DrSuja Somanadhan

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Nominated for a Teaching and Learning Award in the UCD College of Health and Agriculture Sciences.

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Fulbright Scholar award programme, Dr Somanadhan will examine the integrated care and services for the children, young people and their families living with Rare Diseases at the Center for Rare Disease Therapy at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She will be using this analysis to compare and improve the provision of integrated care and support services for the person and their families living with Rare Diseases in Ireland and US. She will also explore the programme of work used to engage the Rare Disease patient community throughout the translational science process at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Joint North-South International Rare Disease Day event

Children's Voice in Rare Diseases- use of the creative arts-based methodology

This poster competition was focused don patient and public involvement in Rare Diseases.

Joint North and South All Ireland Rare Disease conference 2020- Panellist

The UCD-CHI at Crumlin Children’s Nursing Joint Research Network Jointly facilitated a Master Class on Clinical Holding with UCD and CCNE in CHI at Crumlin on the 15th November 2019 by Professor Lucy Bray (Edgehill University).

The Rare Disease Research Partnership (RAinDRoP) is a Health Research Board (HRB) Ireland funded event aims to bring individual skills, knowledge and experience together to prioritise and progress research into rare diseases in Ireland. Led by Dr. Suja Somanadhan (UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems), this is an exciting opportunity to bring together the community of people focused on rare disease to make our research better, more relevant and more likely to improve the lives of those living with rare diseases.

This event which showcased significant developments in education, practice and research in Children's Critical Care Nursing, and acknowledged the contribution of nurses and other healthcare staff working in this speciality.

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To mark International Children’s Day 2018, the UCD School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Systems hosted a student-led symposium on 16 th November 2018 at the Moore Auditorium, UCD. Titled Celebrating International Children’s Day, the symposium provided undergraduate and graduate students in children’s nursing with a platform to showcase their research and related academic work among their peers, clinicians and faculty.

This conference theme was"Children’s Rights for a Healthy World”, and it featured presentations from six different schools across the College of Social Science and Law and the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences. The conference also included a performance on climate change and its impact on children by Ad Astra Performing Arts Scholar, Ryan O’Donnell, as well as a talk by representatives from the Youth Advisory Council. The event was opened by Professor Orla Feely, VP for Research, Innovation, and Impact followed by the Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon. The Centre was particularly delighted to welcome two international keynote speakers to UCD - Professor Lisa Gibbs from the University of Melbourne and Professor Lucy Bray from the Edge Hill University in the UK who led two exciting workshops on ethical issues and playful research activities with children. The UCD ChilD Research Centre was established in 2013 with the aim of bringing together researchers from across the university working in the field of human development. The Centre currently has 60 members and aims to promote UCD's excellence in the area of children's research, as well as support interdisciplinary collaborations on research projects.

The Irish Clinical Audit Network (ICAN), hospital groups and University College Dublin co-hosted a clinical audit master class on the 4th of October 2018.

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Nominated for a Teaching and Learning Award in the UCD College of Health and Agriculture Sciences.

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UCD hosted the annual Rare Disease Symposium on 3rd May 2018 to discuss developments in rare disease research and education and to raise public awareness of rare diseases. The symposium was conjointly hosted by the UCD Schools of Medicine and Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, the UCD Academic Centre on Rare Diseases, along with Rare Disease Ireland, the Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG), and the Irish Platform for Patient Organisations (IPPOSI). The audience of almost 200 included people living with a rare disease, families, researchers, policymakers and students.