UG Research Registration Grant

School of Medicine UG Research Travel/Registration Grant

The School of Medicine Undergraduate (UG) Travel and registration award 2022.2023 is now open for applications.

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The School of Medicine Research Committee provides limited funding for research travel on a competitive basis to undergraduate students within the School of Medicine. Conferences must have occurred between 1^st October 2022 and 1^st September 2023. Conference that occur outside these dates are not eligible for funding.

Please conference attendance that occurred between 1^st October 2022 to 28^th February 2023 must be submitted to RPAC by Tuesday 28^th February.

For conferences from 1^st March 2023 until 1^st September 2023 the application must be submitted to RPAC 7 working days prior to the conference commencement.

Students who wish to apply for this funding are advised to:

Fill in the attached form and ensure it is signed by your supervisor
Attach a copy of your abstract with apparent Department and School of Medicine, UCC visibility on the abstract.
Attach email from Conference organiser to confirm your poster/oral presentation at the Conference

All applications need to be submitted to rpac@ucc.ie. Please include in the subject line the applicant’s name and the title of the conference

UG travel & registration award application form 2022.2023

UG travel & registration award guidelines 2022.2023

Undergraduate Travel award recipients 2022

Student Name		Abstract Title	Conference details
Caoimhe	Cronin	BRANDS OF ADRENALINE AUTO INJECTOR IN IRELAND: WHAT BRANDS DO CAREGIVERS USE AND ARE THEY ADEQUATELY TRAINED IN THEIR ADMINISTRATION	World Allergy Organization and BSACI UK Conference 2022 Edinburgh, Scotland 25th - 27th April 2022
Ciara	O'Donoghue	Diagnostic yield of first-line investigations among adults presenting with a first seizure and new onset epilepsy in a geographically defined area over 12 months (2017)	Neurosciene & Neurology Conference Dublin, Ireland 3rd - 4th June 2022
James	Boyle	Quality of Life in late stage cancer patients on immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy	ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer Barcelona, Spain 29th June - 2nd July 2022
Martin	Ho	The attitudes of patients towards orthopaedic post-surgical scars.	The Annual meeting of the Irish Orthopedic Association Offaly, Ireland 17th - 18th June 2022
Natalie Rae	Krakoski	Defining the Therapeutic Potential of Class Specific Histone Deacetylase Inhibitions in an In Vitro Neuroinflammation Model of Parkinson’s Disease	European Academy of Neuroscience Vienna, Austria 25th - 28th June 2022
Clara	Steele	Awareness of Modifiable Lifestyle Risk Factors and Acceptability of Secondary Risk Reduction Services amongst Irish Breast Cancer Survivors and Oncology Clinicians.	European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Congress Paris, France 9th - 13th Sept 2022

Undergraduate Research Travel Grant Awardees 2020

Recipient		Conference	Location	Abstract Title
Caoimhe	Healy	ISA2019	Madrid	A Retrospective Review of the Perinatal Palliative Care Programme at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH)
Ryan	Sless	Royal College of Emergency Medicine	UK	Beyond the emergency department – should internal medicine adopt undergraduate extracurricular simulation competition?
Shawn	Albers	Royal College of Emergency Medicine	UK	To sim or not to sim: simulation training in acute medicine – there a role of extracurricular situation competition in undergraduate medical education?
Leah	Falvey	European Urogynaecology Association 12th annual Congress	Israel	What Does Your Pelvic Floor Do For You? Knowledge of the Pelvic Floor in Female University Students
Abdulrahman	Mohamed	British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons Celtic Meeting	Scotland	Patterns of Head and Neck Injury in Major Trauma in Ireland
Paul	MacDaragh Ryan	8th European & Swiss MD-PhD Conference	Switzerland	Gamma-aminobutyric acid-producing lactobacilli positively affect metabolism in a mouse model of metabolic syndrome
Paul	MacDaragh Ryan	8th European & Swiss MD-PhD Conference	Switzerland	High-Fidelity Porcine Models of Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review
Paul	MacDaragh Ryan	8th European & Swiss MD-PhD Conference	Switzerland	Mining Google Trends Data for Health Information: The Case of the Irish ‘CervicalCheck’ Cervical Screening Programme Scandal
Kathryn	Lesko	Irish Association of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting	Sligo	Low Falls Causing Major Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Andrew	Mazurek	Student Medical Summit	Dublin	A five-year retrospective review of fatalities involving novel psychoactive substances in Southern Ireland
Jun Marc	Feng	Student Medical Summit	Dublin	The use of Fibrinogen Concentrate (FC) in an Acute Obstetric setting at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH)

