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SVUH Grand Rounds 2025 Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin
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Winter Scientific Meeting 2026, London, January 15th-16th 2026
Irish Liver Foundation Liver Study Day 2026, Dublin, January 17th 2026
Health research Board (HRB-TMRN) Workshop, Dublin, March 23rd 2026
WCA 2026, Marrakech, Morocco, April 15-19th 2026
CAI Annual Congress 2026, Dublin, May 20th-22nd 2026
Dublin Tech Summit, Dublin, May 27-28th 2026
2026 CAS Annual Meeting, Ottawa, June 5 - 7th 2026
RCoA, London, June 16 - 18th 2026
European HEMS and Air Ambulance Committee (EHAC) 2026, Munich, September 16 - 18th 2026
AAGBI Annual Conference 2026, Liverpool, September 16 - 18th 2026
ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026, San Diego, October 16 - 20th 2026
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EFIC Congress 2027, Glasgow, April 21-23rd 2027
Discover Ireland.ie - The Wild Atlantic Way
RTE/Notre Dame 1916 Easter Rising Commemoration
Welcome to SEDDA
-South East Dublin Departments of Anaesthesia, Ireland
SEDDA is the aggregation of the Departments of Anaesthesia of seven participating hospitals located in the South East of Dublin. With St. Vincent's University Hospital at the core, the other constituent hospitals are The National Maternity Hospital, The Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital, St. Columcille’s Hospital, and the National Rehabilitation Hospital. Read more...
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Dr Abigail Walsh, Chairperson 2023—2026
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Saint Vincent's University Hospital
SVUH Annual Dept Medal Awards Recipients 2024 - future recipients for review 2025-2026
Dr Gerry Dorrian Memorial Award: SpR in Anaesthesia 2024
Recipient: Dr Andrew Smith
Dr Seamus O’Donnell Memorial Award: SpR in ICU 2024
Recipient: Dr Mohammad Ahmed Rasheed
Dr Dick Nolan Memorial Award: SHO in Anaesthesia 2024
Recipient: Dr David Rowe
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Dr Abigial Walsh presenting medal award to Dr Andrew Smith |
Dr Andrew Westbrook presenting medal to Dr Mohammad Ahmed Rasheed |
Future Health Summit May 2025
Attendees Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, Minister for Health and Dr Tony Healy St Vincent's Anaesthesia Foundation sharing like minds at the summit.
Hon. Fellowship, Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCSI
Congratulations to Dr Tony Healy, Consultant Anaesthetist and St. Vincent's Anaesthesia Foundation on the award in recognition of being a founding member of HEMS Committee Ireland. Former member of the Canadian Off-Shore Medical Services, St. John's Newfoundland and the Canadian Merchant Navy. Academic qualifications from the Aviation Medicine Department, Kings College Hospital, London, the RAF Farnborough, and Hyperbaric Medicine training in Toronto General Hospital and UK centres.
2025 End of an Era: Sikorsky S‑92 SAR Operations Conclude in Ireland as Bristow Takes Over
Significant Air Corps Developments in New Defence Forces Implementation Plan
Medical drone delivery to St. Vincent's Privtae Hospital and Blackrock Clinic
Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital, New Cataract Unit, Dr Kathleen Lynn
RVEEH officially Opens New Dr Kathleen Lynn Cataract Unit in Memory of the Pioneering Doctor, Suffragist and Nationalist, Kathleen Lynn. First appointed to the Eye & Ear 1910
Baggot Street Hospital, Dublin
HSE confirms that the Royal City of Dublin, Baggot Street Hospital has ben sold. The hospital was founded in 1831 and, in 1990, following a visit by the then Queen Victoria, was renamed as the City of Dublin Hospital.
