AGM 2022 Programme
9:30am - Official Business
Minutes, Treasurer’s Report, Specialty Committees for 2022/23 and Deceased Members
Official Handing Over of Chain of Office from Dr Ina Kelly to incoming President Dr Clive Kilgallen
10am - 11:30pm Session 1 - The Medical Response to Armed Conflict and Displaced Persons
Our panel of international experts will discuss their experiences on the ground and at home and best -practice approach to providing medical care and assistance during armed conflict.
Panel Guests
Dr Srihari Cattamanchi
Rapid Deployment Unit – Emergency Medical Mission, Ukraine and Regional ER Physician Specialist - Asia Region, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Dr Srihari Cattamanchi
Rapid Deployment Unit – Emergency Medical Mission, Ukraine and Regional ER Physician Specialist - Asia Region, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Dr Srihari Cattamanchi, MBBS, MD, MPH
Srihari Cattamanchi, MBBS, MD, MPH is an emergency physician from India. His background, both academically and professionally, focuses on Emergency Medicine, Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Assistance, Pre-hospital Emergency Care, Clinical Research, and Public Health.
Dr Cattamanchi was born and raised in India. He went to medical school in Nepal from 1998 to 2005 and did his postgraduate emergency medicine residency in India from 2007 to 2010. Later, Dr Cattamanchi moved to Boston, MA in August 2011 as a postdoctoral research fellow in disaster medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre. And then did his Master’ in Public Health (MPH) from 2014 to 2015 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
After his MPH, Dr. Cattamanchi worked on developing the faculty of disaster medicine in India and since 2017, Dr Cattamanchi is working with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Geneva as a Health Delegate – Emergency Specialist, training doctors and nurses on emergency trauma care, and mass casualty preparedness and response in Gaza and Beirut.
For his work towards, Emergency, Disaster, and Humanitarian Medicine, IFEM awarded Dr Cattamanchi the IFEM Humanitarian Award for 2020 during the virtual IFEM Annual General body meeting in July 2020.
Since October 2020, Dr Cattamanchi is the Regional ER Physician Specialist of the Asia Pacific Region coordinating all ICRC ED projects in the Asia Pacific Region as well as the ICRC Global Coordinator for Basic Emergency Care (BEC) Course.
Currently, Dr Cattamanchi is in Ukraine, since March 21st, 2022, as part of the Rapid Deployment Unit - Emergency Medical Mission with the International Committee of the Red Cross heading the ICRC EMS Ambulance Team in Ukraine
Professor Gregory Ciottone
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Professor Gregory Ciottone
President, World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dr Gregory R. Ciottone, MD, FACEP, FFSEM
Dr. Ciottone is an emergency physician and the President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). He is the Founding Director of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Fellowship in Disaster Medicine, as well as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Instructor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Dr. Ciottone is also the Director of Medical Preparedness for the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the HSPH and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and has been serving as a consultant to the White House Medical Unit for the past three administrations.
Dr. Ciottone’s clinical and field experience includes 25 years as a practicing emergency physician and over 500 missions as a flight physician on an aeromedical helicopter service. He has conducted educational programs in more than 30 countries around the world and has served as a disaster response fellowship director for the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr. Ciottone has written over 150 scholarly works, including the first and second editions of his textbook Ciottone’s Disaster Medicine, and is the 2018 recipient of the American College of Emergency Physicians Disaster Medical Services Award, and the 2020 recipient of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine Distinguished Service Award.
Dr Kateryna Kachurets
GP, HSE and ICGP Ukrainian crisis response team, Director Associatiion of Ukrainians in Ireland
Dr Kateryna Kachurets
GP, HSE and ICGP Ukrainian crisis response team, Director Associatiion of Ukrainians in Ireland
Dr Kateryna Kachurets
Dr Kateryna Kachurets is a General Practitioner based in Dublin. She is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine and has been working as a medical doctor in Ireland since 2016, did her internship and GP training in Dublin, Laois and Kildare and is currently involved in supporting the newly arrived beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine. She is working with the HSE and the ICGP on the Ukrainian response nationally since the start of the invasion. Kateryna has also been supporting medical needs of multiple hospitals in Ukraine, as well as the frontline, through Medical Help Ukraine Charity Campaign medicalhelpukraine.com .