Undergraduate Research Travel Grant Awardees 2019

Recipient		Abstract Title	Conference Name
Conor	Kennedy	An investigation into the attitude and behaviour of genereal practitioners in relation to the medicine management programme's preferred drugs list.	22nd WONCA World Conference of Family Doctors, Seoul, South Korea
Paul	MacDaragh Ryan	Metformin and a DPP-4-inhibitor differentially modulate the microbiome and metabolome of metabolic syndrome mice.	21st Annual Diabetes Canada/Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism Professional Conference
Andrew	Kucey	Patients referred for arteriovenous fistula construction: a retrospective outcome analysis.	VSASM 2018 Glasgow
Andrew	Kucey	Retrospective analysis of patients referred for arteriovenous fistula formation.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Evan Ryan	Kelly	A multidisciplinary approach to clinical supervision: charter of beset practice in Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
John Kehoe	Kehoe	An assessment of buccal oestrogen receptor expression in patients diagnosed with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer as a potential non-invasive marker of response to Tamoxifen Therapy.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Julia	Olioff	Cross-sectonal study to assess the nedd to provide contraceptive services to women attending Addiction Services at Cork Kerry Community Healthcare.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Julia	Olioff	Cross-sectonal study to assess the nedd to provide contraceptive services to women attending Addiction Services at Cork Kerry Community Healthcare.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Riosín	McCarthy	Sonographic features of resistant infantile developmental dysplasia of the Hip.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Liam	Maher	Is your child in danger? An exploration of adolescent sports related injuries presenting to an Emergency Department.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Luke	Harris	An assessment of inhaler technique and adherence in Cystic Fibrosis and the development of mHealth Tools to improve it.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Edward Patrick	Ahern	Nursing Home Residents with Dementia - Pattern of referral to specialist pallative care services.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Stephanie	Creed	Parental attitudes towards HPV vaccination: a qualitative study.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Fionnuala	Crowley	An observational study, of the utility of BRAF and MEK combination therapy in metastatic melanoma in a regional cancer centre.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Sarah	Donoghue	Is heart rate variability (HRV) a predictor of intraventricular haemorrhage (IVH) in preterm infants?	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Fergal	Fuohy	Liver function in a cohort of women with Gestational Diabetes.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Tommy	Harty	Cardiovascular risk assessment in asymptomatic patients with inflammatory arthritis.	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Jeremy Lee Kay	Hock	Tips and Tricks to Perform Intraoperative Cholangiogram during Single Incision Laparoscopy for Cholecystectomy	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Rebecca	Howley	An audit of LLETZ procedure in a Cork City colposcopy clinic	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Wanyi	Kee	Real world practice patterns for NSCLC patients in an Irish setting: a multi-centre study on targetable gene alterations	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Sarah	Kennedy	THE EFFECTS OF MIRENA ON THE MYOMETRIAL VASCULAR BED IN PATIENTS WITH MENORRHAGIA	Atlantic Corridor 2018 NUIG
Samantha	Shiplo	Maternity care providers' involvement in research.	BMFMS British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society's 21st Annual Conference
Meghan	Bourque	Effect of hormone treatment on bone health in transgender females: a systematic review.	World Congress on Osteoposis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (WCO-IOF-ESCEO Paris 2019)
Ryan	Kelly	The association of Diastolic Blood Pressure control with clinical outcomes in incident haemodialysis patients.	UK Kidney Week
Aaron Ho Kwun	Hang	The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Risk	24th IFSO World Congress Madrid
Kevin	Barry-Murphy	An Epidemiological Study of Severe Penetrating Trauma in the South of Ireland	Xth Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress
Christopher	McKeon	ED prevalence & management of major trauma patients on anticoagulant/antiplatelet therapy in Ireland	MEMC19
Maggie Ann	Bacon	Utility of the PECARN Head Injury CDR in Children 2 Years and Older Presenting to CUH ED	Xth Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress

