Innovators at TUH - Innovate Health Tallaght University Hospital

Marie Egan - Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Pancreatic Diseases.

Marie recently played a key role in the development of a new digital platform for patients called SMART CP (Chronic Pancreatitis). Developed in partnership with the Irish start-up company My Patient Space this cutting-edge new digital app empowers patients with chronic pancreatitis to take control of their condition by facilitating ongoing and seamless communication with their Hospital team. Patients can use the app to monitor and report their symptoms daily and if their health begins to worsen the app immediately triggers an alert to inform the Hospital.

Deirdre Fitzgerald - Respiratory Consultant

Deirdre Fitzgerald works at Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) as a Consultant in Respiratory and Pleural medicine. (In medicine, pleural refers to the thin covering that protects the lungs.) She also works from the Respiratory Integrated Care Hub in the community which is linked to TUH.

Olga Hill Occupational Therapist (OT) specialising in Hand Therapy.

Olga works in our Orthopaedics Department and treats patients with hand and wrist complaints. She was one of the main drivers in setting up an outpatient OT-led Hand Therapy Clinic for patients at the Hospital. The Clinic which began operating in 2023 was established to help patients avoid lengthy wait times at busy fracture clinics. This meant many people with particular injuries were able to access treatment sooner and didn’t need to spend time waiting to see a Consultant.

Shirley Ingram - Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Shirley is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) and her speciality is the assessment and diagnosis of chest pain. She set up the Hospital’s first ANP-led Community Chest Pain Clinic in 2011. Shirley wanted to set up the service because she believed that if patients could be identified and treated earlier, many would not need to be admitted to the Hospital.

Michael Brassil - Consultant Interventional Radiologist

In his role as an Interventional radiologist, Michael diagnoses and treats a wide variety of diseases. He cares for patients who have a range of medical conditions by harnessing the power of advanced imaging (Ultrasound, X-ray, CT) to perform minimally invasive surgery with unprecedented precision.