Health2Dublin April Meetup

Topic: Patients 2.0: Introducing the Empowered Patient (Patient Perspective on Health Innovation)

Keynote Speaker: Marie Ennis O'Conor [twitter] (https://twitter.com/JBBC) of HCSMmonitor.com (http://hcsmmonitor.com/)

Marie Ennis-O’Connor is a PR consultant and web marketing and communications specialist, with a passionate interest in healthcare social media. Marie has experience of working with healthcare practitioners and patient advocates and is interested in how both can engage and learn from each other at the level of social media. Marie is a featured blogger on Webicina, an online service that provides curated medical social media resources in over 80 medical topics and over 17 languages and has been awarded a top blogger accolade by Empowered Doctor.com and most inspiring writer by WegoHealth.

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Welcome to the second Health2Dublin Meetup for the New Year. We had a great turn out at the last meet up in February, you can read about it here: http://blog.health2dublin.com/ .

We'll have an exciting and packed meetup this time which will follow this structure:

5.00 - Health2Dublin news and upcoming events 5.05 - Keynote Speaker: Marie Ennis O'Connor 5.45 - Innovator table discussion 6.00 - Panel Discussion: Joining our keynote speaker will be Muireann Cullen (http://ie.linkedin.com/in/muireanncullen/), (Manager at Nutrition and Health Foundation), Anne Marie Graham (http://ie.linkedin.com/in/annemariegraham/) (National Chairperson of Occupational Health Nurses Section at Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation) and Jim Joyce (http://ie.linkedin.com/in/jimjoyce) (PointofCare.ie, HealthXL Director and Mentor). 6.40 - Company Showcase: Ken Cahill, SilverCloudHealth (http://www.silvercloudhealth.com/) and Brendan Casey, Swiftqueue (http://www.swiftqueue.com/) 7.00 - Networking continues in Bowes Pub next door. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

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About our Speakers

Dr. Muireann Cullen, Manager, Nutrition and Health Foundation (NHF)

The NHF is an independent partnership of industry, government, State agencies, internationally recognised scientists, health professionals and relevant stakeholders working together to address Ireland’s lifestyle, nutrition and health challenges. The NHF communicates evidence based information on nutrition, health and physical activity to encourage an improved and healthier society in Ireland. Further information is available at www.nhfireland.ie (http://www.nhfireland.ie/). Muireann Cullen obtained a PhD in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Trinity College Dublin in 2001. She joined the Food and Drink sector of IBEC in January 2008 to manage the Nutrition and Health Foundation. She has a wide range of experience spanning research, clinical and private practice, regulatory, public health and industry. She worked as a dietitian in a number of hospitals, as a technical executive in the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and as senior nutritionist for Cow & Gate. She was also the resident dietitian with TV3’s The Morning Show.

Jim Joyce, CEO of Point of Care

CEO and Founder, Point of Care Health Services, Dublin based Health Services company. Prior roles include General Manager and Founder of Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals (Ireland). 10 Years in the pharmaceutical Industry in varied roles at Schering Plough including Director of USA Finance Division and Director of Europe/Mid East/Canada, having worked in USA and Europe and have experience with both Primary Care and Specialty Biotech Product Lines. Prior to the pharmaceutical industry worked in financial services for investment firms of Smith Barney, Brown Brothers Harriman, and AG Edwards.

Anne Marie Graham

Anne Marie has worked in both the service provider and the industrial sector of occupational health and safety for the past 9 years and have a wide range of experience within industry including health and wellness, financial services, manufacturing and production, food and hygiene, hospitality and transport and engineering sectors of industry. She has also been involved in the teaching and training aspects of Occupational Health as a lecturer in Dublin City University on the Bachelor of Nursing Studies Program. Anne Marie is a member of a number of professional bodies including An Bord Altrainis, The Irish Nurses Organisation, and The Occupational Health Nurses Association of Ireland, the Irish Institute of Training and Development and BNI (Business Networking International). She has also launched a new program called Weigh Less. This is a motivational and behavioural change weight loss program where I work with individuals for 12 weeks. The program is safe, uses healthy principals. It guarantees a weight loss of at least 12 pounds!

SilverCloud (http://www.silvercloudhealth.com/)

SilverCloud is a new technology platform that enables healthcare professionals/organisations to rapidly create and deliver a broad range of engaging computerised therapeutic/wellness programmes to their clients across a single platform. SilverCloud can be delivered as a web-based or client server solution and can be supplied with or without content packages.

Healthevents (http://www.healthevents.ie)

Healthevents Ltd is a relatively new company that designs and produces conferences, seminars and workshops for the healthcare sector.

Based on the principles of Interprofessional Education, Healthevents brings together colleagues from all disciplines of healthcare and related businesses, who share a common bond of wisdom, knowledge and a desire for healthcare to change from a "system" of challenges to the "heart centered" delivery of quality experiences for the patient and their family and ensures the sustainability of a cost effective practice.