PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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University (July 2010). The workshop was part of a visiting
researcher grant, awarded to Dr O’Toole earlier in the year
• Professor Fiona Gibbon and Dr Alice Lee (Speech and
Hearing Sciences) represented Ireland in a short course at the
American Speech and Hearing Association annual convention,
‘Leadership into New Frontiers’ in Philadelphia, USA. The
course gave an overview of 20 evidence-based intervention
approaches for speech disorders in children and was recently
published in Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in
Children (2010)
• The Department of Occupational Science and Occupational
Therapy hosted an exhibition of first-year creative art work,
completed as part of the occupational therapy programme.
There is a long history of the use of art, craft and creative
activities in occupational therapy, going back to the foundation
of the profession in the early 1900s. The theme for this year’s
creative activity sessions and this exhibition is the link between
‘occupation and health’.
• Dr Kevin Balanda was appointed Adjunct Professor of Public
Health, UCC in 2009. Dr Balanda is Associate Director, Institute
of Public Health in Ireland and Director of Ireland and Northern
Ireland’s Population Health Observatory.
Awards
• Professor Ivan Perry received the 2009 Award for Best
Published Endocrinology Research at the Irish Journal of
Medical Science Doctor Awards. The title of the paper was
‘Quality of life and quality of care in patients with diabetes
experiencing different models of care’ and was published in
US journal Diabetes Care.
• Professor Jonathan Hourihane accepted a Taoiseach’s
Public Service Excellence Award on behalf of the Informing
Families of their Child’s Disability Cork pilot implementation
project at the awards ceremony in Dublin Castle (July 2010).
• Edward Kiely, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, was honoured
in November 2009 with an Alumnus Award for exceptional
voluntary service to UCC and to the Medical School. Mr Kiely
specialises in neonatal surgery, upper gastrointestinal surgery,
paediatric surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery and
the separation of conjoined twins. Earlier this year, he led
the medical team which successfully separated the Cork
conjoined twins, Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf. Edward
Kiely’s clinical skills are in much demand internationally. He
has trained a generation of Paediatric Surgeons at University
College London and has had the distinction of being a Visiting
Surgeon worldwide and Visiting Professor in Australia, US and
Europe. He has edited or coedited over 160 articles for medical
journals and has contributed 21 book chapters. Mr Kiely was
also the recipient of the UCC Medical School Medal in June
2010.