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Irish Thoracic Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

By Mindo - 04th Dec 2019

  • Dr Alex Franciosi, RCSI Beaumont Hospital, received the prize for Best Oral Presentation from Ms Linda Caulfield, Boehringer
    Ingelheim for his presentation ‘Clarifying the risk of lung disease in
    SZ alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD)
  • Pictured L-R at the Irish Thoracic Society Case Study Forum: Mr Marcel Gordon, Astra
    Zeneca; Dr Aidan O’Brien, University Hospital Limerick; Prof Anthony O’Regan; Prof JJ
    Gilmartin; Dr Bob Rutherford, Galway University Hospital; Ms Mary Barry; and Mr David
    Bourke, Astra Zeneca
  • 2nd prize – Dr Shahid Farooq, South West Acute
    Hospital, Enniskillen
  • 1st prize – Dr Sam Grennan, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
  • 2nd Prize – Dr Brian Gaffney, Letterkenny University Hospital, pictured with Prof
    Vera Keatings, Letterkenny University Hospital; and Dr Jacqueline Rendall, Belfast
    City Hospital
  • Dr Oliver McElvaney, RCSI, Beaumont Hospital, received the
    award for Best Poster from Ms Niamh Tuite, Boehringer Ingelheim
    for his poster titled ‘Specific inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasone
    as an anti-inflammatory strategy in cystic fibrosis’
  • The Inaugural Jean Norton Award for Best Research Paper on Chronic Restrictive Pulmonary
    Disease was awarded to Dr Evelyn Lynn, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, for her
    presentation ‘Clinical Characteristics and Novel Biomarkers of LAM in an Irish Population’. Pictured
    L-R: Dr Cormac McCarthy, St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin; Mr Michael Corless (representing
    the Norton/Corless Family); Dr Evelyn Lynn, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin; Prof Anthony
    O’Regan; and Prof Ross Morgan, President ITS
  • Recipients of the ITS GSK BTS Bursary 2019 – Ms Antoinette Doherty, Letterkenny University
    Hospital and Dr Oliver McElvaney, RCSI, Beaumont Hospital. Pictured L-R: Prof Ross Morgan,
    President of the Irish Thoracic Society; Ms Sonya Murray, Letterkenny University Hospital (receiving
    bursary on behalf of Antoinette Doherty); Dr Oliver McElvaney, RCSI, Beaumont Hospital; Ms Sandra
    Doyle; Ms Geraldine O’Connor; and Ms Sarah Flood, all GSK
  • 1st Prize – Dr Khalid Elkholy, University Hospital Limerick
  • 3rd Prize – Dr Marie Talty, Galway University Hospital
  • Dr Kimberley Black received the runner-up prize for Best Oral Presentation ‘Enhanced airway smooth muscle relaxation via proteinase activated receptor 2’, received on her behalf by Prof
    Lorcan McGarvey, Queen’s University Belfast from Ms Linda
    Caulfield, Boehringer Ingelheim

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