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Just coming down from the high!So delighted to have successfully defended my PhD viva yesterday under the guidance of Katie Robinson and Rose Galvin 🎉.Thank you sincerely to Mairéad Cahill for chairing & my examiners Sarah Dillon and Professor Suzanne Martin ARC: Ageing Research Centre University of Limerick HSE Mid West

Today marks the Launch of a new Irish-based website packed with fantastic resources on hip and knee pain for patients and clinicians. Fantastic co-design work from Drs Clodagh Toomey & Helen O’Leary & Arthritis Ireland Check out jointpain.ie

Proud to launch this website for people with #JointPain University Of Limerick today with Dr Helen O’Leary and in collaboration with Arthritis Ireland for National Arthritis Week!! Co-designed with clinicians and people with joint pain. Please share this free resource. Jointpain.ie

All services should be age proofed.

Congrats to all who graduated from TCD Medical Gerontology Trinity College Dublin yesterday! Thanks to my PhD supervisors Rose Anne Kenny and Dr Ciaran Finucane, my family and to everyone at MISA St James's Hospital and TILDA for their support, mentorship and guidance! lauraperez Robert Briggs

🌟 Fab photo of ARC members Dr. Clodagh Toomey Karen McCreesh Helen O'Leary Helen Purtill during #ResearchWeek2025 at UL! They delivered an outstanding seminar on their innovative research addressing chronic pain in older adults 👏💡

Celebrating Brian Condon's successful PhD defense last week🥳 Huge thank you to stellar examiners (Prof. Michelle Canavan & Dr. Mairead Cahill) (chair Dr Claire O'Donnell) Congrats also to supervisors Rose Galvin, Katie Robinson & Anne Griffin!

🎉 Huge congratulations to Christina Hayes for successfully defending her PhD thesis at viva yesterday! Special thanks to examiners, Prof Roman Romero-Ortuno, TCD and Dr. Clodagh Toomey, and to the chair Dr. Mellissa Prunty. Congrats also to supervisors Rose Galvin & Dr. Molly Manning!🎓👏

Together with the Age Friendly University Committee at UL we are hosting an Age-Inclusive Symposium on Friday, 30th May, 12-2pm. Great line up of speakers including Prof Emer Ahern, IGS President & Professor Margaret O’Connor UHL. Pls DM if you would like to attend.

We recently published a blog authored by a SPHeRE Scholar Christina Hayes tilted 'Integrated care for the 'new old': Maximsing the potential of community-based multidisciplinary teams'. Read the entire blog below: sphereprogramme.ie/integrated-car…

Read Andy Clegg's recent paper on the EFI2 here: Development and external validation of the electronic frailty index 2 using routine primary care electronic health record data doi.org/10.1093/ageing… #BGSconf

Read my recent blog post on SPHeRE website 👀 ‘Integrated care for the ‘new old’: Maximising the potential of community based MDTs’. ARC: Ageing Research Centre University of Limerick sphereprogramme.ie/integrated-car…

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: all you need to know about joint pain. A guide to the ins & outs of dealing with the reason for over 20% of GP appointments in Ireland by Dr. Clodagh Toomey University Of Limerick rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Has hit most read article on Brainstorm: All you need to know about joint pain! Delighted to write this piece alongside the launch of jointpain.ie ARC: Ageing Research Centre University of Limerick PPI Ignite UL UL Research

After 6 years collaborating with NOCA on #HipFORGE, I’m pinching myself that in 1 week I’ll be joining the team as Audit Programme Manager, Trauma & Surgery🦴🚑! Attending this inspirational workshop with JBI and NOCA this week was a great start to the next chapter. 🎉

SPHeRE Christine FitzGerald Link: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

Congrats Christina Hayes on a fantastic study - Community Specialist Teams for Older Persons at risk of, or living with frailty in Ireland: a prospective cohort study of a new model of integrated care for community dwelling older adults

Interested in medications, data and #deprescribing? We're looking for a Research Fellow to join the DIAMOND team RCSI School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences! If you're an experienced researcher interested in harnessing routine healthcare data, please apply by 7 July: my.corehr.com/pls/rcsirecrui…

#OTAUS2025 excited to be representing University Of Limerick in Adelaide OTA Occupational Therapy conference - presenting later on Irish educator perspectives on patient/service user involvement in healthcare education @ARC: Ageing Research Centre University of Limerick

Are you at the beginning of your systematic review process? Registration is open for our next Introduction to Systematic Reviews (Online) workshop this September (18th, 19th, 24th & 25th) from 10am to 1pm. For more info / register: evidencesynthesisireland.ie/training/