[vc_row equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1600441353212{background: #999999 url(https://www.irishpsychiatry.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rene-bohmer-YeUVDKZWSZ4-unsplash.jpg?id=103740) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1600441340139{background-color: rgba(12,12,12,0.4) !important;*background-color: rgb(12,12,12) !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”FUTURE PROOFING PSYCHIATRY” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604658251527{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Online Winter Conference 2020
#psychconf” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604658240308{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;margin-left: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1600441347082{background-color: rgba(12,12,12,0.4) !important;*background-color: rgb(12,12,12) !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Friday, 6 November 2020
Online via Zoom” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:right|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1600782931883{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-right: 30px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”7 CPD Credits Available
Morning: 4 Credits; Afternoon: 3 Credits” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:right|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1600783066594{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-right: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1605281996783{padding-top: 25px !important;background-color: #eaeaea !important;}”][vc_column][vc_btn title=”CPD Credits Application Form” style=”flat” color=”danger” size=”lg” align=”center” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishpsychiatry.ie%2Fw2020-cpd-form%2F||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1600160549071{padding-top: 25px !important;background-color: #eaeaea !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”KEYNOTE SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1569340703481{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”8″ accent_color=”#ddac39″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1600160206776{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1568388014429{background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”18040″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1568388950823{padding-top: 20px !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_tta_accordion shape=”square” color=”white” c_align=”center” c_icon=”” active_section=”2″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1568388597800{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”PROFESSOR CHRIS BREWIN” tab_id=”1568388922279-f28eea2a-3eae”][vc_column_text]Chris Brewin is Professor of Psychology at University College London and was a key contributor to recent international changes to the diagnosis of PTSD. After the London bombings he was involved in designing a unique outreach programme to ensure survivors recovered. He advises the UK government on mental health issues which arise after major incidents.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1568389202804{background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”18047″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1568389020081{padding-top: 20px !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_tta_accordion shape=”square” color=”white” c_align=”center” c_icon=”” active_section=”2″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1568388597800{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”DR MICHAEL DUFFY” tab_id=”1568388922783-03b7185c-8625″][vc_column_text]Michael Duffy is Director of the Specialist MSc in the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Trauma) at Queen’s University Belfast and is recognised as an expert in the treatment of PTSD and complicated grief. He has been asked to provide advice and training to clinicians tasked with responding to a number of high profile terrorist attacks over recent years. He was Lead Clinician for the service established to deal with the aftermath of the Omagh bomb in 1998.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1568389239426{background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”18057″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1568389588230{padding-top: 20px !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_tta_accordion shape=”square” color=”white” c_align=”center” c_icon=”” active_section=”2″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1568388597800{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”DR CATHY STANNARD” tab_id=”1568388923399-3190c7ca-6b45″][vc_column_text]Cathy Stannard was a Consultant in Pain Medicine for 23 years and now works for NHS Gloucestershire CCG. She writes and lectures widely on aspects of pain management, evidence and opioid therapy in particular, and the implications for public health. Cathy contributes to the work of PHE, MHRA, ACMD, the European Medicines Agency, and the Cochrane collaboration. She is a member of the IASP International Taskforce on Opioids and for the WHO Guideline on Cancer Pain Management. She is Clinical lead for the NICE Guideline on Chronic Pain and Topic Adviser for the NICE Guideline on Safe Prescribing and Withdrawal Management of Medicines Associated with Dependence. She provides in-reach pain services to five prisons in the South West of England and frequently contributes to conversations about pain, opioids and painkiller addiction in both written and broadcast media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1600160212905{padding-right: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1568388014429{background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”18038″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1568388604739{padding-top: 20px !