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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
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Member of the European Geriatric Medicine Society 2018 Current
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 2011 now
Ward M, Briggs R, Kenny RA, Social disconnection correlates of a `Wish to Die" among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults., Frontiers in Public Health, 12, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Adam H Dyer, Claire Murphy, Helena Dolphin, Laura Morrison, Robert Briggs, Brian Lawlor, Sean P Kennelly; NILVAD Study Group, Long-term antipsychotic use, orthostatic hypotension and falls in older adults with Alzheimer's disease, European Geriatric Medicine, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Doyle K, Lavan A, Briggs R, Improving the collateral history for older people admitted to hospital: the 6 Cs, Age and Ageing, September 2023, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Gallagher E, Kenny RA, Briggs R, Regular dog walking is associated with reduced likelihood of unexplained falls, fear of falling and mobility problems in later life, Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
O'Donnell D, Moriarty F, Lavan A, Kenny RA, Briggs R, An analysis of the impact of psychotropic medications on gait in the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA), Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Madden R, Briggs R, How prevalent are markers of blood pressure instability on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring of older people with falls, faints & dizziness?, Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Keane B, McMahon GC, Lavan A, Briggs R, Are so-called `mechanical" falls in later life as benign as we think? Data from TILDA, Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
O'Donnell D, Moriarty M, Lavan A, Kenny RA, Briggs R, What is the association between psychotropic medication use and orthostatic hypotension in community-dwelling older people: data from TILDA, Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Lalor P, Swanton A, Lavan A, Kenny RA, Briggs R, Chronic pain is associated with mobility impairment and falls among community-dwelling older people: data from TILDA, Age and Ageing, 52(Supplement_3), 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Donnell DO, Romero-Ortuno R, Kennelly SP, O'Neill D, Donoghue PO, Lavan A, Cunningham C, McElwaine P, Kenny RA, Briggs R., The 'Bermuda Triangle' of orthostatic hypotension, cognitive impairment and reduced mobility: prospective associations with falls and fractures in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. , Age and Ageing, 52, (2), 2023, pafad005 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
  

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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