OA Day Research Symposium

Theme: Osteoarthritis Research in Ireland: Impact on Patients, Practice and Policy

Date:

Friday, 27th of February 

Location:

The Strand Hotel, Limerick

Keynote Speaker: Professor Ewa Roos

Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and co-founder of Good Life with osteoArthritis Denmark (GLA:D®). 

 

GLA:D® is an evidence-based 8-week structured exercise and education programme that has been implemented in 11 countries across the globe.

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Free Registration – Please click here

Please note that we have limited capacity for this event. If you register but can no longer attend, we please ask that you contact us to open the space for someone else.

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Agenda

9.15 Registration open (tea/coffee)

 

9.45 Welcome Address / Launch

 

9.50 Overview of the IMPACT project and implementation of GLA:D in Ireland (Speaker: Dr Clodagh Toomey)

 

10.15 – 11.00 Session 1: IMPACT on Patients

  1. Patient-reported outcomes following GLA:D (Presenter: Stacey Grealis PPI Contributor)
  2. Responding to patient needs: Co-design of Jointpain.ie (Presenter: Dr Helen O’Leary)
  3. Panel Q&A (Stacey Grealis, Helen O’Leary, Arthritis Ireland CEO Grainne O’Leary)

11.00 Movement and Tea/Coffee Break

 

11.15 – 12.15 Session 2: IMPACT on Practice

  1. Overview of implementation of GLA:D in healthcare settings in Ireland (Presenter: Peter Hempenstall)
  2. GLA:D® service delivery in primary care, secondary care and private practice (Presenters: Karen Kelleher / Ciara Cullen/ Diarmaid Fitzgerald)
  3. Panel Q&A (Peter Hempenstall, Karen Kelleher, Ciara Cullen, Diarmaid Fitzgerald)

12.15 – 13.10 Lunch and Posters / Networking

 

13.10 – 13.35 KEYNOTE: Prof Ewa Roos – How GLA:D® has helped to shape high-value care in Denmark and across the globe

 

13.35 – 14.30 Session 3: IMPACT on Policy

  1. HRB ENACT Models of Care for Osteoarthritis (Presenter: Prof Helen French)
  2. HSE Hip and Knee OA Pathway (Presenter: National Clinical Programme for Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery)
  3. Launch of OA Policy Briefing (Dr Clodagh Toomey)
  4. Panel Q&A (Prof Ewa Roos, NCPTOS, Prof Helen French, Dr Clodagh Toomey)

14.45 Close

This event is funded by a Health Research Board Emerging Investigator Award grant (EIA-2019-008) for the IMPACT project (IMPlementation of osteoArthritis Clinical guidelines Together).