Management
Michael O'Shea, ARCH Centre Director
Email: moshea@arch.ie
Phone: 01 716 5404
Collaborating Principal Investigators
Prof Brian Caulfield, Academic Sponsor ARCH, Collaborating Principal Investigator, Care Theme
Prof Caulfield’s research programme is focussed on exploiting technological advances to enhance human performance in the fields of connected health and sport. He has a Bachelors degree in Physiotherapy, a Masters in Medical Science, and a PhD in Medicine from UCD. Prior to returning to complete his PhD studies he worked as a clinical Physiotherapist in the USA and in Ireland. Within UCD he has served as Director of Research and Innovation in the School of Physiotherapy & Performance Science and as Dean of Physiotherapy.
Brian has over 10 years of working at the interface of technology and human performance in health and sport, initially focussing on physical rehabilitation and recently on the application of connected health solutions to chronic disease management. He has worked closely with industry since the late 1990s, beginning as a R&D consultant to Medisolve Ltd and Biomedical Research Ltd, and progressing to collaborative applied research with a wide range of local and international companies in recent years. His research has led to significant commercial opportunities in terms of exploitation of intellectual property by industry partners and spin out activity. He has co-authored over 160 research publications and 6 patents.
Prof Susi Geiger, Collaborating Principal Investigator
In the past, she has gained research funding from the prestigious Leverhulme Foundation, UK, been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Auckland, taught extensively in South East Asia and worked with a range of industrial and consumer companies in the pharmaceuticals, health care, specialist chemicals and other sectors. Since 2007 Susi has designed and delivered a wide range of marketing and sales modules on open and customized programmes for UCD Business School Executive Development, working for instance with companies such as Alltech, the Irish Stock Exchange, the Pharmaceutical Managers of Ireland, and others. Susi has served as the Vice-Principal for Research, Innovation and Impact at the UCD School of Business from 2011 until 2015; she has also directed the Diploma in Sales Management for UCD Smurfit Executive Development from 2011 to 2014.
Prof Gerardine Doyle, Collaborating Principal Investigator
Gerardine was Principal investigator in the European Health Literacy Survey where she led the work package, ‘Valorisation activities for stakeholders at the national and regional levels’. This project was awarded the European Health Award by the European Health Forum Gastein on 3 October 2012. Gerardine has recently completed a study funded under the EU Seventh Framework Programme entitled ‘Enhancing the (cost-) effectiveness of diabetes self-management education: A comparative assessment of different educational approaches and conditions for successful implementation’ (DIABETES LITERACY) where she was Principal Investigator and led the Cost Analysis work package.
Gerardine was a Co-Investigator for a study Commissioned by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit Department of Health in 2015 to support the development of a National Clinical Guideline Communication (Clinical Handover) in Acute and Children’s Hospital Services: National Clinical Guideline No.11. Dublin: Department of Health where she led the Budget Impact Analysis.
Gerardine has acted as an expert evaluator for the European Commission, Directorate General for Research & Innovation for the FP7 programme, Health 2013 Innovation and Horizon 2020. Gerardine has served as a member of the audit committee of the Health Service Executive.
Prof Walter Cullen, Professor of Urban General Practice at UCD School of Medicine
My team’s research interests include how we can best use ‘big data’ to improve the treatment of mental disorders in primary care. I am co-PI on ‘Hepcare Europe’, an EU-funded project which aims to enhance hepatitis C treatment among at-risk groups. I currently supervise one Masters and four doctoral students on topics that include primary mental healthcare and data analytics, continuing professional development for GPs, using routinely collected data to evaluate mental health policy, and cardiovascular disease profile assessment in children of parents with early onset heart disease.
I teach on General Practice to students at UCD School of Medicine. In 2008 I led a team that established the Primary Care Teaching Network affiliated to UCD School of Medicine, which now includes over 200 general practices nationally. In 2010, I led a team that established the Primary Care Teaching Network affiliated to the UL Graduate Entry Medical School, which now includes over 100 practices.
http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/medicine/professorwaltercullen/
e: walter.cullen@ucd.ie
Research Team
Dr Maria Quinlan, Research Lead, Change Team
Maria is a Sociologist who’s research background is in the area of organisational culture, power and equality. Maria lectures on Sociology of Health and Illness and Sociology of Equality. She is passionate about the role that CH can play in ensuring equal access to quality healthcare for all.
Prior to joining ARCH Maria worked for over ten years as a market evaluation and strategy manager within the health insurance, med-tech, and telecommunications industries. Leveraging this expertise, Maria also works with ARCH member companies to assess their business models and market entry strategies.
Maria has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MA from DIT, a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies from the Smurfit School of Business, UCD, and a BA from UCD.
Research interests:
Health equality, power and accessibility; gender and class; implementation science; organisational change; organisational behaviour; healthcare politics, policy and financing.
