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Professor Suzanne Timmons, MB; BCh; BAO (1995); MRCP (1997); CSCST (2003); MSc Geriatric Medicine (2004); FRCPI (2006); MD (2007); Cert Healthcare Improvement (2013)
Biography
Suzanne Timmons graduated from UCC in 1995 and trained in Geriatric Medicine, with a sub-speciality interest in neurodegenerative diseases in later life. She received an Honours Masters degree in Geriatric Medicine from Keele University in 2004, and a subsequent MD from UCC in 2007 (intracellular survival pathways in neurodegenerative diseases). She was appointed as part-time Professor in the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation in 2020, having been appointed as part-time Senior Lecturer since 2010. She is the Programme Co-Ordinator for the MSc in Older Person Rehabilitation and MSc in Dementia. She works 50% clinically, in the acute hospital setting and in rehabilitation. She was the Clinical Lead for Dementia for the Republic of Ireland from 2017-2021.
Her current research themes include delirium, dementia, palliative care in neurodegeneration and health service research. In addition, she retains a strong clinical and research interest in Parkinson’s disease in older people. She has published across 150+ peer-reviewed journals, five book chapters, seven national reports, five national guidelines and four national audits. h-index 41. She has been principal or co-investigator on research grants totalling €28 million.
Publications
Position:
Professor & Vice-Dean for Research and Innovation at College of Medicine and Health UCC
Qualifications:
BSc PhD PG Cert-TLHE PG Dip-TLHE
Category:
Academic, Professors
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Biography
Emma is currently a lecturer in the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation and is the acting Director for the Older Person Rehabilitation MSc programme.
Dr Emma O’ Shea holds a BA and MA in Applied Psychology from UCC and obtained her PhD from Dublin City University in 2019. She was funded through the HRB to complete the SPHeRE PhD programme. Her doctoral work focused on models of respite for people with dementia and their carers in Ireland. This project highlighted the need and preference of many for home and community-based supports, involving individually defined forms of meaningful engagement, for people with dementia. The thesis questioned the value of the term ‘respite’ and called for a change in terminology around care that is part-intended to give the carer a break, i.e., ‘restorative care’. During her time as a PhD candidate Emma also worked on the Actifcare Project (JPND-funded), with Prof Irving.
As a post-doctoral researcher, Emma was on the management team for the second round of INAD2. She was project manager for the ‘Mapping Parkinson’s’ project (HRB-funded) and interim manager for the DEMPALL (HRB-funded) project, focused on evaluating models of palliative care for dementia. She has also obtained funding as Principal Investigator from the Irish Research Council [SUSTAINCARE project], the Department of Health [Evaluating the ASI's ‘Day Care at Home’ service] and from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, to evaluate their’ TeamUp for Dementia Research’ Service.
She is currently a work package lead on the HRB-funded ‘Emerald Lewy’ (E2.5 million) programme of research, led by Prof Iracema Leroi in Trinity College Dublin.
Biography
Dr Siobhán Fox obtained her PhD in Psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive psychology, from UCC in 2013 and subsequently joined the Centre for Gerontology and Rehabilitation in October 2013.
Dr Fox’s main research interests are dementia, young onset dementia, Parkinson’s disease, palliative care for people with neurological diseases, and health services research. Dr Fox has published a number of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and presented at numerous conferences on these topics. She previously co-ordinated and co-authored the Irish National Guidelines for Palliative Care for People with Parkinson’s Disease, and is currently working on developing a Model for Dementia Palliative Care for the Irish health system.
Grants secured as co-PI include “A Review of Diagnostic and Post-Diagnostic Processes and Pathways for Younger-Onset Dementia” funded by the National Dementia Office, and “Community Supports for People with Young Onset Dementia” funded by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
Dr Fox has previously lectured in Waterford Institute of Technology and in various departments in UCC, and holds both a PG Certificate and a PG Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Currently she is a Lecturer in the Centre on the Postgraduate Studies in Dementia and Older Person Rehabilitation programmes, and is module coordinator for CG6015 Understanding Cognition, CG6016 Advanced Issues in Dementia Care, CG6005 Amputee and Prosthetic Rehabilitation and CG6018 Dissertation.
Name:
Dr Ruth McCullagh
Contact Details:
Position:
Lecturer
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