Dr Max Watson
Max worked in Nepal for eight years establishing a General Practice training programme in a rural setting. He completed his Palliative
medicine training in London and Belfast and has been closely involved with Palliative care education through the creation of the Princess
Alice Certificate in Palliative Care, and the writing of several books including the London and Northern Ireland palliative Medicine guidance
for Adults and Paediatrics, the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care, the core text in Oncology, and the Oxford General Practice Library in Pain
and Palliation.
Clinical Adviser
Max worked in Nepal for eight years establishing a General Practice training programme in a rural setting. He completed his Palliative
medicine training in London and Belfast and has been closely involved with Palliative care education through the creation of the Princess
Alice Certificate in Palliative Care, and the writing of several books including the London and Northern Ireland palliative Medicine guidance
for Adults and Paediatrics, the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care, the core text in Oncology, and the Oxford General Practice Library in Pain
and Palliation.
Jackie Crinion
Max worked in Nepal for eight years establishing a General Practice training programme in a rural setting. He completed his Palliative
medicine training in London and Belfast and has been closely involved with Palliative care education through the creation of the Princess
Alice Certificate in Palliative Care, and the writing of several books including the London and Northern Ireland palliative Medicine guidance
for Adults and Paediatrics, the Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care, the core text in Oncology, and the Oxford General Practice Library in Pain
and Palliation.
Training & Development Advisor
Jackie Crinion
Training & Education Adviser
Jackie Crinion is Training and Education Advisor with the HFH Programme. She has a career background in the Irish public service, first in the Education sector and later in the health sector. In recent years, she worked at management level in the health service mainly in the area of Human Resource Development. During that time she occupied a range of roles including: Senior HR Specialist (HSE Corporate); HR and OD Specialist (Office for Health Management); Personnel Officer (North Eastern Health Board); and HR Manager (Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital).
Jackie began her career in the field of Education, first as a teacher and them as Principal Teacher of a special residential school for teenagers with behaviour problems. After that she became the Director of a secure residential centre for young offenders, where she worked for a number of years before joining the health services.
Jackie is a graduate of UCD, with a first class honours Masters degree in Business Studies, a BA in Arts, a Higher Diploma in Education and a Diploma in Special Education. In addition, she successfully completed the Leaders for Tomorrow Programme at Harvard University USA - an Irish North/South government initiative. She is also an accredited Mediator (MII) and a trained facilitator and coach.
Areas of special interest include:
• Leadership and Management Development
• Strategic Management
• Staff Education, Training and Development
• Change Management
• Executive Coaching
• Employee Relations (including mediation and conflict management).
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Annette Kinne
ANDEC
Annette Kinne of Andec Communications will be delivering the Communications Module of the HFH programme. The team have a depth of experience in communications training with health professionals including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.
Kieran McKeown
Evaluation Coordinator
Kieran McKeown is a social and economic research consultant. He has carried out over 100 different research projects addressing social and economic issues for a diverse range Government Departments, statutory agencies and voluntary bodies. He has evaluated numerous services for target groups such as people who are elderly, mentally ill, refugees, homeless, Travellers, drug users, unemployed, disadvantaged youth, etc.
He has also carried out a substantial amount of applied research and facilitation in the area of inter-agency coordination in order to improve the coherence and effectiveness of public services. Through this work, he has evaluated almost every major inter-agency programme addressing local development and social inclusion in Ireland.
Over the past decade, his research has had a major focus on family issues. He evaluated a national programme of family support services in Ireland and headed the team which completed two studies designed to assist the Department of Health & Children in developing its national strategy for family support services. He has evaluated the effectiveness of couple counselling services, and is the lead author of a national study on family well-being in Ireland. In the area of children, he has carried out a range of epidemiological studies on the mental health needs of children in different parts of Ireland, evaluated the effectiveness of mental health interventions, and designed a randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of a mental health programme for children. Recently, he carried out research on the prevalence of special education needs among children in order to assist the National Council on Special Education in preparing its implementation plan. His work is widely published in reports, books, articles, and through various websites.
Ian Clarke
Ian Clarke studied Architecture at the University of Sheffield in the 1980's. He graduatued with a Distinction in Design and an RIBA student award which enabled him to extend his studies in Scandinavia. He is a hands-on Architect and a director of Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall Ltd, Chartered Architects and Landscape Architects, and leads their healthcare design work. His practice have designed numerous hospice projects in the UK and are currently Consultant Architects on the new facilities for Marymount Hospice and St Patrick's Hospital in Cork. Ian is working with Irish Hospice Foundation on the Dignity and Design component of their HFH Programme.
Ian's design approach puts quality of user-experience and the principles of Evidence Based Design high on the agenda. He proposes that high quality of user-experience can be designed-in to projects from the earliest stage. This approach has resulted in numerous UK design awards for completed projects, and Ian has design consultancy roles with both the UK Department of Health and C.A.B.E. (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), as part of their efforts to promote higher quality in new public hospital design.
He is an Architect interested in health married to a doctor interested in design, a rather unusual combination. They are both avid garden-makers and find escape from daily pressures in developing their new seaside garden overlooking the northumberland coast.