Irish Street Medicine Symposium
27 – 28 September
2019
Presentations - Day 2
Presentations Day 2
2019 Programme Presentation Slides
Day 2
Saturday 28 September 2019
01
plenary session
Building academic - community partnerships
Louise Crowley (School of Law, University College Cork)
Homelessness an unhealthy state - Cork
Anna Marie Naughton (Adult Homeless Integrated Team, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare)
Trauma and Homelessness - Understanding how early childhood adversity impacts later life outcomes
Raegan Murphy (School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork)
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Building GPs for deprivation
Austin O Carroll (North Dublin GP Training Scheme)
02
pARALLEL SESSION 1
Theme: Complex Needs, Barriers and Solutions
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1) An Evaluation of Practitioner's Experience of Service Users Seeking Community Detoxification
from Benzodiazepines
Marianne Wall, (Cork Kerry Community Healthcare HSE Addiction Services)
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2) A break down of mental health crisis interventions in a homeless drop in centre
Sarah Scully, (Merchants Quay Ireland)
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3) Community Benzodiazepine Detoxification in a low Threshold Service
Wayne Clifford (Merchants Ireland Ireland Open Access Service)
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4) Homelessness: A trauma contagion?
Megan McGinley (Child and Family Primary Care Psychology)
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5) Youth Homeless Project Worker role within the Limerick Homeless Action Team
Oonagh Hogan (Limerick Homeless Action Team)
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pARALLEL SESSION 2
Theme: Pragmatic Research
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1) Conducting Health related research on homeless participants
Molly Megson, (St. Gemma’s Academic Unit of Pallative Care, University of Leeds)
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2) ‘He wanted to die in his home. So we had staff sit up with him for his last final days’: Supporting people
experiencing homelessness living with or dying from life-limiting illnesses – an in-depth qualitative interview
study
Aoibheann Ní Chonfhaola, (Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services, Harold’s Cross, Dublin)
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3) Cardiovascular initiatives:
1. A 3-month Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) - based intervention with a population accessing
homeless services: efficacy, challenges and opportunities
Florian Scheibein (Waterford Institute of Technology)
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2. Assessing the impact of a bespoke nutrition and lifestyle intervention programme on individuals living
in emergency accommodation
Irene Gibson, Suzanne Seery, Kieran Coleman (Croí the West of Ireland Cardiac Foundation & HSE)
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3. Positive patient engagement with an onsite, specialist led, diabetes clinic
Ciara Griffin and Angie Skuce (Capuchin Medical Clinic)
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4) Knowledge Management - Emergency In-Patient Hospitalisations among the Vulnerable
Anne O'Farrell (Health Intelligence Unit)
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5) Improving services for women who access homeless Drop in Centres and Primary Care centres
Carmen Iordache (MQI)
04
quickfires 1
1) Methadone Prescribing ECG Compliance
Sean Owens (Grangegorman Pirmary Care Centre)
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2) Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): What level of knowledge and experience of IPV have Irish paramedics
Hannah Daly (National Ambulance Service College)
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3) Cross sectional study of trauma exposure in childhood among adult clients attending 3 North
Dublin City Methadone clinics
Ciaran Somers (Social Inclusion and Addiction Services, HSE CHO Dublin North City and County)
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4) A “SMART” easily readable wound dressing
Maria Bardosova, Siobhan Murphy (Tyndall National Institute, Cork. & School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC)
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5) Homeless Podiatry Clinic Project
Emma O'Callaghan (Achilles Foot Clinic, Ballinlough Rd.)
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quickfires 2
1) The Need to Provide Contraceptive Services to Women on Opioid Substitution Therapy
Julia Olioff ( UCC, Addiction Services, Adult Homeless Integrated Service Cork Kerry Community Healthcare)
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2) The need for trauma informed care models for individuals experiencing the reoccurring traumatising
effects of homelessness & addiction
Zoe Dillon (Merchants Quay Ireland)
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3) Acupuncture and Homelessness
Philippe Pujade (Alternative Therapy, HSE South)
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4) Children living in homeless accommodation in Limerick City: A qualitative study of service providers
Katie Evans (Department of Public Health, HSE Mid-West)
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5) How community services are working to eradicate hepatitis C in homeless communities
Stephanie Broughton, Rachel Smith (Guy's and St Thomas Integrated Local Services, UK)
