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Pregnancy Loss Research Group at the SPHeRE Annual Conference 2023
Members of the Pregnancy Loss Research Group attended the SPHeRE Network 9th Annual Conference at the RCSI, Dublin on Thursday, 23 March 2023.
Themed ‘Population health – future directions and challenges’ the conference examined current population health challenges, how we choose amongst competing priorities going forward, and how the landscape of population health science is changing. The conference featured keynotes from Professor Breda Smyth, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health; Professor Blandina Mmbaga, Paediatrician at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre; and Professor Edward Gregg, Head of the School of Population Health at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, Marita Hennessy PhD, Dr Laura Linehan, Caroline O’Connor and Dr Emily O’Connor presented several talks and posters, sharing their latest research on miscarriage and recurrent miscarriage, stillbirth, multiple pregnancies, intervention development, and knowledge translation.
Details of PLRG presentations at SPHeRE23
| Title | Authors | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Clinical practice guidelines for the antenatal management of dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies: a systematic review [Oral] | Dr Caroline O’Connor, Dr Emily O'Connor, Dr Sara Leitao, Shauna Barrett and Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | MILESTONE |
| Views and experiences of recurrent miscarriage care during the initial phases of COVID-19 in Ireland: Implications for future service delivery and improvement efforts [Oral] | Marita Hennessy PhD, Dr Rebecca Dennehy, Jennifer Uí Dhubhgáin, Con Lucey, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | RE:CURRENT |
| Implementation of a perinatal mortality review tool for Ireland: Understanding facilitators and barriers [Oral] | Dr Emily O’Connor, Dr Änne Helps, Professor Richard Greene, Dr Sara Leitao, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | ACHIEVE |
| Recurrent miscarriage and infertility: A national service evaluation [Oral] | Dr Laura Linehan, Marita Hennessy PhD, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | Infertility and subsequent recurrent miscarriage |
| The RELEVANT study: Rethinking stillbirth through behaviour change [Poster] | Tamara Escañuela Sánchez, Dr Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Dr Sarah Meaney, Professor Molly Byrne, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | RELEVANT |
| Exploring patient and public involvement in a national evaluation of recurrent miscarriage care: Implications for practice and policy [Poster] | Dr Rebecca Dennehy, Marita Hennessy PhD, Hannah O’Leary, Dr Caragh Flannery, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | RE:CURRENT |
| Survival rates and major morbidities in very low birth weight infants from twin pregnancies [Poster] | Caroline O’Connor, Dr Paul Corcoran, Anne Twomey, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, Dr Sara Leitao | MILESTONE |
| Engaging knowledge users to better understand the barriers and facilitators to knowledge translation in the field of pregnancy loss: Findings from a qualitative survey [Poster] | Marita Hennessy PhD, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue | PLATFORM |