Dr. Fadi Issa
Director of Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, (BIDMC) Boston Disaster Medicine Fellowship
Dr. Fadi Issa
Director of Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, (BIDMC) Boston Disaster Medicine Fellowship
Dr. Fadi Issa MD, JBEM, EMDM
Dr. Issa is the Director of Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, (BIDMC) Boston Disaster Medicine Fellowship. He is an Emergency Medicine consultant with over 12-years of experience in the academic and clinical fields.
He is a Jordanian board-certified emergency physician, a graduate of the European Master in Disaster Medicine in 2015, a graduate of BIDMC Fellowship in Disaster Medicine in 2018 and a Harvard Medical School research fellow in disaster medicine. He has deployed several times in humanitarian missions to serve Syrian refugees in Jordan and in response to natural disasters including the Dorian hurricane in the Bahamas. Dr. Issa serves as a chair of the WADEM special interest group in Counter Terrorism Medicine and senior editor for WIKI-EM. Since 2018, he has mentored and supervised several research papers with fellows as part of the BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship faculty.
11.30am – 12.45am National Meetings
GP National Meeting
NCHD National Meeting
Consultant National Meeting
Public Health and Community Health National Meeting
12.45pm – 2pm Working Lunch with Financial Seminar by IMOFS and Zurich
2pm Address by Minister For Health
2:30pm - 3:30pm Session 2 - Beyond the Pandemic – Key issues for the Health Service
Our guest speakers will discuss the priorities for the health service post-COVID 19, in terms of health system capacity, medical workforce planning and recruitment and the challenges of moving care from the hospital into the community
Speakers
Dr Brian Turner
Economist and Lecturer, UCC
Dr Brian Turner
Economist and Lecturer, UCC
Dr Brian Turner, Economist and lecturer UCC
Having graduated with an MA in Economics in 1994, Brian spent five years as a property analyst in London, before joining estate agents Hamilton Osborne King as Head of Research in 1999. In 2002, Brian joined The Health Insurance Authority – the statutory regulatory body for the Irish private health insurance industry – as Head of Research/Technical Services. In 2005, Brian returned to UCC to study for a PhD in Economics, focusing on health insurance issues, which he completed in early 2010. He now lectures in the Department of Economics, focusing in particular on health and insurance issues. His research has been published nationally and internationally, he has been invited to speak at numerous high-profile events and policy fora, and he is a frequent contributor to national media discussions on the Irish health system. Brian also holds a Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, both from UCC.
Dr Niamh Humphries
Senior Lecturer, RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management
Dr Niamh Humphries
Senior Lecturer, RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management
Dr Niamh Humphries is a Senior Lecturer at the RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management. She holds a PhD in Sociology and has been researching health workforce issues in the Irish health system for the past 16 years. Niamh also holds a HRB Emerging Investigator Award for the Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation (HDRM) project.
Professor Matthew Sadlier
Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Dublin North
Professor Matthew Sadlier
Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Dublin North
Professor Matthew Sadlier
Professor Sadlier is a graduate of UCD and after completing training in General Practice training he went on to complete higher specialist training in both General Adult Psychiatry and Psychiatry of Old Age. He is a former president (2013-2014) of the Irish Medical Organisation. Currently he is a consultant in Old Age Liaison Psychiatry as well as being Clinical Director of General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry in Dublin North City.
3.30pm Session 3 - Gender Equality in Medicine – Time for a sledgehammer
Reflecting on the results of the IMO Gender Equality Survey, our expert panel will discuss progress made in addressing gender disparities in medicine and the persistent challenges that remain.
