Nurses and Midwives: Impacting on a Healthy and Sustainable Future

• Date: Friday, 31st of March 2023
• Time: 09:00 - 16:00
• Venue: Brookfield Health Sciences Building, College Rd., University College Cork

Please view our Conference Flyer here SoNM Research Conference 2023

About the Conference

The Conference and World Café event will be held in-person in Brookfield Health Services Complex, University College Cork.

In your final year of your undergrad and looking for a Research Masters that will turbo-charge your career prospects in the pharma and biopharma industries?

Then look no further!

Starting in September 2023, UCC will launch its MRes in Industrial Pharmaceutics.

The College of Medicine and Health prides itself on its greatest resource – our people.

Staff within the CoMH and affiliated healthcare institutions are committed and dedicated, and constantly innovate in both teaching and research.

The partnership among academia, the health and social care service, industry and policy makers is essential to promote, facilitate, translate and implement research advances in a timely manner. Better health and improved treatment outcomes for patients are the rewards for this effort.

Our CoMH Researcher Spotlight Series aims to showcase some of the diverse range of cutting edge research being undertaken by researchers at all career stages, providing an insight into the motivation behind their rewarding careers and highlighting opportunities for network building and further collaboration.

Our series begins with María Rodriguez Aburto, PhD, a Senior Lecturer, Group Leader and ERC-funded Investigator based in UCC's Dept. Anatomy & Neuroscience and APC Microbiome Ireland.

The iEd Hub, through the School of Pharmacy and Cork University Business School, are delighted to announce the launch of a new 1-year postgraduate MSc programme in Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations and Management.

This unique multi-disciplinary programme covers the technical, quality, regulatory skills required to work in the (bio)pharma industry, as well as the management, leadership and transversal skills required in the workplace. The programme was developed by the iEd Hub, a HCI Pillar three funded industry-academia consortium, with industry for industry, ensuring employability is at the core of the curriculum.

MSc in Industrial Pharmaceutical Sciences, Operations and Management 

All new professors are given the opportunity to give an inaugural lecture. The series provides an opportunity for CoMH to celebrate our academics' achievements with each lecture representing a significant milestone in an academic's career.

Professor Aisling Barry

On 10th March, our series continues with Professor Aisling Barry, our recently appointed Chair of Radiation Oncology UCC, delivering her Inaugural Professorial Lecture entitled ‘Precision Radiation Medicine’.

To find out more about Prof Barry, please click here.

Friday 10th March, 1.30pm - 2.30pm, BHSCG05 in UCC's Brookfield Health Sciences Complex.

If you would like to  join Professor Barry in person for her inaugural lecture, please email comh@ucc.ie to register your interest.

Refreshments afterwards in the Jennings Gallery. 

Staff, colleagues and friends are looking forward to joining Aisling to celebrate this important academic milestone.

Dr. John Torres, NBC News Senior Medical Correspondent, was a guest speaker at School of Medicine grand rounds at Cork University Hospital recently.

A renowned emergency room physician, Dr. Torres is an adjunct clinical professor at University College Cork and contributes to the prehospital care special forces Medicine teaching programmes.

The topic of discussion was ‘Media and Medicine’. Dr. Torres spoke about the importance of medical messaging, how this was highlighted during the pandemic when many within the medical profession were called upon by the media to share their expertise. “We had to convert, explain science and medicine to the general public – not always an easy thing to do”.

More than 750 children and lots of sick and injured teddies attended UCC Med Soc’s hospital this week. The annual event aims to help children feel more at ease when visiting the doctor and other healthcare professionals.

The children aged between 4 – 6 brought their sick and injured teddies to be treated at the Teddy Bear Hospital hosted by medical students at University College Cork’s Medical Society.

Students and colleagues at University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Medicine and Department of Surgery met with two of the world’s leading endocrine surgeons, Dr. Jim Norman and Professor Martin Walz at Cork University Hospital (CUH) recently as part of the RCSI Charter Day.  

Professor Walz and Dr. Norman participated in a number of surgeries in CUH whilst being watched by many of our surgical students and colleagues from UCC and CUH.  

Professor Paul Redmond, Head of the Department of Surgery at University College Cork and Cork University Hospital said: “this was a truly unique opportunity for UCC-CUH and Irish surgery to welcome and greatly benefit from the knowledge of these two revolutionary and renaissance surgeons of our time. Our students were immensely delighted that our guests were so forthcoming with help and advice and answered their questions”. 

Dr. Jim Norman is based in Florida, America. He is recognised as one of the world’s foremost experts on parathyroid disease and hyperparathyroidism. Professor Martin Walz is based in Essen, Germany. He has dedicated his surgical career to endocrine surgery, with a special interest in minimally invasive techniques in general surgery. 

Read more about Professor Walz and Dr. Norman here: News | University College Cork (ucc.ie) 

• Leading UCC academics elected as Presidents of European radiology societies. 
• Professor Adrian Brady has been appointed as President of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
• Dr Andrew England has been elected President of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS).

Two Irish radiology leaders have been appointed to presidential posts in Europe.  

Professor Adrian Brady, Clinical Professor of Radiology, UCC and Consultant Radiologist at Mercy University Hospital, Cork has been elected President of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR). The ESR, with over 130,000 members from 186 countries worldwide, is the world’s largest radiology society. It is the first time a radiologist based in Ireland has held this leadership position. 

Dr Andrew England, Senior Lecturer in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy at School of Medicine, UCC was elected President of the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS). The Federation represents 35 countries and over 100,000 radiographers and radiation therapists at European level. It is the highest position a radiographer can serve in Europe.  

The School of Public Health at University College Cork has been awarded accreditation from the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA), becoming the eighth institute globally to receive the prestigious recognition.

The School of Public Health drives the delivery of superior quality in research and advocacy in population health, health services and health systems to address global health challenges.

Established by Professor Ivan Perry and his team in 1997, the School of Public Health is the largest and highest-ranking school of public health in Ireland with a high-quality teaching and education programme and a research programme led by world-leading researchers.