Revisit CHI Research & Innovation Day 2026

CHI Research & Innovation Day 2026 took place on the 28th of May 2026 at the Trinity Translational Medicine Institute. The event included oral & poster presentations across a range of disciplines and keynote addresses and a panel discussion on Precision Health in Paediatrics. Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement was incorporated into the event. It was open to representatives from paediatric medical charities & advocacy groups, and patient & family representatives.

The CHI Youth Advisory Council, members of the CHI & In4Kids Young Persons Advisory Group, parent PPI contributors, and Children's Health Foundation representatives contributed to the abstract review process to select oral and poster presentations. The event featured oral and poster presentations from parent PPI contributors and members of CHI & In4Kids Young Person Advisory Group. Members of the CHI & In4Kids Young Person Advisory Group acted as judges for the Best Oral and Poster Presentation Prize competitions.

CHI Research and Innovation Day Programme and Abstract Book

Click on the links below to watch recordings of the presentations from the day.

Session 1

Dani Hall - Enhancing paediatric education through interactive, live, large-audience simulation.

Amélie Trinquand - Implementing precision medicine in childhood cancers: the MAGIC-I study (Molecular and Genomic Interrogation of Childhood Cancer –Ireland).

Rachel Cregan - Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor treatment is associated with improvements in mucus plugging, air trapping and bronchial thickening but not bronchial widening in people with CF aged 12 years and older over 2 years.

Giao Le - Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis guidance for paediatric patients.

Beth Gordon - RECOUP-UC: Rectal outcomes in paediatric ulcerative colitis following colectomy: a multicentre study from the paediatric IBD PORTO group of ESPGHAN.

Denise McDonald - Including children with cerebral palsy within the research process: a mixed methods systematic review.

Session 2

CHI/In4Kids YPAG Breakout Session with Caoimhe Byrne, Sharon Rafferty, Kate Kenny & YPAG members Jess Dempsey & Rachael Doak.

Chloe Court - Defining the differential effects of type I IFN vs type II IFN in trained innate immunity in primary monocytes.

Tanya Mohile - Children's Health Ireland Complex Care Programme: CHICC-P.

Samantha Smith - How many children in Ireland have life-limiting conditions? Estimating the prevalence of life-limiting conditions amongst children in Ireland using Irish data.

Maria Kehoe - Digitising the National Paediatric Mortality Register (NPMR) child death notification process through co-production.

Imelda Coyne - Connecting evidence, practice, and innovation in children’s healthcare.

Session 3

Noreen Doyle - Why Are We Doing This? A Parent Perspective on Precision Health.

Catherine Quinlan - Genomics, Data for Precision Health.

Owen Smith - Cellular Therapy – Precision Medicine in Action.

Panel Discussion on Precision Health - moderated by Jonathan Bond & Ann Quinn and featuring Noreen Doyle, Owen Smith, Catherine Quinlan, and Melissa Little.

Session 4

Emma Cooney - MEDUCATION: Where medication meets education in a digital hospital - medication safe practice through interactive learning.

Catherine Clabby - Launching a carrier testing study for Galactosaemia amongst the Irish Traveller population.

Annabelle Piquet - Co-designing a patient passport for children with hypopituitarism: a participatory approach to improving communication and care.

Mairéad Sheehan - A 10yr, single, tertiary-centre, retrospective review of individualised omalizumab therapy in those under 18yrs with antihistamine resistant Chronic Urticaria.