Dear Colleague,
 
Dr Mike Ryan has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years.
Dr Mike Ryan has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years.

NUI Galway will host the 46th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium, from 3-4 September. It is named in memory of the Galway-born surgeon, Sir Peter Freyer, who performed the first successful surgical operation to remove an enlarged prostate in 1900.  It comprises of research and education sessions across the various surgical subspecialties, a keynote address and a discussion forum on cancer, a major priority for healthcare delivery in the post Covid world. 

Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme will deliver the Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Impact of COVID19 on other Diseases, Health Service Delivery and Disease Control Objectives’ on Saturday, 4th September at 12 noon.

 

Dr Mike Ryan has been at the forefront of managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years. He served as Assistant Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response in WHO's Health Emergencies Programme from 2017 to 2019.  Dr Ryan first joined WHO in 1996, with the newly established unit to respond to emerging and epidemic disease threats. He has worked in conflict affected countries and led many responses to high impact epidemics. He is a founding member of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), which has aided the response to hundreds of disease outbreaks around the world. He served as Coordinator of Epidemic Response (2000-2003), Operational Coordinator of WHO’s response to the SARS outbreak (2003), and as WHO’s Director of Global Alert and Response (2005-2011).  He was a Senior Advisor on Polio Eradication for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative from 2013 to 2017, deploying to countries in the Middle East.  He completed medical training at the National University of Ireland, Galway, a Master’s in Public Health at University College Dublin, and specialist training in communicable disease control at the Health Protection Agency in London and the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training.

 

For further information, please visit www.freyer.ie

 

Zoom links to join the Meeting;

 

 

 

We are delighted to team up with ISRC 2021 Perioperative Clinical Trial Dragons Den on Thursday 2nd September (19:00-21:00) as part of the Sir Peter Freyer Surgical Symposium.

The programme for the evening is as follows:

ISRC Dragons Den 2021

 

19:00-19:10: Introduction (Professor Ronan O'Connell, President RCSI)
19:10-20:25: Top 5 clinical trial submissions (presentations and questions)
20:25-20:50 2021 ISRC Lecture - Professor Quentin Denost, (GRECCAR Clinical Trials Group)
20:50-21:00 Announcement of winning submission

Finalists

  1. Fergal Kavanagh - The use of Tranexamic Acid to Reduce the rate of Post Tonsillectomy Bleeding (TARP Trial); A Phase 3 Randomized Control Trial
  2. Noel Donlon - The use of Prophylactic Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Emergency Laparotomy Wounds. A Prospective, Multi-Centre, Randomised, Control Trial (PROPEL Trial)
  3. Amy Edwards Murphy - Continuous versus intermittent intravenous Proton pump INhibitor therapy in non-variceal UPper GI bleeding (PINUP Trial)
  4. Barbara Cusack - The A-COUGH bundle: a quality improvement randomised controlled trial to reduce post-operative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing intra-abdominal surgery
  5. Czara Kennedy - Peri-operative thromboprophylaxis in patients undergoing bariatric surgery: a prospective, randomised control trial evaluating anti-Xa levels and low molecular weight heparin

Registration is available at the following link:
https://nuigalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F-KhvQShSWS5pBQDtGjpLg