2013 Press Releases
Investigator Award for PhD student
Sinéad O’Neill, a Health Services Research PhD student, has won the “2013 Best New Investigator Award” at the 60th Annual Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Based at the ANU Research Centre, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UCC, Sinéad was selected from over 800 in-training members for this prestigious award for “an outstanding poster presentation effectively furthering the objectives of the Society”. Her winning presentation was on ‘Caesarean Section and Time to Next Birth, Ectopic Pregnancy, Miscarriage or Stillbirth – a Danish Register-based Study’.
The SGI conference is a prestigious international conference for both early and established career researchers aiming to strive for excellence in women’s reproductive health. Sinéad is funded by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC) at Cork University Maternity Hospital and is supervised by Dr. Ali Khashan and Professor Louise Kenny (of the INFANT Research centre); Dr. Patricia Kearney (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health); Professor Richard Greene (NPEC) and Professor Esben Agerbo (Aarhus University, Denmark).
With Caesarean section rates at the highest ever recorded worldwide, Sinéad’s research is vital to establish whether or not a primary caesarean section may lead to subsequent adverse pregnancy outcome.