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Join broadcaster Ciara Kelly and our host of experts who aim to navigate us through the myriad of conditions and how the brain-gut axis might hold the answer.
Our panel is as follows:
Amy Kelly, from Kildare, is a freelance researcher and board member of the Irish Society of Colitis and Crohn’s Disease (ISCC). Amy was elected to the national position of Vice President for Campaigns with the Union of Students in Ireland in 2017. She also works as an MC, and as a radio and television presenter, researcher, production coordinator and production assistant. She was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in April 2019.
Dr Anthony O'Connor graduated from University College Cork in 2004. 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.
Patrick Walsh earned a PhD in biochemistry at UCC in 2001. In 2006, he accepted a position as principal scientist in R&D at GlaxoSmithKline in Philadelphia, before returning to Ireland as a senior scientist and programme manager at the Immunology Research Centre at TCD in 2008. In January 2011, he joined the NCRC as a lecturer in Paediatric Immunology and Principal Investigator on the Paediatric Research in Translational Immunology (PRiTI) programme, which coincided with his receipt of a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher award in 2011. His laboratory is located at the National Children’s Research Centre at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
Darren Donohue is an award-winning playwright and poet originally from Newbridge, Co. Kildare. His play Dayshift will receive an Irish premiere with Eva’s Echo later this year and a U.S. premiere with Rapid Lemon Productions in Baltimore. Darren is a recipient of the Science Gallery Dublin Rapid Residencies 2020. He is researching work about chronic illness and lives with Crohn’s disease.
Our moderator, Ciara Kelly, is the presenter of Lunchtime Live on Newstalk. She also has a weekly column with the Sunday Independent.
This event is part of the Living With… series, held in partnership with ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development - from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies.
Join broadcaster Ciara Kelly and our host of experts who aim to navigate us through the myriad of conditions and how the brain-gut axis might hold the answer.
Our panel is as follows:
Amy Kelly, from Kildare, is a freelance researcher and board member of the Irish Society of Colitis and Crohn’s Disease (ISCC). Amy was elected to the national position of Vice President for Campaigns with the Union of Students in Ireland in 2017. She also works as an MC, and as a radio and television presenter, researcher, production coordinator and production assistant. She was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in April 2019.
Dr Anthony O'Connor graduated from University College Cork in 2004. 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.
Patrick Walsh earned a PhD in biochemistry at UCC in 2001. In 2006, he accepted a position as principal scientist in R&D at GlaxoSmithKline in Philadelphia, before returning to Ireland as a senior scientist and programme manager at the Immunology Research Centre at TCD in 2008. In January 2011, he joined the NCRC as a lecturer in Paediatric Immunology and Principal Investigator on the Paediatric Research in Translational Immunology (PRiTI) programme, which coincided with his receipt of a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher award in 2011. His laboratory is located at the National Children’s Research Centre at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin.
Darren Donohue is an award-winning playwright and poet originally from Newbridge, Co. Kildare. His play Dayshift will receive an Irish premiere with Eva’s Echo later this year and a U.S. premiere with Rapid Lemon Productions in Baltimore. Darren is a recipient of the Science Gallery Dublin Rapid Residencies 2020. He is researching work about chronic illness and lives with Crohn’s disease.
Our moderator, Ciara Kelly, is the presenter of Lunchtime Live on Newstalk. She also has a weekly column with the Sunday Independent.
This event is part of the Living With… series, held in partnership with ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development - from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies.