Email: maria.quinlan@ucd.ie
Phone: 01 716 5405
Twitter: @maria_quinlan
Dr Etain Quigley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Change Team
Core research interests
Patient self-management technology, health literacy, care pathways, system evaluation, and patient level costing
Email: etain.quigley@ucd.ie
Dr. Anushree Priyadarshini, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Change Team
Anushree joined ARCH in September 2015, and will be applying her business and lifesciences training to examining Connected Health challenges and solutions from a business perspective.
Core research interests
Market and Business model innovation, Entrepreneurship, New technology adoption, managerial perspectives / consumer behavior towards new technology, Change processes and Technology marketing.
Email: anushree.priyadarshini@ucd.ie
Phone: 01 716 5406
Dr. Marcella McGovern, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Change Team
Marcella joined ARCH’s Change Team in September 2016 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She holds a PhD in Social Policy and a Bachelor of Social Science, both from University College Dublin.
Her PhD explored what are the components, mechanisms and context factors in the implementation of integrated primary care, using concept mapping and semi-structured interviews. Marcella previously worked as a Research Assistant in the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, undertaking documentary research and also conducting quantitative interviews for the second wave of Ireland’s Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
Marcella is interested in how connected health can enable the implementation of Integrated Care, by providing innovative access and self-management solutions for service users and more timely and complete health information for clinicians and policy makers.
Core research interests
Implementation science, integrated care, health services research, social policy, complex interventions, mixed-methods research.
Email: marcella.mcgovern@ucd.ie
Telephone: +353 (0)1 716 5407
Brenda Reginatto, Research Lead, Care Team
Core research interests
Clinical research, Elder care, Home care, Nursing home care, Caregiver, Wearable sensors, Start-ups.
Email: brenda.reginatto@ucd.ie
Phone: 01 716 5403
Dr Susan Donnelly, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Care Team
Prior to joining the team, she lectured in sociology at University of Edinburgh, Dublin Institute of Technology and University College Dublin where she designed and delivered courses in social and cultural theory as well as research methods.
She has worked as a researcher in academic, public and private sectors for over ten years and has produced research for various organisations, including RTÉ, UCD, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, the National Disability Authority, RehabCare and Shell.
Susie holds a PhD, MSocSc and HDip in Sociology from UCD receiving scholarships from the Irish Research Council and the Irish Social Science Data Archive. She is passionate about cultural sociology and research design and draws from a range of qualitative and quantitative methods in her research.
Core research interests
Clinical research, Elder care, Home care, Nursing home care, Caregiver, Wearable sensors, Start-ups.
Email: susan.donnelly@ucd.ie
Phone: 01 716 5403
Oisin Kearns, Research Assistant, Care Team
Oisin has previously worked within the areas of insurance and financial solutions, but has always held a fascination and passion towards social-cultural understandings of medicine, its practice, technology and the patient experience. Currently, Oisin’s interest lay in the area of e-Health and technological solutions to chronic illnesses such as dementia.
Core research interests
Dementia, User Interaction to Medical Devices and Technology, the Role of Caregiver, Home Care, Alternatives Solutions and Societal Comprehension of the Burden in Care.
Email: oisin.kearns@ucd.ie
Phone: 01 716 5403
Dr Laura Mackey, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Laura is the Post-doctoral Researcher for the Connected Health Sustaining Home Stay with Dementia (CHESS) project. She completed both her undergraduate degree in physiotherapy and her PhD in University College Dublin, Ireland.
Her PhD investigated the impact of health literacy in individuals with chronic pain, utilising both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. In addition, she piloted the implementation of a health literacy-sensitive component to an existing pain management programme, establishing a framework for future health literacy-sensitive interventions.
Laura is now focussing on the role of connected health in sustaining the person with dementia in their home. The aim of this research is to establish whether such connected health technologies can allow for more streamlined management for the person with dementia, by enabling enhanced information sharing between them, their caregiver, and their health team.
Core research interests:
Chronic disease management, clinical research, health literacy, self-management
Email: laura.mackey@ucd.ie
Dr Louise Rooney, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Louise joined ARCH’s Change Team as a postdoctoral research fellow in July 2017. Louise holds a PhD in Criminology from the Sutherland Law School, UCD. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Forensic Psychology from the University of Leicester, UK. Her PhD research investigated the influence of gender-role stereotypes on criminal justice professionals perceptions of male and female offenders.
Louise is a mixed-methodological researcher and has taught research methods to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Sutherland School of Law, UCD. She also has a background in behavioural support and has spent a number of years working with individuals on the Autistic Spectrum. Furthermore, Louise is a member of the Association of Criminal Justice Research and Development (ACJRD) and the European Society of Criminology’s working group Gender, Crime & Justice.
