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Virtual CHARTER MEETING ‘CHARTER GOES GLOBAL’ Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 February 2021
CPD ACCREDITATION
2 FEBRUARY 2021 3 FEBRUARY 2021 4 FEBRUARY 2021 NOCA = 2 CREDITS NCPS = 2.5 CREDITS FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINERS = 1 CREDIT ICW = 1 CREDIT VIDEOSURGERY = 2 CREDITS MILLIN MEETING (AM) = 2 CREDITS MILLIN MEETING (PM) = 4 CREDITS 5 FEBRUARY 2021 6 FEBRUARY 2021 CHARTER DAY (AM) = 3 CREDITS ISTG MEETING = 4 CREDITS CHARTER DAY (PM) = 3 CREDITS
* CPD only awarded for sessions attended. All delegates must use personal attendee link to ensure attendance is recorded. 2021 RCSI CHARTER DAY RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
As President, it is my great pleasure to invite you to participate in our Charter Week in which we celebrate the heritage of the College in a meeting to commemorate the Royal Charter of King George III in 1784. In doing so we extend a warm welcome to our Fellows, Members, Alumni, Faculty, Students, Staff and the broader healthcare community in Ireland and overseas.
This year, COVID-19 has forced changes and sadly I cannot welcome you to the College in person. The meeting will be entirely online. However far from diminishing the depth and quality of the meeting, digital technology has allowed us to transform and enhance the programme to include Symposia on sepsis, innovation, ethnic diversity, research 120 speakers from 5 continents who will contribute to 4 in surgical training, the inaugural meeting of the Faculty days of clinical and scientific discourse. of Surgical Trainers, symposia in each of the surgical and Faculty disciplines, the annual NOCA and Clinical There are many highlights in the programme including Programmes in Surgery meetings, the annual Video the Millin Lecture to be delivered by Mr Colin Peirce from Surgery meeting, the intervarsity clinical case competition, Limerick, the Carmichael Lecture by Mr Fintan O’Toole, the Irish Surgical Training Group meeting and Máire Irish Times journalist, the J&J lecture by Professor Vivian Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, a current medical student and McAlister from Ontario Canada, the 96th Abraham Colles sports broadcaster, interviewing RCSI graduates Grace Lecture by Professor James Lau from Hong Kong and the O’Flanagan Irish field hockey international and Danielle Bosco O’Mahony Lecture by Professor Peter Gillen. Mah former chief physiotherapist with Rugby Canada complete the programme in which I believe there is We are honoured to have the participation of H.E. Dr. something of interest to all. Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Bhutan, who is also a trained urological surgeon, Professor I would like to thank our industry sponsors who are Sergelen Orgoi, a leading transplant surgeon from supporting Charter Week 2021. RCSI is delighted to work Mongolia, Professor Dhananjaya Sharma from Jabalpur, collaboratively with industry and I am particularly pleased India, Professor Godfrey Muguti, President of COSESCA to welcome this year’s industry sponsors to our first online and Dr Barbara Bass, Honorary Fellow of the College and Charter Week meeting. I encourage all delegates to visit past-President of the American College of Surgeons - as our virtual exhibition area on our Charter Week platform speakers on the symposium on Global Perspectives in to find out more about each sponsor, connect with their Surgery. teams and learn about their products and services to support you as clinicians and healthcare professionals. On Thursday 4th February I will confer RCSI’s highest recognition, Honorary Fellowship, to Professor Chung- I wish to acknowledge the enormous efforts of the Mau Lo, CEO The University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen organizing committee, Vice-President Prof Laura Viani, Hospital, China and director of Liver Transplant Surgery, Prof Sean Tierney, Mr Kieran Ryan, Mr Padraig Kelly, Ms Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong in recognition of Louise Loughran, Ms Cara McVeigh, Ms Aoife Mahon, Ms his seminal work in transplantation and outstanding Claire Phelan, Ms Paula Curtin, Ms Robyn Byrt, Mr Gordon achievement in the reform of the public hospital system Jamieson, Mrs Kate Smith and the Conference and Events in Shenzhen. Mr David Costello, Irish Consul General to office. Thank you all. Hong Kong and Macao has graciously agreed to act as my intermediary.
Professor P. Ronan O’Connell President
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THE RCSI ROYAL CHARTER
In 1765 Sylvester O’Halloran, a surgeon from Limerick, had proposed a College of Surgeons in Ireland along the lines of the College de St. Cosme in Paris, which had been regulating French surgery since its creation by Royal Charter by Louis IX in 1255. O’Halloran called for a college of surgery to be founded in Dublin to train, educate and examine persons in the art of surgery. This led to a group of Dublin surgeons joining together and forming the Dublin Society of Surgeons in 1780. The main goals of the society were to separate surgeons from the Barber Surgeons Guild and provide surgical training, education and regulation in Ireland. They lobbied for a Royal Charter in 1781 and presented the Lord Lieutenant with their petition. The Lord Lieutenant presented the petition to King George III who saw it fit to grant a Royal Charter on 11 February 1784 establishing the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The first President was Samuel Croker-King (1728-1817) and the first Professor of Surgery was William Dease (1752-1798).
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PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
Tuesday, 2 February 2021 TuesdayTuesday 2 2
Time Title Page
National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) Webinar in conjunction with RCSI Charter Meeting
14.00 – 16.00 NOCA Webinar 7
19.00 – 20.00 In Conversation With… 8
, Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Wednesday, 3 February 2021
National Clinical Programmes in Surgery Webinar in conjunction with RCSI Charter Meeting NCPS
14.00 – 16.30 National Clinical Programmes in Surgery Webinar 9
17.00 – 19.00 31st Annual VideoSurgery Meeting 11
19.00 – 21.00 15th Annual Intercollegiate Case Presentations 13 Thursday 4 Thursday 4 Thursday, 4 February 2021
FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINER’S PROGRAMME
09.30 – 09.35 Welcome & Introduction 14
09.35 – 10.00 Surgical Training in Times of Stress 14
10.00 – 10.25 Surgical Fellowships in the COVID Era – An International Perspective 14 Friday 5 Friday 5 10.25 – 10.40 The Future Delivery of Surgical Education in Multiple Sites. What Is 14 Possible in Model 4 and Model 3 Hospitals
10.40 – 10.45 Close 14
THE MILLIN MEETING
11.00 – 12.40 Session I: Innovation 16
12.40 – 13.10 28th Carmichael Lecture 16 Saturday 6 Saturday 6 13.10 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 16
14.00 – 15.30 Session II: Global Perspectives 17
15.50 – 17.20 Session III: President’s Symposium 18
17.30 – 18.15 43rd Millin Lecture 18
18.15 – 18.40 Honorary Fellowship: Professor Chung-Mau Lo 19
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Friday, 5 February 2021 Tuesday 2
Time Title Page
CHARTER DAY MEETING
10.00 – 11.15 Welcome and Plenary Session I: Sepsis 28
11.15 – 11.30 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 28
10.00 – 11.30 Parallel Sessions I – RCSI Faculties & Irish Institute of Pharmacy 29 Wednesday 3 (IIOP)
11.30 – 13.00 Parallel Sessions II – RCSI Specialty Groups 33
13.00 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 44
14.00 – 14.30 Johnson & Johnson Lecture 46
14.30 – 14.45 Awards & Presentations 46
14.45 – 15.45 Plenary Session II: Ethnic Diversity 47 Thursday 4
15.45 – 16.15 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands 47
16.15 – 17.00 96th Abraham Colles Lecture 48
Saturday, 6 February 2021
09.00 – 12.00 Irish Surgical Training Group Meeting (ISTG) 54 Friday 5 including the Bosco O’Mahony Lecture
Virtual Exhibition Hall Opening Hours
Tuesday 2 February Wednesday 3 February Thursday 4 February Friday 5 February 13.30 – 14.00 13.30 – 14.00 09.00 - 09.30 09.30 - 10.00 16.00 – 17.00 16.00 – 17.00 13.10 – 14.00 13.00 – 14.00 15.30 – 15.50 15.45 - 16.15 Saturday 6
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RCSI CHARTER MEETING PROGRAMME TuesdayTuesday 2 2 KINDLY SPONSORED BY...
RCSI would like to thank our industry sponsors who are supporting Charter Week 2021. We encourage all delegates to visit the Virtual Exhibition Hall throughout Charter Week to connect with the sponsors' teams, find out more about their products and services to support you as clinicians and healthcare professionals.
Opening hours for the Virtual Exhibition Hall are listed in the programme at a glance. Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 Thursday 4 Thursday 13 Friday 5 Friday 5 Saturday 6 Saturday 6
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TUESDAY, 2 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
NATIONAL OFFICE OF CLINICAL AUDIT (NOCA) WEBINAR
QUALITY TIME - THE VALUE OF GETTING IT RIGHT 14.00 – 16.00
Moderator: Dr Philip Crowley Wednesday 3 National Director, National Quality Improvement Team (NQIT), HSE
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome Address Mr Kenneth Mealy NOCA Chair
14.15 – 14.45 KEYNOTE: QUALITY ASSURES BEST OUTCOMES Professor Pat O’Mahony Chair of HIQA and Director of Clinical Research Development Ireland
14.45 – 15.15 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - SHIFTING THE PARADIGM Thursday 4 Dr Joan Power Consultant Haematologist, Irish Blood Transfusion Service
15.15 – 15.35 COVID-19 IN IRELAND; HOW ICU COPED Dr Rory Dwyer Clinical Lead, Irish National ICU Audit, NOCA
15.35 – 15.50 NOCA REFLECTIONS AND LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Dr Brian Creedon Clinical Director, NOCA Friday 5 15.50 – 16.00 NOCA QUALITY IMPROVEMENT CHAMPION AWARD & CLOSING ADDRESS Ms Collette Tully Executive Director, NOCA Saturday 6
7 RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021 Tuesday 2 IN CONVERSATION WITH... 19.00 – 20.00
THE IMPORTANCE OF RESILIENCE - FROM SPORT TO HEALTHCARE
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the resilience of healthcare professionals and healthcare systems across the world. In light of this, RCSI Alumni Team are honoured to invite two RCSI Alumni to speak to the importance of resilience and to discuss how healthcare professionals can learn from the experiences of those in high performance sporting environments.
Dr Grace O’Flanagan (Class of 2019), an Ireland Women’s field hockey international and surgical
trainee in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, as well as Danielle Mah (Class of 2008), former Wednesday 3 Head Physiotherapist and Medical Manager with Rugby Caanada, will join our MC, Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, Newstalk Sports Broadcaster and current RCSI Medical Student, on the panel.
Tune in as they identify the links between high performance sporting and medical settings as well as discussing a range of topics including resilience, teamwork, balance and equality.
Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh The MC for ‘In Conversation With’ is Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh, who is a third year RCSI GEM student. A fluent Irish speaker with over a decade working bilingually in radio, television and print journalism with Raidió na Gaeltachta, TG4,
RTÉ, The Irish Times, Eir Sport, Sky Sports and Newstalk. She is also a podcast Thursday 4 host and a Sport Ireland accredited sport psychologist.