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_tta_accordion shape=”square” color=”white” c_align=”center” c_icon=”” active_section=”2″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1568389351849{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”LORD ALDERDICE” tab_id=”1568388025461-b0027c17-4610″][vc_column_text]Lord John Alderdice FRCPSYCH is a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University Maryland and Chairman of the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building in Belfast. As Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland for eleven years from 1987, he played a significant role in negotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, was first Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and from 2004 to 2011 was appointed by the British and Irish Governments as one of four international commissioners overseeing security normalization and terrorist demobilization. This involvement on the security front continued with his appointment by the First and Deputy First Ministers of Northern Ireland to help produce earlier this year a report on disbanding paramilitary groups. Formerly President of Liberal International (the global federation of more than 100 liberal political parties), he is now Presidente d’Honneur. Formerly a consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy in Belfast, he continues consulting, mediating, negotiating, teaching and writing on fundamentalism, radicalization and violent political conflict around the world. He has been recognized with many honorary degrees and prizes including the International Psychoanalytic Association Award for Extraordinarily Meritorious Service to Psychoanalysis, the World Federation of Scientists Prize for the application of Science to the Cause of Peace, Liberal International’s 2015 Prize for Freedom and various honorary degrees and fellowships.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1568389156040{background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”18043″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1568388847661{padding-top: 20px !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_tta_accordion shape=”square” color=”white” c_align=”center” c_icon=”” active_section=”2″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1568388597800{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”DR MAYURA DESHPANDE” tab_id=”1568388800269-4a0891bb-cb9b”][vc_column_text]Mayura Deshpande has worked as a consultant in forensic psychiatry in both adult and adolescent secure services since 2007 in Hampshire. She worked in Bluebird house adolescent medium secure hospital and was its clinical director from 2010 onwards. She has since held a number of leadership posts within Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. As associate medical director, she helped set up a comprehensive system for reporting, recording and investigating mortality and serious incidents at the organisation. She is currently deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Trust, and Clinical Director of the specialist services division. Mayura has been clinical lead of the national network of adolescent medium secure services since 2015, carrying out, with colleagues in NHS England, a comprehensive review and needs assessment of the network in 2017, resulting in significant changes within that network and enhanced links with stakeholders. Mayura has a long standing interest in ethics and law. She has provided teaching in ethics and law to University of Southampton medical school for many years, as well as to psychiatry trainees, and remains actively involved in teaching and training, as well as carrying out investigations. She is chair of the Ethics and Professional Practice Committee at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, promoting the importance of ethical clinical practice and good governance into adverse events in mental health. The committee has produced ethics guidance for psychiatrists on Prevent, one of the pillars the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”PROGRAMME” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1507714271571{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”8″ accent_color=”#d9ba53″][vc_tta_accordion spacing=”10″ active_section=”12″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”MORNING SESSION” tab_id=”1600160251583-b880bf0d-fc76″][vc_column_text]
9:00 | WELCOME ADDRESS
Dr William Flannery, President, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler, TD
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9:10 | OPENING ADDRESS
Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler, TD
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9:20 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSTER PRIZE WINNER
Dr Udo Reulbach
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9:25 – 10:05 | EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHIATRY, NEW PARADIGM OR FALSE DAWN?
Professor Henry O’Connell, Dr Mara Petrut and Dr Diarmuid Boyle
Laois-Offaly / Limerick Mental Health Services
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10:05 – 10:35 | PLANETARY HEALTH: THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS A HEALTH CRISIS
Chair: Dr Sarah Casey
Dr Niamh McCarthy, Irish Doctors for the Environment
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10:35 – 11:10 | PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Chair: Professor Mary Cannon
Professor John Ashton CBE, Former President of the UK Faculty of Public Health and author of ‘Blinded by Corona, How The Pandemic Ruined Britain’s Health and Wealth’
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11:10 – 11:20 | STRETCH BREAK
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11:20 – 11:25 | ACCOUNCEMENT OF MEDICAL STUDENT POSTER PRIZE
Dr Aoibhinn Lynch
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11:25 – 12:25 | TRAINEE PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Professor Paul Fearon
Judges: Dr John Lyne and Dr Caragh Behan
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11:25 – 11:35 | THE YOUNG ADULT SERVICE: AN EVALUATION OF A YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE IN THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR IN IRELAND. EVALUATION OF A YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE IN IRELAND
Dr Laura Bond, St Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin
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11:35 – 11:45 | IS ANTIPSYCHOTIC RELATED WEIGHT GAIN IN CHILDREN ASSOSCIATED WITH AN INCREASE IN INFLAMMATORY MARKERS?
