📢Last week INFANT PI Prof Deirdre Murray was a lead speaker at the UCC Medicine and Health ‘from Molecules to people’ Research Conference
đź’ˇThis conference provided a forum where researchers at availed of the opportunity for network building and further collaboration
Read more about the event here:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/med-health/news/comh-research-conference-from-molecules-to-people.html
Doctor Researcher: Aisa Shayo
Aisa is pursuing a PhD in the area of improved care for premature babies in order to reduce neonatal mortality caused by Preterm deliveries which is among the top three causes of death in neonates.
Aisa is a Paediatrician working in Tanzania at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) which is a consultant hospital in Northern Tanzania. She is also a lecturer at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCO). She supervises and teaches diploma students, Medical doctor students (MD) and Masters students (MMED). She also provides supervision on research thesis for MD four and Masters students. She is also involved in several board member committee both at the hospital and university college as well. She is current head of department of Paediatrics both at the hospital and university College.
Aisa’s planned thesis is titled: THE IMPACT, PERCEPTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF KMC AT THE NEONATAL UNIT AMONG HCWs AND MOTHERS OF PREMATURE NEONATES AT KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTER, NORTHERN TANZANIA
Study Aim:
· What is the impact of KMC at neonatal unit of zonal consultant hospital in northern Tanzania?
· What is the perception and implementation of KMC by the mothers and health care providers from zonal consultant hospital?
The Objectives of the study are:
1. To determine the timing of death and factors associated with mortality in all preterm neonates born between 2010 to 2020 years in KCMC hospital.
2. To assess the implementation of KMC among mothers of premature neonates trained over the past 10 years since its introduction in KCMC, measured by the percentage of mothers trained in KMC effectively and follow up.
3. To assess the perception and KMC practice among health care providers and mothers of premature neonates at KCMC hospital in northern Tanzania.
4. To assess the growth and development outcome of preterm neonates who received KMC compared to preterm neonates of the same birth weight who did not receive KMC over the past 2 years.
Aisa she wants to contribute to improve care for premature babies as well motivate/improve on use of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) may impact on reduction of neonatal mortality and morbidity. She also wants to improvises knowledge to both healthcare workers and mothers of preterm babies.
The use of KMC should be continued in conjunction with respiratory support using bubble CPAP.
Aisa conducted her research part of her PHD support with INFANT. Her supervisors are Professor Deidre Murray from Cork University and Prof Blandina Mmbaga from KCMUCO Tanzania
Dr Carol Stephens is a PhD candidate in INFANT and also on The HRB Neonatal Encephalopathy PhD Training Network (NEPTuNE).
She graduated from NUI Galway in 2014 and has been working in paediatrics for the last seven years. Â Her areas of special interest in paediatrics include neuro-disability and palliative care. Both specialities are closely intertwined and are areas that are growing in paediatrics.
Her PhD is entitled  SYNAPSE-OutcomeS and ElectroencephalographY followiNg NeonAtal EncePhalopathy: an ObSErvational Study and is funded by the Health Research Board Ireland and partly supported by Merck’s Life Science Community Engagement Programme – Scientific Research.
The aim of Carol’s research is to evaluate outcomes (epilepsy, death and neurodevelopmental outcomes) following Neonatal Encephalopathy. Carol will focus particularly on EEG findings in relation to these outcomes.
She hopes that her PhD allows her to identify infants and children who are at risk of neuro-disability with an aim of better understanding outcome and prognostication following neonatal encephalopathy. This in turn will advocate for earlier and more targeted follow up of the most at-risk infants.
Her supervisors are Professor Geraldine Boylan, Professor Deirdre Murray, Dr. Olivia O’Mahony and Dr. Brian Walsh.
📣Check out this paper by INFANT Research Centre & Pregnancy Loss Research Group researchers
đź’ˇ’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:
đź’ˇ’– the STOP AD randomised controlled trial’
đź“‘Article published EAACI Allergy
đź“ŁCheck out Echo Live.ie‘s coverage of INFANT and Musgrave‘s recent partnership in #foodallergyresearch
đź’ˇ’The partnership will advance critical research from University College Cork’s INFANT Research Centre into anaphylaxis management’
🔎 https://lnkd.in/eaPPdzbS
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).
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