Grace O’Flanagan Grace graduated with a first class Honours degree in Medicine and Surgery (MB BCh BAO) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2016. Prior to her medical studies she obtained a Bachelor of Commerce (hons) from University College Dublin (UCD). She is a current surgical trainee, specialising in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. Friday 5 She has previously trained at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and St. Vincent’s University Hospital. Grace has represented Ireland in the hockey World Cup, World League, and European Championships. She has two hockey All-Ireland titles, two national cup titles, and European club bronze and gold medals.
Danielle Mah Danielle Mah obtained a BSc (Hon) in Physiotherapy from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2008 having started her academic journey at the University of British Columbia where she completed a BSc (Hon) in Human Kinetics. Her passions lie in professional sport and pelvic health. In addition to private practice in Ireland, Danielle’s background spans time working for the FAI as well as the Irish Club Rugby, Bective Rangers, which bridged her move back to Canada in Saturday 6 2013, to work with Rugby Canada. Danielle served as the Head Physiotherapist and Medical Manager for Rugby Canada for 7 years, most recently, travelling to the qualifier for the Olympics in Tokyo 2020 (*2021) with the Men’s Sevens Team. Currently, with the birth of her daughter in December 2019, Danielle has transitioned from her full-time work in sport to Private Practice.
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
NATIONAL CLINICAL PROGRAMMES IN SURGERY 14.00 – 16.30
MODELS FOR SCHEDULED CARE DELIVERY
14.00 – 14.10 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Professor Deborah McNamara Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for National Clinical Programme in
Surgery Wednesday 3
Mr David Moore Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Programme
14.10 – 14.30 SLÁINTECARE – THE VISION FOR AMBULATORY DAY CARE Mr Kenneth Mealy Past President RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for National Clinical Programme in Surgery
Ms Laura Magahy Thursday 4 Executive Director Sláintecare
14.30 – 15.00 KEYNOTE GETTING IT RIGHT FIRST TIME (GIRFT) Professor Tim Briggs (CBE) National Director of Clinical Improvement for the NHS and Chair of GIRFT
15.00 – 15.15 BREAK
15.15 – 15.45 DAY SURGERY – THE UK EXPERIENCE AND LESSONS LEARNED Dr Kim Russon Friday 5 President of British Association of Day Surgery (BADS)
15.45 – 16.15 PANEL DISCUSSION WITH SPECIALTY LEADS Clinical Advisors for Surgery and T&O
16.15 – 16.30 CLOSE Professor Deborah McNamara Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for National Clinical Programme in Surgery
Mr Paddy Kenny Saturday 6 Council Member RCSI and Joint Clinical Lead for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Programme
NCPS
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The RCSI National Clinical Programmes in Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Tuesday 2 Emergency Medicine, enable surgeons, consultants in emergency medicine doctors, nurses, health and social care professionals, and hospital managers with expertise in their clinical service area, to work in collaboration to develop standardised care pathways, clinical guidelines and models of care for the patient journey. These models of care emphasise evidenced-based pathways and new ways of working to support better patient access and quality of care.
https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/practice/national-clinical-programmes Wednesday 3
The programmes have three main objectives: • Improve the quality of care we deliver to all users of HSE services • Improve access to all services • Improve cost-effectiveness
Harnessing multidisciplinary expertise supports the development of improvements that are patient-centred and have a positive impact on health service delivery. Quality Improvement methodologies are the cornerstones to all RCSI programmes and are used to continually Thursday 4 improve and enhance our patients’ journey in what can be a complex health system.
The RCSI National Clinical Programmes report directly into both the RCSI Committee for Surgical Affairs (CSA) and the HSE’s National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead, Acute Operations. This CSA Committee meets regularly and its membership includes the clinical leads and representatives of all 11 surgical specialties.
The RCSI’s Programme Office works closely with the other National Clinical Programmes, Friday 5 notably the National Clinical Programme in Anesthesia and Critical Care. It also works with other programmes, when requested, as well as hospital groups, specialty associations, patient advocacy groups and all relevant stakeholders across the healthcare system.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on emergency medicine, surgeons and surgical practice. You will face many challenging situations across every aspect of your practice.The RCSI Clinical Programme has collated a series of resources for surgeons
in practice, trainees and other professional involved in front line patient care during the Saturday 6 current COVID-19 epidemic. These rources are available through the Clinical Programmes COVID Hub.
https://www.rcsi.com/surgery/coronavirus/surgical-practice
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
31st ANNUAL VIDEOSURGERY 17.00 – 19.15
17.00 – 18.00 SESSION I
Co-Chairs: Professor P. Ronan O’Connell President, RCSI
Mr Gerry McEntee Wednesday 3 Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
17.05 – 17.14 REDO LAPAROSCOPIC PARAOESOPHAGEAL HERNIA REPAIR Professor Mayilone Arumugasamy Beaumont Hospital and Connolly Hospital, Dublin
17.14 – 17.18 REPAIR OF BOERHAAVE’S PERFORATION Mr Tom Murphy Mercy University Hospital, Cork Thursday 4 17.18 – 17.26 THE CONVERGENT LAA CLIP FOR A FIB Professor Karen Redmond & Ms Kathryn Mulryan Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
17.26 – 17.35 DOUBLE TROUBLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE ON CHRISTMAS EVE Professor Arnold Hill Head of the School of Medicine, RCSI
17.35 – 17.43 TRANS-ANAL EXTRACTION SIGMOID COLECTOMY
Mr Sean Martin Friday 5 St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
17.43 – 17.50 R-TAMIS Mr Colin Peirce University Hospital Limerick
17.50 – 18.00 Q&A SESSION
18.00 – 18.10 VIRTUAL COFFEE BREAK Saturday 6
VideoSurgery kindly supported by Medtronic
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
18.10 – 19.15 SESSION II
Co-Chairs: Professor Dermot Hehir Midland Regional Hospital at Tullamore
Professor Carmel Malone Consultant General and Breast Surgeon, Head of School of Medicine NUI Galway, & Chair of the Irish Medical Schools Council Wednesday 3
18.15 – 18.22 SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY Professor Helen Heneghan St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
18.22 – 18.29 EMERGENCY DECOMPRESSIVE LOOP COLOSTOMY Mr Des Toomey Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
18.29 – 18.37 THE HORRIBLE GALLBLADDER Thursday 4 Ms Naomi Fearon Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
18.37 – 18.44 DISTAL INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME Ms Naomi Fearon Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
18.44 – 19.00 LIVER INJURY Professor Majella Doyle Professor of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Friday 5 & Ms Ola Ahmed Research Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine
19.00 – 19.10 Q&A SESSION
19.10 – 19.15 CLOSING COMMENTS Professor Tom Walsh Saturday 6
VideoSurgery kindly supported by Medtronic
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WEDNESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
15th ANNUAL INTERCOLLEGIATE CASE COMPETITION 19.00 – 21.00
The Intercollegiate Case Competition is an annual event hosted by RCSI among the surgical societies of the medical schools in Ireland in which the winner of each of the individual university case competitions presents his / her clinical case to an audience of medical students from all 7 medical schools. The winner is selected by an independent panel and is awarded the Bouchier-Hayes Medal named in honour of the late Professor David Bouchier-Hayes former Wednesday 3 Professor of Surgery in RCSI.
Judges for 2021: • Professor Rory McConn Walsh, RCSI • Ms Bridget Egan, Council Member, RCSI; Chair Faculty of Surgical Trainers • Professor Aoife Lowery, Associate Professor of Surgery, NUI Galway • Professor Rustom Manecksha, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin
The medal is presented by Professor David Bouchier-Hayes, Consultant Urologist and Robotic Surgeon, Galway Clinic and Honorary Associate Professor, RCSI.
The current RCSI Student President is Ms Reem AlShimali and the Faculty President is Professor Camilla Carroll, Thursday 4 Council Member RCSI.
Click here to join this session Friday 5 Saturday 6
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
FACULTY OF SURGICAL TRAINER’S PROGRAMME
09.30 – 09.35 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Ms Bridget Egan Chair Faculty of Surgical Trainer’s; Council Member, RCSI
09.35 – 10.00 SURGICAL TRAINING IN TIMES OF STRESS
Professor Richard Reznick, FRCSI (Hon) Wednesday 3 Queen’s University, President Elect Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
10.00 – 10.25 SURGICAL FELLOWSHIPS IN THE COVID ERA - AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE General Surgery Mr Peadar Waters General and Colorectal Surgeon, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Grattan street, Melbourne, Australia. Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery Thursday 4 Mr Niall McGoldrick, Clinical Fellow in Adult Reconstruction Surgery (Hip & Knee), The Ottawa Hospital, Canada Vascular Surgery Mr Mekki Medani Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Limerick Urology Professor Damien Bolton Professor of Urology Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia
Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery Friday 5 Mr Conall Fitzgerald Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, USA Plastic Surgery Ms Anne Collins Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgeon, Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand Ms Christine Quinlan Senior Fellow in Limb Reconstruction, Oxford University Hospitals
10.25 – 10.45 THE FUTURE DELIVERY OF SURGICAL EDUCATION IN MULTIPLE SITES.
WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN MODEL 4 AND MODEL 3 HOSPITALS Saturday 6 Professor Dara Byrne Professor of Simulation, NUI Galway, Director of Simulation ICAPSS Mr Sean Johnston & Mr Eoin Sheehan Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore, National Training Programmes, Orthopaedics & Surgery
10.40 – 10.45 Session Close Ms Bridget Egan Chair Faculty of Surgical Trainer’s; Council Member, RCSI
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The Faculty of Surgical Trainers role is to promote, enhance and support the role of the surgical trainer. Wednesday 3
The establishment of a Faculty of Surgical Trainers is a recognition by RCSI that the development and further improvement of surgical training will contribute to the goal of developing the highest standards of professionalism and patient care.