Dr Karen Conlan, Trinity Centre for Health Services, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
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11:45 – 11:55 | SUPPORTING THE TRANSITION FROM MEDICAL STUDENT TO DOCTOR: EVALUATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL, ONLINE WELL-BEING INTERVENTION, FOR INTERNS IN IRELAND
Dr Niamh McCarthy, Seanoira Day Hospital, St Camillus Hospital, Limerick
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11:55 – 12:05 | MODIFIABLE HEALTH FACTORS MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND INFLAMMATION IN YOUTH
Dr Emmet Power, RCSI Smurfit Building, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
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12:05 – 12:15 | PROCEDURAL JUSTICE FOLLOWING INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC ADMISSION: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
Dr James McLoughlin, Sherwood House, Galway
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12:15 – 12:25 | COVID-19 AND OLD AGE LIAISON PSYCHIATRY IN IRELAND: IMPACT TO PATIENT MENTAL HEALTH AND SERVICE PROVISION
Dr Rachel Wallace, Mid-Kildare CAMHS
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12:25 – 12:40 | STRETCH BREAK
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12:40 – 13:40 | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF CANNABIS USE
Chair: Dr Bobby Smyth
Dr Hugh Garavan, University of Vermont
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13:40 – 14:00 | LUNCH
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14:00 – 15:00 | SELF HARM IN YOUNG PEOPLE & COVID-19: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY ON EMERGENCY UNIT DATA FROM 10 COUNTIES
Chair: Dr Ian McClelland
Dr Dennis Ougrin and Mr Hoi Ching Ben Wong, King’s College, London
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15:00 – 16:00 | AMERICA’S PSYCHIATRISTS, DEVELOPING THE MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE
Chair: Professor Mary Cannon
Professor Peter Buckley, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
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16:00 – 16:10 | STRETCH BREAK
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16:10 – 16:15 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF TRAINEE ORAL PRESENTATION WINNER
Dr Caragh Behan
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16:15 – 17:00 | ANTHONY CLARE – THE PSYCHIATRIST IN THE CHAIR
Chair: Dr William Flannery
Professor Brendan Kelly, Trinity College Dublin & Tallaght Hospital
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17:00 | CLOSING ADDRESS
Dr Lorcan Martin
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”SPEAKERS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568204273045{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”8″ accent_color=”#ddac39″][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”2″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”BIOGRAPHIES” tab_id=”1600160344444-04a9bc12-bb04″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151693″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”PROFESSOR JOHN ASHTON” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604318609256{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Professor John Ashton has 13 years’ experience as Regional Director of Public health for the North West of England and 6 years in Cumbria and was elected President of the Faculty of Public Health of the UK., Royal College of Physicians (2013-2016). More recently he has worked with Maggi Morris as a Senior Public Advisers to Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and the survivors and the bereaved of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Prof Ashton has also been Senior Advisor to the Mersey Police and Crime Commissioner, the former Minister for Northern Ireland, Jane Kennedy. He holds Professorial Chairs at a number of Universities Schools of Public Health and has written many peer reviewed scientific papers and academic books. His recent published books are ‘Practicing Public Health – An Eyewitness Account, Oxford University Press December 2019 and Blinded By Corona, Gibson Square Press October 2020.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151689″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR DIARMUID BOYLE” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604318761299{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr Diamuid Boyle is a Senior Registrar with Limerick Mental Health Services and a contributor to the college special interest group on evolutionary psychiatry. He has a degree in engineering and interests in digital health transformation, virtual reality technology and evolutionary psychiatry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151696″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR PETER BUCKLEY” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604318940792{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr Peter Buckley, MD, became the Dean of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in 2017. A psychiatrist and expert in schizophrenia, Dr. Buckley is also a Professor of Psychiatry. He is also Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs for the VCU Health System. Dr. Buckley serves as a member of the Administrative Board of the Council of Deans (COD) of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and also chairs the COD Fellowship Program. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and served as Chair of the PanAmerican Division. Dr Buckley is former Chair of the NIMH Interventions Committee for Disorders Related to Schizophrenia, Late Life, or Personality, and regularly serves as Chair for various special emphasis panels. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Congress of Schizophrenia Research. Dr. Buckley has published 500 original articles, book chapters, and abstracts. He is senior author of a postgraduate textbook of psychiatry. Dr. Buckley has also authored or edited 16 books on schizophrenia and related topics. He is Editor of the journal Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses and was the inaugural Editor of the Journal of Dual Diagnosis. Dr. Buckley’s research predominantly focuses on the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia, including current studies on the genetics of schizophrenia and on the psychopharmacology of schizophrenia. Dr Buckely is the recipient of many awards, such as the American Psychiatric Association Administrative Psychiatric Award; the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for Mental Illness and the Distinguished Service Award, to name but a few. He has been continuously acknowledged since 2002 in “The Best Doctors in America.