Conference Agenda
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| Time | Event |
| 12.00pm – 12.45pm | Arrival, networking lunch and visit exhibitors |
12.45pm – 12.50pm | Welcome: Ms Kathleen Duffy, MRII President |
12.50pm – 1.05pm | Opening Address: Ms Caitriona Walsh, Country President and Managing Director, Novartis Ireland |
| 1.05pm – 1.45pm | Prof. Derek O’Keeffe FRCPI |
| 1.45pm – 2.30pm | Hannah Craig |
| 2.30pm – 3.00pm | Networking break and visit exhibitors |
| 3.00pm – 3.15pm | Presentation of MRII Examination certificates, by Kathleen Duffy, MRII President. Official handover of MRII chain of office. |
| 3.15pm – 4.00pm | Speaker 3 will be a Healthcare Professional. TBC. |
Opening Address: Ms Caitriona Walsh, Country President and Managing Director, Novartis Ireland
Speaker bio.
OPENING ADDRESS: Title TBC.
Hannah Craig
Ireland’s first female Olympic finalist in the sport of canoeing. A 20-year span from first international start line to last and 2 children along the way, Hannah Craig is a fast-thinking resourceful and creative solution-finder with global lived experience. Proven capacity to design and project manages innovative programmes with an objective of improving the sporting landscape for all. Strong leadership skills honed over years as a performance athlete, coach, ambassador, and mentor. Highly effective at imparting successful strategies for sports systems, education, team collaborating and personal achievement.
Hannah has a passion for human performance, the great outdoors and positive social change and is currently with Sport Ireland in a Women in Sport Manager role. In 2024 Hannah brought her passion for Olympic sport, fluent French language skills and high-performance knowledge to the Paris 2024 Olympics through a role with RTÉ Sport: interviewing athletes, technical and tactical analysis of their performances and co-commentating the closing ceremony.
Speaker 1 Presentation Full Details Details TBC.
Prof. Derek O’Keeffe FRCPI
Prof Derek O’Keeffe is a Physicianeer, who holds dual first-class honors degrees and doctorates in Medicine and Engineering. In addition he holds several gold medal awards across STEM and a first-class honors MBA degree. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard, a Green Templeton Scholar at Oxford and is a graduate of the Endocrinology Clinical Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, USA. He has multiple academic publications, biomedical patents and several international research prizes. He has previously worked with NASA placing a sleep experiment onboard the International Space Station and was their flight surgeon for a NEEMO Aquarius mission.
He is founder and director of the Health Innovation via Engineering (HIVE) Lab which develops patient centred solutions to clinical problems from bedside to bench to bedside through interdisciplinary collaboration. He has explored over 100 countries, volunteered extensively & was awarded The Outstanding Young Person of the World by Junior Chamber International. He is a Black Belt Taekwondo Instructor, Qualified Pilot, DJ, Advanced Scuba Diver, Triathlete & Six-Star Medal Marathoner. He has designed an award winning Cardiovascular themed garden for Bloom in the Phoenix Park. He is a Consultant Physician (Endocrinologist) at University Hospital Galway and is the Professor of Medical Device Technology at the University of Galway.
Speaker 2 Full Presentation Details TBC – topic will be AI in Healthcare.
Speaker 3 will be a Healthcare Professional
Speaker 3 bio.
Speaker 3 Presentation Details
Moderator: Eoghan Tomás McDermott, The Communications Clinic
Eoghan Tomás McDermott is the Managing Director of The Communications Clinic. He is personal coach and advisor to a number of Chief Executives of large corporates, both indigenous and multi-national. Eoghan advises clients ranging from Cabinet Ministers to many of Ireland’s top sportspeople. Eoghan is a regular contributor on Irish media, including Today FM's The Last Word, Virgin Media's Ireland AM, as well as shows on Newstalk and RTE.
Accommodation rates at venue conference for delegates TBC
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