The Faculty will pursue the following objectives: • The Faculty’s core objective is the pursuit of excellence in surgical training with the specific goal of improving how postgraduate training is delivered leading to an Thursday 4 improved training experience and ultimately better patient outcomes. • Recognise the role that trainers play in the delivery of surgical training • Advocate on behalf of trainers • Develop programs that will support and develop consultant surgeons in their roles as trainers • Reward excellence in training
• Improve the standard of teaching of postgraduate medi-cal education within the RCSI Friday 5 and clinical training sites • The Faculty will support specialities in the delivery of the Core and Specialty curriculums • Explore the development and recognition of professional pathways for surgical trainers • Champion the continuing excellence in postgraduate surgical training as a whole
• Develop training initiatives that focus on equipping trainees to work in a Saturday 6 multi-disciplinary working environment • Design and deliver a communication strategy that promotes and disseminates the messages that excellent postgraduate training means excellent and safe patient care
You can get more details on the Faculty of Surgical Trainers via the following link: https://msurgery.ie/home/trainer-support-section/faculty-of-surgical-trainers/mission- and-terms-of-reference/ 15 RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021
THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
THE MILLIN MEETING
11.00 – 11.05 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Professor P. Ronan O’Connell President, RCSI
11.05 – 12.40 SESSION I: INNOVATION Wednesday 3 Co-Chairs: Mr Eamon Mackle Council Member, RCSI; Consultant General Surgeon, Craigavon Area Hospital, Northern Ireland Dr Sarah Early Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Clinical Lead of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
11.05 – 11.20 INNOVATION IN SIMULATION Professor Walter Eppich Chair of Simulation Education and Research, RCSI Thursday 4 11.20 – 11.35 DIGITALLY ENHANCED LEARNING Dr Dara Cassidy Head of Online Education, RCSI
11.35 – 11.50 TISSUE RE-ENGINEERING Professor Fergal O’Brien Director of Research, RCSI
11.50 – 12.05 NEXT GENERATION IMAGING Dr Brendan S Kelly ICAT HRB/Wellcome Trust Academic Fellow, St Vincent’s University Hospital and Friday 5 Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCD
12.05 – 12.20 NEXT GENERATION PLATFORMS FOR ROBOTIC SURGERY Professor Ronan Cahill Professor of Surgery, UCD Centre of Precision Surgery, UCD/Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
12.20 – 12.40 DISCUSSION
12.40 – 13.10 28th CARMICHAEL LECTURE
PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC WEALTH Saturday 6 Mr Fintan O’Toole, Irish columnist, literary editor, and drama critic for The Irish Times, for which he has written since 1988. O’Toole was drama critic for the New York Daily News from 1997 to 2001 and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Introduced & Chaired by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI Medal Presentation by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI
13.10 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
14.00 – 15.30 SESSION II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Co-Chairs: Professor Mark Shrime O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery, RCSI
Professor Camilla Carroll Council Member, RCSI; RCSI Chair, Committee for International Co-operation & Development Wednesday 3
14.00 – 14.15 CHALLENGES IN THE DELIVERY OF SURGICAL SERVICES AND SURGICAL EDUCATION IN BHUTAN His Excellency Dr Lotay Tshering Prime Minister Royal Government of Bhutan
14.15 – 14.30 DEVELOPMENT OF SURGICAL CARE IN MONGOLIA Professor Sergelen Orgoi Head of Department of Surgery, Liver Transplantation Team Leader, Mongolian National University of Medical Science; Vice President of the Mongolian Surgical Association Thursday 4
14.30 – 14.45 THE ‘GLOCAL’ IDEOLOGY: KEY TO GLOBAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION Professor Dhananjaya Sharma Head, Department of Surgery, NSCB Government Medical College, Jabalpur, India
14.45 – 15.00 DEVELOPING PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY IN ZIMBABWE AND THE COSECSA REGION Professor Godfrey Ignatius Muguti President, College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa; Professor of Surgery and Chair, University of Zimbabwe; Clinical Professor of Surgery, Stanford University Friday 5
15.00 – 15.15 ACTIVITIES OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN GLOBAL SURGERY Dr Barbara Bass MD, FRCSI (Hon) Vice President for Health Affairs, Dean, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Chief Executive Officer, The GW Medical Faculty Associates, Professor of Surgery, George Washington University
15.15 – 15.30 DISCUSSION
15.30 – 15.50 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands Saturday 6
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15.50 – 17.20 SESSION III: PRESIDENT’S SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Professor P. Ronan O’Connell President RCSI
15.50 – 16.05 THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN TRAINING Professor April Roslani President of the College of Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Malaysia Wednesday 3
16.05 – 16.20 RESEARCH IN SURGICAL TRAINING - PROMOTING OPPORTUNITY AND FLEXIBILITY Professor Aoife Lowery Associate Professor of Surgery, NUI Galway
16.20 – 16.35 HOW TO ORGANISE REGIONAL MEANINGFUL RESEARCH Professor Søren Laurberg Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
16.35 – 16.50 BENEFITING PATIENTS THROUGH SURGICAL RESEARCH NETWORKS Professor Dion Morton Thursday 4 Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences Barling Professor of Surgery, Head of Academic Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham
16.50 – 17.05 POACHER TURNED GAMEKEEPER: THINGS I’VE LEARNT SINCE BECOMING A RESEARCH FUNDER Professor Sara Marshall Head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences, Wellcome Trust
17.05 – 17.20 DISCUSSION Friday 5
17.20 – 18.15 43rd MILLIN LECTURE
ELECTRODES TO ROBOTS - EVIDENCE BASED CHANGE IN SURGICAL PRACTICE Delivered by Mr Colin Peirce, MD, FRCSI Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University Hospital Limerick
Introduced & Chaired by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI Medal Presentation by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI Saturday 6
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 Tuesday 2
18.15 – 18.40 RCSI HONORARY FELLOWSHIP VIRTUAL CONFERRING
We welcome you to join us for the virtual Honorary Fellowship Conferring which will be awarded to Professor Chung-Mau Lo. Hospital Chief Executive The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital; Chin Lan-Hong Professor and Chair of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The University of Hong Kong; Director of the Liver Transplant Center, Queen Mary Hospital Wednesday 3
The citation will be delivered by Mr Kenneth Mealy, Past President, RCSI and the Honorary Fellow will be admitted by the President of RCSI, Professor P. Ronan O’Connell.
RCSI extends thanks to Mr David Costello, Consul General of Ireland to Hong Kong & Macau for hosting a special event in Hong Kong in honour of our Honorary Fellow.
The Honorary Fellowship of RCSI is the highest distinction the College bestows. The award recognises outstanding achievement in surgery and other areas. Previous recipients of this honour include Louis Pasteur, Harvey Cushing, Mother Teresa, Thursday 4 Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Ed Copeland, Tom DeMeester, John Manning.
A full list of RCSI Honorary Fellow recipients can be found here Friday 5 Saturday 6
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THURSDAY, 4 FEBRUARY 2021 TuesdayTuesday 2 2
SESSION I: INNOVATION
Professor Walter Eppich to the COVID pandemic has seen her lead the Digitally Walter Eppich, MD, PhD is Professor and Chair of RCSI Engaged Learning project within RCSI, a cross-functional SIM, the Centre for Simulation Education and Research project that has brought together a team including at RCSI. Walter teaches extensively on basic and educational developers, IT, Media Services, Programme advanced simulation educator courses and has spoken Administrators, academic and students to develop about simulation, feedback, and debriefing around the and deliver an extensive digital education training Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 world. He has co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles programme to RCSI academic and student support and book chapters and co-founded Debrief2Learn.org, staff and enhance the infrastructure to support digital an online, open access resource for healthcare simulation learning. educators. Her research interests lie in socio-cultural perspectives on Building on a clinical background as a paediatric identity and learning, in particular teacher identity; online emergency physician, Walter’s research uses qualitative orientation process and the development of presence methodologies to study team reflection, healthcare and community in online programmes. debriefing, and team adaptation. He earned a PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University with Professor Fergal O’Brien a thesis entitled “Learning through Talk: The Role of Fergal O’Brien is Professor of Bioengineering &
Discourse in Medical Education”. He collaborates with Regenerative Medicine, Director for Research & Thursday 4 Thursday 4 team and organizational psychologists to study team Innovation and Head of the Tissue Engineering Research processes both in and outside of healthcare. In 2018, Group in the RCSI. He is also Deputy Director of the he travelled to Antarctica to perform ethnographic SFI-funded Advanced Materials and Bioengineering field observations and in-depth qualitative interviews Research Centre (AMBER). His research focuses on the to understand what enables Antarctic research teams development of natural polymer-based biomaterial to adapt to ever-changing conditions in extreme “scaffolds” for the repair of bone, cartilage, tympanic environments. Healthcare is also characterized by membrane, skin, respiratory, neural and other tissues. extreme environments in instances of intense time- A major focus of ongoing research has been to pressure and high patient acuity. This work contributes functionalise these scaffolds for use as delivery systems to his research program with the goal of delineating the for regenerative biomolecules such as nucleic acids
contribution of workplace talk and team interactions to (pDNA, siRNA, miRNA), enhancing their therapeutic Friday 5 Friday 5 learning and performance. potential; these scaffolds are also used as advanced 3D pathophysiology in vitro systems for drug development Dr Dara Cassidy and understanding disease states in cancer, Dr Dara Cassidy is Head of Online Education at RCSI, angiogenesis, immunology and infection. Significant with responsibility for developing and executing RCSI’s research is focused on 3D-printing technologies and the digital learning roadmap. Over a 20-year career she has development of new bioinks for tissue repair. been immersed in the world digital learning, including O’Brien has published over 240 journal articles, many years at Hibernia College, an early leader in supervised >40 doctoral students to completion, filed blended education in Ireland, where she established and 20 patents/disclosures and translated 2 regenerative developed the Digital Learning Department. She has led technologies for bone and cartilage repair to the clinic. His current h-index is 73 (Google Scholar). He has numerous online and blended education initiatives for Saturday 6 Saturday 6 EU-funded projects – including the Innovative Medicines secured over €23M in research funding as PI including Initiative, Pharmatrain and EUPATI projects; philanthropic three prestigious European Research Council Awards, organisations including the Bill and Melinda Gates most recently a €3M Advanced Grant (2018). In 2018 Foundation and commercial enterprises, including HP, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy, the highest Novartis and Pfizer. academic honour in Ireland. She has been engaged in a range projects with the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, most recently as Lead Developer of an online CPD course for HE staff to support attainment of a digital badge, a novel form of micro-credential. The recent rapid transition to online teaching in response
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Dr Brendan S Kelly MB BCh BAO BSc MSc MRCSI Professor Ronan Cahill Dr Brendan Kelly is an ICAT Clinical academic fellow at Professor Ronan Cahill was appointed Professor of UCD and a Radiology Specialist Registrar at St Vincent’s Surgery at University College Dublin (UCD) and the University Hospital. The Wellcome-Health Research Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) in Board Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme June 2014 before taking over leadership of the Section is a unique all Ireland cross-institutional, comprehensive and Subject of Surgery in UCD in 2017. In 2019, he was national programme for Clinician Scientists based at appointed Director of the Centre for Precision Surgery, six major Irish universities and their affiliated hospital UCD and the Digital Surgery Unit, MMUH. groups. A UCD graduate of Radiography and of Ronan graduated MB,BAO,BCh (Hons) from University Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Medicine, Brendan received his Membership of the College Dublin in 1997 and then completed his basic and Royal College of Surgeons in 2016, and MSc from NUI specialist surgical training in Ireland, gaining both MD by Galway in 2017. His research interests are in the clinical thesis (Health Research Board Clinical Research Fellow) application of Artificial Intelligence to radiology. In and FRCS by examination. Thereafter, he was a clinical 2020 as a Fulbright HRB HealthImpact scholar, Brendan fellow at the IRCAD/EITS Institute in Strasbourg, France attended the Stanford Department of Radiology and the from 2007 to 2008 before moving to the Oxford Radcliffe Stanford Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Hospitals as senior fellow and then consultant and senior Imaging to investigate potential novel applications of AI clinical researcher from 2008 to 2010. Ronan returned to to radiology, with the goal of establishing collaborations Ireland in 2010 as consultant general surgeon (specialist to achieve cutting edge clinical developments both in interest in colorectal surgery) at Beaumont Hospital
Ireland and the US. before moving to the Mater and UCD. He is a recipient Thursday 4 Thursday 4 of both the Bennett and Millen Medals (RCSI Millen Lecturer 2010) and was the ASGBI Robert Smith Lecturer in 2014. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed publications, five book chapters and four National Guidelines. He is an editorial board member of five indexed surgical journals, including Colorectal Disease and the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and is a member of the SAGES Research Committee (SAGES Career Development Award recipient 2009). He has a major academic interest in Surgical Innovation and New Technologies and active basic science, clinical and device Friday 5 Friday 5 development research partnerships both nationally and internationally. Most recently he is co-awardee of a major Disruptive Innovation and Technologies Fund (DTIF) award by the Irish Government for a project entitled “The Future of Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment”, a consortium including UCD, RCSI, IBM Research and Dechiphex using artificial intelligence for decision support in surgery and pathology. Saturday 6 Saturday 6
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His Excellency Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering is the Honourable Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan. He is also the President of Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa, a political party Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 that formed the government following the elections in 2018. Prior to joining politics, he was the Head of His Majesty’s Kidu Medical Unit from 2014 -2018 which caters medical welfare services to people across the country. He is a Consultant Urologist with a Urology fellowship from Winconsin Medical College Hospital, USA & SGH, Singapore. He graduated with an MBBS degree from Dhaka University, Bangladesh and has a Masters in Business Management from the University of Canberra. Dasho Dr Tshering is the recipient of the prestigious Druk Thursday 4 Thursday 4 Thuksey Medal (The Royal Order of Bhutan) from His Majesty The King on December 17, 2017. On December Mr Fintan O’Toole 17, 2020, His Majesty The King conferred the sacred Fintan O’Toole is a columnist with The Irish Times, Lungmar scarf to the Prime Minister for his efforts and Leonard L. Milberg visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at governance in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. With Princeton University and a regular contributor to the New the Lungmar scarf, the Prime Minister was conferred the York Review of Books. He has won both the Orwell Prize title Dasho. for Journalism and the European Press Prize. His most book is The Politics of Pain: Post War England and the Professor Sergelen Orgoi Rise of Nationalism (Liveright) and he is working on the Professor Orgoi is Head of the Department of Surgery official biography of Seamus Heaney. and Liver Transplantation Team Leader at the Mongolian Friday 5 Friday 5 Born in Dublin in 1958, he has been drama critic of In National University of Medical Science. She is also Head Dublin magazine, The Sunday Tribune, the New York of the General Surgery Department of First Central Daily News, and The Irish Times and Literary Adviser to Hospital Mongolia and also Vice President of the the Abbey Theatre. He edited Magill magazine and since Mongolian Surgical Association. 1988, has been a columnist with the Irish Times. She is Professor of the Mongolian National University Other books include A History of Ireland in 100 Objects of Medical Science and is Head of the World Health (2013). Enough is Enough (2010). Ship of Fools (2009), Organisation collaborating Center MOG-1 for The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (2006), White Emergency and Essential Surgical Care. Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America Professor Orgoi has received numerus awards including (2005), After the Ball (2003), Shakespeare is Hard but so is the Honoured Doctor award from the President of
Life (2002); The Irish Times Book of the Century (1999); A Mongolia and is an Honorary Fellow of American College Saturday 6 Saturday 6 Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1997); of Surgeons. The Lie of the Land: Selected Essays (1997); The Ex-Isle of Erin (1996); Black Hole, Green Card (1994); Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (1995); A Mass for Jesse James (1990) and The Politics of Magic: The Work and times of Tom Murphy (1987).