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151697″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR WILLIAM FLANNERY” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604319259380{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr William Flannery is President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. From 2013 to 2017, he was chair of the Postgraduate Training Committee. He is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions Psychiatry, having previously worked in the Midlands and is now based at the Mater and the National Drug Treatment Centre Hospital in Dublin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151692″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR HUGH GARAVAN” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604319337216{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr Hugh Garavan, Ph. D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont. He received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin prior to his move to Vermont in 2011. His research uses structural and functional neuroimaging to study cognitive control and reward processes with a particular interest in how functional changes in these systems may contribute to addiction and related mental health issues. In addition to studying current abusers of numerous drugs, he has researched the importance of cognitive control systems for successful drug abstinence. His primary research focus of the last few years has been adolescent neurodevelopment including risk factors for psychopathology and drug use. He is a co-investigator on the IMAGEN project, a longitudinal neuroimaging-genetic study of over 2,000 teens in Europe (https://imagen-europe.com). He is a site PI and Associate Director of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, a longitudinal neuroimaging-genetic study of over 11,000 children in the USA (https://abcdstudy.org). He is PI on a T32 that trains pre- and postdoctoral fellows in the application of complex systems methodologies to large neuroimaging datasets (http://vermontcomplexsystems.org/education/complexbrain/) and is co-founder of the ENIGMA-Addiction working group which is a data pooling endeavour that combines neuroimaging data from thousands of substance users from around the world (http://enigmaaddiction.com). Dr Garavan has published 300 papers in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and addiction.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151687″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”PROFESSOR BRENDAN KELLY” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604319515403{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Professor Brendan Kelly, FRCPsych FRCPI is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital. Professor Kelly has authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and 300 non-peer-reviewed papers, as well as a number of book chapters and books. His most recent books are Coping With Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect Your Mental Health – A Psychological Toolkit (Merrion Press) and, with Dr Muiris Houston, Psychiatrist in the Chair: The Official Biography of Anthony Clare (Merrion Press).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151695″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR NIAMH MCCARTHY” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604595173326{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr Niamh McCarthy (MCPsychI, MRCPsych, MRCPI) is in her penultimate year of Higher Specialist Training. She is dual training in Psychiatry of Later Life and General Adult Psychiatry. She also completed Basic Specialty Training in General Medicine and has a Diploma in Clinical Leadership from the Institute of Leadership, RCSI. She has a particular interest in leadership and training. She is a past Lead NCHD for Mental Health, and current member of the Trainee Committee of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. She places great value in cross-specialty co-operation, and is chair of the Trainee Committee of the Forum of Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies. Her increasing concern about planetary health, and its links with human health worldwide, led her to become a member of Irish Doctors for the Environment and the Global Health Strategic Working Group of the Forum. Additionally, she co-founded and co-chairs the Subgroup on Incorporating Global Health Education into Postgraduate Medical Training Programmes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151690″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”PROFESSOR HENRY O’CONNELL” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604319615188{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Professor Henry O’Connell is Consultant Psychiatrist with Laois-Offaly Mental Health Service and Associate Clinical Professor with the University of Limerick Graduate Entry Medical School. His academic interests include medical education, delirium detection and evolutionary psychiatry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”155074″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR DENNIS OUGRIN” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604595387983{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr Dennis Ougrin graduated from a medical school in Ukraine in 1998 and came to England to undertake his post-graduate training. He completed his higher training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Guy’s and Maudsley and is currently a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist leading Enhanced Treatment Service at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Ougrin is also a Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Global Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Dr Ougrin leads a programme of information exchange between the UK and Ukraine. His main professional interests include prevention of Borderline Personality Disorder and effective interventions for self-harm in young people. Dr Ougrin is the author of Therapeutic Assessment, a novel model of assessment for young people with self-harm. He also developed and tested an Intensive Community Care Service model for young people with severe psychiatric disorders called ‘Supported Discharge Service’. The model was evaluated in the first randomised controlled trial of any intensive community care service for young people in the UK. The results of the trial informed the development of intensive community care services in the UK and internationally. Dr Ougrin has expertise in conducting randomised controlled trials in the fields of psychological therapy and mental health service models. Dr Ougrin also works on developing a modular psychotherapeutic intervention for self-harm and on understanding the pathophysiology of self-harm in young people.