📣Check out this paper by INFANT Research Centre & Pregnancy Loss Research Group researchers
💡’Facilitators and barriers influencing weight management behaviours during pregnancy: a meta-synthesis of qualitative research’
🔎Read paper here:
https://lnkd.in/ewTGfx2A
Tamara Escañuela Sánchez Caroline O’Connor Keelin O’Donoghue Karen Matvienko-Sikar
📺Listen to Prof Jonathan Hourihane present:
💡’– the STOP AD randomised controlled trial’
📑Article published EAACI Allergy
📣Check out Echo Live.ie‘s coverage of INFANT and Musgrave‘s recent partnership in #foodallergyresearch
💡’The partnership will advance critical research from University College Cork’s INFANT Research Centre into anaphylaxis management’
Eoin Brophy is a PhD candidate; his research focuses on developing deep learning methods as a reliable tool to generate and process medical time-series data that adhere to privacy-preserving regulations. Ultimately, this will allow for sharing and disseminating of medical data and, in turn, advancing clinical research in the relevant fields, such as in the NICU. Eoin is passionate about using AI for improved consumer health and patient outcomes and has extensive research expertise in developing machine learning applications and rich time series data solutions. In addition, he successfully developed novel deep learning techniques to generate synthetic physiological data.
In 2017, Eoin received his MEng in Electronic Engineering from Maynooth University and worked as a lecturer for IADT in Electronics and Microcontrollers. Following this, Eoin held a research assistant position in SAP and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics in 2018. He started his PhD journey in late 2018, working out of DCU School of Computing and INFANT Research Centre.
Eoin recently defended his PhD entitled “Deep Learning-based Signal Processing Approaches for Improved Tracking of Human Health and Behaviour with Wearable Sensors”
The outcomes of his PhD were as follows:
· The first contribution lies in forwarding the field of medical time series data generation using recurrent Generative Adversarial Networks. He developed a custom architecture and loss function towards improved physiological data generation and, more significantly, provided continuous multichannel time series generation using GANs for the first time. This advancement is crucial as it means this technology can be used in further clinical training and research applications because it allows for sharing and dissemination of sensitive medical data.
· The second contribution put forward by his work explores novel deep learning technologies applied to continuous physiological time series data and unlocks further insights from these datasets. In addition, he developed novel applications of existing architectures and pioneered loss functions to improve human-centric model performance.
These PhD contributions push the envelope for state-of-the-art deep learning methods for human physiological data processing.
Eoin actively provides specialist consultancy services in the Irish technology space and hopes to undertake commercialisation opportunities in the future. Eoin was supervised by Prof. Tomas Ward (DCU) along with Prof. Geraldine Boylan (INFANT), Prof. Maarten de Vos (KU Leuven), and Dr Lorcan Walsh (Novartis).
Musgrave, Ireland’s leading food retailer, wholesaler and foodservice company, has collaborated with University College Cork (UCC) to advance allergy education and research.
In keeping with the Musgrave’s long-standing history of innovation and commitment to supporting communities, this partnership will advance critical research from UCC’s INFANT Centre into anaphylaxis management, which is the management of a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reactions, in care settings. It will also support the launch of a new online postgraduate programme in Allergy and Clinical Immunology within the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, UCC.
Ray Bowe, Head of Food Safety and Quality at Musgrave, said: “At Musgrave, we feed one in three people across Ireland every day. We ensure that the food we supply is of the highest quality and safe for those who enjoy it, and this means the continuous management of allergens is a key cornerstone across our supply chains to the end consumer. Food allergens are a significant health risk to vulnerable consumers, with the rate of allergen sufferers increasing in the developed world over the past 30 years. As a result, we were happy to have the opportunity to support this allergy education and research at UCC and CUH. We are keen to see these advancements in how allergies are managed and treated going forward.”
The new Allergy and Clinical Immunology programme at UCC is the first in Ireland that can be undertaken fully online. Aimed at healthcare professionals across a range of disciplines, this programme will provide the essential training needed to prevent, diagnose, and treat allergic and immunological diseases such as asthma, hay fever and food allergies. The support of Musgrave will see a number of grants made available for students on this programme.
Speaking about the partnership, Professor Geraldine Boylan, Professor of Neonatal Physiology and Director of the INFANT Research Centre said: “The College of Medicine and Health and the INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork is very grateful for the support our research received from industry through corporate philanthropy from Musgrave. This partnership enables us to bring together academic and clinical researchers to address knowledge gaps. Improved treatment outcomes via translational research for patients will be the rewards for this effort.”
In addition to the programme, Musgrave has also committed to supporting essential research into anaphylaxis management. Speaking about the importance of this research, Dr Juan Trujillo, lead investigator at the INFANT Research Centre and Paediatric Allergist at Cork University Hospital said: “We are investigating how allergies are managed by caregivers and how adrenaline auto-injectors, like the EpiPen, are being used in care settings. Our researchers are driving the change in allergy treatments.”
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Congratulations to post-doctoral Researcher Marita Hennessy for this European Health Psychology Society Herman Schaalma Award for her Health research Board SPHeREprogramme PhD in 2020!!
Marita is a postdoctoral researcher with the Pregnancy Loss Group at INFANT.
Prior to joining INFANT in January 2020, Marita was a Health Research Board-funded SPHeRE PhD Scholar within the Health Behaviour Change Research Group at NUI Galway. For her doctoral studies, she examined behavioural interventions delivered by health professionals during the first 1,000 days to prevent childhood obesity.
Thesis Title: Obesity prevention during early life: Developing the evidence base to maximise the effectiveness of interventions delivered by health professionals
Her research interests include maternal and child health, childhood obesity, health behaviour change, implementation science, commercial determinants of health, health inequalities and men’s health. She is experienced in a range of research methods including qualitative, mixed methods, systematic review, and creative approaches. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, Marita held research roles with safefood, University College Cork, the Children’s Research Centre-Trinity College Dublin, the National Cancer Registry, and Waterford Institute of Technology.
Marita is currently working on the RE:CURRENT study led by Prof Keelin O’Donoghue and funded by the Health Research Board, evaluating recurrent miscarriage (RM) services in Ireland to inform efforts to standardise and improve the quality of these services.
Learn more about the RE:CURRENT study here https://www.infantcentre.ie/research/research-studies/recurrent/
Well done Marita, we are all very proud of you – for the work you’ve done & continue to do!
