Dr. John Gerard Dinsmore

Dr. John Dinsmore is Health Innovation Lead/Deputy Director of the Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation (TCPHI) and Ussher Assistant Professor of Digital Integrated Care at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Dr. Dinsmore's teaching and research focuses on the application of health psychology and behavioural science to the fields of digital health and digital integrated care, with specific emphasis on proactive person-centred ageing and chronic disease/multimorbidity management. His work also seeks to strengthen academic, service and industry collaboration in order to translate research outcomes into practice within health and social care. Committed to leading the advancement of digital health within health and social care, Dr. Dinsmore has secured significant competitive research funding totalling over 5 million euros as PI or collaborator, from a variety of National and International sources such as H2020, FP7, EU AAL Programme, SFI and Enterprise Ireland. Presently Dr. Dinsmore is the Coordinator and Lead PI of the H2020 project ProACT, which will see the development of a proactive digital integrated care technology ecosystem to support multi-morbidity disease management in an ageing population (http://www.proact2020.eu). Since joining Trinity College Dr. Dinsmore's leadership roles include Deputy Director of the TCPHI and Lead TCD Principal Investigator (PI) for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health, Knowledge and Information Community (KIC). He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the EIT Health KIC UK/Ireland Co-Location Centre (CLC). Dr. Dinsmore further serves/has served on number of School and College strategic and research committees (e.g. EIT Steering Committee, Tangent Academic Oversight Committee and TCPHI Executive (previously School of Nursing and Midwifery Research Committee and Creative Arts Practice Steering Committee). Externally Dr. Dinsmore is a member of the Health Service Executive (HSE) Ireland Digital Academy expert group on digital transformation; steering committee member of the Irish eHealth Research and Innovation Network; scientific advisory board member to the University College London led Human Behaviour Change Project; and has previously represented TCD internationally at working groups exploring digital and connected health with the World Economic Forum and WHO. His work is also widely published receiving notable commendations.

  Behavioural Change   Behavioural Psychology   Chronic Disease   Chronic Disease Management   Chronic disease self-management   Computerised clinical systems   COPD   Dementia   Digital Behavioural Change Interventions   Digital Health   Digital Integrated Care   eHealth   Health informatics   Health Psychology   Healthcare Ecosystem   Healthcare Innovation   Informal Caregiving   Medical technology   mHealth   Mobile Applications   multimorbidity   Patient and Public Involvement in Research   Remote Monitoring   Stroke

My core research aims to advance the field of digital health across 4 key interlinked areas, as follows: 1) By understanding and improving the effectiveness of digital interventions to support delivery of single and multiple chronic disease (multimorbidity) models of person-centred integrated care (with a focus on older adult populations). 2) By understanding and enhancing user engagement with digital interventions through the application of behavioural science, health psychology theories and person centred design. 3) By advancing the role of digital health interventions to de-centralise integrated care to the community. 4) By understanding best practices for trialling/implementing digital health interventions in relation to development stage and regional and organisational preparedness. The majority of this work above has been advanced through the development and evaluation of the of the ProACT platform via the EU Horizon 2020 project ProACT (www.proact2020.eu - role Coordinator). ProACT has now been successfully implemented in 4 trials across 3 countries (Ireland, Belgium, Italy) via 2 grants (H2020 and the Sláintecare Integration Fund) Outcomes from these recently completed trials will be published from 2020 with a 5th trial due to start in Belgium in the summer 2020. My future research aims to build on the above, evolving the ProACT platform and associated technologies to account for new diseases and populations. Presently I am working with teams across the EU to achieve this (with new projects to commence in 2020) as well as develop new digital tools to assess organisational and local/regional specific readiness for transferability and scalability of digital integrated care solutions. These tools we hope will enable healthcare policy makers and organisations evaluate the impact of potential solutions to support disease management and integrated care processes. Further to the work above, I also have research interests in the role assistive technologies can play to support individuals with intellectual disability and autism. In collaboration with the ALL Institute (NUIG), DOCTRID Institute and World Health Organisation GATE (Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology) my focus has been on understanding international barriers and facilitators to assistive technology access/use for people with intellectual disability and autism. This work wil be advanced from 2020 via a new COST ACTION.