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Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Principal Investigator, Falls Prevention
Professor Rose Anne Kenny has recently been appointed to Trinity College and St. James’s Hospital as Head of the academic Department of Medical Gerontology, Director of the new Falls and Blackout Unit at St. James’s Hospital, Director of the new Centre for Successful Ageing and is vising Professor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Institute for Ageing & Health, Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, she has been a world leader in research into cardiovascular and mobility disorders in ageing and is co-Chairman of the International Panel of experts for “clinical practice guidelines for the investigation and management of falls in older adults” by invitation of the American Geriatrics Society.
Professor Rose Anne Kenny’s research interests are in neurocardiovascular function in ageing. The overarching aims of the research programmes are to unpick the mechanisms for cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction in the context of falls, blackouts, cognitive impairment and dementia. The research involves collaborative partnership with disciplines from basic science (developing animal modules of cardiovascular and cerebral dysfunction) through to health service development and implementation. She has conducted longitudinal cohort studies of vascular factors in cognitive impairment (post stroke cohort, NCVI in the community and carotid sinus hypersensitivity cohort).
She has published in excess of 200 papers, 40 book chapters and 3 text books and currently chairs the Falls prevention Working Party for the American and British Geriatric Societies and the National Falls collaborative Working Group in Ireland. She has represented her field on international groups for heart failure, syncope and falls. Since her appointment at Trinity College (October 2005) she is:
1. Lead PI for the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
2. Lead PI for the falls strand in the Intel/IDA inter-institutional research collaboration with colleagues at NUIG, UCD & TCD .
3. Lead PI for HRB translational research programme investigating why older people with mild cognitive impairment conver to dementia
4. Member of the Academic Board of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS)
5. Chairing the falls group for the National Falls Collaborative
Dr Terrance J. Dishongh , Co-Principal Investigator (Intel)
, Falls Prevention
Intel Digital Health Group
Terrance (Terry) J. Dishongh, Ph.D. is currently the principal engineer and lead technologist in Intel’s Digital Health Research and Innovation Group. His current duties at Intel Corporation include projections of technology trends in ubiquitous computing, research and development of sensors for healthcare applications, contextual awareness and design of new radio technology for ubiquitous computing. He has designed, developed and prototyped various sensors and sensor network using, Z-wave, Zigbee, X10, mote based systems and Bluetooth technology. Previously, Dr. Dishongh was a Staff Architect in System Manufacturing designing and developing the interface between the processor and the chipset for the Pentium™ III and 4 systems. His designs for packaging are in the Lakeport Chipset, the Pentium® III Processor (Copper-mine), and the Mobile Pentium® II. In his ten years at Intel he has been awarded the Intel Achievement Award, two TMG Excellence award, six Intel Corporation Divisional Recognition Awards, two achievement awards, over 190 trade secrets, and filed over seventy patents during his tenure at Intel Corporation.
Dr. Dishongh has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has chaired the National Electronic Manufacturers Institution’s roadmap for desktop computer systems for the past five years and for four years he authored the NEMI Healthcare sector roadmap. Terry received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Arizona. He received his Master’s Degree and Bachelor’s Degree from the University Tennessee, Knoxville in 1992 and 1990 respectively. Terry has co-author one textbook and over fifty other publications in electronic packaging, biomedical engineering and structural mechanics. Before his academic career Terry, at the age of 17, was a US Army Green Beret in the 7th Special Forces Group Airborne as a volunteer service man. Terry was born in Port Hueneme, California in 1964 and was raised in Pasadena, Texas. Terry currently lives in County Kildare, Ireland with his wife of 22 years, Pamela and his children Katherine (10 years old) and Isaac (8 years old).
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