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Dr. Maire O'Dwyer

Assistant Professor (Pharmacy)
23 WESTLAND ROW

 modwyer6@tcd.ie

 3531896 2794


Biography

Dr Máire O'Dwyer is an Assistant Professor in Practice of Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She completed her PhD examining patterns of medication use in older people with intellectual disabilities as part of the IDS- TILDA study ( a longitudinal study examining ageing in a cohort of 753 older adults with intellectual disabilities in Ireland) and with the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from the School of Computer Science and Statistics in TCD. Máire's areas of research interests include polypharmacy in older people with intellectual disability, pharmacotherapy in older people with multimorbidity, anticholinergic medication use, psychotropic medication use and Pharmacoepidemiology methods.

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Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

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Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland Dec 2009 Present
Odalovic, M., Gorman, A., Paul, A., McCallion, P., Burke, E.A., MacLachlan, M., McCarron, M., Henman C, M., Moran, M., O"Connell, J., Walsh, M., Shankar, R., Ryan, C. & O"Dwyer, M., Psychotropic medicines' prevalence, patterns and effects on cognitive and physical function in older adults with intellectual disability in Ireland: longitudinal cohort study, 2009-2020, BJPsych Open, 10, (2), 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Chapter 10: Chronic health among those with an intellectual disabilit in, editor(s)Sheerin F, Doyle C , Intellectual Disabilities: Health and Social Care Across the Lifespan", Springer, 2023, [Burke E, O'Dwyer M, Maes-Festen D, Oppewal D], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Chronic health among those with intellectual disability in, editor(s)Fintan Sherrin and Carmel Doyle , Intellectual Disabilities: Health and Social Care Across the Lifespan, Springer, Spreinger, 2023, pp121 - 146, [Burke, EA., O'Dwyer, M., Maes-Festen, D. and Oppewal A.], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL  URL
Odalovic, M., Gorman, A., McCallion, P., Burke, E., MacLachlan, M., McCarron, M., Henman, M., Moran, M., O'Connell, J., Walsh, M., Shankar, R. & O'Dwyer, M., Prevalence and pattern of psychotropic use among older adults with intellectual disabilities in Ireland: What"s changed between two time points, 2010 and 2020?., Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference 2023 (THEconf2023): "Back to normal or forward to better? New horizons in healthcare"., School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin., 8th - 9th March, 2023, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED  URL
Al Shuhaimi, L., O'Dwyer, M., Henman, M., McCarron, M. & McCallion, P., Long-term exposure to anticholinergics among people with intellectual disabilities: a longitudinal cohort study., Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference 2023 (THEconf2023): "Back to normal or forward to better? New horizons in healthcare"., School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin., 8th - 9th March, 2023, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED  URL
Odalovic, M., Gorman, A., McCallion, P., Burke, E., MacLachlan, M., McCarron, M., Henman, M., Moran, M., O'Connell, J., Walsh, M., Shankar, R. & O'Dwyer, M., Psychotropic drug use among adults with intellectual disabilities in Ireland: trend analysis for 10-year period., Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference 2023 (THEconf2023): "Back to normal or forward to better? New horizons in healthcare"., School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin., 8th - 9th March, 2023, Poster, PUBLISHED  URL
Gorman A, Rankin A, Hughes C, O'Dwyer M, Ryan C., Theoretically derived interventions aimed at improving appropriate polypharmacy in primary care: A systematic review., Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm, 7, 2022, p100166 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Winterhalder, R, McCabe, J, Young, C, Lamb K, Sawhney I, Jory C, O'Dwyer M, Shankar R, Bone health, intellectual disability and epilepsy: An observational community-based study, Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Watkins L, O'Dwyer M, Shankar R, Pharmacotherapeutic considerations for managing epilepsy in autistic people: a review, Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Turner J, Barry A, Doyle J, Hogg J, Hynes A, Mahon E, Moloney C, Shortt E, O'Dwyer M, The adverse effects of long-term exposure to antipsychotics among older people with intellectual disabilities: a scoping review, HRB Open Research , 2022, Journal Article, ACCEPTED
  

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O'Dwyer M, Ryan T, Ryder S, D'Arcy DM, Walsh J. , Innovative Development and Evaluation of Professional Attributes through Integration of Science and Practice at First Year Pharmacy Level , Irish Network of Healthcare Educators Conference, TBSI, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland , February 2020, 2020, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
O'Dwyer M, Polypharmacy in Older Adults with Intellectual Disability (Webinar), International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Integrated Matters Scotland Webinar on Appropriate Polypharmacy & Adherence, Scotland, 2019, 2019, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Burke, E., McGlinchey, E., Haigh, M., Carroll, R., O'Donovan, M., McCausland, D., O'Dwyer, M., Mac Giolla Phadraig C., Mulryan, N., McCallion, P., McCarron, M., An accesible report: Health, Wellbeing and Social Inclusion: Ageing with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland: Evidence from the First Ten Years of The Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) Wave 3 IDS-TILDA, Trinity College Dublin, 2018, Report, PUBLISHED
O'Dwyer, M., Mccarron, M., Henman, M., Medication Use and Polypharmacy in Older Adults with Intellectual Disabilities, Ageing and Older Adults with Learning Disabilities Conference, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2017, 2017, Edinburgh University/NHS Scotland, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Maire O'Dwyer, Martin Henman, Ian Maidmant, Niamh Mulryan, Philip McCallion, Mary McCarron, Anticholinergic Burden in Older Adults with Intellectual Disability , Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Annual Conference 2017, Dublin, October 2017, 2017, Royal College of Psychiatrists and Royal College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Mary McCarron, Philip McCallion, Rachael Carroll, Eilish Burke, Eimear McGlinchey, Mary-Ann O'Donovan, Darren McCausland, Fintan Sheerin, Maire O'Dwyer, Sinead Foran, Caoimhin MacGiolla Phadraig, Niamh Mulryan, Juliette O'Connell and Judy Ryan., Health, Wellbeing and Social Inclusion: Ageing with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland Evidence from the First Ten Years of The Intellectual Disability Supplement to The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA) Wave 3 IDS-TILDA, Trinity College Dublin, 2017, Report, PUBLISHED