ASFAR AFRIDI is Consultant in General Adult/Community Psychiatry in Kildare West Wicklow mental health service.He completed his basic and higher specialist training in Psychiatry from Ireland and has worked as Consultant in Brunei and Ireland.

MOLLY BREDIN is currently a HST trainee in General Adult Psychiatry. She is the current Vice-Chair of the CPsychI Personality Disorder Special Interest Group. She completed an MSc in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in 2021 with a thesis exploring culture within psychiatric services in its approach to Borderline Personality Disorder. Currently training for a clinical diploma with the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, she is working towards achieving full psychotherapy accreditation.

ALLEN BULFIN BA Psychology MA Cognitive Science MSc Neuroscience HDip Computer Science MB, BCh and BAO MCPsych began his career studying and lecturing in Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. He worked briefly as an Information Technology support technician before the financial crash prompted him to undertake a career in medicine. He completed my HST in Psychiatry in July 2022 and since then have taken over as the Consultant Psychiatrist for the North East Kildare Mental Health Service. He has interests in Neuropsychiatry and Neurodiversity.

MARY CANNON is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Youth Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ireland and a consultant psychiatrist in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Her areas of research interest are young people’s mental health and early life risk and protective factors for schizophrenia. Her current research projects are concerned with studying meanings and mechanisms of psychotic-like experiences in young people and investigating trajectories of psychopathology in youth.  Her research is funded by the European Research Council and the Health Research Board (Ireland). She has been named on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list 2022. Professor Cannon is interested in advocacy in the field of youth mental health and has served on a governmental Task Force on Youth Mental Health and a ministerial rapid response group on Substance Use in Third Level Students. She is Vice President of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and vice-chair of the Youth and Student Psychiatry Faculty. She is a member of the Editorial Boards for the British Journal of Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin and the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine. She has previously served as Chair of the Diversity Committee for the Schizophrenia International Research Society.

MICHELLE CLIFFORD is HSE National Clinical Lead for Eating Disorders. Dr Clifford leads the implementation of The HSE Model of Care for Eating Disorder Services. Dr Clifford is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist leading a multidisciplinary community based eating disorder service for children and adolescents in Dublin.

PÁDRAIC DUNNE is an immunologist, practicing psychotherapist and meditation teacher, based at the new Centre for Positive Psychology and Health (CPPH), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences.

PAUL FEARON is Medical Director of St Patricks Mental Health Services, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Academic Faculty of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. He graduated in Medicine from University College Dublin, and after 5 years postgraduate training in general medicine, he specialised in psychiatry. He completed his training at the Maudsley Hospital, London and was a consultant general adult psychiatrist there for 7 years. As a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, he headed the Section of Social Psychiatry and Epidemiology. He returned to Dublin to take up his post as Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist in St. Patricks Hospital and Trinity College Dublin in 2008. He acted as Assistant Medical Director from 2015 prior or taking up his post as Medical Director in January 2020. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, largely in the areas of the epidemiology and the role of socioenvironmental factors in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and in Quality of Care in Mental Health Services.ns in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences.

JOSEPH FIRTH completed his PhD (Medicine) at the University of Manchester, U.K and has a BSc (1st Hons) in Psychology from the University of Sheffield, U.K. Currently, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and is internationally ranked as one of the most highly-cited scientists in the fields of Digital Psychiatry, Lifestyle Medicine and Mental Health worldwide. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and has been awarded The USERN Laureate for Social Sciences, the Clarivate™ World Highly Cited Researcher in Psychology / Psychiatry, and ExpertScape’s “World Expert” accolade for his work in these fields. Dr. Firth led of the 2019 Lancet Commission on Physical Health in Mental Illness, and is the expert consultant in Mental Health for the World Health Organization’s physical activity guidelines. Currently, he is leading a 7-year programme of UKRI funded research, to examine how digital technologies can be used to support lifestyle interventions for young adults with psychiatric disorders, in order to improve both physical and mental health outcomes.

