This year's Faculty of Paediatrics Spring Meeting will take place online on Friday, 14 May 2021. The theme for the conference is 'Paediatrics and the Pandemic'.
Speakers include:
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.
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 2.00pm 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 courses@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.
To submit questions to the panel:
It may not be possible to answer all questions we receive.
Professor Karina Butler is UCD Clinical Professor of Paediatrics, Consultant Paediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist at Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin and Temple Street Children's University Hospital. A former president of the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland (2018-2020), she chairs the National Immunisation Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and is Chair of PENTA Foundation UK, an independent charity that seeks to promote research into infectious disease in children as part of the wider Penta Network.
Appointed to the National Public Health Emergency Team in late 2020, she is also a member of the COVID-19 Expert Advisory Group of the Health Information and Quality Authority. She has served on the national tuberculosis and scientific advisory committees of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the steering committee member of the Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS and Infectious Diseases (PENTA-ID).
Her clinical research has focussed on prevention and management of HIV infection in children and adolescents.
Prof Barrett is a Liaison Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Temple St and Assoc Professor at UCD. Her clinical interests are around the interface of physical and mental health (including somatic symptoms, eating disorders, emergency presentations and neuropsychiatry). An active contributor to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes in Ireland for paediatric and psychiatry trainees, she is a trainer for Psychiatry BST and HST trainees, and for Paediatric HST trainees. Currently she is a Balint group leader, leading groups for interdisciplinary trainees across CHI and nationally. In 2017, she established an ongoing Literature and Medicine collaboration, supporting doctors to utilise literature in clinical and reflective practice- the series of MindReading podcasts and #pauseforapoem initiatives have been collaborations with RCPI.
Dr Órla Walsh is an Adolescent Medicine and General Paediatrician in Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street. She is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer with the RCSI Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and an Assistant Clinical Professor in Women's & Children's Health with UCD School of Medicine.
She received her medical degree from The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2008, Membership of The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2011 and her Certificate of Specialist Training in General Paediatrics from the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland in 2017.
She completed a Masters’ in Clinical Education in The National University of Ireland Galway in 2015 and a Certificate in Leadership in Healthcare with Utrecht University in 2018. She went on to pursue two years of subspecialty fellowship training in Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 2018.
She worked as an Adolescent Medicine and General Paediatrician at North York General Hospital in Toronto where she established an Academic Division of Adolescent Medicine, and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto.
She is a member of the National Cancer Control Programme Children Adolescents and Young Adults Cancer Clinical Leads Group and the National Obesity Management Clinical Programme Working Group.
Her research interests include the medical management of adolescents with eating disorders, psychosocial outcomes for adolescents with severe obesity and transition to adult care of adolescents with chronic illness.
Dr Goldman trained as a doctor in South Africa. He moved to London in 1990 and completed his specialist training in Paediatric Intensive Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) in London and Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He took up a consultant post in Paediatric Cardiac ICU at GOSH in 1998 up until the present time.
Dr Goldman has held numerous clinical director roles at GOSH over the past 15 years including those over cardiorespiratory services, critical care, surgery, medicine, genetics, pharmacy, laboratories and therapies.
He says that he is hugely honoured and grateful to be taking up the role of CMO at CHI as this is one of the most exciting leadership roles in paediatrics. He is looking forward to joining and working with all staff at CHI in the summer.
His research interests focused on advanced therapies in PICU including inhaled Nitric Oxide, ECMO and mechanical assist devices as a bridge to transplantation. His interests have more recently centred on human factors, patient safety and improvement science. He completed a fellowship at the NHS Institute of Improvement and Innovation and the advanced training programme in safety and improvement at Intermountain Healthcare in Utah in 2009.
He was the principal author in a study translating lessons from a Formula 1 pitstop to improving patient handover from the operating theatre to ICU. He has contributed to other improvement programmes on safer pharmacy prescribing, innovative ways on reviewing real-time patient outcomes, hospital handover from day to night shift, pharmacy transformation and patient flow.
Dr Goldman is a honorary visiting Professor at City University of London and is the Co-Founder of the International Risky Business series of Conferences in which the goal is to translate lessons from industries outside of healthcare. He has held numerous clinical director roles at GOSH over the past 15 years including those over cardiorespiratory services, critical care, surgery, medicine, genetics, pharmacy, laboratories and therapies.
