Programme
THURSDAY, 23rd MAY 2024
CAT Charity 5km Fun Run
Athletics Track UCD Sports Centre
7 am
O'Reilly Hall
8:30 - 8:35
Welcome Address by Prof George Shorten, CAI President
8:35 - 10:00
ICU Session
CHAIRPERSON:
Dr James O'Rourke
SPEAKERS:
Prof Paul Dargan
Consultant Physician and Clinical Toxicologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
'The 2006 London Polonium-210 Case A Clinical Overview'
Dr Sam Shemie
Division Director of Pediatric Critical Care, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Centre
'Challenges at the Intersection of Dying, Death and Donation'
George Moore Auditorium
08:35 - 10:00
Delaney Medal Competition
Kindly sponsored by Fannin Ltd

CHAIRPERSON:
Dr Brian O'Brien

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK: TRADE EXHIBITION & E-POSTERS DISPLAY SIM Wars Group 1
O'Reilly Hall
Brian Kavanagh Lecture - ICSI Lecture
10:30 - 11:15 - O'Reilly Hall
CHAIRPERSON:
Dr Alan Gaffney
Consultant Intensivist & Anaesthesiologist, Beaumont Hospital
SPEAKER:
Dr John Boylan "Mechanistic Research in Critical Care - How It Started, How it's Going"
George Moore Auditorium
Poster Elevator Pitch
10:30 - 11:15
Finalists of the poster submission will present a short pitch for judges.
ICU
11:15 - 12:45 - O'Reilly Hall
CHAIRPERSON: Prof Ignacio Martin-Loeches
Consultant & Research Director in Intensive Care Medicine at St James’s Hospital and Trinity College.
SPEAKERS:
Dr Brian O'Brien Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Intensive Care Medicine
'Legislation relating to organ donation - what will and will not change'
Dr Martina Healy "The Current State of Critical Care in Ireland - A Snapshot in Time 2023"
Prof Marc Leone
Chair of Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit, Aix Marseille University.
'Multimodal Approach of Vasopressors Support in Septic Shock'
The Patient Voice
11:15 - 12:45 - George Moore Auditorium
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Michelle Duggan / Dr Niamh Hayes
SPEAKERS:
Maria Boylan
SAT 3, St James's Hospital
'Anaesthetising the Anaesthetist - The underside of the mask'
Susanna Stanford (Remote speaker)
Ambassador for the Clinical Human Factors Group
‘Pain during Caesarean Section’
12:45- 14:00 LUNCH BREAK: TRADE EXHIBITION & E-POSTERS DISPLAY SIM Wars Group 2, 3, 4, 5
CAI AGM
12:45 - Birch Room
SIM Wars
12:45 - Trade Exhibition Area
Keynote: The Trainee Perspective
14:00 - 15:30 - O'Reilly Hall
CHAIRPERSON: Dr. Darragh O'Reilly
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Eoin Kelleher Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Dep of Clinical Neuroscience
'From Pain to Progress: Combining Anaesthesia Training and Research'
Dr. Carolyn Hayes Olympic Athlete and SpR Anaesthesiology
'High Performance'
Dr. Sean Casey Paediatrician, National Lead NCHD Fellow 2023-2024
'Physician Wellbeing: Mind The Gap’
Sustainability
14:00 - 15:30 - George Moore Auditorium
CHAIRPERSON: Dr Sophia Angelov
Specialist Anaesthesia Trainee
SPEAKERS:
Dr Ian Baxter
Consultant Anaesthetist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
'Sustainable Anaesthesia: Current Controversies and the Newcastle Experience'
Dr Oscar Duffy
Specialist Anaesthesia Trainee & Member of the Sustainability Committee of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland
'Planning the Irish Green Theatre'
Dr Richard Hixon (Remote speaker)
Consultant in Critical Care Medicine, Physician Environmentalist, Co-founder of NHS Ocean
'Human Healthcare and the Ocean'
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK: TRADE EXHIBITION & E-POSTERS DISPLAY SIM Wars Group 6
Obstetrics
O'Reilly Hall
16:00 - 17:30
CHAIRPERSON:
Dr Stephen Smith
Consultant Anaesthesiologist at The Coombe Hospital and St James’s Hospital
SPEAKERS:
Dr Nikki Higgins 'The Parturient before and after bariatric surgery'
Dr Thomas Drew
Consultant Anaesthesiologist at the Rotunda and Beaumont Hospitals
'Updates in obstetric haemorrhage'
Dr Gerard Browne
Anaesthesiology Specialist Registrar
'Trauma in Pregnancy'
Workshop 1
08.00 - 09.30
Reflective Practice
Birch Room
Dr Audrey Dunn Galvin
Workshop 2
9.30 - 12.30
Airways
H1.51 Room
Prof Ellen O’Sullivan
Workshop 3
13.30 - 16.00
ISRA
Cedar Room
Dr Su Ng
ISRA AGM