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Dr. Edna Roche

PROFESSOR IN PAEDIATRICS (Paediatrics)
TALLAGHT HOSPITAL

 rocheef@tcd.ie

 3531896 3769


Research Projects

 Irish Childhood Diabetes National Register

Representations

Details Date
Chair of the Nutrition Council of the Irish Heart Foundation 2015
Appointed by the Minister for Health to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board August 2009
Member, Steering Group of Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group UK and Ireland (DSMIG) April 2016
Member, National Clinical Advisory Group, Faculty of Paediatrics, RCPI 2014

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Fellow Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London (FRCPCH) 1998 date
Fellow Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (FRCPI) 2006 date
Fellow Faculty Paediatrics Royal College of Physicians 1999 date
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh 1996 date
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Ireland 1999
Elected to membership of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) 2003 date
Member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Eurodiab Group, international group responsible for epidemiological research in Type 1 diabetes 2011 2017
Member of the Irish Paediatric Association 1992 2017
Member of the Irish American Paediatric Association 1992 2017
Member of the Irish Endocrine Society (IES) 2001 2017
Member of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) 1997 2017
Member of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) 2003 2017
Member of the International society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) 1996 2017
Member of the Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group UK & Ireland (DSMIG) 2015 2017
Member of the Adelaide Hospital Society 2008 2017
Member of the Steering Group of Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group (Ireland and UK) May 2016 date
Griffiths S, Loveday C, Zachariou A, Behan LA, Chandler K, Cole T, D'Arrigo S, Dieckmann A, Foster A, Gibney J, Hunter M, Milani D, Pantaleoni C, Roche E, Sherlock M, Springer A, White SM, Childhood Overgrowth Collaboration, Tatton-Brown K., EED and EZH2 constitutive variants: A study to expand the Cohen-Gibson syndrome phenotype and contrast it with Weaver syndrome., American journal of medical genetics. Part A, 179, (4), 2019, p588-594 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Huggard D, Koay WJ, Kelly L, McGrane F, Ryan E, Lagan N, Roche E, Balfe J, Leahy TR, Franklin O, Moreno-Oliveira A, Melo AM, Doherty DG, Molloy EJ., Altered Toll-Like Receptor Signalling in Children with Down Syndrome., Mediators of inflammation, 2019, 2019, p4068734 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Huggard D, McGrane F, Lagan N, Roche E, Balfe J, Leahy TR, Franklin O, Moreno A, Melo AM, Doherty DG, Molloy EJ, Altered endotoxin responsiveness in healthy children with Down syndrome., BMC immunology, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Patterson CC, Harjutsalo V, Rosenbauer J, Neu A, Cinek O, Skrivarhaug T, Rami-Merhar B, Soltesz G, Svensson J, Parslow RC, Castell C, Schoenle EJ, Green A, Trends and cyclical variation in the incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes in 26 European centres in the 25 year period 1989-2013: a multicentre prospective registration study., Diabetologia, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Mahon M, Amaechi G, Slattery F, Sheridan AL, Roche EF, Fifteen-minute consultation: Polydipsia, polyuria or both., Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
McMorrow AM, Connaughton RM, Magalhães TR, McGillicuddy FC, Hughes MF, Cheishvili D, Morine MJ, Ennis S, Healy ML, Roche EF, Tremblay RE, Szyf M, Roche HM, Personalized Cardio-Metabolic Responses to an Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Intervention in Obese Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial., Molecular nutrition & food research, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
McKenna A, Sandys N, Ryder K, Metwally N, Brennan A, O'Regan M, Hoey MCV, Roche EF, Single Centre Experience - Clinical Presentation and Frequency of Paediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) At Diagnosis over a 5-Year Period., Irish medical journal, 111, (3), 2018, p714 - 716, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Roche EF, McGowan A, Koulouri O, Turgeon MO, Nicholas AK, Heffernan E, El-Khairi R, Abid N, Lyons G, Halsall D, Bonomi M, Persani L, Dattani MT, Gurnell M, Bernard DJ, Schoenmakers N, A novel IGSF1 mutation in a large Irish kindred highlights the need for familial screening in the IGSF1 deficiency syndrome, 89, (6), 2018, p813 - 823, Notes: [ ], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  Other