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Professor Dhananjaya Sharma Dr Barbara Lee Bass, MD, FACS, FRCSI (hon), FRCS I am a lifelong activist and campaigner for ‘appropriate (hon), FCOSECSA (hon) technology for health-care in developing world’ and Barbara Lee Bass, MD, Professor of Surgery, serves as the many of my 216 publications are on low-cost surgical George Washington University Vice President for Health solutions to achieve health equity for underserved Affairs, Dean of the GW School of Medicine and Health populations. I consider myself truly blessed to be able Sciences, and Chief Executive Officer of The GW Medical to ‘make a difference’ and do God’s work, even though I Faculty Associates. In these roles, she leads the academic, don’t wear a Priest’s collar. clinical, and research missions and has strategic direction
I have learned during my travels as Honorary Visiting on all aspects of GW’s academic medical enterprise. Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Professor/ Guest Faculty for teaching a course to Bass’ scholarship has included research in biological many universities in developed (Karolinska Institute basic science, education and simulation, surgical quality Stockholm, Oxford University, Vienna Medical University) measurement and system development, and most and developing countries (Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, recently application of computational sciences to surgical Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Pakistan and technology design, processes and disease modelling. Afghanistan), that the key to Global Surgery is not only Her professional service has included many leadership innovations for low-cost surgery but also collaborative positions, including as the 98th president of the American internationalism; because ‘Global means together’. College of Surgeons and Chair of the American Board I have been awarded Honorary/ Ad Eundem fellowships of Surgery. Over the last 5 years she has had leadership of Académie Nationale de Chirurgie France, Royal responsibilities in the global surgery work of the American
College of Surgeons of Thailand, International College College of Surgeons Thursday 4 Thursday 4 of Laparoscopic Surgeons and all four Royal Colleges of Bass is an advocate for equity and diversity for Thursday 13 Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. I am very proud of underrepresented minorities and women in surgery and these academic honours; however, the ultimate reward I health care careers, and known for fostering careers earned is spiritual; as the principle of “Noblesse oblige” of clinician-scientists and diverse leaders in academic became my code of honour. medicine. My favourite quotation sums up my philosophy: Bass earned her BS from Tufts University and MD from the “Attitudes are more important than abilities; University of Virginia. She completed training in general Character is more important than cleverness” surgery at George Washington University and a research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Professor Godfrey Ignatius Muguti MS(Syd) serving as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Prior to joining GW, Bass served as Professor and Chair
FCS(ECSA) FRCS(Edin) Hon.FRCS(Eng) Friday 5 Friday 5 of Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell Professor Muguti is the President of the College of Medicine. Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA). He is the Professor of Surgery and Professorial Chair in the Department of Surgery in the College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe. He is also a Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. USA and Medical Director of The Avenues Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. Professor Muguti has served as a Commissioner on the Zimbabwe Health Review Commission and Foundation President
of the Surgical Society of Zimbabwe. He is past Editor - Saturday 6 Saturday 6 in - Chief of the Central African Journal of Medicine. In 1997 he was awarded the Honorary FRCS (Eng) by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His clinical and research interests are in general surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery.
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SESSION III: Professor Lowery’s academic training includes completion of a PhD on the Molecular Medicine Ireland PRESIDENT’S SYMPOSIUM Clinician Scientist Fellowship Training Programme, in addition to a Masters in Medical Science and a Professor Dr April Camilla Roslani Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education at NUI Galway. She has contributed extensively to the field of FAMM, FACS (Hon), FASI (Hon) (India), FCSSL (Hon) cancer research, with 95 peer reviewed publications and (Sri Lanka), FAMS (Singapore), FRCS (Glasgow), FRCS >4000 citations. She is a recipient of numerous national (Edinburgh), Clinical Fellowship in Colorectal Surgery
and international awards including the Millin and Sir Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 (Sing), MS (Mal), MBBCh (Wales), BSc (Hons) (Wales) Robert Smyth Medals. Her research portfolio includes Professor Dr April Roslani graduated in 1995, and cancer genetics, biomarker discovery and a focus on received the Master of Surgery in 2003. In 2007, how emerging biological information integrates with she established University Malaya Medical Centre’s evolving surgical/locoregional cancer management, Colorectal Surgery Unit, which is now the largest in the in addition to a focus on survivorship issues for breast country, and a key stakeholder in colorectal training and cancer patients. Her research is patient-centred and services nationally and regionally. she values interdisciplinary collaboration with scientists Until recently, she was Head of the Department of and bioengineers to identify novel solutions to clinical Surgery, comprising six specialty divisions and six sub- challenges. Current collaborations include investigating specialty units. As part of the hospital’s COVID-19 Task minimally invasive approaches to tumour ablation as part Force, she coordinated the surgical pandemic response. of the SFI funded AI for Societal Good Challenge. Aoife Thursday 4 Thursday 4
She is currently Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of is also actively engaged in surgical education, research Thursday 13 Malaya. training and mentorship as Year 5 Head in the School Her areas of expertise include surgery for colorectal of Medicine NUI Galway and an Associate Director of cancer, proctology, surgical training and professionalism. the HRB-Wellcome Trust funded Irish Clinical Academic She is also a local resource person for surgical Training (ICAT) programme. management of inflammatory bowel disease. Discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment and Professor Søren Laurberg harassment in the workplace, in addition to advocacy for Søren Laurberg is Clinical Professor at the Department of women, are recent foci of her work. Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital Denmark, She is currently President for the College of Surgeons, Denmark’s largest health science institute. He has Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, Vice President for the focused on the looking beyond cancer at the long term Malaysian Society of Colorectal Surgeons, President for Friday 5 Friday 5 side effects of cancer treatment. In his postgraduate the Asia Pacific Federation of Coloproctology and Chair teaching career he has pioneered National MDT of the Conjoint Committee for Postgraduate Medical and laparoscopic specialist courses, supervising 35 Degrees. Through these and other related roles, she successfully defended PhDs and has published more works towards advancing surgical standards, and fairness than 400 peer reviewed articles. in the workplace. In his early career he specialised in the functional problems of the bowel and worked as a research fellow Professor Aoife Lowery at the pioneering intuition, Sir Allan Parks Ano-rectal Professor Aoife Lowery is Associate Professor of Physiology Unit, St Mark’s Hospital, London. He went Translational Research and Surgery at NUI Galway and on to found and lead the Ano-rectal Physiology Unit in a Consultant Breast & Endocrine Surgeon at Galway Aarhus while training to become a consultant in Aarhus. University Hospital Professor Laurberg is a Past President of European Saturday 6 Saturday 6 Her clinical training was undertaken in the National Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) and founder and University of Ireland Galway (MB BCh BAO, MRCS) first chairman of the Research Committee of ESCP. He and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Higher is, amongst many others, an Honorary Member of the Surgical Training Programme (FRCS). She subsequently Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland completed an International Fellowship in Endocrine and an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Surgery at France’s pre-eminent Endocrine Surgery Colon and Rectal Surgeons. unit in Marseille, funded by the prestigious Richard Steeven’s Scholarship and further developed her interest in minimally invasive endocrine surgery at Kliniken Essen Mitte, Germany.
