PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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Foreword UCC at a Glance Academic Developments Teaching and Learning Research College Reports: Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Business and Law Medicine and Health Science, Engineering and Food Science Events Student Experience Sports and Recreation Buildings and Estates Cork University Press Finance Governing Body IRIS Appendix 38 College of Medicine and Health The College of Medicine and Health has maintained and expanded its activities throughout 2009/2010, in what has been a challenging financial climate. The college continues to attract the highest calibre students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. These students come to us with a freshness and energy which sustains their teachers. It is the creativity of our students and the dedication of our staff which has enabled us to maintain our standards and focus on the future. A number of projects have helped us to grow this year. The success of our bid under the PRTLI programme will see researchers consolidated in the Western Gateway Building and the development of a National Centre for Health Services Research. Funding under the Medical Education Reform Programme will mean that the basic science teaching will also relocate to the Western Gateway in facilities that can deliver new technologies and learning methodologies. At postgraduate level, there have been particular challenges this year. Health providers are sponsoring smaller numbers of staff taking postgraduate programmes. Releasing staff to participate in programmes can also prove difficult. The college has responded to this change by introducing flexible option study modules and by offering programmes at certificate and diploma as well as masters level. In its service to the community, the college is expanding its continuing professional education remit to all schools and connecting with their professional associations to cater for this. The college also expanded its international student body with 14 per cent of students now originating from outside Ireland. Students of many programmes in the college are offered the opportunity to participate in overseas electives which are increasingly popular. The Dental School and Hospital continued its service to the community with a free cancer screening programme offered to the public. The screening day was organised by Dr Eleanor O’Sullivan in order to raise public awareness of the importance of going for oral health check-ups. There was overwhelming demand and two further screening days were arranged. In all, approximately 1,200 people were screened at Cork Dental School and Hospital. As Professor Michael Berndt left his position as Head of College to take up a post in Dublin, Professor Geraldine McCarthy has acted as Head of the College of Medicine and Health since July 2010. Professor Josephine Hegarty was appointed Acting Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery during Professor McCarthy’s absence. In the School of Medicine, Professor David Kerins completed his term as Dean in August with Professor George Shorten designated to assume the role from October 2010. Research Highlights • The annual College Research Day was held in June 2010 in the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex. 100 delegates deliberated the topic – Molecules to Medicine. The day was structured around four themes: measurement in healthcare research (keynote speaker – Professor Pamela Enderby, University of Sheffield); optimising drug delivery and therapeutics (Oliver Boucher, Signoid Pharma); immunology and infections (Dr Simon Draper, University of Oxford) and gut health (Professor Paul Ross, Teagasc, Moorepark). The Michael C Berndt Gold Medals for Research Innovation were presented to the best speakers in each category. The recipients were Ciara O’Toole, Martin O’Neill, Andrew Coveney and Declan McKernan. A poster event also took place, the winning posters were: (1st prize) Carola Murphy, Gerard Moloney, Lindsay Hall, Aoife Quinlan, Emilie Faivre, Pat Casey, Fergus Shanahan, Silvia Melgar and Ken Nally for ‘Development and characterisation of a novel in vivo model to track neutrophil migration in experimental colitis using bioluminescence imaging’; (2nd prize) M. Murphy, S. Byrne and C.P. Bradley for ‘Does cash payment influence a GP’s decision to prescribe antiobiotics?’ and (3rd prize) Una Leonard, Catherine Pettigrew, Nicola Bessell and Will Hutch for ‘Syntatic reactions: the effect of determiner-priming on visual mass noun recognition speeds’. The conference was sponsored by Pfizer Corporation; Cruinn Diagnostics; Miltenyi Biotec; Becton Dickinson and Caliper LifeSciences. • Researchers from the UCC Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine have recently published their findings from a study of the application of STOPP/START criteria in over 1,300 people,
Foreword UCC at a Glance Academic Developments Teaching and Learning Research College Reports: Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Business and Law Medicine and Health Science, Engineering and Food Science Events Student Experience Sports and Recreation Buildings and Estates Cork University Press Finance Governing Body IRIS Appendix 39 with an average age of 75 years, living in the community. STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Prescriptions) is an evidence-based list of instances of potentially inappropriate medications in older people. START (Screening Tool to Alert to Right Treatment) is a list of potential errors of medication omission in older people. These criteria have been validated and published, and appeared in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (December 2009). • Dr Stephen Byrne was awarded a Collaborative Ageing Research (CARDI) grant for ‘An evaluation of the inappropriate prescribing in long stay elderly facilities in the greater Cork and Northern Ireland regions using the STOPP and Beers criteria’ (December 2009). • Dr Laura Sahm was awarded a Harmonising Pharmacy Clinical Competency grant of €67,000 for students and professionals. The grant is an EU/US collaboration. • Dr Suzanne McCarthy received part of a collaborative FP7 grant of €79,200 for ‘Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drugs use of chronic effects’. • Dr Alice Lee (Speech and Hearing Sciences) and her collaborators were awarded a grant of $730,000 from National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA for “Toward a multi-modal and multi-level analysis of Chinese aphasic discourse”. This fouryear project, led by Dr Anthony Kong, University of Central Florida, USA, Dr Sam-Po Law, University of Hong Kong, China, and Dr Alice Lee in UCC, started in June 2010. The study aims to establish a large-scaled language corpus of Cantonesespeaking individuals with aphasia and to apply a multimodal approach (including linguistic and prosodic measures, and evaluation of non-verbal behaviours) to the analysis of communication skills of individuals with aphasia. The goal of this project is to improve the planning of assessment and remediation procedures for Chinese speakers with aphasia around the world. Approximately nine per cent of the total cost of the project ($68,000) is allocated to UCC for conducting the research. • The Ethical Framework for a Good Death was launched by the Irish Hospice Foundation. Dr Joan McCarthy (Nursing and Midwifery) was the leading investigator in this national project At the launch of The Ethical Framework for a Good Death. Pictured (L-R): Professor Geraldine McCarthy; Dr Joan McCarthy (Nursing and Midwifery) and Prof Juiris FitzGerald, Board member of Irish Hospice Foundation • The Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) Study recruited its one-thousandth woman during 2009/2010. The study was launched at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) in March 2008 and is funded by the Health Research Board (HRB). SCOPE is an international study involving a large team of doctors, scientists and midwives from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The SCOPE team in Cork is led by Professor Louise Kenny, (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and coordinated by Nicolai Murphy, SCOPE Study Coordinator. The team includes a number of research midwives, lab technicians and doctors. The study aims to develop predictive tests for poor pregnancy outcomes and in particular to detect women at risk of developing the lifethreatening condition, pre-eclampsia • In April 2008 the HRB Centre for Health and Diet Research was established in UCC under the leadership of Professor Ivan Perry, (Epidemiology and Public Health) with funding support of approximately €5,000,000 from the HRB and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. The work of the centre has expanded in 2009/2010. The centre has leveraged additional funding support for research in public health nutrition from Safefood and Crumlin Children’s Research Centre
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