Spring Meeting 2025

Registration – Tea/Coffee/Scones

Welcome Dr Aisling Loy, SSSTDI President

Chairperson: Dr Aisling Loy

Presentation 1: ‘Increasing STI screening in a newly commissioned abortion service.’

Dr Sharon Porter

Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Northern Trust Porter S.

Presentation 2: ‘A retrospective review of HIV Partner Notification (PN) in a GU Setting.’

Irene Cahill, Clinical Nurse Specialist

GUIDE Clinic, St James’s Hospital - Cahill I, Murray S.

Presentation 3: ‘Usability assessment of the SOCRATES IT system in an outpatient hospital setting.’

Dr Áine Kennedy, Medical Intern

Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise - Kennedy A, Gorman D, McCormack S, Kelly S, Hynes B, Rowley D.

Coffee

Presentation 4: ‘Why is this taking so long? A case study into the diagnosis and treatment of a patient presenting with symptomatic Mycoplasma Genitalium in the West of Ireland.’

Yvonne O’Donovan, ID Nurse

University Hospital, Galway - O’Donovan Y.

Presentation 5: ‘My tongue will tell the anger of my heart.’

Clara O’Flaherty, ID Registrar

GUIDE Clinic, St James’s Hospital, Dublin - O’Flaherty C, Kerr C.

Presentation 6: ‘Lessons learned from following up chronic hepatitis B cases; the experience of Dublin and Midlands Department Public Health.’

Christopher Ibanga, Health Protection Nurse

Public Health, Dublin and Midlands - Ibanga C, Ingoldsby D. Conlan C, O’Loughlin N, King A, Williams Y, Heanue B, Lekan-Agunbiade T, Dunne K, Warren M, Ward M.

Presentation 7: ‘New adventures in Surveillance, Electronic Health Record – Sexually Transmitted Diseases (HER-STI).’

Martha Neary

Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Dublin Neary M, Courtney G, Field D, Campbell M, Cullen L, Downes P, Doyle J, McIntyre A, Nair S, Nishuilleabhain C, O’Donnell K, Williams Y, Igoe D.

Lunch

Soup & Sandwiches

Chairperson: Dr Eoin Walker

DoxyPEP

Dr John White, Consultant GUM

Northern & Western Trust Professor Fiona Lyons, Consultant GUM, St James’s Hospital, Dublin

‘Sexual Health on the move.’

Cate Greer, GUM Sexual Health Nurse and Michelle Doyle, PHA Nurse, Western Trust

‘Delivery of GUM/SRH services to those experiencing homelessness.’ 

Gillian McCullough, GUM Sexual Health Nurse, South Eastern Trust

SAFETYNET

Dr Enda Barron

GP, Dublin

Closing remarks