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Dr Sheena McHugh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health, and Lead Investigator of the CUSTOMISE project. Her primary areas of interest are implementation science, quality improvement and chronic disease management. You can read more about Sheena's research here.
Dr Fiona Riordan is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher on the CUSTOMISE project. Fiona previously worked on the IDEAs (Improving Diabetes Eye screening Attendance) study. Her research interests include chronic disease management, integrated care, quality improvement, and the implementation of service changes in primary care. You can read more about Fiona's research here.
Dr Susan Calnan is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the APA Falls project and 'Experiences and perceptions of evidence use among senior stakeholders in the HSE'. Her research interests include implementation science, knowledge translation, alcohol research and policy analysis. You can read more about Susan's research here.
Tanya Van De Water is Research Assistant working on the LINK project. Tanya is a Clinical Psychologist who worked as a Research Assistant at Stellenbosch University across a range of psychiatric and paediatric topics.
Lauren O Mahony is a Research Assistant working on the Sláintecare Integration Fund project “End to End (E2E) Implementation of the Model of Integrated Care for Type 2 diabetes”. Lauren is a graduate of the bachelor’s degree in Public Health Sciences at UCC and her interest areas include quality improvement in health services and chronic disease management.
Clair Haseldine Is a second year PhD scholar with the SPHeRE (Structured Population and Health Services Research Education) Programme. Clair is a Chartered Physiotherapist and is interested in chronic disease prevention and management and implementation science. You can read more about Clair's research here.
Michelle McNamara is a PhD student on CUSTOMISE (Comparing and Understanding Tailoring Methods for Implementation Strategies)) funded by the HRB Research Leader Award. She is also a student on the four-year HRB SPHeRE programme (Structured Population Health and Health-services Research Education). You can read more about Michelle here.
Our collaborators
Across our projects, the team have partnered with national and international collaborators including: Diabetes Ireland; National Clinical Programme for Diabetes; HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland; Diabetes in General Practice (DIGP) Initiative; Department of General Practice in UCC; HRB Clinical Research Facility Cork; clinical and managerial representatives from the Integrated Falls Prevention Pathway.
CUSTOMISE Health service partners and collaborators
We work with our research partners Prof Sean Dinneen, (Clinical Lead for the National Clinical Programme for Diabetes), Dr Ana Terres (Head of Research and Development, Assistant National Director, HSE), Ms Ciara Mellett (Programme Manager, Slaintecare Programme), Priscilla Lynch (Cork Kerry Community Healthcare), Dr Paul Kavanagh (Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the National Health Intelligence Unit), and Dr Phillip Crowley (National Director, Quality Improvement, HSE).
