ProfessorPatricia Maguire

Patricia was an invited panellist at the Science Week 2023 panel focused on Women’s health in the Morrison Hotel Dublin at 7pm, Thursday 16th November in association with Science Foundation Ireland and Evoke.ie. Hosted by journalist and presenter Rebecca Horan.

Patricia and several of the AI_PREMie team featured as requested by SFI to appear in an AminoTV production documentary for RTE1 , presented by journalist Anne-Marie Tomchak.

On Nov 8th , UCD Discovery in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Digital Policy and the Insight SFI Research centre for Data Analytics co-organised an event in Dublin’s National Concert Hall entitled ‘AI & Society’ featuring a keynote by AI visionary Professor Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley.

Patricia was an invited panellist at the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) lunchtime event in association with EY entitled ‘Practical Applications of AI in Healthcare’ on November 9th 2023. Along with her work in the UCD AI Healthcare Hub, Patricia discussed the proposed benefits and drawbacks of AI in terms of healthcare with other panellists drawn from industry and pharma. She also spoke on the AI_PREMie project and how it would take a large multi-disciplinary team to move ambitious projects like this towards utilisation in the clinic.

Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards 2023. The AI Innovation of the Year Award was awarded to University College Dublin/AI_PREMie – Saving lives of mothers and babies using AI https://digitaltransformationawards.ie/winners/

October 2023 – Took part in the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association video campaign “Innovate for Life”, in associated with Amgen Pharmaceuticals, where I explained how using AI could lead to more timely diagnoses and tailored treatments in the future.

Visiting Professor to Northeastern University, September 2023, visiting the Maine and Boston campuses. Invited seminar at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, Portland, Maine entitled ‘The 100 Platelet Releasates Project (100 PREPs). Privileged to be introduced by Prof Rai Winslow, the father of computational medicine.

Featured in the UCD Connections President’s Orla Feely’s ‘A new chapter’ about the importance of telling the story of UCD and AI_PREMie, one of the many pioneering and inspiring uses of AI in the university.

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LinkedIn Live interview with Carelon Global Health Solutions Ireland CEO John Patrick Shaw entitled ‘Saving lives through AI-led platelet research’, August 31st 2023.

Visit by Technological Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi

SAS and Microsoft Global Webinar on June 27, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. CET entitled "Health Analytics in Action: Improve Insights & Accelerate Research’. Feedback on my talk was excellent.

Facing tough competition from Quantum Black, AI by McKinsey, Optum and the Education Authority in NI, UCD AI_PREMie won this social impact award.

Society for Lab Automation and Screening (SLAS) Europe 2023 Conference & Exhibition; Associate track chair of Frontiers in Technology- SLAS Brussels 2023 and Board Member. Chaired and organised session entitled ‘Omics, Big data and AI’ Invited speakers including Richard Kasprowicz, GSK and Juan Manuel Dominguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

On May 16, 2023, Professor Patricia Maguire spoke on RTE Prime Time about making birth safer with her AI_PREMie project. Prof Maguire explains that her research "merges artificial intelligence, biomedical science and also the best clinical science, bringing that all that information together and giving it to the clinician so that we can, if you like, augment their intelligence at a particular time so that they can make hopefully better decisions and save the lives of mothers and babies."

The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), under the auspices of UNESCO, has chosen AI_PREMie as ranked Excellent in the world’s top 100 projects using AI to solve problems related to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Featured in the Irish Times, Future of Healthcare Segment in an article entitled » Combining Irish–US strengths in health tech research for better outcomes

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15 min Public lecture entitled : AI_PREMie Harnessing the information carried by platelets combined with powerful AI to help risk stratify pre-eclampsia

AI_PREMie, under the leadership of Prof Patricia Maguire in the UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, won Best Application of AI to Achieve Social Good and Best Application of AI in an Academic Research Body.

AI Awards Ireland: The AI research project, hosted at the UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, won Best Application of AI to Achieve Social Good and Best Application of AI in an Academic Research Body.

A social media campaign we ran to learn about womens experiences of pre-eclampsia

At the start of the AI PREMIE project we had a PPI meeting to help define the research work

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