Undergraduate Research Travel Grant Awardees 2018

Student Surname	Student Firstname	Conference/Meeting	Location	Abstract Title
Chang	Ruby Ying-Ju	85th European General Practice Research Network Meeting	Dublin	Curricular priorities for dementia education for General Practitioners: A Delphi consensus study
Goh	Justin	Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2017	Limerick	An evaluation of the effectiveness of use of audio-visual media in promoting vaccine uptake
Garcia	Daniel	The Atlantic Orthopaedic Meeting hosted by the Irish Institue of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery (IITOS)	Galway	Superior capsular reconstruction for treatment of irreparable rotator cuff tears: early clinical results
Roche	Eoin	Irish Congress of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatal Medicine 2017	Kilkenny	Analysis of comparable home/clinic blood pressure readings in the LEANBH population
Gallagher	Cian	Irish Congress of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Perinatal Medicine 2017	Kilkenny	Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the risk of autism spectrum disorders in offspring
Ryan	Paul M	International Congress of Hypertension in Children and Adolescents	Valencia, Spain	GLP-1-SECRETING PROBIOTIC IMPROVES METABOLIC DYSFUNCTION IN HIGH-FAT DIET FED ADOLESCENT RODENTS
Swami	Tara	Internal Medicine EuroSciCon, Vienna Austria	Vienna, Austria	The Effectiveness of Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis Prevention in Polymyalgia Rheumatica Patients.
Bryant	Melissa	Irish Assocaition for Palliative Care Annual Education and Research Seminar	Dublin	Palliative Care for People with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease: Views of Specialist Palliative Care Healthcare Professionals
Sheehy	Eoin	EBCC: The European Breast Cancer Conference	Barcelona, Spain	The information needs of patients with breast cancer at years one, three & five post diagnosis
Marzario	Barbara	Faculty of Pathology Annual Symposium and General Meeting 2018, RCPI	Dublin	AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF INVASIVE CUTANEOUS MALIGNANT MELANOMA IN AN IRISH COHORT
Healy	Jack	AUDGPI - Association of university Departments of General Practice in Ireland	Galway	Patient Medication-Knowledge: A cross-Sectional study
Whelan	Sean	Irish Society of Microbiologists, Spring Meeting	Dublin	A review of the determinants and outcomes of antibiotic de-escalation in sepsis in clinical practice
Ramsay	John	European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology Congress 2018	Munich, Germany	The changing face of allergen challenges since their introduction to Ireland: 12 years of single centre experience in Cork