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151694″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR MARA PETRUT” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604319724409{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dr Mara Petrut is a BST 2 trainee in UL deanery and a contributor to the college special interest group on evolutionary psychiatry. She has postgraduate experience in neurology and is interested in psychosomatic medicine and areas adjacent to evolutionary psychiatry as genetics, human development and neuropsychiatry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”151691″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”HOI CHING BEN WONG” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1604595561344{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Hoi Ching Ben Wong is a recent MSc graduate in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). He has a strong research interest in emergency presentations and community treatment alternatives for children and young people who self-harm.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21286″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”AMY GRIMASON” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574695851485{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Amy Grimason is an ST5 trainee, dual training in Forensic and General Adult Psychiatry. She is one of the Northern Ireland trainee representatives in the Pyschiatric Trainees Committee within the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is also a member of the Choose Psychiatry Committee.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21288″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”MS GERALDINE HAMILTON” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568206684556{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Geraldine Hamilton is the manager of the Regional Trauma Network. An Occupational Therapist, she has worked previously worked in the Belfast Trauma Resource Centre. She was central to the establishment of “Mental Health Hubs” in Northern Ireland, and until recently was Clinical Lead for the Northern Ireland Victims and Survivors Service.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21289″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”JOHN HILLERY” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574696192194{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]John Hillery was a Consultant Psychiatrist in the services for people with intellectual disability run by Stewarts Care, Dublin and St John of God Kildare Services as well as the HSE Mental Health Services at Tallaght until February 2018. He is a former President of the Medical Council and the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities. Dr Hillery was also a member of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and of the Independent Monitoring Group of A Vision for Change (the national policy on Mental Health). He is currently the President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland having formerly been the Director of Communications and Public Education.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21290″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DEIRDRE JACKSON” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574696307441{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Deirdre Jackson is a general adult psychiatrist in the Kildare and West Wicklow mental health service. She has been a DBT team leader since 2016. She previously completed basic training and had a year of experience and supervision using the MBT model. She holds an MSc in cognitive psychotherapy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21291″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”ADRIAN JAMES” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574696447447{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Adrian James, FRCPsych, has been Registrar of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 2015. In this role he has overall responsibility for policy, public education, revalidation and membership engagement. In his role as College Registrar he is prioritising recruitment and communicating with the public, media and system leaders to ensure parity of esteem becomes a reality on the ground. Adrian is Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Langdon Hospital in Dawlish, Devon. He is a former Medical Director of Devon Partnership NHS Trust and Founding Chair of the School of Psychiatry at the Peninsular Deanery (2006-2008). He was the elected Chair of the South West Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2007-2011) and sat on the College Council in this capacity. In 2010 he was appointed Chair of the Westminster Parliamentary Liaison Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (attending the three main Party Conferences 2011-14 in this capacity). He was Clinical Director for Mental Health, Dementia and Neurology, working for NHS England South West (2013-2015, interim from 2012-13). He has also acted as a Reviewer and Clinical Expert for the Healthcare Commission and its successor organisation the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Outside of work, Adrian is a cyclist and occasional pantomime Dame. He is keen to hear from members about professional concerns and can be contacted at registrar@rcpsych.ac.uk.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21292″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR ANNE JEFFERS” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568206740677{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Anne Jeffers, M.B. MRCPsych. M.B.A., is the National Clinical Lead for the Clinical Programme for the Assessment and Management of Patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) following Self-Harm. In this post since 2017 her emphasis has been on ensuring the implementation of the Clinical Programme in all Emergency Departments in the country to ensure that all patients who present to the ED following self-harm or with suicidal ideation, and their families will be valued and supported by staff who themselves are valued and supported. She has over 30 years’ experience working in mental health services in Ireland and the UK. Special interests include Primary Care Mental Health. She is a past Director of External Affairs and Policy at the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. She introduced REFOCUS (Recovery Experience Forum of Carers and Users of the Service) to the College of Psychiatrists, ensuring the voice of service users and their families inform training, policy and practice of psychiatrists.