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Announcing the commencement of our 2022/23 Inaugural Lecture Series!
The College of Medicine & Health is pleased to announce the annual series of inaugural professorial lectures for 2022/23.
All new professors are given the opportunity to give an inaugural lecture. The series provides an opportunity to celebrate our academics' achievements with each lecture representing a significant milestone in an academic's career.
Professor Emma Wallace
On 30th November, our Inaugural Lecture Series begins with Professor Emma Wallace, our recently appointed Professor of General Practice in UCC, for her Inaugural Lecture entitled 'Evidence-based Medicine in General Practice: progress, pitfalls & promise'.
Inaugural Lecture video now available to view here.
| Wednesday 30th November, 1pm - 2pm, BHSCG06 in UCC's Brookfield Health Sciences Complex. If you would like to join Professor Wallace in person on Wednesday 30th November, please email comh@ucc.ie to register your interest. Refreshments afterwards in the Jennings Gallery. Staff, colleagues and friends are looking forward to joining Emma to celebrate this important academic milestone. Bio Professor Wallace is a GP and Professor of General Practice in UCC. She previously held positions as Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in General Practice in RCSI Dublin and worked as a GP in Coolock in North Dublin. Her research focuses on optimising prescribing for people with multimorbidity and ways of predicting risk of adverse health outcomes and emergency admissions. Emma is currently Principal Investigator on a Health Research Board (HRB) Emerging Clinician Scientist Award examining problematic polypharmacy in older people and a HRB Applied Partnership Award examining the development and dissemination of evidence updates for GPs. She is a core partner on a HRB Collaborative Doctoral Award programme examining "Right Care" in older people. In 2019, she was the first Irish academic GP awarded the prestigious "Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding New Researcher " by the UK Society of Academic Primary Care and Royal College of General Practitioners. Emma is Chair of the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) Quality and Safety in Practice committee, an ICGP Council member, Chair of the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland (AUDGPI) executive and sits on several international committees. She is a steering committee member for TILDA and the HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Comorbidity. Read more of Prof Wallace's bio and learn about her research interests and publications at the below link. Prof Wallace's research page |