Panel Guests
Dr Fiona Kiernan
CEO and Founder Zeumed and Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine
Dr Fiona Kiernan
CEO and Founder Zeumed and Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine
Dr Fiona Kiernan
Dr Fiona Kiernan is CEO and Founder of Zeumed, a digital health startup which designs precision costing models for hospitals. A unique hybrid of an economist and clinician, she practised medicine for sixteen years, including seven years as a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine in Beaumont Hospital, and has developed a pioneering funding model for high cost patients for the HSE. She spent five years as a board member of the State Board of the Health Insurance Authority which regulates the Irish health insurance industry. Along with her medical degree from University College Dublin, she also has a Masters in Health Economics, Policy & Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Economics from University College Dublin.
Dr Gozie Offiah
Senior lecturer RCSI and National Clinical Lead for Intern Training, HSE
Dr Gozie Offiah
Senior lecturer RCSI and National Clinical Lead for Intern Training, HSE
Dr Gozie Offiah
Gozie Offiah is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Curriculum at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She is also the Clinical Lead for the National Intern Training programme in the Health Service Executive.
She has background training in Surgery and recently completed a PhD in Medical Education with a thesis entitled: “Women in Surgery: Exploring stakeholders lived experiences in the Irish and Scottish Healthcare systems.” Her research interests include qualitative research methodologies with a particular interest in innovations in qualitative data analysis in medical education research such as discourse and narrative analysis and social constructionism approaches. Areas of research include constructed identities and intersectionality most specially the intersections between gender, age, ethnicity and professional identities, career transitions and surgical cultures in the workplace.
Dr Rachel McNamara
National NCHD Innovation Fellow with the Spark Innovation programme, Chair IMO NCHD Women in Medicine Working Group
Dr Rachel McNamara
National NCHD Innovation Fellow with the Spark Innovation programme, Chair IMO NCHD Women in Medicine Working Group
Dr Rachel McNamara
Dr Rachel McNamara is an NCHD and member of the Irish Medical Organisation since 2016. Dr McNamara is a member of the national IMO NCHD committee and is a spokesperson for the current IR Campaign 'standingup4NCHDs'. She has also chaired the IMO NCHD Women in Medicine Working Group for the last two years. She is currently undertaking a Fellowship in Innovation and Change with the Spark Innovation Programme and National Doctors Training and Planning, a role which involves embedding a culture of Innovation across the Irish Health Service. Dr McNamara also works part time as a Senior Medical Officer in the Mid-West Department of Public Health, where her special interests include tackling health inequities and the improvement of health service delivery.
Dr Madeleine Ní Dhálaigh
GP, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon
Professor Anthony O'Connor
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Tallaght Hospital
Professor Anthony O'Connor
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Tallaght Hospital
Professor Anthony O’Connor
Dr Anthony O'Connor graduated in medicine from University College Cork in his hometown in 2004. He completed SHO training in Limerick before undertaking higher specialist training in Gastroenterology in Tallaght and St. James's Hospitals in Dublin. He was awarded an MD by Trinity College Dublin in 2012 for a thesis on the management of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric intestinal metaplasia with regard to gastric cancer prevention supervised by Professor Colm O'Morain.
Upon completion of his training in Ireland he worked as senior fellow in Crohn's and Colitis at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA before taking up an appointment as Consultant Gastroenterologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in June 2014 and returning to Ireland in 2016 to an appointment as Consultant Gastroenterologist at Tallaght Hospital. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and has given invited lectures and oral presentations at many national and international meetings. His interests are Inflammatory Bowel Diseases especially Post-operative prophylaxis of Crohn’s disease and Quality of Life for patients with IBD, the GI complications of cancer therapies, Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding, Helicobacter pylori infection and Gastric Cancer prevention. When not working he can be usually found wheezing around Marlay Park near where he lives in south Dublin with his wife and twin small children and juggles the conflicting demands of work and family life with several lowbrow interests.