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18050″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR IAN KELLEHER” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211404617{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ian Kelleher completed his Medical degree at Trinity College Dublin, MSc in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and PhD in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is a Senior Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and also runs a research programme at RCSI, which investigates risk for psychotic disorders in young people. This research aims to improve our capacity to identify young people at risk of psychosis. He has co-authored more than 60 scientific papers in leading journals such as JAMA Psychiatry and The Lancet, and received awards for his research from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the European Psychiatric Association, the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, and the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21293″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DEARBHAIL LEWIS” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574696725933{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Dearbhail Lewis is a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist working in the Belfast Trust. Her interests include staff experience and training and education. She is an Educational Supervisor for Foundation Year 1 doctors, as well as both Core and Senior Trainee Psychiatrists. Since 2016, she has been a Foundation Programme Director. She teaches on the Regional Generic Skills programme for Foundation trainees, as well as the Regional MRCPsych Programme in N.Ireland. She currently sits on the Belfast Trust Mental Capacity Implementation Group, Belfast Trust Medical Education Committee and the RCPsych Education and Training Committee. She is an active member of the BMA, and represents the NI Consultants’ Committee on the local Medical Education Policy Group.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21299″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”IAIN MCDOUGALL” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574697614834{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Iain McDougall, MB BCh BAO DMH MSc MRCPsych, is a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry and Medical Psychotherapy and works in Belfast HSC Trust’s Self Harm Personality Disorder Service which provides a Mentalisation Based Treatment program. He is a BPC registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and a member of the Association of Medical Psychodynamic Psychotherapists. In the past he has presented and published on personality disorder, music therapy, psychiatry in films and reflective practice. He has a keen interest in Quality Improvement and is an IHI Improvement Advisor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18053″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR PHILIP MCGARRY” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211569559{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Philip McGarry, DL, FRCPsych, worked for nearly 30 years as a consultant, initially in West Belfast, and from 2007 as Lead Clinician with the Belfast Home Treatment Team. He trained in IPT with Professor Anthony Bateman. He is a Trainer in IPT and Chair of IPT Ireland. Over the last year he has been liaising with colleagues in Edinburgh who have developed IPT-AC ( Acute Crisis), and plans to introduce the therapy in Belfast. Dr. Mc Garry has long been interested in public affairs, and was Chair of the Alliance Party from 1993-1995.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21300″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”MR TERRY MCMAHON” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211587409{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Terry McMahon, Winner, Directors Guild of America Finders Series Award, Grand Jury Prize Woodstock Film Festival, Best Film Galway Film Fleadh, Irish Times Best Film of the Year, Audience Award Cork Film Festival and The Grand Prix at Breaking Down Barriers VIII, Terry McMahon is writer-director of ‘Patrick’s Day’ and ‘Charlie Casanova’ and the forthcoming documentary ‘The Prizefighter.’ Awarded RKO Pictures Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award, the Tiernan MacBride Screenwriting Award and The Irish Film and Television Award, McMahon also runs Dublin Acting Classes and has lectured in Trinity College, The National Film School, UCC, DIT, Colaiste Dhulaigh, Bow Street, The Gaiety School of Acting, Pulse College, The Irish Film Academy, Dundalk IT, The John Huston Film School, The Casa del Cinema in Rome and The Kino-Teatr in Moscow.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18055″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”PROFESSOR FIONA MCNICHOLAS” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211615184{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Fiona McNicholas is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Lucena Clinic, Rathgar and Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin. She trained in psychiatry in Guys Hospital, and in Child Psychiatry in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. She carried out a fellowship in Stanford University, CA and was Assistant Professor at Columbia University, NY. Her clinical interests are ADHD, 22q11.2ds and Eating Disorders. She is chair in child psychiatry at University College Dublin and actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. National and international translational research is related to service transitions. She was a founding member of Lucena Foundation, an organization developed to deliver psycho-education, training and research in the area of child and adolescent mental health wellbeing. She contributes to the training of GPs, teachers and pediatricians and has co-authored a book on mental health in child and adolescents, a guide for teachers, along with over 170 scientific papers.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21294″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”GERARD LYNCH” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574696868212{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Gerard Lynch, MD FRCPSYCH, has been a consultant psychiatrist since 1994 and was based in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust. He has worked in many areas of general adult psychiatry and has been involved in numerous service developments during his time as a consultant. This includes setting up of crisis resolution and recruitment teams, the reorganisation of community mental health and inpatients teams and the development of mental health liaison services. He was Clinical Director of Northern Trust from 2003 and Divisional Medical Director from 2015. Dr Lynch was appointed Chair of the Northern Ireland Devolved Nation of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of RCPsych, as well as a Vice President of the College.