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Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Mary McCarron

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Title - 'Leadership in Academia, Health Research and Health Care: Charting a Personal Journey'

Date(s)
May 21, 2024
Location
Canada Room/Council Chambers, Lanyon Building, QUB
Time
17:30 - 19:30
Price
Free
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You are cordially invited to attend the Professorial Lecture by Professor Mary McCarron, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin. 

Title: 'Leadership in Academia, Health Research and Health Care: Charting a Personal Journey'

The lecture will take place on Tuesday 21st May 2024 at 17.30 in the Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, QUB, followed by a reception in the Canada Room.

 

About the Speaker

Professor Mary McCarron, PhD RNID RGN BNS FTCD is Professor of Ageing and Intellectual Disability, Director of the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability (TCAID) and Executive Director of the National Intellectual Disability Memory Service. She has held many senior leadership roles in Trinity College including Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Professor McCarron is the founder and Principal Investigator for IDS-TILDA, the longitudinal comparative study on ageing in persons with intellectual disability including persons with Down syndrome, a global first. IDS-TILDA increases understanding about how lives and chronic conditions change over time for this population, drives changes on healthcare practice and national health policy. Professor McCarron has also led a longitudinal cohort study of dementia in people with Down syndrome spanning over 25 years, which has led to the development of Ireland's first dedicated National Memory Service for people with an intellectual disability, where she serves as Executive Director.

A champion of patient and public involvement in research (PPI) McCarron is Principal Investigator of PPI Ignite Programme at Trinity College Dublin, part of the national network among universities in Ireland funded by the HRB. She received the inaugural HRB Impact Award. She is co-applicant on the HRB's Clinical Research Network Awards for Dementia Trials Ireland (DTI), a world-class clinical trials' infrastructure to support and grow dementia intervention studies. In addition, she is the Irish Lead on the H21 Consortium working on Clinical and trial outcome measures for dementia in individuals with Down Syndrome,

Professor McCarron has been a key advisor on ageing and policy issues to various governmental and other groups at a national and international level and an active member of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD).

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