深夜亚洲福利久久 and media
Members of the Pregnancy Loss Research Group present at COMET Conference on communication, medicine and ethics
Members of the Pregnancy Loss Research Group participated in the COMET Conference, held at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork from 20-22 June.
chaired a panel session on the role of and challenges for healthcare professionals in provision of Termination of Pregnancy services in Ireland since 2019, speaking alongside Dr Deirdre Hayes-Ryan and collaborators from the School of Law 鈥 and .
Dr Hayes-Ryan presented research on the introduction of services in Ireland, training needs and challenges. Dr Murray and Professor Donnelly provided an overview of their study of , which was funded by the , in partnership with the . Professor O鈥橠onoghue concluded the session with a presentation on .
Earlier in the conference, gave a talk on 鈥淓nsuring bereaved parents are seen and heard: Using graphic medicine to affect change in perinatal death review processes鈥. She provided an insight into the collaborative production of the recently published graphic narrative, Why My Baby Died, with illustrator Amy Lauren, and the research which underpinned it. Marita also presented a poster from the Irish Research Council-funded PLATFORM project: 鈥淎ddressing the silence: Engaging knowledge users to develop a knowledge translation strategy for pregnancy loss research鈥.

Marita Hennessy PhD presenting at COMET 2023
is an international and interdisciplinary conference on communication, medicine and ethics. It brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, involving various healthcare specialities and the human and social sciences. There is special emphasis on the dissemination of ongoing research in language / discourse / communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.
Many thanks to Professor Nicole M眉ller, Head of Speech and Hearing Sciences in the School of Clinical Therapies at UCC, and all involved on the local organising committee for their work in hosting COMET 2023.