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21295″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR LORCAN MARTIN” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211448897{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Lorcan Martin is Director of Professional Competence in the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. He is a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry with Longford/Westmeath Mental Health Services. He trained in Trinity College and with the Eastern Health Board as was. His special area of interest is greater integration of mental health services into the community and he has been instrumental in developing many new initiatives in this regard including a Primary Care Liaison Service, a service for deaf clients, an ongoing public mental health awareness programme and a consultative group so that service users/carers may be involved in service development. He has presented these projects and others at a number of international conferences. Dr Martin has also been involved in training programmes in the area of mental health for a number of statutory and voluntary agencies, and also has a particular interest in the clinical training and examination of Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors working in psychiatry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21296″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”FIONA MARTIN” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574697316480{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Fiona Martin is an ST5 in general adult psychiatry currently working in the Western Trust, Northern Ireland. She is also one of the Northern Ireland reps on the RCPsych Psychiatric Trainees Committee (PTC).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21298″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”PAUL MATTHEWS” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574697462053{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Paul Matthews is a General Adult Psychiatrist with Kildare West Wicklow Mental Health Service and Clinical Senior Lecturer with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He studied medicine in Oxford where he completed his doctorate and higher training in General Adult and Liaison Psychiatry. Paul is interested in the treatment of personality disorders and has worked in a Democratic Therapeutic Community in Oxford.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21301″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR CIARAN MULHOLLAND” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211663151{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Ciaran Mulholland is a consultant psychiatrist with the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland, a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Medical Education at Queen’s University Belfast and Visiting Professor to the Bamford Centre for Mental Health at the University of Ulster. He is clinical co-lead for an innovative service for young people with “at risk mental states” and Clinical Director of the recently established Northern Ireland Regional Trauma Network for the treatment of conditions occurring as a consequence of trauma, including trauma arising from the “Troubles”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21302″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR KAREN O’CONNOR” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211738520{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Karen O’Connor, consultant psychiatrist is the National Clinical Lead for Early Intervention for Psychosis. She is the Clinical Lead for the RISE Early Intervention for Psychosis service in South Lee, Cork. She graduated from University College Cork, trained in psychiatry in Ireland and completed a fellowship in Early Intervention for Psychosis in Orygen Youth Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia. Her MD thesis was in the area of Early Intervention for Psychosis. She has an MSc in Leadership from the RCSI, Dublin and is a former chair of the Trainee Committee of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21303″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”BRIAN O’DONOGHUE” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574698515966{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Brian O’Donoghue is a Consultant Psychiatrist with the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) at Orygen Youth Health and a Senior Research Fellow at Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and the University of Melbourne. Brian graduated from medicine from University College Dublin, obtained a Masters degree in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of London and a PhD from UCD. Brian was awarded an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship for 2018 – 2021 and he is an associate editor of the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. Brian’s areas of interest in research include youth mental health, the physical and sexual health of young people affected by mental health disorders, epidemiology and the reduction of coercive/ restrictive interventions. Brian is currently an investigator on four RCTs in the area of early psychosis and he was a contributor to the recently published Lancet Commission on the physical health of people affected by severe mental health disorders.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21304″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”VINCENT RUSSELL” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574698547854{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Vincent Russell, MD, MSc, MRCPsych, FRCPC. Associate Clinical Professor, RCSI. Vincent graduated from UCD and completed specialist training in psychiatry in Ireland before moving to Canada for 10 years, based at the Ottawa General Hospital and the University of Ottawa. There, he developed a sustained clinical and research interest in community mental health services. He returned to a consultant psychiatrist post within the Irish Health Service and was subsequently appointed Clinical Director, Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Service. He introduced on-site consultation-liaison to GPs in Cavan and was active in developing home treatment services while also collaborating in the Cavan-Monaghan First Episode Psychosis (CAMFEPS) Study. He has previously served on the HSE’s Expert Advisory Group on Mental Health, as Co-chair, CPI/ICGP Joint Forum on Mental Health and as Vice-Dean for BST training- RCSI/NUIG Deanery. In 2012, Vincent took leave of absence to take up a 3-year post to head the Department of Psychiatry, RCSI-UCD Malaysia Campus in Penang, Malaysia, where he also set up and evaluated a primary care psychiatry consultation service. In 2017, Vincent moved from the HSE to a full time position at the RCSI Department of Psychiatry. His current research interests and collaborations remain in the areas of primary care consultation psychiatry, home treatment for acute mental disorders and undergraduate medical education.