TOM FOLEY is a consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Donegal. He is also the Principal Investigator on the Health Foundation Funded, Learning Healthcare Project at Newcastle University. Until 2020, he was Senior Clinical Lead for Data at NHS Digital, where he had clinical responsibility for the English national data collections.

FIONA GAUGHRAN is Professor of Physical Health and Clinical Therapeutics in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and the Director of Research and Development at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, where she is the Lead Consultant for the National Psychosis Service. She is also the Theme lead for Applied Informatics in the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration in South London. Professor Gaughran holds fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in London, Edinburgh and Dublin and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Her research interests are largely focused on the interface between physical health and serious mental illness and on the management of psychosis. Since 2020, Professor Gaughran has been on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list, meaning she ranks among the top 1% most cited for her subject field and year of publication.

COLETTE HALPIN is fellow of the RCPsych UK, the RANZCP and a Foundation member of the CPsychI. She was Consultant Child Psychiatrist in Community CAMHS, HSE Midland  until 2012, then at the Paediatric Consultation Liaison and Gender Diversity Services at Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, WA until 2017. She was actively involved  in the Irish College in the mid 1990s and 2000s and has just become a member of College Council in 2023. She was a member of the Expert Review group for “A Vision for Change” in 2006. Since 2018, she has had part-time roles in CAMHS and CAMHS ID in Ireland. Most recently, she Chaired the “National Audit of Prescribing in CAMHS”.

BLÁNAID HAYES has recently retired after 3 decades working as an occupational physician in Beaumont Hospital, a post which afforded a unique perspective on the working lives of healthcare workers.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (FRCPI) and a former elected member of its Council.  She is a former Dean of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FFOM) and former President of the Irish Society of Occupational Medicine (ISOM). She is an Honorary Member of the UK’s Society of Occupational Medicine and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (UK).

Her research interests include doctors’ wellbeing, needlestick injury and influenza immunisation in healthcare workers. She was lead investigator in the first national survey of hospital doctors in Ireland.  This exploration of workplace and personal wellbeing measures, as well as lifestyle behaviours and coping, has helped to inform policy and curricular developments within the medical post-graduate training bodies.

NIAMH HUMPHRIES is a Senior Lecturer at the RCSI Graduate School of Healthcare Management. She holds a PhD in Sociology and has been researching health workforce issues in the Irish health system for the past 17 years. Niamh holds a HRB Emerging Investigator Award for the Hospital Doctor Retention and Motivation (HDRM) project and recently began another HRB-funded project focused on GP Retention. Her presentation today will draw on findings from the HDRM project. Niamh also sits on the National Taskforce on the NCHD Workforce (2022 to date).

ROSE ANNE KENNY is Regius Professor of Physic (Medicine) and holds the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is the founding Principal Investigator of The Irish LongituDinal study on Ageing (TILDA) and Director of the Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) at St. James’s Hospital, where she is also director of the Falls and Syncope Unit.

She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, London and Ireland, a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine Ireland, and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.  She has received a number of international awards and has published widely, authoring over 600 publications including, her recently published book “Age Proof – The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life” which was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022.   In 2020, she was elected President of the Irish Gerontological Society. In 2022 she was nominated 24^th Regius Professor of Physic at TCD (1637), the first female nominee.

ALYSON LEE works as a consultant psychiatrist in a community mental health team and in the Talking Therapies Model of Care in Kildare/West Wicklow . Alyson has higher training in psychodynamic psychotherapy in Scotland and general adult psychiatry in Ireland. She is a member of the Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists and is  an MBT Practitioner.  She has an interest in psychological formulation of personality disorder and is member of the PDSIG.

SIOBHAN MACHALE has worked as a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist for 25 years, initially in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before returning to her current post in Beaumont Hospital in 2006. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. As a Liaison Psychiatrist, her primary role is in the care and management of the mental health needs of patients in the general hospital setting, including the Emergency Department. She previously chaired the National Clinical Programme in the Management of SelfHarm.
She is the current CPsych I representative on the National Implementation Monitoring Committee (NIMC) for Sharing the Vision and chair of the NIMC Women’s Specialist Mental Health Group.

