Winter Conference 2022

#PsychConf

10th & 11th November
The Grand Hotel Malahide, Dublin

External/Internal CPD credits:
Thursday: 7 credits | Friday: 7 credits

Members of RCPsych NI and doctors registered on PCS Only should contact Jennie Dalton directly by email jdalton@irishpsychiatry.ie to register.

PROGRAMME

19:00 – 21:30 | SPIKE MILLIGAN PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION 2022

Tara Suite, Grand Hotel Malahide

FROM 8.15 | REGISTRATION & POSTER EXHIBITION | O’CAROLAN SUITE

09:20 | WELCOME ADDRESS | TARA SUITE

Dr William Flannery | President, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland & Dr Richard Wilson, Chair of RCPsych NI

09:30 – 10:30 | PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY | TARA SUITE

 

PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY IN FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS. ALGORITHMS, ADVERSE EVENTS AND ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENTS

Associate Professor Brian O’Donoghue | Associate Professor, UCD & University of Melbourne and Consultant Psychiatrist, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin

 

DRUG DEVELOPMENT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Professor Mark Weiser | Chairman, Psychiatry Division, Sheba Medical Center, Israel

 

CHAIRED BY: Professor David Cotter

10:30 – 11:30 | YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH | TARA SUITE

 

COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS OF IRELAND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FACULTY LAUNCH

Dr Michele Hill | Chair, Faculty of Youth and Student Psychiatry

 

OUR COLLECTIVE ROLE IN REIMAGINING IRELAND’S YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Mr Ian Power | CEO, Spunout

 

NORTHERN IRELAND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SURVEY

Dr Ciaran Mulholland | Consultant Psychiatrist, Northern Health & Social Care Trust; Clinical Director, Northern Ireland Regional Trauma Network

 

CHAIRED BY: Professor Mary Cannon & Ms Asha Woodhouse

11:30 – 11:50 | COFFEE BREAK

11:50 – 13:20 | NCHD ORAL PRESENTATIONS | TARA SUITE

 

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS SCALE (PANSS). A COMPARISON OF INTERVIEW REPORTS AND INFORMANT RATED PANSS. ARE WE ACCURATELY ASSESSING AND IDENTIFYING UNMET TREATMENT NEED?

Dr Hania Amin | Central Mental Hospital, Dublin

 

DUBLIN HOSPITAL WORKERS MENTAL HEALTH DURING THE PEAK OF IRELAND’S COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Dr Conan Brady | Connolly Hospital, Dublin

 

MENTORING & SUPPORT PRACTICES FOR FINAL-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS DURING A PANDEMIC – THE ‘COVID DOCTORS’

Dr Gurjot Brar | Triouge Centre, Bridge Street, Portlaoise

 

NEW WAYS OF WORKING: COVID-19 AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN ACTURE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

Dr Genevieve Crudden | Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin

 

PREVALENCE OF SELF-HARM AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOURS IN YOUNG PEOPLE PRESENTING WITH A FIRST EPISODE OF PSYCHOSIS

Dr Patrick Fitzpatrick | Newcastle Hospital, Greystones, Co Wicklow

 

PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF RESTRICTIVE INTERVENTIONS IN AN IRISH CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL: A 4-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

Dr Maeve Haran | Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin Hospital, Dublin

 

CHAIRED BY: Dr Brian Hallahan

13:20 – 14:20 | LUNCH | COAST RESTAURANT

14:20 – 15:30 | PARALLEL SESSIONS

 

SESSION 1 | TARA SUITE

 

HOW PSYCHIATRISTS CAN WORK WITH SHARING THE VISION TO IMPROVE IRISH HEALTHCARE

Dr Siobhan MacHale | Associate Professor, RCSI & Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Beaumont Hospital

 

PANEL DISCUSSION

PANEL: Dr Maeve Doyle, Professor Mary Cannon, Dr Karen O’Connor, Dr Philip Dodd and Dr Gerry McCarney

 

CHAIRED BY: Dr William Flannery

 

Available on demand.

 


 

SESSION 2 | GRAHAM BELL SUITE

PEER REVIEW (AND HOW TO APPRAISE RESEARCH)

Professor John Lyne | Associate Professor, RCSI; Consultant Psychiatrist, Newcastle Hospital; Editor-in-Chief, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine

PUBLISHING, SOCIAL MEDIA & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Associate Professor Anne Doherty | Mater Misercordiae Hospital; Head of E-Learning and Courses, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

CHAIRED BY: Professor Brian O’Donoghue

15:30 – 15:50 | COFFEE BREAK

15:50 – 17:00 | PARALLEL SESSIONS (CONTINUED)

 


SESSION 3 | TARA SUITE

 

INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Professor Scott Stuart | IPT Institute

 

IPT IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Dr Philip McGarry | Consultant Psychiatrist and Interpersonal Psychotherapist, Northern Ireland

 

IPT NOW AND IN THE FUTURE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

Dr Miriam Kennedy | Consultant Psychiatrist, Highfield Healthcare, Dublin

CHAIRED BY: Dr Philip McGarry

 


 

