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  • Dr Ashleigh Gorman

    • Dr Ashleigh Gorman

    Research Fellow, EQUIP

    Qualifications: MSc in Applied Social Research, Trinity College Dublin; BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Criminology, Ulster University

    Research interests: Healthcare, Health Promotion and Ageing

    Email: asgorman@tcd.ie

    Ashleigh is a research fellow working on the development of OPTIMA-ID: Optimising Pharmaco-Therapy and Improving Medication for Ageing with Intellectual Disability (lead by Assistant Professor Juliette O’Connell) as well as EQUIP: Examining Quality, Use and Impact of Psychotropic (Use) in older adults with intellectual disabilities (lead by Assistant Professor Máire O’Dwyer). Prior to joining IDS-TILDA, Ashleigh worked as a project lead on the To-Reach study (a joint European research programme aimed at producing research evidence to support healthcare services) at the Health Research Board, and as a health information officer at the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. She is currently completing her PhD on appropriate prescribing for older adults in primary care at Trinity College Dublin.

    Ashleigh enjoys bringing research and science to the general population and volunteers as Co-Director of Pint of Science Ireland; a charity which brings science, technology, engineering and arts and humanities researchers to local pubs and cafes to share their work and make science more accessible.

    Publications

    Rankin A, Cadogan CA, Barry HE, Gardner E, Agus A, Molloy GJ, Gorman A, Ryan C, Leathem C, Maxwell M, Gormley GJ, Ferrett A, McCarthy P, Fahey T and Hughes CM, on behalf of the PolyPrime team. An external pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a theory-based intervention to improve appropriate polypharmacy in older people in primary care (PolyPrime): study protocol. Pilot and Feasibility Studies. 2021;7:77

    Rankin A, Molloy GJ, Cadogan CA, Barry HE, Gorman A, Ryan C, Ferret A, McCarthy P, Gormley GJ, Fahey T and Hughes CM, on behalf of the PolyPrime team. Protocol for a process evaluation of an external pilot cluster randomised controlled trial of a theory-based intervention to improve appropriate polypharmacy in older people in primary care: the PolyPrime study. Trials. 2021;22:49. ,p> Merriman NA, Bruen C, Gorman A, Horgan F, Williams DJ, Pender N, Byrne E and Hickey A. “I’m just not a Sudoku person”: analysis of stroke survivor, carer and healthcare professional perspectives for the design of a cognitive rehabilitation intervention. Disability and Rehabilitation. 2020;42:3359-69.

    Merriman NA, Sexton E, McCabe G, Walsh ME, Rohde D, Gorman A, Jeffares I, Donnelly N-A, Pender N, Williams DJ, Horgan F, Doyle F, Wren M-A, Bennett KE and Hickey A. Addressing cognitive impairment following stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of non-randomised controlled studies of psychological interventions. BMJ Open. 2019;9:e024429.

    Merriman NA, Sexton E, Donnelly N-A, McCabe G, Walsh ME, Rohde D, Gorman A, Jeffares I, Pender N, Williams D, Horgan F, Doyle F, Wren M-A, Bennett KE and Hickey A. Managing cognitive impairment following stroke: protocol for a systematic review of non-randomised controlled studies of psychological interventions. BMJ Open. 2018;8:e019001

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