The Faculty of Public Health Medicine is holding its annual Winter Scientific Meeting Part II online on Tuesday, 1 February 2022.
This is a fantastic opportunity to hear about important new developments in the field of Public Health.
The meeting will include 10 Abstract Presentations and the announcement of the winners. This will be followed by talks from two Guest Speakers: Dr Cillian de Gascun and Prof Eamonn Gormley.
Guest Speakers
All talks will be followed by a live question and answer session.
This event is a benefit of your Membership and Fellowship and is FREE for RCPI Trainees, Members and Fellows who are in good standing. There is a €50.00 fee for all other attendees.
Book your place at this session using the booking links at the bottom of this page.
Dr Cillian De Gascun, MD, FRCPI, FRCPath (Virology), FFPathRCPI, Consultant Virologist and Laboratory Director, and Member of National Immunisation Advisory Committee
Cillian De Gascun is a consultant virologist who graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1998. He undertook his basic medical training in Dublin and Brisbane, returning to Dublin in 2002, and completed his specialist virology training in the National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) at University College Dublin (UCD) and Bart’s & The London NHS Foundation Trust in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (FRCPI), a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in the UK (FRCPath) in Virology, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Pathology of the RCPI. His MD was awarded in 2011 by UCD for work on HIV carried out in the NVRL under the supervision of Professors William Hall and Colm Bergin. Cillian was appointed Director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory and returned to Ireland permanently in 2013. His main research interests continue to be in the area of the molecular epidemiology of viruses, antiviral resistance, vaccine-preventable infections, and the utilisation of these data to inform national health policy. In January 2020, Cillian was asked to Chair the SARS-CoV-2 Expert Advisory Group, a subgroup of the National Public Health Emergency Team.
Prof Eamonn Gormley, Professor of Veterinary Immunology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD
Prof Eamonn Gormley is Professor of Veterinary Immunology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, UCD. His routine work and research is in the domains of tuberculosis epidemiology, molecular / immuno-diagnostics and vaccination. He joined the UCD Contact Tracing Centre at the very beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic in Ireland in mid-March 2020 and worked extensively on the CCT Specialised Queue as the disease moved through all of the many different health care facilities, food processing enterprises and other complex settings.
First, you must book your place at the webinar on this web page. On the day, you must sign into our virtual learning environment RCPI Brightspace.
On the day of the event, the steps are:
Note, the webinar will only become available to watch at 10:30am on the day, but we recommend logging in ten minutes ahead of time.
To join this webinar on Zoom you will need a computer (Windows or Apple) or mobile device with internet access and speakers.
If you're joining the webinar on a computer you can use the Zoom desktop website. You do not need to download the Zoom app - if you see a pop up message about the app, you can dismiss this.
The Zoom website functions best on Google Chrome.
When you click on the link for "Join the Live Webinar" you will see a message asking you to open Zoom. Click on “Open Zoom”.
You will then be asked for your name and email address. Once you’ve entered these details, click on “Join Webinar”.
If you're watching the webinar on a mobile device you will need to download the Zoom app. To save time on the day, we recommend downloading the app in advance:
Click here for the iOS Zoom app
Click here for the Android Zoom app
When you open the Zoom app click on “Join a Meeting”. You will need to enter the meeting ID number. The ID number for this week's event will be sent to you via email beforehand.
You can find additional help with joining Zoom webinars here
If you have any questions for our panel please email them to conferences@rcpi.ie and we will endeavour to have these answered as part of the event. Alternatively, you can submit questions via Twitter @RCPI_news.
We are now using Zoom to broadcast our live webinars. When you open Zoom to watch the live webinar you will be able to submit questions to the panel during the event.
When available, to submit questions:
It may not be possible to answer all questions we receive.
There are limited places available for the live webinar. If you are unable to book a place, you will be able to watch videos of all of the talks on Panopto, our video sharing platform.