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Professor Dion Morton 43RD MILLIN LECTURE Professor Morton is Barling Professor of Surgery and Head of the Academic Surgery at the University of Birmingham. He received his degree in Medicine from Bristol University in 1985. He was given an honorary consultant appointment at the University Hospital Birmingham in 1996. Dion was awarded an OBE in the Queens Honours list 2020 for Services to Innovation in the NHS Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Since 2017, he has been co-director of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery and was Director of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre from 2007-2019. He is currently interim CMO for the Central and South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance. Nationally he was Director of Clinical Research at the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2012-2019 Mr Colin Peirce, MD, FRCSI and is past President of the Society for Academic and Mr Peirce qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 2004 Research Surgery (2015-17). with 1st class honours in surgery and completed the His primary research interests are clinical and Basic Surgical Training Scheme in the Dublin Region. He
translational research for colorectal cancer and the Thursday 4 Thursday 4
was awarded an MD by thesis from University College Thursday 13 development of clinical trials in surgery. Dublin and subsequently was a Surgical Lecturer there for a year. He completed the Higher Surgical Training Professor Sara Marshall, MBChB, PhD, FRCP(E), Scheme in General Surgery followed by a 1-year FRCPath Colorectal Clinical Fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic, Sara is head of Clinical and Physiological Sciences at Ohio, USA. He commenced his post in the University the Wellcome Trust, and oversees the clinical careers of Limerick Hospitals Group in 2016, where he is the portfolio, which includes the highly successful Clinical Clinical Lead for Robotic Colorectal Surgery and also the PhD programmes, and the Clinical Research Career Hospital Based Director of Core Surgical Training. Development Fellowships. As part of Wellcome’s Mr Peirce has over 40 peer reviewed publications Science Executive, she helps shape strategic funding including 3 randomised controlled trials and has received across the biomedical sciences. a number of national research grants and awards coupled Friday 5 Friday 5 Sara did her medical training at RCSI, Class of 1987, with a number of international travelling fellowships. He (back in the ancient days of Jervis Street Hospital), and has given several invited international lectures including she subsequently worked in Blanchardstown, Stanford, at the Chinese Summit of Gastrointestinal Laparoscopy Cambridge and Oxford. Most recently she was Professor in Wuhan in 2017 and 2018. He was the first Irish recipient of Clinical Immunology at the University of Dundee, of the European Society of Coloproctology Travelling where she led the Dundee Clinical Academic Track, Fellowship to Japan in 2014 and was awarded the RCSI amongst other things. Ethicon Travelling Fellowship in 2017 to visit Professor Sara will talk about things she wished she had known Seon-Hahn Kim in Seoul, South Korea. Outside of work, when she was applying for grant funding. he is a keen golfer, cyclist and pianist. Saturday 6 Saturday 6
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HONORARY FELLOWSHIP CONFERRING Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3
Professor Chung-Mau Lo Hospital Chief Executive, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital, Chin Lan-Hong Professor and Chair
of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The University Thursday 4 Thursday 4 of Hong Kong, Director of the Liver Transplant Center, Thursday 13 Queen Mary Hospital Professor Chung-Mau Lo is the Hospital Chief Executive of The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH) and Chin Lan-Hong Professor of The University of Hong Kong. He is internationally renowned for his expertise in hepatobiliary surgery, liver cancer and liver transplantation. He has published 562 original articles in refereed international journals. His pioneering work in adult right liver living donor liver transplantation has revolutionalized the practice of liver transplant world- Friday 5 Friday 5 wide. As a result, he and his team were awarded China’s top national honour of First-class State Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2005 and First-class Award in Research Achievements by the Ministry of Education of The People’s Republic of China in 2013. His academic standing in the field of surgery in general and liver transplantation in particular is duly recognized by his appointment in various international professional organizations and in the editorial board of top journals in the field of surgery and transplantation. He was the President of the International Liver Transplantation Society and the International Society for Digestive Surgery. Saturday 6 Saturday 6 He has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association and the American College of Surgeons, and Honorary Member of the European Surgical Association. Under the leadership of Professor Lo, the HKU-SZH successfully pilots public hospital reform in China by integrating the management system in Hong Kong and the mainland. The Hospital became the youngest High-level Hospital of Guangdong Province in 2018 and received Shenzhen municipal city Mayor’s Quality Gold Award in Social Category in 2020.
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CHARTER DAY
PLENARY SESSION
10.00 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Professor P. Ronan O’Connell President, RCSI Wednesday 3 10.05 – 11.30 PLENARY SESSION I SEPSIS
Co-Chairs: Professor Steve Kerrigan Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor H. Paul Redmond Council Member, RCSI; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Cork University Hospital and University College Cork Thursday 4 10.05 – 10.15 UPDATE ON GLOBAL BURDEN OF SEPSIS Professor Simon Finfer AO The George Institute for Global Health University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
10.15 – 10.25 SEPSIS AND ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE – WHERE TWO WORLDS COLLIDE? Dr Fidelma Fitzpatrick Senior Lecturer RCSI, Consultant Microbiologist Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and Chair, HSE National Sepsis Governance Committee
10.25 – 10.35 IMAGING INNATE IMMUNITY IN VARIOUS ORGANS DURING INFECTION Friday 5 Dr Paul Kubes Professor / Lead: VPR Strategic Research Priority- Infections Inflammation and Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Canada
10.35 – 10.45 CELL THERAPIES APPROACHES AS A TREATMENT OPTION FOR SEPSIS Professor John Laffey Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, NUI Galway
10.45 – 10.55 STABILIZING THE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM TO PREVENT OR SLOW SEPSIS PROGRESSION
Professor Steve Kerrigan Saturday 6 Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
10.55 – 11.15 Discussion
11.15 – 11.30 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
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10.00 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I Parallel Session: Faculty of Dentistry
10.05 – 10.08 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Professor Albert Leung Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI
10.08 – 10.18 COVID-19: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR INNOVATIONS IN DENTAL EDUCATION? Wednesday 3 Professor Albert Leung Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI
10.18 – 10.36 PAEDIATRIC CARIES MANAGEMENT POST COVID-19 Dr John Walsh Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Faculty of Dentistry RCSI
10.36 – 10.54 SEDATE OR NOT SEDATE: DECISION MAKING IN SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY Dr Grace Kelly Consultant in Special Care Dentistry. Board Member, Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI Thursday 4 10.54 – 11.12 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF THE HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENT Dr John Ed O’Connell Clinical Fellow in Head and Neck Oncology, University of Liverpool
11.12 – 11.30 PROSTHODONTIC RECONSTRUCTION IN THE HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENT Dr Edward Cotter Specialist Prosthodontist
11.30 CLOSE
Professor Albert Leung Friday 5 Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, RCSI Saturday 6
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10.00 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I Parallel Session: Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
10.05 – 10.10 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Professor Michael Shannon, FFNMRCSI Dean of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
10.10 – 10.30 GLOBAL NURSING PRIORITIES 2021 Wednesday 3 Mr Howard Catton FFNMRCSI CEO International Council of Nurses
10.30 – 10.50 NATIONAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY POLICY CHALLENGES Ms Rachel Kenna CNO, Department of Health, Ireland
10.50 – 11.00 TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES Dr Edward Naessens Programme Coordinator, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI Thursday 4 11.00 – 11.10 LEADING IMPACTFUL RESEARCH Dr Cathy Fitzgerald Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
11.10 – 11.20 SUPPORTING HEALTHCARE AND SOCIETY COSECSA, RCSI Institute of Surgery and the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI - Exploring a Collaborative endeavour to strengthen Peri-Operative care for citizens in Central Eastern and Southern Africa Professor Michael Shannon, FFNMRCSI, Dean of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI Friday 5 Professor Thomas Kearns, FFNMRCSI, Executive Director, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI
11.20 – 11.30 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Dr Mary Boyd, FFNMRCSI Vice Dean, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI
11.30 CLOSE Professor Thomas Kearns, FFNMRCSI Executive Director, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery RCSI Saturday 6
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10.00 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I Parallel Session: Faculty of Radiologists
10.00 - 10.30 LAUNCH OF RADIOLOGY’S MODEL OF CARE Dr Peter Kavanagh Dean, Faculty of Radiologists, RCSI
10.30 – 11.00 MODEL OF CARE FOR RADIOLOGY NUCLEAR MEDICINE Wednesday 3 Dr Martin O’Connell Consultant Radiologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
11.00 – 11.30 MODEL OF CARE FOR PAEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY Dr Eoghan Laffan Consultant Radiologist, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Dublin
10.00 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I Parallel Session: Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine Thursday 4
Chair: Dr Philip Carolan Dean, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCPI & RCSI and Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant, Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin
10.00 – 10.20 FACULTY HISTORY AND THE SEM SPECIALTY Dr Philip Carolan Dean, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCPI & RCSI and Sports & Exercise Medicine Consultant, Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin
10.20 – 10.40 SPORTS MEDICINE / MSK MEDICINE Friday 5 Dr Ciaran Cosgrave Consultant Sports & Exercise Medicine Physician, Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin
10.40 – 11.00 EXERCISE MEDICINE Dr Robert Kelly Consultant Cardiologist, Beacon Hospital, Dublin
Dr Adrian McGoldrick GP, Newbridge, Co Kildare
11.00 – 11.10 HST PROGRAMME Saturday 6 Dr Suzi Clarke Consultant Sports Medicine Physician, VHI SwiftCare Clinics
11.10 – 11.30 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
11.30 CLOSE
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10.00 – 11.30 PARALLEL SESSION I Parallel Session: Irish Institute of Pharmacy (IIOP)
10.00 – 11.30 PANEL DISCUSSION ADDRESSING THE ISSUE ON
“DEVELOPING RESILIENCE IN PHARMACY – A PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL OR SYSTEM ISSUE?” Wednesday 3 Chair: Dr Catriona Bradley Executive Director, Irish Institute of Pharmacy
PANELLISTS:
Ciara Ní Dhubhlaing Chief Pharmacist, St. Patrick’s Hospital, President of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists, Chair of IIOP COVID Hub Mental Health Working Group
Ms Emily Kelly Thursday 4 Superintendent Pharmacist, Sam Macauley’s Pharmacy Group
Dr Karen Whitfield University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Chair of Global Resilience Team (GRiT)
Professor Zubin Austin Professor of Health Services Research, University of Ontario
Dr Catherine Duggan Chief Executive Officer, International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) Friday 5 Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chair: Mr Vincent Young Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
11.30 – 12.00 MANAGEMENT OF THE DESCENDING AORTA IN TYPE A DISSECTION
Mr Adam Daly Wednesday 3 Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
12.00 – 12.30 SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF TRACHEOMALACIA Professor Karen Redmond Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
12.30 – 13.00 UNEXPECTED N2 DISEASE Mr Gary Fitzmaurice St James’s Hospital, Dublin Thursday 4 Friday 5 Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Emergency Medicine
LEADERSHIP IN THE RESUSCITATION ROOM
Chair: Mr Fergal Hickey Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Sligo University Hospital Wednesday 3 11.30 – 11.35 INTRODUCTION THE RESUSCITATION ROOM: AN ALIEN ENVIRONMENT FOR MANY Mr Fergal Hickey Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Sligo University Hospital
11.35 – 11.55 RESUSCITATION - FACTORING IN THE HUMAN FACTORS Mr Mark Doyle MSc Human Factors in Patient Safety, Retired Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Waterford
11.55 – 12.25 HOW TO STEP UP IN THE RESUSCITATION ROOM Thursday 4 Dr Karen Harris Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Sligo University Hospital & Dr Vicky Meighan Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Tallaght University Hospital and team
This will involve a simulated scenario to address Crew Resource Management and the tools to achieve excellence in adult resuscitation including pre-briefing, teamwork, leadership, debriefing and decompressing.
12.25 – 12.55 PAEDIATRIC RESUSCITATION - HOW TO MAKE THE DIFFICULT DECISIONS Dr Laura Melody
Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, CHI at Crumlin and team Friday 5
This will involve a simulated scenario to demonstrate the factors influencing the team leader in a paediatric resuscitation and will show how good communication and team leadership allow difficult decisions be made in a way that causes the least distress for the family and team involved.
