ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital

St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Limited - Annual Review 2007
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
In Microbiology and in collaboration with UCD, molecular typing of cystic fibrosis pseudomonas was
introduced as per the recommendations of the Pollock Report.
To enhance communication with GPs a twice yearly Microbiology newsletter was launched as a quality initiative.
In Haematology a new protocol was introduced for the administration of Heparin throughout the hospital. In
response to requests from the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee and to facilitate the introduction of a new
Heparin monitoring protocol, the APTT ratio has been added to the haematology profile.
A significant new development was the instigation by the Metabolism Laboratory and Dr Malachi McKenna
of joint paediatric meetings to be held quarterly with consultants and medical staff from OLHSC, Crumlin and
Temple Street Children’s Hospital and AMNCH Tallaght. The inaugural meeting was held on 7th September.
The format consisted of case presentations, including bone biomarker results at baseline and on treatment,
followed by interactive discussions.
Staff
Professor McKenna retired as Consultant Endocrinologist and Director of the Endocrinology and Metabolism
Laboratories in August, 2007. His career, his contribution to medical research and thirty years of clinical
service to St. Vincent’s University Hospital was marked by tributes from friends and colleagues who attended
a scientific meeting to mark his retirement.
Staff who achieved promotion to higher grades in 2007 included the following:
Acting Senior Medical Scientist
Ms. Sandra Doyle
Specialist Medical Scientist (Training)
Ms Jean Kavanagh
Senior Phlebotomist
Ms. Gay Wright
Senior Phlebotomists
Ms. Miriam Hogan
Acting Senior Clinical Biochemists
Ms. Laure McAleavey
Acting Senior Clinical Biochemist
Ms. Catherine Higgins
Senior Medical Scientist (Breastcheck)
Ms. Louise Flanagan
Acting Senior Medical Scientist (Endocrinology) Mr. James Connolly
Job Sharing Microbiology Consultant
Dr. Kirsten Schaffer
Senior Medical Scientist
Ms. Maura Reynolds
Grade IV Secretary
Ms Chie Borlongan
New staff who joined the department included:
Mr Ger Noone, Mr Alan Byrne and Ms Sinead Bradshaw.(Phlebotomists).
Ms. Alison Breslon, Ms. Aoife Prendergast, Ms. Sarah Carroll, Ms. Nicola Faherty, Mr. Gordon Dixon, Ms.
Deirdre O’Shea, Ms. Helena Duggan, Ms. Amanda Lynch, Ms. Margaret Ann Connaughton, Ms. Aoife
O’Sullivan (Medical Scientists).
Ms. Mary Walsh, Ms. Ursula Fox (Senior Medical Scientists).
Ms. Fiona Tamas, Ms. Mireia Giralt Cubi (Admin).
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