Prize Winners
ISR AUTUMN MEETING 2022
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Dr Ashley Elliott – “Protein biomarkers associated with enthesitis in psoriatic arthritis”.
BERNARD CONNOR MEDAL
Dr Samantha Banford – “Vasculopathy vs vasculitis: A case report of a patient with systemic sclerosis developing an AKI and pyrexia post covid-19 infection”.
Best Clinical Oral
Dr Natalie McKee (22A101)
Best Scientific Oral
Dr Mary Canavan (22A140)
PREMIER POSTERS
First Premier Poster (Oral)
Dr Achilleas Floudas (22A151)
Second Premier Poster (Oral)
Ms Emma Ison (22A147)
REGULAR POSTERS
First Regular Poster
Dr Katarzyna Nowak (22A105)
Second Regular Poster
Dr Evelyn McManus (22A228)
ISR SPRING MEETING 2022 – PRIZE WINNER
CLINICAL CASE – ORAL
Dr Sharon Cowley (22S105) – An insidious case of an Igg4 related disease mimic
ISR AUTUMN MEETING 2021 – PRIZE WINNERS
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Dr Rachael Flood (21A123) – Urate-lowering therapy reduces non-episodic foot pain in patients who fail to meet ACR/EULAR 2015 gout classification criteria: An effect predicted by ultrasound.
ORALS Clinical
Dr Colm Kirby (21A148) – Point of Care Ultrasound in a Rapid-Access GCA/PMR Clinic
Scientific
Dr Achilleas Floudas (21A119) – Loss of balance between protective and pro-inflammatory synovial tissue T-cell polyfunctionality predates clinical onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis
PREMIER POSTERS
First Prize – Dr Daire O’Leary (21A142) – Rare inflammatory variants identified on whole exome sequencing of an Irish cohort with chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis.
Second Prize – Dr Sinead Maguire (21A103) – High Prevalence of Complications in Pregnancies of Women with Axial Spondyloarthropathy: Emerging data from the Ankylosing Spondylitis Registry of Ireland
REGULAR POSTERS
First Prize – Brianne E Barker (21A120) – Examining the inhibitory effects of Rapamycin on the inflammatory, invasive, and metabolic capabilities of IL-1B stimulated synovial fibroblasts in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Second Prize – Serena Foo (21A111) – Cytokine synergy and glycolytic activity used to promote aggressive phenotype in FLS of children with Down’s syndrome-associated arthritis.
Third Prize – Diarmuid O’Brien (21A121)- Telephone Clinic Appointments are associated with Excessive DMARD dosing for Stable Inflammatory Arthritis Patients during the COVID-19 era; a cause for concern.
ISR SPRING VIRTUAL MEETING 2021 – PRIZE WINNERS
CLINICAL CASE – WINNERS
First Prize – Dr Sarah Quidwai (21SP105) – “Visceral Leishmaniasis, mimicking SLE in a 79 year old Irish male with limited foreign travel”.
Second Prize – Dr Claire Masih (20S114) – “Parechovirus in a Pathologist”.
ISR AUTUMN MEETING 2020 – PRIZE WINNERS
YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
Dr Rachael Flood (20A146) – COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalisation Rates in Rheumatic Diseases; Results of the Trinity Rheumatology and Covid-19 Registry – TRACR.
ORALS Clinical
Prof John Carey (20A169) – The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in Ireland: The CIMPACO Study Group.
Scientific
Dr Clare Cunningham (20A114) – Characterisation of Rheumatoid and Psoriatic Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts
POSTERS
First Prize – Dr Sinead Maguire (20A103) – Pregnancy in Axial Spondyloarthropathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Second Prize – Dr Sarah Stewart (20A105) – A Guide to: Saving £43,713.54 (€48,356.65) per year. A quality improvement project changing the frequency of blood monitoring of patients on Biologic therapy, according to best practise guidelines.
Third Prize – Dr Imran Ali (20A147) – Does time to remission differ depending on route of administration of Methotrexate in an Early Arthritis Treat to Target (T2T) cohort?
Past 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.
