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Mr. Patrick Kearns

Mr. Patrick Kearns

Adjunct Teaching Fellow, Pharmacology & Therapeutics

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Biography

Patrick Kearns, B.Biomed.Sci (Hons) MPH (Epidemiology and Biostatistics). Patrick Kearns holds an honours degree in Biomedical Science focusing on Cellular Immunology and Disease Signalling (NUI). In 2024, he was awarded a Master of Public Health with Epidemiology and Biostatistics specialisation from University College Cork, becoming Ireland's youngest graduate in the field of Epidemiology. Patrick's work with UCC examined intra-population differences in Health-Related Quality of Life reporting and the factors which contribute to health-status perception(s). Having spent time working in the education sector and as a medical researcher at TCD, Patrick now works as a Health Technology Assessor at the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, St James' Hospital and retains a Teaching Fellow Status at the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Kearns, P; McCullagh L; Norris L; McConnell D, Evaluating The Cost-Effectiveness of Repeated Serological Biomarker Screening Compared to the Khorana Risk Score for Guiding Thromboprophylaxis Prescription in Patients Receiving Chemotherapy, SPHeRE Network 11th Annual Conference: Translating Research to Health Policy and System Change, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Dublin, 04 March 2025, 2025Oral Presentation, TARA - Full Text

Research Expertise

Nutritional epidemiology, Systems biology, Occupational epidemiology, Epidemiology, Immunology not elsewhere classified, Health services and systems, Disease surveillance, Public health, Forensic epidemiology, Immunology, Public health not elsewhere classified, Transplantation immunology, Basic Medicine and Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Receptors and membrane biology, Clinical sciences not elsewhere classified, Epidemiology not elsewhere classified, Clinical Trials and Interventions, Tumour immunology, Epidemiological modelling, Clinical Science Infrastructure, Major global burdens of disease, Epidemiological methods, Signal transduction, Social epidemiology, Vaccines, Environmental epidemiology, Behavioural epidemiology, Cancer, Clinical sciences research design, methodology, and analysis, Medical, health and life sciences, Digital health,

Recognition

  • Royal Society for Public Health (UK and ROI) 2025