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Dr. Cathal Cadogan

Associate Professor (Pharmacy)
      
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Dr. Cathal Cadogan

Associate Professor (Pharmacy)

 CATHAL.CADOGAN@tcd.ie

 


Cathal Cadogan is an Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Cathal completed both his BSc. (Pharm.) and PhD in TCD. He then worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast before being appointed as Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Cathal took up his current post in TCD in 2021. Cathal's main research interest focuses on developing supports to help people make informed decisions about starting and stopping/tapering psychotropic medication. Cathal sits on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices (https://benzoreform.org/). He is also an Associate Editor with the Cochrane Collaboration's EPOC Group and a member of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy's Research Committee. Cathal welcomes queries from prospective Masters and Ph.D. students. For more information on tapering projects that Cathal is currently supervising, go to www.tapersafer.org
  ADDICTION   Addiction and substance abuse   ADHERENCE   ADHERENCE TO THERAPY   BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION   Behavioural change interventions   BENZODIAZEPINE   BENZODIAZEPINES   Cancer Screening   Cancer Survivorship   Clinical Pharmacy   community pharmacy   Health interventions and innovations   health services research   Intervention Design   Intervention Development   mixed methods   OLDER ADULTS   Pharmacy   PHARMACY PRACTICE   Pharmacy Research   pharmacy services   POLYPHARMACY   PRESCRIBING   PRESCRIBING BEHAVIOUR INFLUENCES   Prescribing patterns   PRIMARY CARE   QUALITATIVE RESEARCH   RATIONAL PRESCRIBING   Substance Use, Addiction   SYSTEMATIC REVIEW   Systematic reviews and meta analyses
Project Title
 A mixed methods study of the community pharmacy workforce's preparedness for, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic
From
October 2020
To
September 2021
Summary
Funding Agency
HSC R&D Division Northern Ireland
Project Title
 Development of a model of care for osteoarthritis in primary care in Ireland - A mixed methods study
From
2020
To
2024
Summary
Funding Agency
Health Research Board
Project Title
 Improving healthcare students' competencies for behaviour change to effectively support self-management in chronic diseases (Train4Health)
From
2019
To
2022
Summary
Funding Agency
European Commission's Erasmus+ Funding Programme
Project Title
 A randomised pilot study of a theory-based intervention to improve appropriate polypharmacy in older people in primary care (PolyPrime).
From
2018
To
2021
Summary
Funding Agency
Cross-border Healthcare Intervention Trials in Ireland Network (CHITIN)
Project Title
 Medicines optimisation for patients living with cancer and receiving palliative care
From
2018
To
2021
Summary
Funding Agency
Irish Cancer Society and All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care

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Board of Directors: Alliance for Benzodiazepines Best Practices 2021
Details Date From Date To
Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland 2009 Present
Member of the Cochrane Collaboration 2014 Present
Member of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy 2017 Present
Member of the Palliative Care Research Network 2019 Present
Member of the European Association for Palliative Care 2020 Present
Member of the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices 2021
Natália Stollárová, Cristín Ryan, Greg Sheaf, Dolores Keating, Brian O"Donoghue, Cathal Cadogan, The role of pharmacogenomics in the discontinuation of psychotropic medication: a scoping review protocol, HRB Open Research, 9, 2026, p4 - 4, p4-4 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Reilly, R., Keogh, B., Doyle, L. and Cadogan, C., Peoples" experiences of the process of discontinuing psychiatric medication: A classic grounded theory study., Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference (THEconf2025): Healthcare in times of crisis: adaptive responses and global innovations, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, 4th -6th March, 2026, Published Abstract, PUBLISHED  URL
Johnson L. 1 , Khattab S. 1 , Strawbridge J. 2 , Cadogan C. 1 , Stewart D. 3 , De Frein A.M. 1 , Eustace-Cook J. 4 , Lowrey M.A. 5 , Brady A.M. 6 , Harding S. 7 , O"Connell J. 1 , Ryan C. 1, Pharmacist prescribing in cancer services: a scoping review, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 21, (12), 2025, p951-974 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Joseph O"Shea, Carmel Hughes, Gerard J. Molloy, Cathal Cadogan, Akke Vellinga, Tom Fahey, Cristín Ryan, Point-of-caRE DiagnostICs for respiraTOry tRact infectionS (PREDICTORS) study: developing guidance for using C-reactive protein point-of-care tests in the management of lower respiratory tract infections in primary care using a Delphi consensus technique, BMJ Open, 15, (5), 2025, pe101438 - e101438, pe101438-e101438 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Martinez Oscar, Miriam Boland, Cathal Cadogan, An assessment of generative artificial intelligence in responding to clinical queries on tapering antidepressants, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 21, (11), 2025, p924 - 930, p924-930 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Miriam Boland, Agnès Higgins, Sookyung Kwak, Cathal Cadogan, `I Wish It Were More Often Told to People Before They Are Prescribed These Medications How Hard It Is to Get Off Them": A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of Free"Text Responses to a Survey on Reducing and Stopping Psychiatric Medication, Health Expectations, 28, (4), 2025, pe70384 - e70384, pe70384-e70384 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Joseph O'Shea, Carmel Hughes, Gerard J. Molloy, Cathal Cadogan, Akke Vellinga, Tom Fahey, Cristín Ryan, The Point-of-caRE DiagnostICs for respiraTOry tRact infectionS (PREDICTORS) Study: Developing guidance for using C-reactive protein point-of-care tests in the management of lower respiratory tract infections in primary care using a Delphi consensus technique, BMJ Open, 2025, Journal Article, IN_PRESS  DOI
O'Brien, D., Healy, A.M., Harkin, A., Cadogan, C., A systematic review of manipulations to pharmaceutical dosage forms used in psychotropic tapering plans, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 91, (7), 2025, p1899 - 1913, Notes: [Cited by: 1], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Betül Okuyan, Martin Henman, Vibhu Paudyal, Anita Elaine Weidmann, Cathal Cadogan, Ankie Hazen, Daniela Fialová, Francesca Wirth, Monika Lutters, Bart Pouls, Zachariah Nazar, Fatma Al Raisi, Derek Stewart, Research priorities of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (ESCP): a questionnaire-based study, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy, 47, (6), 2025, p1770 - 1783, p1770-1783 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Isabelle Jeffares, Dara Friars, Helena Plapp, Kelly Allott, Cathal Cadogan, Dolores Keating, Catherine Mooney, K. O"Connor, Brian O"Donoghue, A Scoping Review of Methods, Guidelines, and Protocols Used for Dose Reduction or Discontinuation of Antipsychotic Medication in People Affected by Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2025, Review Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Cleary, M., Cadogan, C., & Doyle, C., 'Mapping the Use of Covert Medication Administration: A Scoping Review Protocol.', OSF, 2025, -, Protocol or guideline, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Scholar 2018 2018
RCSI StAR International Academic Engagement Fellowship 2018 2018