SVUH officially opens the Enda McDermott Simulation & Education Centre (EMSEC), St. Vincent's University Hospital
Clinical Trials Ireland
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Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association
Making Ireland a European Leader in Clinical Research
Health Research Charities Ireland Newsletter
'New lease of life' for Dublin Zoo hippo after historic cataract surgery
Drones Delivering Medical Supplies to Dublin hospitals
SVUH Airway Skills Workshop
Airway Skills Workshop, SVUH, Department of Anaesthesiology, 3rd September 2025
SVUH Airway Skills Workshop
Airway Skills Workshop, SVUH, Department of Anaesthesiology, February 2025
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The 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis
The 2030 Global Agenda for Sepsis is the first global strategy developed under the leadership of the Global Sepsis Alliance, with the engagement of 70 partner and member organizations from GSA and Regional Sepsis Alliances across Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Caribbean, the Eastern Mediterranean, Europe, Latin America, and North America.
Dr Roger McMorrow rows the world's toughest race
Dr Roger McMorrow, Medical Director, National Maternity Hospital and Consultant Anaesthetist, SVUH joins Power of 1 team to row 5,000km across the Atlantic Ocean in memory of Saoirse O'Driscoll.
Duration: 39 Days, 14 Hours and 31 Minutes and Third Place Overall
Professor Paul Murphy, Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist in St. Vincent's University Hospital
Professor Paul Murphy, Consultant Anaesthetist & Pain Specialist in St. Vincent's University Hospital and St. Vincent's Private Hospital, has pioneered a new technology in Ireland for the treatment of Chronic Pain—using Medtronics, Inceptiv-spinal cord stimulator, close loop technology sensing system.
ICC-CTN Journal Club
We’re delighted to remind you about the launch of the new Quarterly Journal Club coordinated by the Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network (ICC-CTN) – the ICC-CTN-JC.
This initiative is designed to foster critical discussion, highlight current research, and encourage collaboration across the Irish critical care community. All critical care professionals, researchers, and especially trainees are encouraged to participate.
First session:
Monday, September 16, 2025
5:30–6:30 PM (GMT+1)
Zoom – link will be circulated after registration below
We are especially pleased to announce that Professor Alistair Nichol will join as our Expert Guest Speaker, presenting on the TAME trial in cardiac arrest - one of the largest global trials among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients to date (Eastwood, Nichol et al., NEJM, 2023).
Register to Attend:
Please register here to receive the zoom details via email and sign up to our ICC-CTN-JC mailing list.
NSUKI Neuromodulation Society of the UK & Ireland Annual Scientific Congress Dublin, 3rd-5th, October, 2024
Professor Paul Murphy, Dr Ashish Gulve Presentation -'Real World Outcomes of Closed Loop Multiwavefrom Spinal Cord Stimulation'
Dr Kirk Levin's Presentation - 'SAS For Spinal Cord Injury'
Local Anaesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery Workshop, RVEEH, November 4th 2025
Local Anaesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery Workshop, is taking place in the Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital on Tuesday 4th November 2025.
9th National Annual Patient Safety in Anaesthesia Conference
When: Friday 14th November 2025
Where: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin
CPD: 7.5 points awarded
College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland College Medal
Professor Donal Buggy, President of College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland, honours and presents Professor John Boylan, UCD Clinical Professor and Consultant Anaesthetist, SVUH with the CAI College Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution throughout his career to the continuous development and evolution of Anaesthesia by his teaching & research.
Brian Kavanagh Lecture - CAI Annual Congress, 2024
Professor John Boylan, UCD Clinical Professor and Consultant Anaesthetist, SVUH gives the annual Brian Kavanagh Lecture at the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland Annual Congress, 2024
'Mechanistic Research in Clinical Care - How It Started, How It's Going'
Dr Siobhain O'Mahony - Hononary Fellowship and Medal Award
Dr Hugh Gallagher, Dean of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of Ireland, presenting Dr. Siobhain O'Mahony with an honorary fellowship and the CAI - St. Vinent's Anaesthesia Foundation Medal in recognition of her main reserach interests in the communication within the brain-gut-microbiota axis.
