterine transfusion, in-utero placental

laser ablation for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS),

fetal chest and bladder shunting, fetoscopic tracheal

occlusion for severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia,

fetal cardiac interventions, fetal myelomeningocoele

repair and EXIT procedures. He has pioneered most of

these procedures in Canada. He has published more than

150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 17 book

chapters.

Mount Sinai is the main fetal therapy program in Canada.

We have had the privilege of training 16 Irish maternal-

fetal medicine fellows, 9 of whom have subsequently

returned to MFM consultant posts in Ireland, two to

posts in the North, two to posts in England and Wales

and three have remained in Canada.

Professor John F Murphy

Professor John Murphy graduated in medicine from

University College Dublin, before undertaking

postgraduate study in the University of Birmingham. Prof

Murphy was Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist

to the National Maternity Hospital, and St Vincent’s

University Hospital, Dublin. He was Professor of

Obstetrics and Gynaecology at RCSI, Bahrain. Prof

Murphy has been involved with RCPI for many years,

serving as Dun’s Librarian, Treasurer and President.

Dr John Coulter John Coulter is a sub-specialty trained gynaecological

oncologist working at Cork University Maternity Hospital.

Having completed pre-fellowship surgical training he

attained FRCSI in Dublin in 1993. He then pursued a

postgraduate career in obstetrics and gynaecology with

the intention of training in gynaecological oncology,

completing his MRCOG in London in 1996. From 1998 to

2002 he undertook a gynaecological oncology fellowship

training in Melbourne and Perth, Australia and attained

CGO certification in 2003 with RANZCOG.

He is a current member of the National Clinical leads

group in gynaecological oncology in Ireland and the

gynaecology representative on the national guideline

committee for the management of hereditary cancers.

He is the clinical lead of the Irish National Trophoblastic

Disease Centre in Cork and works closely with the

National Cancer Control Program in Ireland. He is a

member of the International Gynaecological Cancer

Society. He happens to enjoy playing the piano in good

company!!!!

Former Senator Dr Mary Henry Dr Mary Henry is a former Irish politician and medical doctor. She was an Independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1993 – 2007 when she retired. She represented Dublin university. She was elected Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 2012. She worked for many years in the Rotunda hospital where she is still on the board and in Sir Patrick Dun’s hospital and the Adelaide hospital.

Professor Lesley Regan

President, Royal College Of Obstetricians And

Gynaecologists

Professor Lesley Regan became the 30th President of the

RCOG in September 2016. She is Head of Obstetrics &

Gynaecology at St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College

London. Her principal clinical and research interests are

in recurrent miscarriage and the development of non-

invasive fertility-sparing therapies for uterine fibroids. At

Imperial she is Deputy Head of Surgery and Cancer, chair

of the Equality and Diversity Committee, Director of the

Women’s Health Research Centre and Co-Director of the

UK pregnancy Baby Bio Bank. She also chairs the National

Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death.

As President, Professor Regan’s aspirations are to build

on her work in her previous role as Vice President for

Strategic Development: to increase the influence and

profile of the College and ensure we are the first port of

call for policy-makers, professionals, the press and the

public. A key priority is the development of our new

Centre for Global Women’s Health, which will allow us to

use our expertise in education and clinical quality to

improve women’s health care around the world in a

more strategic way. A major project for the new Centre

will be to secure funding for phase 2 of the College’s

Leading Safe Choices programme, which aims to

strengthen the competence and raise the standing of

family planning professionals in South Africa and

Tanzania. See the programme for opportunities to find

out more about the Leading Safe Choices programme.

In the UK, Professor Regan will be leading our work to

build on the success of the RCOG’s Lindsay Stewart

Centre for Audit and Clinical Informatics, ensuring we are

able to translate clinical data and priorities into health

policy and improved clinical practice. Another area of

focus will be supporting the workforce by developing our

capacity to report on and influence workforce

developments. The College will be emphasising the

importance of developing perinatal mental healthcare

provision with maternity services, building on the success

of the RCOG’s 2016 International Women’s Day event on

‘Joining up care in maternal mental health’. Professor

Regan will also continue to develop the College’s

advocacy programme.

Professor Regan has also published two successful books

on miscarriage and pregnancy for the public and

presented a series of BBC Horizon documentaries. In

2015 she received an honorary fellowship of the

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and

was awarded a Doctorate of Science from University

College London for her contributions to women’s health.

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan is a Consultant Obstetrician and

Gynaecologist in CUMH, and is co-NSD for Higher

Specialist Training. She has been involved in training with

RCPI at BST, RTP and HST level since 2011.

Dr Maeve Eogan

Maeve Eogan is a consultant obstetrician and

gynaecologist at the Rotunda Hospital and runs the

‘Complicated Postnatal Care’ clinic, the majority

attending this clinic have sustained anal sphincter injury

at delivery or are pregnant again after previous anal

sphincter injury. In the course of postgraduate training

she completed a clinical research programme at the

perineal clinic at UCD/NMH, focussing on clinical

strategies to identify and modify the impact of childbirth

on the anal sphincter and the pelvic floor. The work

resulted in a MD thesis and a number of invited and peer

reviewed publications on this topic.

She is also obstetrician for the DOVE clinic (which

provides care to pregnant women who have addiction

issues, or who have, or are at risk of, infectious diseases

and blood borne viruses). Also medical director of the

Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) Rotunda Hospital

and National SATU services, as well as National Specialty

Director for Obstetrics and Gynaecology (IOG/RCPI).

Dr Bernard Stuart MAO, FRCOG, FRCPI

Born in Dublin. Educated in Coláiste Mhuire, Parnell

Square, and UCD medical school, graduating in 1969.

Won the O Ferrall medal in clinical surgery in St Vincents

Hospital and the McCardle gold medal in Surgery from

UCD, both in 1969. Following an internship in St Vincents

Hospital under Mr James Maher and Prof D K O Donovan

commenced training in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in July

1970 as a ‘Clinical Clerk’ in the Coombe, assigned to the

team of Prof J K Feeney. Continued training in St

Vincents, Elm Park and H M Stanley Hospital, St Asaph,

North Wales, where my mentor was Edward Parry Jones.

Returned to the Coombe as Assistant Master in 1977

after passing the MRCOG exam. Awarded a Blair-Bell

Research Fellowship in 1978 to ‘Investigate the Feto-

Placental Circulation using Doppler Ultrasound’ under

the direction of John Drumm, Niall Duignan and Dermot

Fitzgerald. This study resulted in the award of a Masters

Degree in the Art of Obstetrics by UCD. Delivered the

Blair-Bell lecture in the Royal College of Obstetricians &

Gynaecologists in 1982.

Appointed Consultant in the Coombe Lying-in-Hospital in

1984 and Consultant Gynaecologist to St James’ Hospital

between 1991 and 2004. Acted as Head of the

Ultrasound Department in the Coombe between 1985

and 2009. Awarded the FRCOG in 1990 and a FRCPI in

2002

Appointed Clinical Lecturer with UCD Medical School in

1991 and continued in this role until 2013. Retired in

September 2009.

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