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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

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

Recognition

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