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Dr. Robert Briggs

Clinical Senior Lecturer (Medical Gerontology)
      
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Dr. Robert Briggs

Clinical Senior Lecturer (Medical Gerontology)

 rbriggs@tcd.ie

 


Robert Briggs is a Consultant Geriatrician in St James's Hospital with a special interest in Falls & Syncope in older adults. He is clinical lead of the Emergency Department Falls & Syncope Service in St James's Hospital. He has completed a Phd entitled 'The Association of Blood Pressure and Cerebral perfusion with Depression in Older Adults', utilising novel measures of cerebral blood flow and postural blood pressure analysis and has worked extensively within the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing since 2015. He was co-PI on the Irish arm of a large international study of disease-modifying therapy in Alzheimer's disease. He has over 30 first or senior author peer-reviewed publications and over 50 in total with a H-index of 14 and his research has been featured in national and international newspapers and radio.
Details Date
TILDA Management Committee 2022 to Current
Consultant Representative St James's Hospital Falls Committee 2020 to Current
Clinical Lead Emergency Department Falls & Syncope Service 2019 to Current
Associate Editor Journal: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2020 - 2022
Royal College of Physicians HST Trainer 2019 to Current
Details Date From Date To
Member of the European Geriatric Medicine Society 2018 Current
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 2011 now
Donal Sexton, Adherence to the European Society of Cardiology hypertension guidelines over 12 years of follow-up in the Irish population, Open Heart, 2026, p10.1136/openhrt-2025-003744 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Robert Briggs, Mark Ward, Siobhan Scarlett, Peter May, Bryan Tysinger, Belinda Hernandez, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Emer Ahern, Nathalie van der Velde, Rose Anne Kenny, The DEFINED Study: Determining the burden of Falls amongst community-dwelling older people in Ireland to Inform Falls Care Delivery, BMJ Open, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Doyle K, Scarlett S, Knight SP, Moriarty F, Lavan A, Briggs R, Kenny RA., The combined association of STOPPFall medication use and orthostatic blood pressure abnormalities with future falls and fractures in community-dwelling older people., European geriatric medicine, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Kate Doyle, Ciara Rice, Rose Anne Kenny, Robert Briggs, Amanda Lavan, The effect of fludrocortisone and midodrine on ambulatory blood pressure biomarkers and symptoms of syncope, Blood Pressure, 35, (1), 2026, p2618319-, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Troya M I, Arensman E, Briggs R, Griffin E, Lonergan C, Lovejoy S A, Mughal F, O'Mahony J, Ward M, Wish to die and healthcare use in older people: cross-sectional findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Journal of Public Health, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Doyle Kate, Scarlett Siobhan, Knight Silvin P, Moriarty Frank, Lavan Amanda, Kenny Rose-Anne, Briggs Robert, The association between STOPPFall medication use and falls and fractures in community-dwelling older people , Age and Ageing , 54 , (5 ), 2025, pafaf138 -, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  DOI  URL
Caoimhe McGarvey, Rose Anne Kenny, Sean Kennelly, Donal Sexton, Robert Briggs, How prevalent are modifiable dementia risk factors in Ireland? A 12-year observational study in community-dwelling older adults, BMJ Open, 15, (11), 2025, pe106032 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kate Doyle, Siobhán Scarlett, Frank Moriarty, Amanda Lavan, Rose Anne Kenny, Robert Briggs, The association between STOPPFall medication use and orthostatic hypotension in community-dwelling older people, Age and Ageing, 54, (12), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Rachel Madden, Ciara P. Rice, Amanda Lavan, Desmond O'Donnell, Conal Cunningham, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Susan O'Callaghan, Rose Anne Kenny, Robert Briggs, Can Ambulatory Blood Pressure Biomarkers Predict Future Falls amongst Older People?, Age and Ageing, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Eleanor Gallagher, Amanda Lavan, Rose Anne Kenny, Robert Briggs, The Association of Regular Dog Walking With Mobility, Falls, and Fear of Falling in Later Life, The Journals of Gerontology Series A, 80, (4), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Swanton A, Lalor P, Lavan A, Kenny RA, Briggs R, Chronic pain is frequently under-treated among older people in Ireland: data from TILDA, Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Robert Briggs , Daniel Carey , Paul Claffey , Triona McNicholas , Louise Newman , Hugh Nolan , Sean P. Kennelly and Rose Anne Kenny, The association between frontal lobe perfusion and depressive symptoms in later life, The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2019, p230 - 236, p230"236 , Notes: [doi:10.1192/bjp.2018.288], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Robert Briggs, Daniel Carey, Paul Claffey , Triona McNicholas, Orna Donoghue, Sean P Kennelly, Rose Anne Kenny, Do Differences in Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters Predict the Risk of Developing Depression in Later Life?, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2019, p1050 - 1056, p1050"1056 , Notes: [doi:10.1111/jgs.15783], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Robert Briggs, Daniel Carey, Rose Anne Kenny, Sean P. Kennelly, What is the Longitudinal Relationship between Gait Abnormalities and Depression in a Cohort of Community-Dwelling Older People? Data From the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 26, (1), 2018, p75 - 86, p75"86 , Notes: [doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2017.08.012], Journal Article, PUBLISHED