CAI Annual Congress 2024 - Faculty of Pain Medicine - Rynd Lecture
Dr. Siobhain O'Mahony 'Microbiome in Pain Medicine - Molecular Mechanisms to Theraputic Potential'
Sponsored by St. Vincent's Anaesthesia Foundation.
Congratulations -- to Assoc. Professor Crina Burlacu -- on her appointment as Chairperson of ESAIC Simulation Committee, starting 1st January, 2024
ESAIC News - An Interview with Professor Crina Burlacu
Congratulations -- to Assoc. Professor Crina Burlacu, Consultant Anaesthetist, SVUH -- on her appointment as Council Member and Chair of the Training Committee, CAI June, 2024
Integration of simulation-based education in anaesthesiology specialist training
EJA: Synthesis of results from an Utstein Meeting. Utstein Simulation Study Group
Authors:
Georges L. Savoldelli, Crina L. Burlacu, Marc Lazarovici, Francisco Maio Matos and Doris Østergaard
World Congress of Anaesthesia - São Paulo, Brazil 2024
Dr Muhammad Mukhtar, Associate Clinical Professor of Anaesthesiology, UCD Consultant Anaesthesiologist, St. Vincent's University Hospital & Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital Dublin, Ireland
Presenter of Ophthalmic Workshops on sub-Tenon's blocks and presentation on Reducing the Risks of Vision Loss
Professor Alistair Nichol, Consultant Anaesthestist, SVUH
Congratulations to Professor Alistair Nichol, Chair of Critical Care Medicine UCD, Chair of Irish Critical Care Trials Group, Intensivist at SVUH, who received a special commendation from the Irish Research Council for his ‘exceptional contribution’ to the field of medical research, relating to critical care clinical trials and the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Irish Critical Care Clinical Trials Network - ICC-CTN Meeting, Belfast, June 14th 2024
ICC-CTN DIFA Funding
Congratulations to Prof Alistair Nichol on behalf of the REMAP-CAP Ireland team, REMAP-CAP (immunomodulation in influenza and endothelial modulation), and Prof Pat Murray on behalf of the BONANZA Europe team, BONANZA (brain tissue oxygen optimisation after TBI) who have been awarded funding in the recent HRB DIFA fundings scheme
TAME trial - Clinical Care Reviews - NEJM - Prof. Alistair Nichol
Dr Kirk Levins, Consultant Anaesthetist, Pain Specialist, SVUH and National Maternity Hospital
Congratulations to Dr Kirk Levins on his appointment as Consultant Anaesthetist, Pain Specialist, SVUH, the National Maternity Hospital, and the National Rehabilitation Hospital.
SVUH National Liver Transplant Programme
New AI tool makes it possible to predict weight loss after bariatric surgery - University College Dublin
Irish Liver Foundation
The Irish Liver Foundation was set up in 2022, through the Hepatology working group of the HSE National Clinical Programme for Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Anaesthesia and Airway Management for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients, Prof. Crina Burlacu
St Vincent's Healthcare Group - Operating Theatre Procedures for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients.
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SVAF provides aid to displaced children at Fr W. Stuart School, Refugee Camp, Tyre, South Lebanon
The St. Vincents Anaesthesia Foundation gladly supports Dr Richard Assaf, Consultant Anaesthetist, in his continuing endeavours to provide aid to the Rosminians Fathers for the "Displaced Children's Fund" and the Fr William Stuart run school, part of the Schools for Syria project, based at the Rashidieh Refugee camp in Tyre, South Lebanon.
View message of thanks from Fr. Stuart in Lebanon
Watch update from Fr. Stuart in Lebanon
Hon. Fellowship, Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine, RCSI
Congratulations to Dr Roger McMorrow, Consultant Anaesthetist, SVUH & National Maternity Hospital
Successful summiteer Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition 2007
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Hon. Fellowship, Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine, RCSI
Congratulations to Dr Michael O'Dwyer, Intensivist and Consultant Anaesthetist, SVUH
Successful summiteer Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition 2007