Innovation in Healthcare Podcast

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The Medical Independent Innovation in Healthcare Podcast. We explore the advances that are transforming Irish healthcare and the innovative minds behind them. From cutting-edge technologies to ground-breaking research to new models of care, Ireland is at the forefront of medical innovation. Our guests are leading figures in the Irish and international healthcare community, who are revolutionising the way patients are getting treated. So, whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, or simply curious about the latest developments in Irish medicine, join us for an engaging and informative discussion.

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An interview with Prof Sam McConkey

Aug 15 2024 42 mins  
Episode 08 Innovation in Healthcare podcast series “Vaccination as a tool continues to excite me and to sort of offer up really innovative, novel, effective, safe solutions to these horrible diseases.”In this episode, Prof Samuel McConkey, Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the RCSI, and Consultant in General Medicine, Tropical Medicine and

An interview with Prof Mark Lawler & Prof William Gallagher

May 24 2024 57 mins  
In this episode, we host our first joint interview, featuring the two co-leads of the All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI), a unique initiative that brings together cancer researchers and clinicians from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Prof William Gallagher, Professor of Cancer Biology at University College Dublin; and Prof Mark Lawler, Professor of Digi

An interview with Prof Dominic A. Hegarty

Mar 25 2024 38 mins  
Episode 06 Innovation in Healthcare podcast series “…It's been a pleasure really to be in this area, such an exciting area and even in my short window of 15 or 20 years involved now, so many things have changed, so many things for the better in my opinion and there's a greater acceptance. So it was the challenge, the innovation, looking forward. It had everything you wanted [as

An interview with Prof Mary Horgan

Feb 09 2024 28 mins  
“I think we need to collaborate not only in health; I think I get a lot of my good ideas from friends and colleagues that work outside medicine and health – engineers, computer people, business people who look at the health issues from a totally different perspective. So I think the more we can maybe step out of our comfort zone a little bit and interact with people outside pur

An interview with Prof Doug Veale

Nov 16 2023 40 mins  
Prof Doug Veale passed away in May 2024. RIP.“…without research, we wouldn't have the treatments of tomorrow. We wouldn't have the services of tomorrow. And actually, what I often say is, you know, research is just another term for curiosity and curiosity is asking the questions. So if we accept the status quo of where we're at today, then we'll never ask the questions – wher

An interview with Prof Orla Hardiman

Sep 19 2023 46 mins  
“MS has gone from being a disease where we could do very little except use steroids in the context of a relapse and hope that the relapse would get better, to really effective disease-modifying therapies, at least for the relapsing remitting form of the disease. So even in the space of my professional lifetime, we've seen a disease that was really very frightening for people and

An interview with Prof Derek O’Keeffe

Aug 18 2023 54 mins  
“You know, it's all about producing meaningful clinical input and scientific output. So all of the studies we've done so far have had direct patient benefit and have been published in the best journals because of that. And I think that's a really important thing to remember, that it starts with the patient and finishes with the patient.” – Prof Derek O'Keeffe Takeaways from t

An interview with Prof Seamus Morris

Jul 18 2023 23 mins  
The Medical Independent - Innovation in Healthcare Podcast: An interview with Prof Seamus MorrisIn the first of our new podcast series on clinical innovation, we speak to Prof Seamus Morris. Prof Morris is Clinical Professor at University College Dublin School of Medicine, Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, and Director of Innovation at the Pillar Centre for Transformative Medic