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21305″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”JOHN SIMPSON” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574698747856{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]John Simpson, Consultant Psychiatrist, is an honours graduate from Queens University Belfast, 1981 and was awarded UK Medical Manager/Leader of the year by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2010. Dr John Simpson has over twenty five years’ experience in medical leadership, including four years as medical director of a hospital and community trust which provides all aspects of health care to a population of 350,000 in N. Ireland. Currently, he holds positions as Associate Consultant for Clinical Leadership Solutions specialising in clinical governance and medical leadership; Associate Consultant for Health & Social Care Leadership Centre in Northern Ireland; and Medical Advisor and Second Opinion Appointed Doctor to the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority Northern Ireland.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21306″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”LAURA SOMERVILLE” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574698846375{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Laura Somerville is a CT3 trainee currently working in the Southern HSCT. This is her second year sitting on the Royal college PTC as a divisional representative for Northern Ireland. She is also the trainee representative for the college QI committee.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”18057″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”DR CATHY STANNARD” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1568211799080{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Cathy Stannard was a Consultant in Pain Medicine for 23 years and now works for NHS Gloucestershire CCG. She writes and lectures widely on aspects of pain management, evidence and opioid therapy in particular, and the implications for public health. Cathy contributes to the work of PHE, MHRA, ACMD, the European Medicines Agency, and the Cochrane collaboration. She is a member of the IASP International Taskforce on Opioids and for the WHO Guideline on Cancer Pain Management. She is Clinical lead for the NICE Guideline on Chronic Pain and Topic Adviser for the NICE Guideline on Safe Prescribing and Withdrawal Management of Medicines Associated with Dependence. She provides in-reach pain services to five prisons in the South West of England and frequently contributes to conversations about pain, opioids and painkiller addiction in both written and broadcast media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21307″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”CATHY STREET” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574699196166{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Cathy Street was the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Lead on the MILESTONE Project and part of the Warwick Medical School team who worked on the ethics workshop of MILESTONE. Over the last twenty years, Cathy has held senior research, management and consultant roles in the field of children and young people’s mental health. She has led large scale studies and service improvement activities for a wide range of bodies including UK government departments, clinical commissioning groups and national mental health charities. She was extensively involved in supporting the involvement of services users in the NHS England Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) programme 2012- 2015. Much of her work has had a focus on improving young people’s access to mental health services.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”21308″ img_size=”200×200″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][vc_custom_heading text=”RACHEL WALLACE” font_container=”tag:h5|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1574699280517{margin-bottom: 10px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}”][vc_column_text]Rachel Wallace completed her Undergraduate degree with the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2014. Following this she began her Psychiatry BST as part of the Trinity Deanery in 2016. She is currently working as a Clinic/Research Fellow in the Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing, St James’s Hospital Dublin. She has been a member of the College of Psychiatrists Trainee Committee since June 2018.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”POSTER PRESENTATIONS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1571846934442{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”8″ accent_color=”#d9ba53″][vc_btn title=”Click here to view posters for the Winter Conference 2020″ color=”inverse” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishpsychiatry.ie%2Fcourses-and-events%2Fwinter-conference-2020%2Fdocuments%2F||target:%20_blank|”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”ESSAY COMPETITIONS” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1567699526807{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”8″ accent_color=”#fe4366″][vc_tta_accordion spacing=”10″ active_section=”10″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Faculty of Additions Psychiatry Essay Competition 2019″ tab_id=”1571846916783-8bdd94be-ef25″][vc_single_image image=”17844″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” title=”Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry Essay Competition 2019″][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”8″ accent_color=”#ff602f”][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy Psychiatry Essay Competition 2019″ tab_id=”1571846917204-c732c64a-9191″][vc_single_image image=”17845″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” title=”FACULTY OF MEDICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY PSYCHIATRY ESSAY COMPETITION 2019″][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dr Charles Smith Essay Competition 2019″ tab_id=”1571846917486-2b01bbb2-8804″][vc_single_image image=”17843″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” title=”DR CHARLES SMITH ESSAY COMPETITION 2019″][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row]