The University of Limerick School of Medicine organising team with their collaborators, the Mid-West GP Training Scheme and the Irish College of General Practitioners, hosted the AGPI ICGP Joint Annual Scientific Conference at the University of Limerick beautiful parkland Campus on the 8th and 9th of March 2024.
Keynote Speakers
General Practitioner; Chair of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC); member of the Dutch health Council, the quality council of the Dutch National Healthcare Institute and the scientific committee of the WHO Healthy cities programme.
Prof. Dr. Maria van den Muijsenbergh was a general practitioner for 40 years and professor in Health disparities and person centred integrated primary care at the department of Primary and Community care at Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is also the chair of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC). As such she is involved in interprofessional research, teaching and policy activities that focus on strengthening primary care and on the possible contribution of Primary Care in reducing existing socio-economic and ethnic health disparities, so how primary care best can be tailored to the needs of socially vulnerable patients, like migrants or persons with limited health literacy. To achieve equity, a strong person centred, population oriented integrated affordable primary care is required, involving interprofessional collaboration between healthcare, social care, public health and civil society.
She is member of several health policy organisations as the Dutch health Council and the quality council of the Dutch National healthcare Institute and the scientific committee of the WHO Healthy cities programme.
Naturalist and wildlife documentary presenter will speak about ‘The Natural World – Healing the Disconnect’
Naturalist Eoin Warner is a wildlife documentary presenter in both the Irish and English languages and has presented some of Ireland’s foremost nature documentaries in recent years. In 2017 he was awarded two national media prizes for his work on “Éire Fhiáin”. He has co-presented on the English language documentary “A wild Irish Year” and recently completed an internationally broadcast three-hour series titled “Ireland’s Wild Islands”. Eoin is currently working on a natural history documentary on the Burren.
Eoin grew up by the Atlantic Ocean outside Bantry in West Cork and now lives in Galway. He is an avid free-diver and loves nothing more than to be in, on or under the sea. Eoin has travelled extensively to explore our wildest places from Botswana to Antarctica and has a keen sense of our ecological responsibilities.
School of Applied Psychology, UCC, will speak about ‘Social Inclusion in Service, Research and Teaching’
Dr Sharon Lambert is a senior lecturer who joined the teaching staff in the School of Applied Psychology UCC following a number of years working within community based settings that provided supports to socially excluded groups. Sharon’s research interests revolve primarily around the impact of psychological trauma on development, its link with homelessness, substance dependence and mental health, and consequent considerations for service design and delivery. Sharon has particular academic and applied expertise with trauma aware, trauma sensitive and trauma informed service design projects. Sharon regularly provides guidance to national and international organisations on designing and delivering trauma aware services, policies and practices.
AGPI 2024 Prize Winners
| Prize Winner | Title |
| Best Poster Award Joseph O’Shea, Trinity College Dublin | Collaborative medicines optimisation service involving a general practice pharmacist (COMPASS) in Irish primary care: a SEIPS-based interview study. |
| Professor Bill Shannon award for Best General Practice Trainee Presentation Rebecca Orr, Queens University Belfast | Identifying factors influencing health behaviours in farmers in United Kingdom and Ireland: a mixed methods study using the Capability- Opportunity- Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) model. |
| Professor George Irwin Award for Best Education Presentation Paula Greally, University of Limerick and Trinity College Dublin | Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships in General Practice (LICs): Graduates’ perceptions of their influence on the journey from Medical Student to Doctor. |
| Professor James McCormick Award for Best Research Presentation Bridget Kiely, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland | Link workers for people living with multimorbidity attending general practices in deprived urban communities. An exploratory randomised trial investigating feasibility, potential impact and cost effectiveness. |