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Winter Conference 2023 – Competition Winners & Photo Gallery
- November 21, 2023
- Posted by: Ian Rice
- Category: Blog Conferences Events
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College members can view the photo gallery of the conference here. Note you must be logged in to view.
The College Winter Conference 2023 featured oral presentations from 6 NCHDs and posters from 26 NCHDs and 15 medical students. The awards for these along with the 2022 John Dunne and Ada English awards for the best first-author contributions to the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine from a trainee and medical student respectively were awarded at the conference. See the winners below!
Medical Student Poster Competition Winner
Aoife Dempsey
A retrospective review of psychiatric referrals received over a 20 year period regarding patients residing in a small town/rural catchment area
NCHD Oral Competition Winner
Dr Mary Butler
The microbiota-gut brain axis in social anxiety disorder
NCHD Poster Competition Winner
Dr Molly Bredin
Evaluating the use of SCID-5-PD to aid diagnostic formulation in an adult psychiatric inpatient population
IJPM John Dunne Medal for Trainees
Dr David O’Driscoll
National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders: a pragmatic review of a new national eating disorder service in Ireland