Each Scenario will involve a discussion between Mr Mark Doyle, Retired Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, Waterford and Dr Emily O’Conor, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown on the human factors issues demonstrated in the scenarios Saturday 6 12.55 – 13.00 SUMMARY/WRAP UP Mr Fergal Hickey Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Sligo University Hospital
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: General Surgery
GENERAL AND EMERGENCY SURGERY INTO THE FUTURE
Co-Chair: Professor Kevin Barry Mayo University Hospital, Mayo Wednesday 3 Mr Sean Johnston Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore, Offaly
TRAINING AND MENTORING SURGEONS ; PLANNING FOR A NEW SPECIALTY OF GENERAL AND EMERGENCY SURGERY Professor Oscar Traynor Dean of Postgraduate Surgical Education & Training, RCSI
THE ACUTE SURGERY PROGRAMME/ ACUTE SURGICAL UNITS Professor Paul Ridgway
Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin Thursday 4
PLANNING A CAREER IN GENERAL AND EMERGENCY SURGERY/ TRAUMA FELLOWSHIP- USA EXPERIENCE Mr Gary Bass Penn Trauma, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA
CORE EMERGENCY/TRAUMA PRINCIPLES FOR FUTURE GENERAL SURGEONS Professor Paul Balfe St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny
PLANNING FOR A GENERAL AND EMERGENCY SURGERY SERVICE AT CORK Friday 5 UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Mr Emmet Andrews Cork University Hospital, Cork
TRAINING THE MODERN TRAUMA SURGEON Mr Morgan McMonagle University Hospital Waterford, Waterford Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Neurosurgery
Chair: Mr Darach Crimmins Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, Dublin
11.30 – 11.45 ENDOSCOPIC TREATMENT OF ANTERIOR SKULL BASE MENINGIOMAS: IS IT
WORTH THE HEADACHE? Wednesday 3 Mr Mahmoud Kamel Consultant Neurosurgeon, Cork University Hospital
11.45 – 12.00 CHARACTERISATION OF CERVICAL TRAUMA REFERRALS TO CUH Mr James Clerkin Specialist Registrar Neurosurgery, Cork University Hospital
12.00 – 12.15 WHOLE LOTTA ROSA! IRISH EXPERIENCE WITH ROBOTIC STEREOEEG Mr Kieron Sweeney Consultant Neurosurgeon, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Thursday 4 12.15 – 12.30 NEUROSURGICAL LITIGATION Mr David O’Brien Consultant Neurosurgeon, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
12.30 – 12.45 TELEMEDICINE IN THE COVID ERA Mr Nikolay Peev Consultant Neurosurgeon, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
12.45 – 13.00 IRELAND TO ISLAND: MY BEAR GRYLLS EXPERIENCE Mr Mano Shanmuganathan
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Friday 5 Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Ophthalmic Surgery
OPHTHALMIC SURGERY FELLOWSHIPS ABROAD DURING COVID – YOUNG SURGEONS PERSPECTIVE
Co-Chair: Ms Kathryn McCreery
Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin and Blackrock Clinic, Dublin Wednesday 3
Professor Paul Connell Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Mater Hospital, Dublin
SPEAKERS Mr Michael O’ Rourke Melbourne, Australia
Ms Emily Hughes Pittsburgh, USA Thursday 4 Ms Emma Duignan Dublin, Ireland Friday 5 Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.40 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Chair: Mr Tom Barry Galway University Hospital, Galway
11.30 – 11.55 ORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Dr Clare Healy Wednesday 3 Consultant & Associate Professor in Oral Medicine Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity College Dublin
11.55 – 12.15 VESICULLOBULLLOUS DISEASE Dr Sheila Galvin Consultant in Oral Medicine Dublin Dental University Hospital Trinity College Dublin
12.15 – 12.55 OVERVIEW OF SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT
CONDITIONS Thursday 4 Mr Sujeev Rajapakse Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
12.55 – 13.35 MANAGEMENT OF MANDIBULAR MALIGNANCY – PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE Mr Stephen Crank Consultant in Maxilllofacial Surgery, Hull University Hospitals NHS Trust TPD for OMFS in Yorkshire and Humber Deanery Friday 5 Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery
11.30 WELCOME Professor James Paul O’Neill Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, RCSI; Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Wednesday 3 SESSION I Chair: Mr Neville Shine Consultant ENT Surgeon Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Dublin
HEAD AND NECK Professor Hisham Mehanna PhD, BMedSc (hons), MB ChB (hons), FRCS, FRCS (ORL-HNS) Professor of Head and Neck Surgery Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Interdisciplinary research). Director, The Institute for Global Innovation (I.G.I.) & the Institute for Advanced Thursday 4 Studies (I.A.S) University of Birmingham.
SESSION II Chair: Professor Rory McConn Walsh Consultant Otolaryngologist & Neuro-Otologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Chair Irish Training Programme in Otolaryngology RCSI Hon Secretary Intercollegiate Board in Otolaryngology
NEURO-OTOLOGY & LATERAL SKULL BASE SURGERY Professor Simon Lloyd BSc(Hons), MPhil, FRCS(ORL-HNS) Friday 5 Professor of Otology and Skull Base Surgery, University of Manchester Consultant Otologist, Skull Base Surgeon and Auditory Implant Surgeon, Central Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust Secretary to the British Society of Otology Secretary to the British Skull Base Society
SESSION III Chair: Mr Peter Walshe Consultant ENT Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital; Children’s Health Ireland Temple Street
COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION Mr Anirvan Banerjee MBBS, MS, FRCS (ENT), FRCSEd (ORL-HNS) Saturday 6 Clinical Lead Teeside & North Yorkshire – North East Cochlear Implant Programme
12.55 FINAL COMMENTS Professor James Paul O’Neill Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, RCSI; Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Plastic Surgery
SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA: RECONSTRUCTIVE CHALLENGES
Chair: Professor Brian Kneafsey Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Wednesday 3 11.30 – 11.45 SARCOMA SERVICES IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND: ESTABLISHING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Mr Jason Kelly Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Cork University Hospital
11.45 – 12.00 RECENT ADVANCES IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY FOR SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA: NEO-ADJUVANT V ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY Dr Charles Gillham Consultant Radiation Oncologist, St. James’s Hospital & St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network
National Clinical Lead in Sarcoma Thursday 4
12.00 – 12.15 THE EVOLUTION AND CURRENT CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA IN THE HELSINKI SARCOMA UNIT Professor Erkki Tukiainen Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon and Head of Sarcoma Unit Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
12.15 – 12.30 CURRENT APPROACH TO TREATING EXTREMITY SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS IN A TERTIARY REFERRAL SARCOMA UNIT Mr Myles Smith
Consultant Surgical Oncologist and General Surgeon, Royal Marsden NHS Friday 5 Foundation Trust London
12.30 – 12.45 DIFFICULT SARCOMA RECONSTRUCTIONS – LESSONS LEARNED Mr Stuart James Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Clinical Lead for Plastic Surgery Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust London
12.45 – 13.00 CASE BASED DISCUSSIONS- CHALLENGING SCENARIOS
Mr Jim Clover Chair: Saturday 6 Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Cork University Hospital
CHALLENGING CLINICAL CASES FOR PANEL DISCUSSION
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery
ORTHOPAEDICS 2021, NEW BEGINNINGS
Chair: Mr Eoin Sheehan Tullamore Hospital, Ireland Wednesday 3 11.00 – 11.05 Introduction
11.05 – 12.30 “COVID-19, HOW WE MANAGED IT.” PERSPECTIVES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, ROLL IT THERE COLETTE!”
Professor Roberto Rossi, MD Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology , University of Torino School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (Chairman) Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital- Torino, Italy
Dr Arne Dreissen Thursday 4 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Germany
Dr Wadih Y. Matar, MD MSc FRCSC Chef de Dépt de Chirurgie - Chirugien Orthopédique, Hôpital de Hull - Div. d’Orthopédie - Québec, Canada
Break (5mins)
Dr Brian Curtin, MD
OrthoCarolina Hip and Knee Center, Charlotte, North Carolina , USA Friday 5
Mr Brian Devitt Consultant Orthopaedic Sports Surgeon, Orthosport Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Brian Lenehan Chief Clinical Director, UL Hospitals Group, Limerick, Ireland
12.30 – 13.00 SUMMATION AND DISCUSSION Mr Eoin Sheehan Tullamore Hospital, Ireland Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Urology
11.30 – 11.35 INTRODUCTION Professor Thomas Lynch President Irish Society of Urology, Council Member RCSI and Consultant Urologist, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin Wednesday 3 11.35 – 12.00 MALE FACTOR INFERTILITY Mr Ivor Cullen Waterford University Hospital, Waterford
Mr John O’Kelly Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
12.00 – 12.25 FEMALE UROLOGY UPDATE Mr James Forde Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Thursday 4 Ms Bianca Barea Locum Consultant, Tallaght University Hospital and St James’s Hospital, Dublin
12.25 – 12.55 BPH TECHNOLOGIES
Chair: Mr Nicholas Hegarty Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin,
REZUM Mr Richard Power Beaumont Hospital, Dublin Friday 5
UROLIFT Professor Rustom Manecksha Tallaght University Hospital and St James’s Hospital, Dublin
12.55 PROSTATE ARTERY EMBOLISATION Dr Cormac Farrelly Consultant Radiologist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin
DISCUSSION AND CLOSE OF MEETING Saturday 6
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11.30 – 13.00 PARALLEL SESSION II Parallel Session: Vascular Surgery
LIMB PRESERVATION & FUNCTION
Co-Chairs: Professor Martin O’Donohoe UCD Clinical Professor of Surgery, Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Mater
Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin Wednesday 3
Professor Sherif Sultan Galway Clinic, Doughiska, Galway
11.30 – 11.32 WELCOME Professor K. Simon Cross Chairperson, Irish Vascular Society, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Waterford
11.33 – 11.39 CHRONIC ISCHAEMIA: AN OVERVIEW
Mr Mekki Medani Thursday 4 Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Limerick
11.40 – 11.46 ACUTE ISCHAEMIA: ARE OUTCOMES IMPROVING? Mr Brian Manning Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Cork University Hospital
11.47 – 11.53 IMAGING EVALUATION OF THE PATIENT: WHAT IS THE BEST MODALITY? Professor Stuart Walsh Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University College Hospital, Galway
11.54 – 12.00 ENDO VS OPEN VS HYBRID PROCEDURES Friday 5 Mr Prakash Madhavan Consultant Vascular Surgeon, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin
12.01 – 12.07 OPEN LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY: IS THERE STILL A ROLE? Mr Gerald McGreal, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Mercy University Hospital Cork Saturday 6
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12.08 – 12.15 Discussion
12.16 – 12.22 LOWER LIMB CHALLENGES IN THE DIABETIC Ms Mary Barry Consultant Vascular Surgeon, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
12.23 – 12.29 OSTEOMYELITIS OF THE FOOT : ANTIBIOTICS OR AMPUTATION Mr Seamus McHugh Wednesday 3 Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
12.30 – 12.36 THE EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON LIMB PRESERVATION Professor Sean Tierney Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Tallaght University Hospital
12.37 – 12.44 MAJOR LIMB AMPUTATION: WHEN, WHERE & HOW Professor K. Simon Cross Chairperson, Irish Vascular Society, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Waterford
12.45 – 12.51 CHALLENGES IN REHABILITATION OF THE AMPUTEE Thursday 4 Dr Jacqueline Stowe Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, National Rehabilitation Centre, Dun Laoghaire
12.52 – 12.58 DISCUSSION
12.59 – 13.00 Close of Session: Professor K. Simon Cross Chairperson, Irish Vascular Society, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, University Hospital, Waterford
13.00 – 14.00 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands Friday 5 Saturday 6
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RCSI is proud to partner with Johnson & Johnson, working collaboratively to support healthcare education and training. We are grateful for the continued support through the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Lecture and Medal.
