Position: Postgraduate Medical Student
Personal
Robert is a graduate of reading Medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts Moderatorship in Neuroscience.
Research Topic:
Robert was involved in research of clinical prediction rules, in particularly the Alvarado score. The Alvarado score stratifies individuals with suspected appendicitis into risk categories.
Research Output:
This systematic review was published in BMC Medicine in 2011. This work was also presented at the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) conference in 2010, the Scottish School of Primary Care (SSPC) conference in 2011 and at the International Forum for Diagnostic and Prognostic Strategies in Primary Care in 2010.
Supervisor(s):
Dr Kirsty O’Brien, Dr Borislav Dimitrov, Professor Tom Fahey