Undergraduate Research Travel Grant Awardees 2017

Student Surname	Student Firstname	Conference/Meeting	Location	Abstract Title
Campbell	Gregory	Irish Association of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2016	Dublin	Case studies: patients admitted to the ICU within 48 hours of ward admission from the Cork University Hospital Emergency Department (CUH ED).
Chang	Ruby	6th Congress of The European Academy of Paediatric Societies	Geneva	Cord Blood IL-16 predicts Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 3 years in Perinatal Asphxia and Neonatal Hypoxic-ischaemic Encephalopathy
Cooke	Carly	EUGA 9th Annual meeting	Amsterdam	Obstetrical health-care providers’ attitudes towards postnatal pelvic floor dysfunction
D'Souza	Leah	Anatomy & Radiology Contouring Bootcamp for Radiation Oncology Residents	London, ON.	Evaluating the impact of a National Anatomy and Radiology contouring (ARC) Bootcamp for Radiation Oncology Residents
Kanji	Nasir	SIAA Annual Scientific Meeting	Dingle	The use of Sugammadex in the anaesthetic management of a patient with Myasthenia Gravis for lumbar discectomy and decompression surgery
Kelly	Raymond	Irish Pain Society	Dublin	Calculating the ionising radiation dose to the ocular region of pain physicians during C-arm guided pain interventions: A pilot study.
Lavery	Ashling	Irish Association of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2016	Dublin	Case studies: patients admitted to the ICU within 48 hours of ward admission from the Cork University Hospital Emergency Department (CUH ED).
Mathews	Daragh	Irish Association of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2016	Dublin	Case studies: patients admitted to the ICU within 48 hours of ward admission from the Cork University Hospital Emergency Department (CUH ED).
O'Flynn	James	2016 Winter Conference: Joint Conference of College of Psychiartrists of Irealnd and Royal Colelge of Psychiatrists in NI	Dublin	Examining Stress – An Investigation of the interaction between Stress, Mood and Exercise in Students
Tetreault	Lindsay	North American Spine Society	Boston, Massachusetts	Is Preoperative Duration of Symptoms a Significant Predictor of Functional outcomes in Patients Undergoing Surgery for the Treatment of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy?
Zahradnik	Stephanie	Irish Paediatric Assoc Annual Meeting	Dublin	Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome in a Sibling Pair- A Novel Mode of Inheritance. Case Report and Litereature Review.
Aherne	Fiona	ICHAMS	Dublin	Drug administration to a cohort of neonates <32 weeks gestation; and cumulative exposure to potentially harmful excipients
Acton	Holly	European Congress of Radiology	Vienna	Monitoring of Radiation Dose using Dose Tracking Software in a Neurovascular Intervention Room
Clifford	Danielle	BMFMS	Amsterdam	Perinatal Outcomes of Twin 1 vs Twin 2
Clifford	Danielle	BMFMS	Amsterdam	Perinatal Outcomes in Twin Pregnancy - A Single Unit Cohort Study
Connolly	Eimear	ICHAMS	Dublin	Audit of discharge prescriptions from an urban secondary care facility
Cox	Colm	AUDGPI	Limerick	“I Don’t Know Where to Begin Doctor” ‘Heartsink’ Consultations in Irish General Practice; A Qualitative Study
Cudmore	Vikki	PHM Conference	Dublin	Clinical communication and hearing loss in older adults: a qualitative study
Garcia	Daniel	Irish Shoulder and Elbow Society	Dublin	Superior capsular reconstruction for treatment of irreparable rotator cuff tears: early clinical results.
Gilbert	Richard	Sylvester O'Halloran Surgical Symposium	Limerick	Laparoscopic versus percutaneous lymph node biopsy for the diagnosis of isolated abdominal lymphadenopathy.
Green	Deirdre	BMFMS	Amsterdam	A review of reproductive pregnancy outcomes of women with two consecutive miscarriages and no living child.
Guerin	Naoihse	AUDGPI	Limerick	Antipsychotic Use in Dementia Care: The Development of a Repeat Prescribing Monitoring Template for GPs, using a Delphi Consensus Method
Harrington	Sarah	ICHAMS	Dublin	A Clinical and Genetic study of Myofibrillar Myopathy
Hayes	Anna	AUDGPI	Limerick	What is the quality of chronic disease guidelines commonly used in Irish general practice? An evaluation using the AGREE instrument
Hogan	Donnacha	SCTS	Belfast	Does Age Influence the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery?
Hogan	Donnacha	ICHAMS	Dublin	Does Age Influence the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery?
Kelly	Raymond	British Pain Society 50th Anniversary Annual Scientific Conference	Birmingham	Calculating the ionising radiation dose to the ocular region of pain physicians during C-arm guided pain interventions.
Macilwraith	Philip William	ICHAMS	Dublin	Burnout, physical activity and extracurricular activity in medical students
Mauro	Linnea	Society for cardiothoracic Surgery in GB and Ireland	Belfast	Analyzing the relationship between patient preoperative risk and the morbidity and mortality associated with blood transfusion in cardiac surgery
Murphy	Lisa Christine	Sylvester O'Halloran Surgical Symposium	Limerick	Assessing the accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in measuring the nodal response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer.
O'Sullivan	Deirdre	Association of British Clinical Diabetologists Spring Conference 2017	Belfast	Are lower levels of physical activity during pregnancy associated with excessive gestational weight gain and adverse outcomes?