Core research interests:
Healthcare accessibility, gender and help-seeking behaviour, eMental Health, and system evaluation.
Email: louise.rooney@ucd.ie
Dr Katja Rybakova, Research Assistant
Katja hails from Moscow where she did Master’s degree in molecular biology at Moscow State University. Subsequently, she moved to the Netherlands to continue her education in the new field of Systems Biology which focuses on creating computer models of living organisms. She received her PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2012.
Katja was fascinated by biology since early age, and became increasingly interested in the applied research aimed at improving human health. As a postdoctoral researcher she was involved in biomedical research focused on bone mineralisation at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam as well as in the study of resistance to medication in melanoma and colorectal cancer at University College Dublin.
While working in in Ireland Katja developed a strong interest in entrepreneurship. At ARCH she is working on a commercialisation project aimed at bringing affordable genomic analysis to patients and health enthusiasts.
Email: ekaterina.rybakova@ucd.ie
Dr Shane O'Donnell, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Prior to ARCH, Shane worked as senior postdoctoral researcher in the UCD School of Business as part of the FP7 European Diabetes Literacy project, which examined the cost effectiveness of diabetes education in Europe, Taiwan and Israel. Since commencing on the project two years ago under the supervision of Co-Principal Investigator Dr.Gerardine Doyle, Shane has gained significant experience in the area of economic evaluation and micro-costing of healthcare and health interventions, having carried out detailed cost analysis of the care pathways for patients with diabetes-related complications across a variety of institutional settings.
In addition, Shane has extensive experience researching diabetes self-management outcomes, having focused on the issue at both Masters and Doctoral level. In 2010, he was granted a UCD Ad Astra scholarship funded by the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp and Dohme to carry out his PhD thesis which examined the socioeconomic contexts that influence the outcomes of structured diabetes self-management programmes. As part of his PhD he spent time as a visiting scholar at York University, Toronto working with leading academics in the area of the social determinants of health.
He is also involved in the global diabetes community. He is the Irish representative of Young Leaders in Diabetes programme, an initiative involving over 50 countries and run by the International Diabetes Federation to empower young people living with diabetes to affect positive change in their community and within the healthcare system.
Shane is interested in how connected health solutions may be leveraged to improve the health outcomes and quality of life of people with chronic conditions while also reducing inequality in access to technological innovations in healthcare.
Core research interests
Health inequities in disease outcomes, patient centred care, self-care technology, health economics, complex interventions.
Email: shane.odonnell@ucd.ie
ARCH Interns
If you are interested in joining the ARCH Intern programme and gaining invaluable experience in the field of Connected Health, please get in touch. Below are some of the interns that worked with ARCH in 2016.
Jessica Kelly, ARCH Intern
Since starting her internship with Arch, Jessica has researched the costs experienced by the HSE in missed appointments and how SMS reminders could offer a solution.
Andrew Staunton, ARCH Intern
Andy’s interest in technology has meant he has spent the majority of his time in ARCH working on projects which use technology to assess the quality of life in subjects living with chronic pain. Andy has also worked on projects analysing Ireland’s implementation of electronic health records.
Christina Hecht, ARCH Intern
Christinas has experience evaluating alcohol harm reduction policy in London and co-wrote an evaluation of the London boroughs’ Statements of Licensing Policies. She is interested in how connected health can be used by consumers and used in the clinical setting.
Stella Tattan, ARCH Intern
Having began her career from a young age working as a fashion model in Dublin, alongside her passion for biological sciences has developed into a strong interest in the area of consumer genetics. She now works on the prototype build at Genebox in ARCH.
Collaborators
Prof Seamas Donnelly, UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science
A medical graduate of University College Galway (UCG), he successfully competed for the prestigious Wellcome Trust Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh and the Picower Institute in New York, an Institute affiliated to Rockefeller University. Returning to Ireland, he was one of the first clinicians to be awarded a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator Programme grant award which was renewed for a further 5 years up to 2014. This work has focused on the development of novel small molecular-weight anti-inflammatory agents targeting chronic inflammatory diseases particularly pertaining to the lung. He is a co-applicant on the recently awarded Wellcome Trust/HRB Dublin Clinical Research Facility.
In 2010 Seamas was awarded an Honorary Professorship by the University of Edinburgh, a University currently ranked among the top 20 universities in the world and among the top ten in Europe.
Dr Dermot Power, UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science
From an academic perspective, he established the UCD Intern Training programme in 2010. Over the last 3 years this new UCD-delivered training programme has been the most popular of the country’s 6 Intern training programmes and has consistently attracted the best and brightest medical graduates from Ireland and across Europe.
Dr Diarmuid O'Shea, St Vincents University Hospital
Prof Peter Mc Namara, Professor of Management at Maynooth University
Sarah Cosgrave, Clinical Nurse Manager, St. Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin
