Prize Winners

ISR AUTUMN MEETING 2019 – PRIZE WINNERS

Bernard Connor Medal
Tereza Florica – “Clinical Dilemmas of Cardiac Involvement in Myositis”

Young Investigator Award
Dr Mary Canavan (19A167) – “The synovial microenvironment in Rheumatoid Arthritis induces metabolic and functional adaptations in Dendritic cells”

Clinical Oral Presentations
1st Dr Charlene Foley (19A181)
2nd Dr Siobhan Clifford (19A142)

Scientific Oral Presentations
1st Dr Achilleas Floudes (19A110)
2nd Dr Megan Hanlon (19A138)

Posters – Premier
1st Dr Catherine Hughes (19A106)
2nd Dr Eva McCabe (19A102)

Posters – Regular
1st Dr Robert Harrington (19A143)
2nd Dr Tahir Aziz (19A174)

Posters – Cases
1st Dr Asif Munir (19A136)
2nd Dr Aine Connerton (19A161)

Best Clinical Case Oral
Dr Wan Lin Ng (19A146) (As judged by the Audience)

Past Winners

ISR AUTUMN MEETING – 19-21 SEPTEMBER 2018 AWARD WINNERS

Bernard Connor Medal -Dylan McGagh
Could patient-reported outcomes help to inform a holistic treat-to-target approach in rheumatology?

Young Investigator Award – Dr Sarah Wade
Dysregulated miR-125a promotes joint angiogenesis through altered bioenergetics – 18A127

1st Place Scientific Award – Dr Charlene Foley – 18A130

1st Place Clinical Award – Dr Yousef Alammari – 18A201

1st Place Poster Award – Dr Candice Low – 18A149

2nd Place Poster Award – Dr Leah Rooney – 18A163

3rd Place Poster Award – Dr Sinead Maguire – 18A145

Joint 4th Place Award – Dr Áine Gorman – 18A176 and Dr Stephen McDonald -18A119

Oral Case Award – Dr Leah Rooney – 18A184

The following three abstracts selected for presentation as Oral Cases and were Commended:
18A152 – Deniz Demirdal; 18A199 – Rajneet Singh; 18A155 – Alwin Sebastian

Here you can view the winners of some of our recent previous meetings.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2015 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD 2015

C. McDonagh

Ultrasound Assessment of The Median Nerve in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Before and After Corticosteroid Injection

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 2nd Prize Oral Presentation

Ms Bernie McGowan

CHANGING TRENDS IN THE INCIDENCE OF HIP AND OTHER OSTEOPOROTIC TYPE FRACTURES IN IRELAND

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 Clinical Poster

Ali Al Shamsi

Spinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) manifestations in axial psoriatic arthritis patients with specific genotypes.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 1st Prize Oral Presentation

Dr Richard Conway

Long Term Efficacy of Ustekinumab for the Treatment of Giant Cell Arteritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 Joint Winner - Young Investigator Award 2016

Dr Mary Canavan

CD141+ DC are enriched in the inflamed synovium of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients and induce both CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 3rd Prize Oral Presentation

Dr Sarah Wade

Decreased Expression of miR-125 in PsA Synovium Drives Joint Angiogenesis.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 Best Oral Case

Dr Azhar Abbas

A Rare Rarity:Ectopic Thymoma presenting with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus & Myasthenia Gravis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 Basic Science Award

Niamh Callan

A Serum Proteome Assay to Monitor Anti-TNF Response in Rheumatoid Arthritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2016 Joint Winner - Young Investigator Award 2016

Dr Amanda Eakin

Association of CD169 Positive Monocytes with Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2017 Clinical Presentations - 1st Prize

Leah Rooney

The impact of radiology reporting of vertebral fractures on treatment of fracture risk

ISR Autumn Meeting 2017 Case Presentation Award

Cathy Donaghy

Is It Still Still’s?