SESSION 4 | GRAHAM BELL SUITE

THE SPECIALIST REHABILITATION UNIT PROGRAMME: ONE PIECE OF THE SOLUTION

Dr Kevin Foy | Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Specialist Rehabilitation Unit, Bloomfield Hospital, Dublin

Dr Marina Bowe | Consultant in Rehabilitation, SRU, Highfield Hospital, Dublin

Dr Donal O’Hanlon | Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry & Clinical Director, Kildare & West Wicklow Mental Health Services

 

CHAIRED BY: Dr Brian Fitzmaurice

 

PUBLISHING, SOCIAL MEDIA & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Associate Professor Anne Doherty | Mater Misercordiae Hospital; Head of E-Learning and Courses, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

CHAIRED BY: Professor Brian O’Donoghue

 


 

SESSION 5 | BAIRD SUITE

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE – ORGANISED BY THE CPSYCHI AND RCPSYCH NI TRAINEE COMMITTEE

N.B. – MAX 30 pax

LIFE NOTES™: ON WRITING YOUR WORK

Ms Niamh Bohane | Lifenotes

CHAIRED BY: Dr Kevin Lally & Dr Alex Todd

19:00 – 19:30 | CSCST GRADUATION AND EXAMINATION AWARD CEREMONY | TARA SUITE

19:30 – LATE | CPSYCHI & RCPSYCH NI CONFERENCE DINNER

DINNER TICKET REQUIRED. PRE-BOOKING ESSENTIAL.

Drinks reception in Griffin Lounge followed by conference dinner in Coast Restaurant.

FROM 8.30 | REGISTRATION & POSTER EXHIBITION | O’CAROLAN SUITE

9:20 | WELCOME ADDRESS | TARA SUITE

Dr Lorcan Martin | College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Vice-President & Conference Academic Coordinator

09:30 – 11:00 | POST CSCST FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

 

TraP

Dr Zetti Azvee | Consultant Psychiatrist, Dublin North City Mental Health Services, North Strand, Dublin

 

BREAKING THROUGH BARRIERS; EXPERIENCES FROM MY CAP-ID FELLOWSHIP

Dr Munira Farah | Post CST fellow, South Lee CAMHS, Cork

 

YOUNG ONSET DEMENTIA: A CROSS-DISCIPINARY POST-CST FELLOWSHIP

Dr Martha Finnegan | Consultant in Psychiatry of Later Life, Tallaght University Hospital, Clinical Senior Lecturer, TCD

 

A FELLOWSHIP IN EARLY INTERVENTION PSYCHOSIS: CLINICAL AND NON-CLINICAL SKILLS

Dr Sean Naughton | Consultant Psychiatrist, Detect Early Intervention in Psychosis, Dublin

 

CHAIRED BY: Dr Aoibhinn Lynch

11:00 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 | TARA SUITE

THE WAR IN UKRAINE

Dr Denis Ougrin | Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Enhanced Treatment Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

THE STORY SO FAR – FROM A HSE PSYCHOLOGIST WORKING WITH UKRANIAN & INTERNATIONAL ASYLUM SEEKING APPLICANTS

Dr Hester O’Conner | Clinical Psychologist, HSE Dublin, Kildare & Wicklow

MENTAL HEALTH IN EMERGENCY SETTINGS

Dr Peter Hughes | ACF Afghanistan

 

CHAIRED BY: Dr Ciaran Mulholland

13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | COAST RESTAURANT

14:00 – 14:25 | ‘CONFESSIONS OF A PARTY ANIMAL – WHY MEDICS REALLY NEED TO TAKE PLEASURE MORE SERIOUSLY’ | TARA SUITE

(OR HOW WRITING A MEDICAL MEMOIR HELPED A ‘BURNED-OUT’ EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN RECOVER HIS MOJO)

Dr Chris Luke | Former Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Public Health at UCC, Columnist and Author of ‘A Life in Trauma’

CHAIRED BY: Professor Anne Doherty

14:45 – 15:00 | ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRIZES – NCHD ORAL, NCHD POSTER, MEDICAL STUDENT POSTER, IJPM JOHN DUNNE MEDAL & IJPM ADA ENGLISH MEDAL | TARA SUITE

15:00 – 16:30 | KEEPING THE BODY AND MIND TOGETHER: HOW LIAISON PSYCHIATRY CAN INTEGRATE CARE ACROSS THE ACUTE HOSPITAL | TARA SUITE

Dr James Kinahan | Liaison Psychiatrist, Cork University Hospital & Mercy University Hospital

Dr Darren McLoughlin | Emergency Medicine Physician, Cork University Hospital & Mercy University Hospital

Ms Eibhlin Collins | Social Inclusion Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Mercy University Hospital

Dr Eric Kelleher | Liaison Psychiatrist, Cork University Hospital & Mercy University Hospital

Dr Brian Sweeney | Consultant Neurologist, Cork University Hospital

Ms Sinead Gallagher | Senior Physiotherapist, Cork University Hospital

 

INTEGRATED CARE FOR PATIENTS WHO FREQUENTLY ATTEND THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

 

INTEGRATED CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

 

CHAIRED BY: Dr Anne Marie O’Dwyer

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