SIR MICHAEL MARMOT has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985, and is Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity. He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2019-), and co-Director of the of the CUHK Institute of Health Equity. He is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award; the Harvard Lown Professorship (2014-2017); the Prince Mahidol Award for Public Health (2015), and 20 honorary doctorates. Marmot has led research groups on health inequalities for nearly 50 years. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, several WHO Regional Commissions, and reviews on tackling health inequality for governments in the UK. He served as President of the British Medical Association (BMA) in 2010-2011, and as President of the World Medical Association in 2015. He is President of Asthma + Lung UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and of the Faculty of Public Health; an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy; and of the Royal Colleges of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, Paediatrics and Child Health, and General Practitioners. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine and of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for six years and in 2000 he was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen, for services to epidemiology and the understanding of health inequalities. Prof Marmot was appointed a Companion of Honour for services to public health in the King’s 2023 New Year Honours.

PAUL MATTHEWS has worked as a General Adult Psychiatrist in North Kildare since 2017 having completed training in General Adult and Liaison Psychiatry and his doctorate in Oxford where he worked in General Adult Psychiatry and Early Intervention in Psychosis before moving to Ireland. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Chair of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland Special Interest Group in Personality Disorders and previously worked in the Oxfordshire Complex Needs Service Therapeutic Community.

EVELYN MCCABE is a Consultant Psychiatrist with over 34 years experience in the speciality. She is a graduate of the University of Galway and works with Galway Roscommon Adult Mental Health Services, HSE, Ireland. With a career long passion for psychotherapy practice and teaching, she trained in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Irish Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy/ Trinity College Dublin. She trained as a Mentalization Based Treatment therapist and supervisor with Professor Anthony Bateman and Professor Peter Fonagy. She developed the first Mentalization Based Therapy treatment programme in the Republic of Ireland In 2012 and continues to deliver this evidence based model in her current post. Evelyn is psychotherapy tutor/lecturer, Balint leader and educational supervisor at the Irish College of Psychiatrists, National University of Ireland Galway Deanery. She established the first accredited special interest medical psychotherapy Higher Specialist Training post in the Republic of Ireland. She lectures in psychiatry and psychotherapy at National University of Ireland, Galway. She has extensive experience supervising individuals and teams in MBT nationally and internationally. She is an associate tutor with Réseau Francophone TBM (French MBT network) Université de Genève and Université de Versailles, delivering MBT trainings through French in Geneva and Paris. She is an associate trainer in MBT, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and University College London. In her spare time she is a competitive rower with Tribesmen Rowing club.

FIONA MCNICHOLAS is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Lucena Clinic, Rathgar and Childrens’ Hospital Ireland, Crumlin. Her clinical and research interests are Eating Disorders, access to services including transition from child to adult MH services.  She is chair in child psychiatry at University College, Dublin where she is active in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. She trained in psychiatry in the UK and USA and is now resident in Ireland.

TRUDY MEEHANis a senior clinical psychologist and lecturer at the Centre for Positive Psychology and Health at RCSI. She previously worked at Stanford University as director of the BING Overseas Study Programme in Cape Town. As a clinician, she was a senior clinical psychologist in the Health Service Executive (HSE) and clinical director for “50808”, an initiative funded by HSE that provides 24/7 text message support for young people struggling with their mental health. Her research also explores the value of art within the context of mental health.

SIOBHÁN NÍ BHRIAIN, MSc., FRCPI, MRCP (UK), MRPsych is a graduate of UCD and trained in Medicine and Psychiatry in the UK and Ireland. She worked as a Research Fellow in the Mercer’s Institute for Research on Ageing before completing her Higher Specialist Training in Old Age and General Adult Psychiatry. She has worked in Tallaght University Hospital/CHO 7 as Consultant in Psychiatry of Later Life since 2006 and was appointed Clinical Director for the Tallaght and St. James’s Mental Health Services in 2012, finishing up in 2018. During that time, she also served as Chair of the TUH Medical Board for four years and represented the MB at the Hospital Board.