14.00 – 14.30 JOHNSON & JOHNSON LECTURE
“Kandahar to Canada” Wednesday 3
Dr Vivian McAlister OC, FRCSI Western University, Canada
Introduced & Chaired by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI
14.30 – 14.45 AWARDS AND PRESENTATIONS Thursday 4
RCSI COLLES TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP IN SURGERY The RCSI Colles Travelling Fellowship in Surgery is offered by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to promote the acquisition of additional surgical skills and knowledge that will contribute to advancement of surgical science and practice in Ireland. The Fellowship is open to Fellows/Members of the College who, at the time of application, are in, or have completed within the previous two years, a higher surgical training programme on the island of Ireland.
The RCSI Colles Travelling Fellowship in Surgery 2021 is awarded to Jarlath C Bolger, who also receives the Colles Friday 5 Medal. The fellowship will assist towards his Clinical and Research Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital and University Health Network Toronto.
JOINT RCSI-GUSSIE MEHIGAN FELLOWSHIP The Joint RCSI-Gussie Mehigan Fellowship Scholarship is awarded to John Tristan Cassidy for his Upper Limb Fellowship, Melbourne Orthopaedic Group Australian Institute of Musculo –Skeletal Research. In addition to the above, Tristan has also been awarded an RCSI Travel Grant.
RCSI TRAVEL GRANT Saturday 6 Awarded to Elaine Redmond to assist towards her Fellowship in Pediatric Urology, BC Children’s Hospital Vancouver. Awarded to Mark Broe to assist towards his fellowship in Robotic Research Postgraduate Fellow at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Awarded to Jack Woods to assist towards his Clinical Fellowship in Reconstructive Microsurgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York City, US.
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RCSI PROGRESS WOMEN IN SURGERY FELLOWSHIP, SUPPORTED BY JOHNSON & JOHNSON The College has been at the forefront in developing transparent selection future surgeons. Evidence shows that gender diversity within organisations results in better decision making. In 2017 RCSI published a comprehensive report PROGRESS: Promoting Gender Equality in Surgery, which made recommendations to ensure that Surgery as a profession is an attractive and practical career for both men and women.
The RCSI PROGRESS Women in Surgery Fellowship, funded by Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies through an educational grant, is a prestigious bursary awarded to promote female participation Wednesday 3 in surgical training at fellowship level. The 2021 RCSI PROGRESS Women in Surgery Fellowship, funded by Johnson & Johnson, is awarded to Helen Mohan, together with the RCSI PROGRESS Fellowship Medal. The funding will assist towards the cost of her Fellowship, at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne.
14.45 – 15.45 PLENARY SESSION II Ethnic Diversity: Irish Perspective Thursday 4 Co-Chairs: Mr James Geraghty Council Member RCSI and Consultant General Surgeon, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
Mr Sayed Jaffrey Consultant Urological Surgeon, University Hospital Galway
14.50 – 15.00 MEDICAL WORKFORCE IN IRELAND. ISSUES AND OPTIONS Professor Frank Murray Former Director – National Doctors Training and Planning, HSE Friday 5 15.00 – 15.10 ENHANCING HEALTHCARE THROUGH EXISTING EXPERIENCE: SUPPORTING SPECIALIST TRAINING AMONG INTERNATIONAL GRADUATES Dr Rita Doyle President, Irish Medical Council
15.10 – 15.20 UNCONSCIOUS BIAS: EXAMINERS’ VIEW Mr Anant N Mahapatra Clinical Lead / Honorary Senior Lecturer. RCSI Group of Hospitals Dublin North-East
15.20 – 15.45 DISCUSSION Saturday 6
15.45 – 16.15 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION - Please visit our sponsors’ virtual stands
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16.15 – 17.00 96th ABRAHAM COLLES LECTURE
The Demise of Emergency Ulcer Surgery Professor James Lau BMedSc, MBBS (Hons), FRCS Edin and Glasgow, MD Chair, Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Introduced by Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, President, RCSI Wednesday 3
This year marks the 96th Abraham Colles Lecture which will be delivered by Professor James Lau BMedSc, MBBS (Hons), FRCS Edin and Glasgow, MD, Chair, Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
We are delighted to welcome Professor James Lau and Mr David Costello, Consul General of Ireland to Hong Kong & Macau who join us from Hong Kong. RCSI thanks Mr David Costello for hosting this special event in Hong Kong in honour of Professor Lau. Thursday 4 Friday 5 Saturday 6
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OUR GUEST SPEAKERS
SEPSIS SESSION Previously as Consultant Microbiologist in the Health Professor Simon Finfer AO Protection Surveillance Centre she established C. MBBS FRCP FRCA FCICM FAHMS DrMed difficile surveillance in Ireland, chaired a number of Professor Finfer is a Professorial Fellow in the Critical national guideline committees, was the European Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Care and Trauma Division at The George Institute Centres for Disease Control and Prevention national for Global Health and an Adjunct Professor at the focal point for HCAI and coordinated the first national University of New South Wales. He is a practicing HCAI prevalence studies in both hospital and long- critical care physician with an appointment as a Senior term care facilities. Staff Specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Director of Intensive Care at the Sydney Adventist Dr Fitzpatrick is currently chair of the National Hospital, the largest not-for-profit hospital in New Sepsis Steering Group, HSE, Scientific Advisory South Wales. Committee, Health Protection Surveillance Centre and the European Society of Clinical Microbiology Professor Finfer was a founding member and is and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group for a past-Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Clostridium difficile (ESGCD) and a member of the Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Steering Group, Antimicrobial Guidelines for Primary Thursday 4 Thursday 4 Group, immediate past chair of the Council of the Care www.antibioticprescribing.ie and Dublin Dental International Sepsis Forum, and Vice President of the Hospital Board. Global Sepsis Alliance. Professor Steve Kerrigan He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health Professor Kerrigan is Deputy Head of the School of and Medical Sciences and was appointed an Officer Pharmacy (Research), Head of the Cardiovascular (AO) in the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Infection Research Group in RCSI University of Honours List June 2020 for “distinguished service Medicine and Health Sciences and Founder/CSO of to intensive care medicine, to medical research and InnovoSep an RCSI spin out company. Prof. Kerrigan is education, and to global health institutes”. a graduate of King’s College London (Pharmacology),
University of Strathclyde (Immunopharmacology) and Friday 5 Friday 5 Professor Finfer is an Editor of The Oxford Textbook RCSI (Host Infection). Prof. Kerrigan’s research focuses of Critical Care (2nd Ed.), the Critical Care Section on understanding the pathophysiological response to Editor for The Oxford Textbook of Medicine (6th Ed.) infection during sepsis. Through his seminal work Prof. and was a guest editor for The New England Journal Kerrigan identified a drug target that prevents a wide of Medicine from 2012 - 2014. number of microorganisms (bacteria, fungus and virus) from causing immune dysfunction and cellular injury Dr Fidelma Fitzpatrick in the host. Following a successful preclinical trial Senior Lecturer and Consultant Microbiologist, RCSI carried out in RCSI, InnovoSep is now preparing to and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. Intermediate enter a Phase IIb human clinical trial to test the drug Cycle 1/2 Director, RCSI. as a higher order therapy for the treatment of sepsis. Prof. Kerrigan is extensively published in leading high Saturday 6 Saturday 6 As the first National Clinical Lead for the prevention impact journals in the sepsis / bloodstream infection of Healthcare-Associated Infection (HCAI) and field, has attracted€ 6 million in grant funding, filed antimicrobial resistance (AMR), she established four patent/disclosures and supervised 17x doctoral the National Clinical Programme, coordinated candidates to completion as primary supervisor. Prof. the national HCAI and AMR work plan, lead the Kerrigan is currently co-chair of the International national public information campaign on antibiotics, Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific national hand hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship Standardization Committee and member of the programme and oversaw the establishment of the European Sepsis Alliance research committee. National AMR Intersectoral Coordinating Committee between the Dept of Health and Dept of Agriculture.
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Dr Paul Kubes translational research is focused on acute respiratory Dr Paul Kubes is a Professor at the University of distress syndrome and sepsis. A current focus is on Calgary Cumming School of Medicine and the therapeutic potential of cell therapies for the critically Founding Director of the Snyder Institute for Chronic ill. He also has a longstanding interest in the effects Diseases and leads the Vice President’s priority and mechanisms of action of carbon dioxide in the Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 initiative Infections Inflammation and Chronic Diseases critically ill. (IICD). He also holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Leukocyte Recruitment in inflammatory disease. Dr. Kubes has received numerous awards including the CIHR Investigator of the Year in 2011 for his basic science work on how the brain affects immunity to affect the chance of infections. He has also received the Alberta Science and Technology Award and the Henry Friesen Award. Dr Kubes has published basic science work in Cell, Science and the Nature journals and also has publications in both clinical journals Thursday 4 Thursday 4 including Lancet and more translational journals (JCI). His latest work has concentrated on highly pathogenic bacteria and viruses trying to understand the host response to these pathogens. He is presently trying to uncover how flu causes secondary infections and will use his extensive experience in sepsis to probe how COVID-19 causes the problems affecting patients in ICU. Dr Kubes has extensive review experience JOHNSON AND JOHNSON with CIHR having been part of numerous committees LECTURE including the Immunology panel, Cardiovascular A Dr Vivian McAlister OC and B panel, the CIHR scholar panel and the Banting Dr Vivian McAlister OC is a graduate of Trinity Friday 5 Friday 5 postdoctoral panel. He also served as a member of College Dublin (1979) and holds FRCSI (1984). He is a Friday 14 CIHR Governing Council and was chair of the college general surgeon with a special interest in endobiliary, chairs. In addition, he has reviewed for NIH and he transplant and combat surgery at University Hospital co-chaired the Gairdner Research Committee. He in London, Ontario. A professor of the University of also led the development of the recently opened, Western Ontario, he is the director of its Office of International Microbiome Centre at the University of Military Academic Medicine. He has been president Calgary. of the Canadian Society of Transplantation and the Canadian Organ Replacement Registry. Dr McAlister Professor John Laffey was a council member of the Royal College of Professor John Laffey is Professor of Anaesthesia and Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and chair of its Intensive Care Medicine at the School of Medicine Region Advisory Committee for Ontario and Nunavut. Saturday 6 Saturday 6 of the National University of Ireland, Galway and He was co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Surgery from 2013 until 2019. He was a regular force Medicine at Galway University Hospitals. He is vice- member of the Canadian Armed Forces until 2019 dean for Research at the College of Medicine, Nursing and he has deployed overseas many times. Awards and Health Sciences at NUI Galway, and Professor of received include Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Physiology Medal (2012), the Angus McLachlin Chair of Surgery at the University of Toronto. Previously, he was (2014); John McCrae Memorial Medal (2019), and founding co-director of the Critical Illness and Injury the Canadian Society of Transplantation lifetime Research Centre at the Keenan Centre for Biomedical achievement award (2019). He was made an officer of Research of St Michael’s Hospital. His basic and the Order of Canada in 2020.