ISR Autumn Meeting 2017 Poster Presentations - 2nd Prize

Bernie McGowan

A comparative study of lean muscle mass in patients with newly diagnosed Inflammatory Arthritis and established Inflammatory Arthritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2017 Clinical Presentations - 2nd Prize

Gillian Rooney

Obesity predicts worse disease outcomes in axial spondyloarthropathy patients

ISR Autumn Meeting 2017 Basic Science Presentations - Joint Winner

Mary Canavan

Joint Specific Transcriptional Programmes Regulate Inflammation in CD141+DC in Inflammatory Arthritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 Joint 4th Place Award

Dr Stephen McDonald

An audit into the use of Hydroxychloroquine

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 Young Investigator Award

Dr Sarah Wade

Dysregulated miR-125a promotes joint angiogenesis through altered bioenergetics.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 1st Place Scientific Award

Dr Charlene Foley

Comparison of B and T cell subsets, cytokine expression and synovial pathology in Down’s Arthritis (DA) and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 3rd Place Poster Award

Dr Sinead Maguire

High Unemployment Rates in Irish patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 1st Place Poster Award

Dr Candice Low

Arthroscopic Synovitis and Vascularity and C-reactive Protein Predict the Future Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Patients with Seropositive Arthralgia.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 The following abstract selected for presentation as an Oral Case was commended

Deniz Demirdal

CONNECTING THE P’S IN PANCREATITIS, PANNICULITIS AND POLYARTHRITIS SYNDROME: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 The following abstract selected for presentation as an Oral Case was commended

Alwin Sebastian

Brain is on fire – Unusual case of Post infectious cerebral vasculitis. Is this a true vasculitis?

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 2nd Place Poster Award

Dr Leah Rooney

No access to DXA? Try the NOGG guidelines.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 Joint 4th Place Award

Dr Áine Gorman

Is the incidence of gout similar to other risk factors in patients presenting with stroke or myocardial infarction?

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 Oral Case Award

Dr Leah Rooney

A case of bony swelling in an otherwise well man.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 The following abstract selected for presentation as an Oral Case was commended

Rajneet Singh

Necrotising Prostatitis – An Unusual Presentation of IgG4 Related Disease

ISR Autumn Meeting 2018 1st Place Clinical Award

Dr Yousef Alammari

Urate Lowering Therapy (ULT) reduces non-specific foot pain in patients who fail to meet ACR/EULAR 2015 Gout Criteria; an effect predicted by Ultrasound and potential rationale for re-classification.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 1st Place Clinical Oral Presentation

Charlene Foley

Can high ANA titre combined with clinical features predict developing autoimmune conditions in children?

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 2nd Place Regular Poster

Tahir Aziz

Patient Satisfaction with Biosimilar Therapy Initiation and Switching.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 Young Investigator Award Winner

Mary Canavan

The synovial microenvironment in Rheumatoid Arthritis induces metabolic and functional adaptations in Dendritic cells.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 2nd Place Case Poster

Aine Connerton

Resolution of complete heart block with immunosuppression in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). A case report.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 Best Clinical Case Oral

Wan Lin Ng

TIBIA HONEST: IT TAKES A LOT OF SPINE TO DIAGNOSE DISC

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 1st Place Regular Poster

Robert Harrington

Cost Effectiveness and Efficacy of Reduced Dose Rituximab Biosimilar in a Seropositive Rheumatoid Arthritis DMARD resistant cohort

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 2nd Place Clinical Oral Presentation

Siobhan Clifford

The added utility of the EMA panel to the clinical and pharmacological management of suspected inflammatory conditions

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 2nd Place Scientific Oral Presentation

Megan Hanlon

Distinct monocyte and macrophage inflammatory and bioenergetic profiles in Rheumatoid Arthritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 1st Place Case Poster

Asif Munir

Case report on a rare presentation of Gout involving the Patellar tendon

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 1st Place Scientific Oral Presentation

Achilleas Floudas

Increased T Cell Plasticity with Dysregulation of Tfh, Tph and Treg Cell Responses in Children with JIA and Down Syndrome-associated Arthritis.

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 1st Place Premier Poster

Dr Catherine Hughes

IL-17A expressing T cells and Tissue Resident Memory T cells in Early Inflammatory Arthritis

ISR Autumn Meeting 2019 2nd Place Premier Poster

Eva McCabe

A Systematic Review of the Irish Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture Literature and the Diagnostic Gap in Patients Admitted with Hip Fracture

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