ProfessorPatricia Fitzpatrick

Patricia Fitzpatrick MD, MPH, FRCPI, FFPHMI is Full Professor of Epidemiology & Biomedical Statistics and Consultant in Preventative Medicine in St Vincent's University Hospital.

Qualified in medicine from UCD and worked in clinical medicine, followed by a Masters in Public Health and undertaking Higher Specialist Training in Public Health Medicine. On completion of specialist training she was appointed to the Department of Public Health Medicine & Epidemiology, UCD.

Recent Awards
2025 UCD Research Impact Award "Engaged Research” impact prize 2024 

https://www.ucd.ie/research/impact/casestudies/supportingcancerpatientstoquitsmokingpostdiagnosis/

2024 Winner Kevin Kelleher Medal, Faculty of Public Health Medicine

2024 Winner Best Research Project/Paper Irish HealthCare Awards (HPV vaccine paper)

2023 - Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI) Research Award 2022 (Section of Public Health Medicine/Epidemiology) for published article: 
Kelly C, Fitzpatrick P et al. Screen-detected ductal carcinoma in situ, 2008–2020: An observational study. Journal of Medical Screening 2022
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09691413221090739
2023 UCD Public Health Subject awarded Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) Award for Excellence in Teaching 
2023 Finalist Irish Cancer Society Senior Cancer Researcher of the Year
2022 Teaching Excellence Award, UCD College of Health & Agricultural Sciences

Recent working group appointments
Chair, Expert Advisory Group, HSE National Public Health Strategy 2024-2025

Ministerial appointment to Public Health Reform Expert Advisory Group 2022-2023

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/cfbaf-public-health-reform-expert-advisory-group/

Irish Universities Association Nominee to the Higher Education Authority Healthy Campus Framework and Charter Advisory Group 2020-2023

Screening:
Published international breast screening European Guidelines: Member of Guidelines Development Group of the Joint Research Council European Council Initiative on Breast Cancer 2016-current (https://healthcare-quality.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ecibc)

Worked with RCPI to develop modules on screening for health professionals, and videos to explain screening to the public.

Current & Recent Board Membership:
Board Member, Medical Bureau of Road Safety 2017-2025

Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland:
Former Dean 2009-2011
Recent Board Member
Current RCPI Credentials Committee representative of Faculty of Public Health Medicine
Current Examiner for Part I and Part II MFPHMI

Current member of Faculty Advocacy Committee

Former Board Member Institute of Public Health (www.publichealth.ie.) 2009-2020

Member of International Scientific Committee of the 16th European Public Health Conference 2023 Dublin
https://ephconference.eu/Dublin-2023-333

Former Chair of the Steering Committee for Healthy UCD 2016-2023 (www.ucd.ie/healthyucd/; #healthyucd) UCD & Healthy UCD awarded Irish Heart Foundation active@work Gold award 2018.

Extern Examiner UCC (MPH degrees) 2022-2025
Invited Subject Expert University of Swansea MSc in Public Health & Health Promotion Quality Review 2019
Extern Examiner University of Sunderland MSc in Public Health 2012-2016

The Conversation UK article 2020 >50,000 reads. https://theconversation.com/why-was-ireland-the-first-european-country-to-go-back-into-lockdown-and-will-it-work-149258
The Conversation UK article 2021 >81,000 reads.
https://theconversation.com/how-taiwan-beat-covid-19-new-study-reveals-clues-to-its-success-158900

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