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ETHNIC DIVERSITY Dr Rita Doyle Dr Doyle was elected President of the Medical Council Professor Frank Murray in July 2018, the first woman and the first full-time GP MD FRCPI FRCP(Edin) FACG FEBG FFPHMI (Hon) to hold this position, having first been appointed to the Medical Council in 2013 on the nomination of the Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Prof Frank Murray was Director of the National ICGP. Doctors Training and Planning (NDTP), HSE 2017-2019. A graduate of University College Dublin, Dr Doyle operates the Bray Family Practice in Wicklow and has He was Vice-President, Registrar and subsequently been a General Practitioner for more than thirty years. the 141st President (2014-2017) of the Royal College She was a CME Tutor for 15 years and the Assistant of Physicians of Ireland. National Director of CME for five years. She served two terms on the Board of the ICGP, initially as Chair Prof Murray is the former Chair of both the Basic of Board of Censors and then from 2011 to 2012, Specialist Training Committee and the Irish Dr Doyle served as President of the Irish College of Committee on Higher Medical Training in RCPI. General Practitioners. Thursday 4 Thursday 4 Professor Murray graduated from University College Dr Doyle is particularly interested in the wellbeing of Dublin in 1980 and trained in Dublin, Boston USA, doctors and is chair of the Medical Council’s Health and Nottingham, England. He was a Consultant Committee. Gastroenterologist in Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland. As President of the Medical Council, Dr Doyle continues to support doctors and encourage them He is a founding member and Co-Chairman of the in their role as advocates for their patients. In doing RCPI/HSE EQUALS Initiative, a partnership which so, she is continuing to highlight the shortcomings in sources decommissioned medical equipment from our health services that are directly affecting patient Irish hospitals to send to hospitals in less developed care and creating too many impossible situations for countries and is also partnering the development of doctors. Friday 5 Friday 5 Friday 14 post-graduate Training in Zambia. Mr Anant N Mahapatra Prof Murray is Chairman of Alcohol Health MS(Orth), FRCS, MCh(Orth),FRCS(Orth), FIOA,FFSEM. Alliance Ireland. He has played a prominent role in Clinical Lead / Hon. Sr. Lecturer. highlighting alcohol harm in Ireland and supported RCSI Group of Hospitals Dublin North-East the introduction of evidence-based counter-measures, › Fellow Indian Orth. Association.2017 such as those in the Public Health Alcohol Act 2018. › Chair - Enhanced Recovery Program OLN. He is a Consultant Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist › Winner of Irish Healthcare Award.2014 in Dublin. He previously was Gastroenterologist/ › Chair – Irish Hip Fracture Governance OLOL. Hepatologist at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and an › Winner of Golden Hip Award 2020. › Prof P K Duraiswamy Oration NZOA Shimla 2018. Associate Professor of Medicine at the Royal College Saturday 6 Saturday 6 of Surgeons in Ireland for 25 years. › Prof A K Saha Oration, IOACON Kochi 2016. › Court of Examiners RCSI Dublin. › National/Overseas FRCS(Orth), MRCS Exams. › Examiner EBOT/SICOT Orth. Diploma Exams. › National Delegate Ireland –SICOT. › Editorial board IJO, Reviewer Orth. Journals. › Co-ordinator FRCS (Orth) Basic Sc. Course RCSI. › College Blue Award. SCB Med. Col. Cuttack. India
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OUR GUEST SPEAKERS Wednesday 3 Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 Thursday 4 96th ABRAHAM COLLES LECTURE
Professor James Lau Professor James Lau is the current Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He studied medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia, completed his training in upper gastrointestinal surgery and therapeutic endoscopy at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Friday 5 Friday 5 Kong. Professor Lau was further trained in vascular Friday 14 surgery in the UK and Australia. Professor Lau has received research grants from the University Grant Council to the Hong Kong SAR Government, the Health and Medical Research Fund and the Croucher Foundation.
In 2014, Professor Lau received an endowed Professorship from the late Mr. Yao Ling Sun’s family. Professor Lau’s research includes therapeutic
endoscopy to bleeding peptic ulcers and strategies Saturday 6 Saturday 6 to improve outcomes in patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Professor Lau has published over 300 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals.
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RESEARCH OUTPUT NATIONAL SURGICAL AND Thursday 4 EMERGENCY MEDICINE • 38 peer reviewed publications during the past 24 months TRAINING PROGRAMMES • 2 PhDs and 1 MSc supervised to • 39% increase in CST applications completion • 28.4 average age of CST applicant • 1 Models of Care Published in • 44% of CST applicants were Otorhinolaryngology and Urology female • 4 Research Webinars • 12 specialties • 197 CST & CSTEM trainees STAFF • 311 Specialty trainees •56 staff members • 16 international trainees •178 adjunct faculty (CPSP & Sudan) Friday 5 • 648 trainers
SUPPORTING ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES SURGICAL SERVICES AND SHORT COURSES • 48,500 users viewing the • 16 Accredited short courses president's bi weekly updates • Academic programmes • Weekly webinars 5 37 • Academic students • Fellows supporting GP Connect 75 51 • 1 Academic programme in development Hub • 44 COVID-19 initiatives - Clinical Saturday 6 Programmes Saturday 9
PCS AND FELLOWS AND CPD COURSES MEMBERS PROGRAMME • 790 NCHD on the CPD-SS Scheme •9, 600 Fellows and Members • 92 courses in Dublin (56% Online) •2, 122 doctors registered in the • 6 new RCSI accredited certificates Professional Competence Scheme
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09.00 – 12.00 IRISH SURGICAL TRAINING GROUP MEETING (ISTG) ISTG is an independent entity run by surgical trainees. In addition to organising and running specific events, ISTG represents trainees from all subspecialties and levels of surgical training at a variety of committees influencing training.
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF SURGICAL TRAINING
Co-Chairs Mr David Brinkman Wednesday 3 ISTG President and SpR in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Waterford
Ms Jessica Ryan ISTG Vice President and SpR in General Surgery, University Hospital Waterford
09.00 – 09.05 Welcome
09.05 – 09.45 SESSION I: FELLOWSHIP
09.05 – 09.15 RCSI COLLES TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP IN SURGERY 2019 Thursday 4 Ms Danielle Collins Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, NHS Lothian
09.15 – 09.25 RCSI SURGICAL TRAVEL GRANT RECIPIENT 2019 Ms Elaine Redmond Paediatric Urology Fellow, British Columbia Children’s Hospital
09.25 – 09.40 TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR IRISH AND BRITISH SURGEONS IN LOWER AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES (LMICS) Dr Aishan Patil IST1 in Vascular Surgery, East Scotland Deanery Friday 5
09.40 – 10.00 BREAK
10.00 – 11.00 SESSION II: PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF TRAINING
10.00 – 10.15 HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TRAINER AS A SURGICAL TRAINEE Ms Sumrit Bola ST8 SpR in ENT, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (UK)
10.15 – 10.30 POACHER TURNED GAMEKEEPER: TRAINEE TO TPD Mr Eoin Sheehan Training Programme Director, Trauma and Orthopaedics; Clinical Professor of Trauma Saturday 6 and Orthopaedics, University of Limerick; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore
10.30 – 10.45 WORKING AS PART OF A TEAM Dr Felipe Contepomi RCSI Graduate (2007) & Leinster Backs Coach
10.45 – 11.00 PANEL DISCUSSION
54 RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021 Tuesday 2 11.00 – 11.15 BREAK
11.15 – 11.45 THE BOSCO O’MAHONY LECTURE
“The Changing Face of Surgical Training”
Professor Peter Gillen Associate Professor of Surgery, RCSI
11:45 – 11:50 ANNOUNCEMENT OF SILVER SCALPEL AWARD Awarded by Mr Jarlath Bolger, Upper GI SpR, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin Wednesday 3
Presented to Professor Narayanasamy Ravi, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
11.50 – 12.00 CLOSING REMARKS AND LAUNCH OF NEW WEBSITE Mr David Brinkman, ISTG President Mr Michael Flanangan, ISTG Webmaster
BOSCO O’MAHONY 2021 LECTURER Thursday 4 Professor Peter Gillen was appointed as an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at RCSI in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in 2005, and has been working tirelessly on his commitment to education for his entire career. After graduating from UCD in 1979 and being appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in 1995, as a practicing clinician he has held multiple roles, which he has kept on since his recent retirement from clinical practice. As a testament to his interest in effective communication and the benefits this brings, he has been faculty in the RCSI Human Factors programme for the past 5 years, and more recently has taken on the role as Clinical Lead for the National Healthcare Communications Programme’s (NHCP) response to the country-wide Patient Experience Survey and, further afield, contributes to the European Association for Communication in Healthcare Friday 5 (EACH). He has touched the lives of many a trainee in his roles in RCSI and we are delighted to welcome him to give the Bosco O’Mahony Lecture in 2021.
JOHN BOSCO O’MAHONY (1948 – 2008) Mr John Bosco O’Mahony FRCSI MRCP (UK) was one of the longest serving members of the Council of RCSI, being elected by his peers for almost twenty years consecutively. His untimely death on the 29th July 2008 left a void for the College, where he served on Council since 1989, and for the people of Wexford, where he was Consultant Surgeon since July 1984 in Wexford General Hospital. Bosco was a man of exceptionally high intelligence as proved by his many personal and academic achievements. Saturday 6 He was Head-boy and Gold medalist at Rockwell College and won a scholarship to study medicine in University College Dublin, graduating in 1972. He completed his internship at St Vincent’s University Hospital and was awarded his MRCP (UK) before concentrating on his career in surgery. His post graduate training took him to St Thomas’s Hospital in London and subsequently to Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University in Boston USA, where he completed his research training. His greatest legacy will be his human touch. He understood people and their needs and worked extremely hard over the years in his profession. He was a great teacher and mentor of his junior colleagues and developed many long standing relationships with his trainees. He was awarded the Silver Scalpel in 2007 by the Higher Surgical Trainees in recognition of his talents.
55 RCSI CHARTER DAY 2021 Tuesday 2 Wednesday 3 Thursday 4 BECOME AN FRCS EXAMINER
Since 2014, the Court of Examiners has recruited more than 80 new MRCS Examiners in Ireland and the UK. The Court is now inviting RCSI Fellows in Ireland and the UK to become FRCS examiners for the following specialties: Friday 5
› Cardiothoracic Surgery › General Surgery › Neurosurgery › Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery › Otolaryngology › Paediatric Surgery › Plastic Surgery Saturday 6 › Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery › Urology › Vascular Surgery
Interested Fellows can visit the Court of Examiners information stand at the Charter Day or contact us at [email protected] rcsi.ie/coe
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