On the 9th May 2023, UCC Department of Paediatrics collaborated with CUH for Green Week highlighting the importance of bees to our environment and talking about the beehives on CUH campus.
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CUH Green Week Celebrates Buzzing Irish Native Honeybees & Delicious Honey Cakes!
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Sonia Lenehan PhD Student Receives COMH Post Graduate EDI Promotion Award
19 May 2023Sonia Lenehan has been awarded the College of Medicine and Health Post Graduate Student EDI award 2023 for her exemplary commitment to promoting equality and diversity.
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UCC’s partner in Allergy and Immunology Health, ALK
19 Apr 2023Alumni and Development along with UCC’s College of Medicine and Health were delighted to welcome Mary Martin, ALK Senior Manager Sales Ireland to UCC earlier this month to discuss the ongoing partnership between ALK and UCC and to acknowledge the company’s 100-year anniversary.
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"Empowering minds: Learn, Grow, Succeed!"
03 Apr 2023UCC Department of Paediatrics and Child Health are delighted to hold a GP paediatric educational event on the 24th May 2023.
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Celebrating Excellence in Allergy and Immunology Research in Ireland
24 Mar 2023Ms. Caoimhe Cronin, a medical student and researcher was presented first place award at the recent IAAI Conference
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Prof. Blandina T. Mmbagama gives her long awaited Inaugural Lecture
16 Mar 2023Professor Blandina Theophil Mmbaga is Adjunct Professor at University College Cork’s Department of Paediatrics and Child Health since February 2020. Unfortunately due to the covid pandemic, Prof Mmbaga's inugural lecture was cancelled in Feburary 2020 but we are delighted to announce that she will deliver her Inaugural Lecture as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health on Tuesday March 21st at 2pm.
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School of Medicine Prize Giving Ceremony 2021-2022
01 Mar 2023School of Medicine Prize Giving Ceremony - Academic Year 2021-2022
Meet the students who received the Paediatric RGG Barry Prize and Aodán Ó Donnchadha Prize
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The Department Welcomes Prof Brian Walsh as Associate Professor in Neonatology
02 Mar 2023Professor Walsh joined the Department in December 2022 as Associate Professor of Neonatology.
Professor Walsh’s research has focused on newborns at high risk of cerebral injury. In particular he has studied different methods for the early identification of brain injury, and also in optimizing neuro-protection strategies, to hopefully improve their outcomes.
Professor Walsh graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2004. He was awarded a Molecular Medicine Ireland Clinician Scientist Fellowship in 2009, and studied the ability for early blood biological markers to determine the severity of Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy in newborns. He was awarded his PhD for this work by UCC in 2014. He completed his neonatal training, working first as a Fellow, and then Chief Fellow, on the Harvard Neonatal Perinatal Fellowship Program. Following fellowship he became an Attending Neonatologist in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, with an academic appointment to Harvard Medical School, before returning to Cork as a Consultant Neonatologist.
His current research includes leading a multi-site project to improve the early detection of cerebral palsy in Ireland, and is also the site lead for two multi-centre neuro-protection studies for newborns with HIE.
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Are you a Healthcare Professionals - Get an MSc in Allergy & Clinical Immunology
10 Mar 2023If you or someone you know are interested in upskilling, please read on!
In order to meet the demand for dynamic multidisciplinary healthcare models, UCC's School of Medicine and Department of Paediatrics and Child Health has designed a programme in allergy and clinical immunology.Whether you decide to earn your PG Certificate, PG Diploma, or MSc, you will gain invaluable knowledge and skills that you can immediately put into practice in support of your community. We understand how busy healthcare professionals' schedules are, which is why these programmes are online, flexible, and part-time.
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Prof Colin Hawkes Joins the Department at Associate Professor of Paediatrics
25 Jan 2023We are delighted to announce that Professor Colin Hawkes has been appointed as Associate Professor of Paediatrics at University College Cork and Principal Investigator in the INFANT Centre. Professor Hawkes is a leading expert in paediatric endocrinology and has published over 100 research papers and book chapters in the field. He brings expertise in type 1 diabetes, childhood growth, and hormone disorders in children to the INFANT Centre.
Professor Hawkes graduated from University College Cork in 2007 and his PhD was also awarded by UCC, for research focused on disorders of growth in childhood. He completed Paediatric Endocrinology training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Over his seven years in Philadelphia, he established a leading clinical research programme that has identified new causes of endocrine diseases and treatments.
His current research is focussed on improving outcomes for children with type 1 diabetes, and on finding a cure for this disease. In the coming years, he will establish Cork as a leading clinical research centre for children with type 1 diabetes and other endocrine disorders.
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Dr Anda Dumitrescu presents at COMH Teaching & Learning Showcase
13 Jul 2022In June 2022 Dr Dumitrescu,Clinical Lecturer presented her findings from a cross-sectional study entitled ‘Lessons learned during a pandemic: Perceptions of medical students in an Irish university of newly revised Paediatric blended learning’ at the COMH Teaching & Learning Showcase. A total of 162 fourth-year medical students participated in the study. The study showed that blended learning is successful as a teaching and learning approach. The main themes that surfaced were importance of structure of the module and interaction of students with peers and tutors.
The recommendations for future teaching and learning are to build a module with an outstanding structure, with good balance of onsite and online elements, interconnected and timetabled together. This format needs to be adjusted to include the most beneficial elements for each curriculum.
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Meet Dr Anda Dumitrescu, our 4 year Module Coordinator and Head Beekeeper on Cork University Hospital (CUH) Campus
28 Jun 2022One of the big areas of research in Paediatrics has been allergy led previously by Prof Jonathan Hourihane and for the last number of years Dr Juan Trujillo. ork University Hospital(CUH) is the national centre for the treatment of children who have endured life-threatening allergic reactions to bee and wasp stings (anaphylaxis).As biodiversity is a key theme underpinning the Sustainable Healthcare Change programme at CUH and within the University we worked in collaboration with the CUH to install beehives on CUH campus.
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The Department Welcomes Dr Juan Trujillo to the Team
27 Jun 2022The Department of Paediatrics & Child Health is delighted to welcome Dr. Juan Trujillo to the Department. Dr Trujillo is the Programme Director for the new Allergy and Clinical Immunology Postgraduate Programme.
Dr Trujillo is a lead Investigator at the INFANT Research Centre and a Consultant Paediatric Allergist in Cork University Hospital. He trained in Paediatric Allergy and pulmonology in Corporacio Sanitari Parc Tauli Hospital Sabadell (Barcelona, Spain). He is a member of the European academy of allergy and clinical immunology (EAACI), Irish Association of Allergy and Immunology, British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI), Spanish society of paediatric asthma allergy and clinical immunology (SEICAP).
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