ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Limited - Annual Review 2007
Department - Rheumatology
Needle arthroscopy continues to be available within the department. The arthroscopies are now being
undertaken in the Clinical Research Centre. Professor Douglas Veale is coordinating this programme.
Outstanding/Significant Achievements
Consultant achievements
Prof Barry Bresnihan
• Co-Chairman, EULAR Synovitis Study Group
• Co-Chairman, OMERACT Synovial Tissue Analysis Study Group
• Chairman, Arthritis Ireland –October 2007
• Chairman scientific session, EULAR, June
• Invited Speaker
Italian Society of Rheumatology, Catania
Royal Society Medicine, London
British Bone Society, Aberdeen
Prof Oliver FitzGerald
• Chairman, Arthritis Ireland (Oct-present)
• Member of HSE working group on Arthritis and Allied conditions representing the Irish
Society of Rheumatology
• Steering committee member for GRAPPA (Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis
and Psoriatic Arthritis)
• Member of Abbott International Immunology Advisory Board
• Lead Consultant Bone & Joint Unit, SVUH
• Steering committee member of OMERACT Biomarkers Group
• Scientific committee member 3e Initiative in Rheumatology
• Invited speaker at the following:
Rochester University, New York
Progress and Promise Meeting, Munich
Ulster Internal Medicine Association, Belfast
Prof Douglas Veale
• Adjunct Professor of Medicine, UCD awarded 2007
• Medical Director, Education & Research Centre, SVHG
• Chairman, SVGH Ethics & Medical Research Committee
• Vice-president, International Scleroderma Clinical Trials Consortium
• International Advisor, The Strategic Scientific Committee, Arthritis Research Campaign, UK
• Director of THERAPI - Translational Medicine Research Group, SVUH
• HRB Infection & Immunity Grant Committee
• Irish Medicines Board, Medicines Committee
• Medical Executive, SVHG
• Seed Funding Committee, UCD
• Postgraduate Degree Programme Committee, UCD
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