Innovation in Healthcare Podcast

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 Infectious Diseases...

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 Digital Health at...

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 a specialty] from...

“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 pure medicine, really...

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 – where do we want to be to...

“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 associated with a...

“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 the conversation with...

The Medical Independent - Innovation in Healthcare Podcast: An interview with Prof Seamus Morris In 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 Medicine in the Mate...