Selection of UG Travel Funded by School of Medicine 2015/16

Student Firstname	Student Surname	Conference/Meeting	Location	Abstract/Poster
Gavin	Bock	Joint Scientific Meeting AUDGPI/ICGP 2016 (Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland)/(Irish College of General Practitioners)	University College Dublin	Bock, Gavin 2015/16
Ruby	Chang	Atlantic Corridor Student Research Conference	University of Limerick	Chang, Ruby_2015_16
E Von	Cheong	18th International Conference on Public Health, WASET	London, UK	Cheong, E Von
Ngai	Chin Hong	President's Prize meeting, Nephrology section, The Royal Society of Medicine	London, UK	Ngai Chin Hong
Rachel	Clarke	Irish Perinatal Society (IPNS) Annual Conference	Drogheda, Ireland	Rachel Clarke
Darragh	Enright	European Respiratory Society International Congress 2016	London, UK	Enright, Darren
Luke	Feighery	Atlantic Corridor Student Research Conference	University of Limerick	Luke Feighery
Anna	Hayes	Joint Scientific Meeting AUDGPI/ICGP 2016 (Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland)/(Irish College of General Practitioners)	University College Dublin	Hayes, Anna
Conal	Houstoun	Irish Perinatal Conference	Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland	Houstoun, Conal
Azim	Johari	Irish Perinatal Society (IPNS) Annual Conference	Drogheda, Ireland	Azim Johari
Lisa	Jordan	British Burns Association Annual Meeting	Newcastle, United Kingdom	Jordan, Lisa 2015/16
Kevin	Koh	10th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-10)	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Koh, Kevin 2015/16
Sarah	Linnane	Joint Scientific Meeting AUDGPI/ICGP 2016 (Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland)/(Irish College of General Practitioners)	University College Dublin	Linnane, Sarah
Cathal	McCarthy	Atlantic Orthopaedic Club Meeting	Castlebar, Co Mayo
Anne	Murray	Irish Perinatal Society (IPNS) Annual Conference	Drogheda, Ireland	Murray, Anne
Stephen	O' Brien	European Society of Medical Oncology- World Gastrointestinal Cancer	Barcelona, Spain	Stephen O' Brien
Lauren	O' Callaghan	Irish Perinatal Society (IPNS) Annual Conference	Drogheda, Ireland	Lauren O' Callaghan
Nicolas	O' Keeffe	10th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-10)	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Emily	Rutherford	10th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-10)	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Rutherford, Emily 2015/16
Paul	Ryan	Atlantic Corridor Student Research Conference	University of Limerick	Ryan, Paul 2015/16
Lorraine	Scanlon	20^th Wonca European Conference 2015 (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians)	Istanbul, Turkey	Lorraine Scanlon
Kenneth	Thornton	39th European European Cystic Fibrosis Society Conference	Basel, Switzerland	Thornton, Kenneth 2015/16
Stephanie	Zahradnik	Atlantic Corridor Student Research Conference	University of Limerick	Zahradnik, Stephanie 2015/16

School of Medicine Scoil an Leighis

School of Medicine UG Research Travel Grant