Metwally N, Macken A, O'Regan M, Fitzgerald H, McDonnell C, O'Gorman CS, Molloy E, Roche EF, Evaluation of diabetes related complications and endothelial dysfunction in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes, Horm Res Paediatr , 57th Annual ESPE Meeting , Athens, Greece , 27-29 September 2018, 90 , ( (suppl 1) ), 2018, pp216.-, Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED  DOI
Lateva M, Kassim A, Meade C, Maher R, McCrann A, Roche E, Poor weight gain in Prader Willi Syndrome - not always over-restriction consider coeliac disease, Horm Res Paediatr , 57th Annual ESPE Meeting, Athens, Greece , 27-29 September 2018, 90, ((suppl 1):), 2018, pp437-, Meeting Abstract, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Edna F Roche ("Senior"), "Medical Management of Down Syndrome Health Surveillance Guidelines" , Annual Meeting of the Faculty of Paediatrics, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, , Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Kildare Street, May 12th 2017, 2017, Faculty of Paediatrics, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, , Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna F Roche ("Senior"), "Optimising Care in Down Syndrome", Royal College of Physicians (RCPI) Masterclass Broadening Horizons in Down Syndrome, Royal College of Physicians Of Ireland (RCPI), Kildare St, 1st February , 2017, Royal College of Physicians (RCPI) , Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna F Roche ("Senior"), "Who's Feeding the Kids Online? Digital Food Marketing and Children in Ireland - the Doctor's Perspective" , "Who's Feeding the Kids Online? Digital Food Marketing and Children in Ireland - Irish Heart Foundation Seminar, he Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin, 15th June, 2016, Irish Heart Foundation, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna F Roche ("Senior"), "The Irish Childhood Diabetes National Register (ICDNR) -the Current Picture of Type 1 Diabetes in children and Adolescents in Ireland" , Inaugural Meeting of the Irish Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Group, Athlone, 27th-28th May , 2016, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna Roche, "PROMISE -Implications for clinical pathways in primary and secondary care" Respondant, Findings from the PROMISE programme and next steps for treatments of obesity in children and young peoplePaediatric Research in Obesity Multi-modal Intervention and Service Evaluation Programme (PROMISE) , University College London, Institute of Child Health London, 10th June, 2015, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna Roche ("Senior"), Meet the Expert- Challenges in the Management of Extreme Obesity, ESPE 53rd Annual Meeting , Convention Centre Dublin, 18 September 2014, 2014, European society for Paediatric Endocrinology, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Roche, Meet the Expert- Challenges in the Management of Extreme Obesity (2), ESPE 53rd Annual Meeting , Convention Centre Dublin, 20 September 2014, 2014, European society for Paediatric Endocrinology, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Edna F Roche (, "Extreme obesity in childhood" , Faculty of Paediatrics Autumn Conference, Royal College of Physicians Of Ireland (RCPI), Kildare St, Friday October 10th , 2014, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna F Roche ("Senior"), "Assessment of Obese children and obesity co-morbidities using the OSCA guidelines", Progressing Obesity Management: Training Course in Management of Obesity , Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), London, 24th October, 2014, Edna Roche and Russell Viner, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Edna Roche , 28th ESPE Summer School, 15-17 September 2014, In:28th ESPE Summer School, 2014, Barretstown Castle, Co Kildare, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
The John Good Prize, University of Dublin 1990
The Sir Charles Harvey Award for outstanding performance in postgraduate management education, the Irish Management Institute 1990
The Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Dublin 2003
Healthcare Team of the Year Award 2016 (Large Hospital category) awarded to the Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Service, NCH Tallaght, Irish Healthcare Awards 2017