Prize-Winners at the 20205 IPS ASM. From left to right: Jonathan Costello (Best Non-Clinical Poster), Enobong Gideon Asuquo (Best Short Oral Presentation), Kieran Moloney (Dr Hugh Raftery Prize for NCHDs, with Hanna Balytska, not present), Patricia Molyneaux (Prof. Laserina O’Connor Prize), Paul O’Reilly (Best Clinical Research Poster).
Best Clinical Short Oral: Enobong Gideon Asuquo, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick
Title: The prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders among nurses and midwives in Irish hospitals.
Runner-Up Short Oral: Marie C. Redmond, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, Galway Neuroscience Centre, Centre for Pain Research, CÚRAM, University of Galway
Title: Antinociceptive effects of cannabidiol and cannabigerol in an incisional wound model.
Dr Hugh Raftery Prize (for NCHDs):
Winner: Kieran Moloney and Hanna Balytska, Department of Anaesthesia, Limerick University Hospital
Title: Pain in silence: Auditing distress and analgesia in neurodiverse children undergoing surgery.
2nd Place: Mark McCarthy, School of Medicine, University College Cork
Title: A review of Paracetamol dosing at Mercy University Hospital.
Pain management in major surgery: are we better intraoperatively or postoperatively?
3rd Place: Nabiha Chaudhary, Department of Anaesthesiology, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
Title: Evaluating post-operative opioid consumption in elderly hip fracture patients who received a regional anaesthetic block vs no regional nerve anaesthetic block.
The Prof. Laserina O’Connor Prize (inaugurated at this 2025 IPS ASM): Patricia Molyneaux, Department of Pain Medicine, St. John’s Hospital, St. John’s Square, Limerick
Title: Development of an algorithm for the management of acute pain in medical inpatients aged 65 years and older in the acute hospital setting.
Best Clinical Research Poster:
Winner: Paul O’Reilly, Centre for Pain Research and School of Psychology, University of Galway.
Title: Exploring the perspectives of adolescents, parents, and healthcare professionals about the utility of a pain self-management smartphone application (ICANCOPE POSTOP) in the context of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and corrective surgery.
2nd Place: Maura McCarron, School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, N. Ireland
Title: Understanding the experiences of participants in a digital pain education programme – an interpretative phenomenological analysis.
3rd Place: Annabelle Morris, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin
Title: Enhancing pain science education in medical and physiotherapy students using virtual reality (VR).
Best Non-Clinical Research Poster:
Jonathan Costello, Physiology, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, Galway Neuroscience Centre, Centre for Pain Research, University of Galway, Galway
Title: A noxious inflammatory insult elicits social impairments and altered inflammatory responding in the valproic rat model of autism.
