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Professor Connail Mc Crory

Clinical Professor (Surgery)

 mccroryc@tcd.ie

 

Clinical Professor (Trinity Inst. of Neurosciences (TCIN))


Research Tags

  BACK PAIN   CEREBROSPINAL FLUID   CHRONIC PAIN   Cytokine modulation of immune responses   IMMUNE CELLS   IMMUNE-MEDIATED   NEUROMODULATION

Representations

Details Date
Dean, Faculty of Pain Medicine, CAI Elected to this position by board of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. Responsible for running the Faculty functions: National Training Scheme in Pain Medicine. Fellow of Faculty of Pain Medicine examinations part 1 and 2 and revision courses. Dealing with reciprocity issues for non-eu doctors wishing to work in Ireland. Interacting with other colleges, RCSI, RCPI and ICGP. 2015
Editor Pain Medicine section of British Journal of Anaesthesia Education. 2015
Opioid prescribing group. Collaborative project between the Faculty of Pain Medicine, CAI and ICGP. This group was established at the request of the HSE to formulate national policy on opioid prescribing. A policy document was submitted to Department of Health. 2015
External Examiner Fellowship in Pain Medicine of the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Royal College of Anaesthetists, London 2019
Health Information and Quality Assessment (HIQA). I was appointed by College of Anaesthetists to this board and was a member of Expert Advisory Group on interventional procedures. This was part of the "Safe Better Care"programme and I was an author on the the national policy document: A series of health technology assessments of clinical referral and treatment thresholds for selected procedures 2014 2014
Member of the local organising committee for 9th World Institute of Pain Meeting in Dublin in 2019 with 2200 attendees. Chaired the organising committee of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of Ireland Annual Scientific meeting for 3 years ( approx 200 attendees per meeting). Member of local organising committee for the combined meeting of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of Ireland with the Neuromodulation Society of UK & Ireland in Cork in 2008 with approximately 400 attendees. 2008
Examiner for Final MB, Final FPMCAI, FInal FCAI. 2010
Neuromodualtion Society of United Kingdom & Ireland. I was elected as the Irish Representative on this committee.This provided links to neuromodulation resaerch funding and faciltated access to Fellowship traing programmes in neuromodulation in UK for Irish doctors completing their pain medicine training in Ireland. 2005
Chairman Pharmacy & Therapeutics committee, St. James Hospital, Dublin. I was a board member 2003-4 and then elected as chairman. I initiated the Nurse Prescribing initiative at St. James Hospital and also negociated with CEO and CFO to finance the building of the new medication storage unit at St. James. 2005
Expert Advisory Role for Pfizer regarding development and clinical application of Pregabalin (Lyrica) 2006
Expert Advisory group for clinical implementation of patch therapy Qutenza for neuropathic pain 2013
External reviewer for the following journals: Pain Medicine, Pain, British Journal of Anaesthesia, Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine 2010
Irish Medical Organisation - NCHD representative 1996
Expert advisor to Health Products Regulatory Authority : National Practice document regarding the role of :Trial of Stimulation for Spinal Cord Stimulation

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Fellow of College of Anaesthetists of Ireland 1993 current
Irish Hospital Consultants Association 2002 Current
Neuromodulation Society of UK & Ireland 2004 current
Fellow of World Institute of Pain 2005 current
Fellow of Faculty of Pain Medicine, College of Anaesthetists of Ireland 2008 current
Irish Pain Society - member 2008 current
Fellow of American Academy of Pain Medicine 2015 current
Mullins CF, Walsh S, Rooney A, McCrory C, Das B, A preliminary prospective observational study of the effectiveness of a high concentration capsaicin cutaneous patch in the management of chronic post surgical neuropathic pain, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Galvin D, McCrory C, The role of T lymphocytes in neuropathic pain initiation, development of chronicity and treatment, Brain Behaviour & Immunity Health, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Galvin D, McCrory C, The role of T lymphocytes in neuropathic pain initiation, development of chronicity and treatment, Brain Behaviour and Immunity Health, 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Royds J, Conroy M, Cassidy H, Lysaght J, McCrory C, Examination and Characterisation of the effect of Burst Spinal Cord Stimulation on the the cerebrospinal fluid cellular, peptide and proteomic constituents in patient responders with chronic neuropathic pain, J. Neuroimmunology, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Royds J, Conroy MJ, Dunne MR, McCrory C, Lysaght J., An investigation into the modulation of Tcell phenotypes by amitriptyline and nortriptyline, European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Royds J, Cassidy H, Conroy M, Dunne MR, Matallanas D, Lysaght J, McCrory C, An investigation into the proteomic constituents of cerebrospinal fluid in patients with chronic peripheral neuropathic pain medicated with opioids - A pilot study, J Neuroimmune Pharmacology, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Royds J, Cassidy H, Conroy M, Dune M.R, Lysaght J, McCrory C, Examination and characterisation of the effect of amitriptyline therapy for chronic neuropathic pain on neuropeptide and proteomic constituents of human cerebrospinal fluid, Brain, Behaviour & Immunity, 2020, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Connail McCrory, Trial Stimulation period before implanting a spinal cord stimulator, Health Product Regulatory Authority, 2020, Report, PUBLISHED
Aine O Gara Connail McCrory Basabit Das, Dorsal root ganglion pulsed radiofrequency treatment for chronic cervical radicular pain: a retrospective review of outcomes in fifty-nine cases, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Gopal H, Kehoe E, Hegarty F, Bodke A, McCrory C, Pressure Pain transduction in cortical ands-cortical areas of the brain in healthy volunteers: Does it matter if it is pressure or thermal stimulus?, 2019, Working Paper, SUBMITTED
  

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Debra Galvin Connail McCrory, Management of difficult chronic pain conditions, Medical Independent, 2019, Review, ACCEPTED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Clinical Research Medal in Pain Medicine march 2019
Editors Award for Best paper - Neuromodulation ref: Neuromodulation 2013:16(6);519-22 2013