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The Health Behaviour Change Research Group, HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland, and the Health Promotion Research Centre are running an Autumn 2019 joint seminar series to highlight research in the area of population health and health services. The seminars take place on November 1^st, November 12^th and December 3^rd  at 1pm in the School of Psychology. All are welcome to attend, and a light lunch will be served from 12.30pm. We are delighted that Professor Andrew Murphy and Dr Ray O’Connor will deliver the First seminar on Fri 1^st Nov, on the topic of ‘Practice and Patient recruitment in primary care’. Details below.

All are welcome, and please feel free to circulate to colleagues and contacts who may be interested in attending.

Optimising audit and feedback to improve care and population outcomes

Tuesday 3rd December at 1pm, (light lunch 12.30pm), G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway

Co-hosted by the Health Behavioural Change Research Change Group and the HRB Trials Methodology Research Network

Prof Jeremy Grimshaw received a MBChB (MD equivalent) from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He trained as a family physician prior to undertaking a PhD in health services research at the University of Aberdeen. He moved to Canada in 2002. His research focuses on the evaluation of interventions to disseminate and implement evidence-based practice. He is a Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, a Full Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Knowledge Transfer and Uptake. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal College of Edinburgh. He has been awarded the CIHR Knowledge Translation award twice, and is the 2018 CIHR Barer-Flood career achievement award winner for Health Services and Policy Research. He has over 550 peer reviewed publications. To read more about Prof Grimshaw and his work, please visit the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Centre for Implementation Research. Prof Grimshaw is a recipient of the Ireland Canada University Foundation Flaherty Visiting Professorship. He will return to NUI Galway for a 12 week visit in Spring 2020.

Development of Health Promotion in Saudi Healthcare transformation Programme

Tuesday 12th November, 1.00pm - 2.00pm, (light lunch 12.30pm), G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway

Dr Albalawi is a Health Promotion Specialist. Skilled in Social Media Analytics, Agenda Setting, and Health Communication with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Health Promotion and Health Communication from National University of Ireland, Galway. He is currently working as visiting research fellow at the Health Promotion Research Centre, NUI Galway. He is also a consultant at Vision Realisation Office, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia, and a consultant at Saudi CDC.

Practice and Patient Recruitment in Primary Care

Friday November 1st, 1.00pm - 2.00pm, (light lunch 12.30pm), G065, School of Psychology, NUI Galway

Professor Andrew Murphy is the Director of the HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland. Andrew is also the Professor of General Practice at NUI Galway and a GP in Turloughmore Medical Centre. Prof Murphy has a distinguished research career, including leading a clinical trial on the provision of secondary cardiac care in the community which was, at the time, the largest academic-lead trial ever conducted on the island of Ireland. Andrew’s  research, largely quantitative and always collaborative, addresses chronic disease management and professional practice in the community. In leading this Network, he builds on previous collaborations with partners in RSCI, QUB and the ICGP. With significant input from the public/patient guiding the research, Andrew has a vision that this Network will break new ground to answer common problems in primary care, that will improve individual patient health and healthcare

Dr Ray O’Connor is a GP Fellow with the HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland , working to develop and implement a general practice information program of assessment, feedback and training intended to improve the quality of data recording in the network. He has worked in the Irish healthcare system continuously, working primarily in deprived areas of Limerick city. Dr O’Connor is also very active in teaching in Limerick, as medical director of the Medical Exercise programme, assistant programme director of the Mid-West Specialist Training Programme in General Practice, and group leader of an ICGP small group continuing medical education. From 2017 to 2019, Dr. O’Connor was a senior research fellow in the department of general practice at the University of Limerick Graduate Entry Medical School. His research interests are varied, including chronic disease management and education. He has published 56 papers in peer-reviewed publications over the last 33 years and has acted as a Reviewer for Primary Healthcare Research and Development, Irish Medical Journal, BMJ Open and Journal of Thoracic Disease.