Conference
RCSI Centre for Professionalism in Medicine and Health Sciences supported by the Medical Protection Society are delighted to announce the date for our annual conference, Teamwork in Healthcare: Working Together with Passion, Purpose and Professionalism.
Join us on Friday, 11 April 2025 for a day of exciting talks and presentations. Once again, we are delighted to host a hybrid (online and in person) event which gives you the opportunity to participate and engage with our conference, no matter where you are in the world.
The event focuses on medical professionalism and promises to be a great day of exciting talks and presentations from an international panel of speakers. We will be joined by colleagues such as:
- Dr Suzanne Crowe, Medical Council of Ireland (IMC).
- Dr Denis McCauley, IMO President.
- Ms Donna Ockenden, midwife, nurse and independent review chair.
- Professor Eva Doherty, Director of the Human Factors and Patient Safety, RCSI.
- Dr Paul Crampton and Dr Amelia Kehoe, Health Professions Education Unit, Hull York Medical School.
- Dr Mary Collins, Chartered Psychologist, author and Senior Practitioner Coach (EMCC).
- Dr Niamh Humphries, Senior Lecturer and the Head of Research at the RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management.
- Dr Kate Womersley, Imperial College London and University of Edinburgh.
- Dr Éidín Ní Shé, Senior Lecturer, RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management.
- Mr Simon Paterson-Brown, Consultant General Surgeon, Edinburgh, and many others.
Please note: Registration for the online event is free – please note, there is a nominal fee to attend in person. Put the date in your diary and register now.
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Speakers
Dr Mary Collins is a chartered psychologist, author and senior practitioner coach (EMCC) who has been working in the leadership development/talent management field for over 20 years.
Her current role as Senior Executive Development Specialist with RCSI Centre for Positive Health Sciences involves working with senior leaders in the healthcare sector to develop their management, coaching and leadership capabilities through a range of executive development and academic programmes up to PhD level.
Dr Collins is also Co-Director of the highly successful Neuroscience Coaching Network; an annual CPD programme for coaches globally and she is is passionate about leveraging the strengths of the intergenerational workplace and is a renowned key speaker on this topic. Her other research interests are leading workplace well-being and emotional intelligence.
She is an accredited senior professional executive coach and global coach programme assessor with the European Coaching & Mentoring Council (EMCC) and is the current Co-Chair of Coaching Psychology Division of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).
In December 2019, she was one of 15 people awarded a ‘Coaching Hero Award’ by Minister of State for Higher Education from Kingstown College to mark her contribution to the coaching field in Ireland.
Dr Suzanne Crowe was first elected to the Medical Council in 2018 and re-elected in 2023. Dr Crowe was elected as President of the Medical Council in 2021.
Dr Crowe graduated in Medicine from Trinity College Dublin, followed by Specialist training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine with the College of Anaesthesiologists.
After a Fellowship in Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine in the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne she took up a consultant post in Anaesthesia with a special interest in paediatrics in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.
In 2014 Dr Crowe moved to Children’s Health Ireland Crumlin Hospital as a Paediatric Intensivist. She is a Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics in Trinity College Dublin and has an interest in bereavement studies and medical ethics.
She is Associate Clinical Professor in UCD School of Medicine in the division of Women and Children’s Health. Dr Crowe is a board trustee for three charities, the Down
Syndrome Centre, Cheshire Ireland and LGBT Ireland.
Donna Ockenden is a nurse, and a midwife. She has more than 35 years’ experience within a variety of health settings both in the UK and internationally.
She was the chair of the published independent review into maternity services at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, and is the current Chair of the Review into Maternity Services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Professor Tracy Robson was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at RCSI in 2024. She leads RCSI's academic community in delivering a world-class education which ensures our students emerge as healthcare professionals and scientists with the skills and attributes to thrive in complex clinical and research settings around the world.
A cancer biologist, Professor Robson joined RCSI in 2016 as Head of Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics. She became the foundation Head of the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences following its establishment in 2019. She has previously held academic appointments at Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast where she was appointed Professor in Experimental Therapeutics in 2010.
Professor Robson is a highly successful researcher, with over €15 million in competitive research grant awards and a sustained track record of high-quality publications in leading journals. Her research is focused on the development of biotherapeutics, based on a novel protein, which have been patented and licensed.
Under her leadership, the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences secured €11.3m in educational funding, including a €7.8m award from the Higher Education Authority under the Human Capital Initiative, Pillar 3.
Dr Niamh Humphries is a Senior Lecturer and the Head of Research at the RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management. She holds a PhD in Sociology and has been researching health workforce issues in the Irish health system for the past 19 years.
She recently completed a HRB-funded project on hospital doctor retention and currently leads another HRB research project on GP Retention (in collaboration with the Irish College of GPs).
Dr Humphries was a member of the National Taskforce on the NCHD Workforce (2023-24). She recently completed a case study on health worker migration for WHO (Europe).
Her recent research papers are available at doctorretention.eu.