She took up the post of NCAGL for Mental Health in January 2019 and moved to the role of National Clinical Director for Integrated Care, Clinical Design and Innovation in February 2020. The move coincided with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and Siobhán led the development of the ‘HSE Operational Pathways of Care for Covid-19’ for the Chief Clinical Officer. She chairs the CCO Clinical Forum and Clinical Advisory Council, and is co-Chair of the Enhanced Community Care Steering Group. Siobhán leads on the National Clinical Programmes as well providing senior clinical leadership in the HSE for many other areas, including the implementation of Assisted Decision Making Act, services for people with Long Covid and the clinical response to the Ukrainian crisis.

She is particularly interested in the development of integrated care pathways across the continuum of care for patients and has worked closely with colleagues in various settings to develop care pathways.

She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, a Member of the Royal College Physicians of London, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the College of Psychiatry of Ireland and completed an MSc in Leadership in RCSI in 2019.

AMIR NIAZI is the current National Clinical Advisor & Group Lead for Mental Health, having previously been the Executive Clinical Director in the Louth Meath area of CHO 8 since March 2012.

He is a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist and a Member of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London.  Amir has been working as a clinician since 1997 and received training in a number of sub-specialities in mental health including General Adult, CAMHS, Liaison, Forensic and Substance Abuse.

In his current role he works closely with National Mental Health Operations on clinical matters, and with Mental Health Planning, Change and Innovation for the implementation of the Programme for Government, Sláintecare and Corporate Plan in HSE, and directly with the Mental Health Unit in the Department of Health.

Amir provides supervision and direction for the development and implementation of the National Clinical Programmes in Mental Health, reporting to the Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE via the National Director for Integrated Care

KAREN O’CONNOR is the National Clinical Lead for Early Intervention for Psychosis. She is the Clinical Lead for the RISE Early Intervention for Psychosis service in South Lee, Cork & Consultant Psychiatrist with the Home Based Treatment Team in Cork, South Lee. She graduated from University College Cork, trained in psychiatry in Ireland and completed a fellowship in Early Intervention for Psychosis in Orygen Youth Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia. Her MD thesis was in the area of Early Intervention for Psychosis. She has an MSc in Leadership from the RCSI, Dublin and completed the Leading Care 1 programme with the Health Service Leadership Academy, HSE. She is a former chair of the Trainee Committee of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland.

MARY SCRIVEN graduated from medicine in UCC in 2012. She received her CSCST in general adult psychiatry, with a subspecialty of liaison psychiatry in 2021. She completed a leadership and healthcare management masters (MSc) as part of the leading care management programme in 2022. She is working as a general adult psychiatrist as part of the Longford/Westmeath Mental Health Services since 2021.

BOBBY SMYTH is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, who has acted as clinical lead across three adolescent addiction services in Dublin since 2003. He is a Clinical Professor with the Department of Public Health & Primary Care in Trinity College Dublin. He has published over 80 scientific papers in the field of addiction. His PhD thesis examined strategies to reduce the harms arising from substance use by youth. He is a member of the National Oversight Committee which monitors implementation of the National Drugs Strategy in Ireland. He is vice-chair of Alcohol Action Ireland.

AMIR NIAZI is the current National Clinical Advisor & Group Lead for Mental Health, having previously been the Executive Clinical Director in the Louth Meath area of CHO 8 since March 2012.

He is a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist and a Member of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London.  Amir has been working as a clinician since 1997 and received training in a number of sub-specialities in mental health including General Adult, CAMHS, Liaison, Forensic and Substance Abuse.

In his current role he works closely with National Mental Health Operations on clinical matters, and with Mental Health Planning, Change and Innovation for the implementation of the Programme for Government, Sláintecare and Corporate Plan in HSE, and directly with the Mental Health Unit in the Department of Health.

Amir provides supervision and direction for the development and implementation of the National Clinical Programmes in Mental Health, reporting to the Chief Clinical Officer of the HSE via the National Director for Integrated Care