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Professor Susan Smith

Professor of General Practice (1991) (Public Health & Primary Care)
      
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Professor Susan Smith

Professor of General Practice (1991) (Public Health & Primary Care)

 susmith@tcd.ie

 


Susan Smith is Professor of General Practice at Trinity College Dublin and works as a General Practitioner at Inchicore Family Doctors in Dublin 8. She did her undergraduate medical degree in TCD and then did GP training in Ireland and the UK, followed by a period working as an academic GP in Australia. She retuned to Ireland where she has worked as an academic GP in UCD, RCSI and TCD and continues to work as a GP at Inchicore Family Doctors in Dublin 8. Prof Smith is the Associate Director of the HRB Primary Care Clinical Trials Network Ireland and the Clinical Lead for HRB CICER, which provides evidence synthesis supports for the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee.
  Clinical research, trials   Community health and general practice   Primary care
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 HRB Collaborative Doctoral Award in Multimorbidity
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Humphries, Niamh, Hanlon, Holly R, O"Callaghan, Mike, Byrne, John-Paul, Cullen, Laura, Murphy, Andrew W, Smith, Susan M, Ní Shé, Éidín, Changing Working Patterns in Irish general practice: Findings from a Qualitative Remote Ethnographic Study, Health Policy, 164, 2026, p105505 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Larkin, James, Foley, Louise, Timmons, Shane, Hickey, Tony, Clyne, Barbara, Harrington, Patricia, Smith, Susan M., How do people with multimorbidity prioritise healthcare when faced with tighter financial constraints? A national survey with a choice experiment component, BMC Primary Care, 26, (1), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Smith, Susan M, Mair, Frances S, van den Akker, Marjan, Prof Martin Fortin, An appreciation, Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, 15, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Matrook, Khadija A., Whitford, David L., Smith, Susan M., McGilloway, Sinead, Piyasena, Mapa Prabhath, Cowman, Seamus, Family-based interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Primary Care Diabetes, 19, (2), 2025, p111-119 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Steell, Lewis, Krauth, Stefanie J., Ahmed, Sayem, Dibben, Grace O., McIntosh, Emma, Hanlon, Peter, Lewsey, Jim, Nicholl, Barbara I., McAllister, David A., Smith, Susan M., Evans, Rachael, Ahmed, Zahira, Dean, Sarah, Greaves, Colin, Barber, Shaun, Doherty, Patrick, Gardiner, Nikki, Ibbotson, Tracy, Jolly, Kate, Ormandy, Paula, Simpson, Sharon A., Taylor, Rod S., Singh, Sally J., Mair, Frances S., Jani, Bhautesh D., , , Multimorbidity clusters and their associations with health-related quality of life in two UK cohorts, BMC Medicine, 23, (1), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Cronin, Thomas, Healy, David, McCarthy, Noel, Smith, Susan M, Travers, John, Prevalence and risk factors of frailty in people experiencing homelessness: A systematic review and meta-analysis, The Journal of Frailty & Aging, 14, (2), 2025, p100029 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Paulina Daw, Colin J. Greaves, Nikki Gardiner, Patrick Doherty, Thomas M. Withers, Amy C. Barradell, Paul O"Halloran, Zahira Ahmed, Shaun Barber, Gwen Barwell, Sophie E. Brown, Sarah Dean, Carlos Echevarria, Rachael A. Evans, Tracy Ibbotson, Bhautesh D. Jani, Kate Jolly, James R. Manifield, Frances S. Mair, Emma McIntosh, Daniel Miller, Paula Ormandy, Susan M. Smith, Sharon A. Simpson, Ghazala Waheed, Rod S. Taylor, Sally J. Singh, on behalf of the PERFORM research team, Co-design and development of a Personalised Exercise-based Rehabilitation and self-management programme FOR people with Multiple long-term conditions: The PERFORM intervention, Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Andrew Dullea; Lydia O"Sullivan; Kirsty K. O"Brien; Patricia Harrington; Marie Carrigan; Susan Ahern; Maeve McGarry; Karen Cardwell; Michelle O"Neill; Kieran A. Walsh; Barbara Clyne; Susan M. Smith; Mairin Ryan, Developing an approach for assigning GRADE levels in a systematic overview of reviews of diagnostic test accuracy using general principles identified from current GRADE guidelines: A case study, Research Synthesis Methods, 2025, Notes: [Published online], Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Sophie Brown, Sharon Simpson, Colin Greaves, Paulina Daw, Sarah Dean, Rachael A. Evans, Thomas M. Withers, Zahira Ahmed, Shaun Barber, Gwen Barwell, Patrick Doherty, Nikki Gardiner, Tracy Ibbotson, Bhautesh Jani, Kate Jolly, Frances S Mair, James Manifield, Emma McIntosh, Daniel M. Miller, Paula Ormandy, Susan M. Smith, Ioannis Vogiatzis, Ghazala Waheed, Rod S Taylor, Sally Singh, Personalised Exercise Rehabilitation FOR people with Multiple long-term conditions (PERFORM): findings from a process evaluation of a randomised feasibility study, BMJ Open, 15, (9), 2025, pe100199 - e100199, pe100199-e100199 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Caroline McCarthy, Barbara Clyne, Susan M. Smith, Fiona Boland, Emma Wallace, Michelle Flood, Frank Moriarty, Impact of eliciting treatment priorities on analgesic prescribing in older patients with high levels of polypharmacy, Family Practice, 42, (4), 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Creane, D., Hayes, C., O Ciardha, D., Smith, S. M., Campbell, A. & Mc Carthy, N., Health data to support local communities, 1, Trinity College Dublin, January 2024, 2024, p1 - 12, Notes: [Demonstration of marked disparity in presence of asthma among residents of a housing complex and those living nearby. This is relevant for housing policy and the importance of granular health data to identify health needs.], Report, PUBLISHED
Paul G, Smith SM, Whitford D, O'Dowd T., Can a peer-care model improve diabetes outcomes?, Diabetes Voice, 50, (4), 2005, p20 - 21, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Susan M Smith, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Prof Smith's research interests include improving outcomes for patients with multimorbidity and related clinical issues such as medicines management, including access to medicines. She has been the PI or Co-PI on eight RCTs of interventions for chronic disease management in Irish primary care settings. She is an editor and author with the Cochrane Collaboration and is an advocate for Evidence Based Medicine and Shared Decision Making. She also has an interest in health equity and coordinates the Deep End Ireland Group, which advocates for appropriate primary care services for socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. During the COVID-19 pandemic she has been a member of the HIQA COVID19 Expert Advisory Group, which provides evidence based guidance to inform public policy and guidance.