RD Vol 7 issue 24 Autumn 2012 - Rotunda Hospital

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Friends of the Rotunda 100 -10,000 Baby Jack F undraiser, Colin McGuirk has set himself no ordinary challenge – Cycle 10,000kms and lose 100lbs in 365 days in his attempt to raise over €10,000 for Temple Street and the Rotunda Hospital. Colin, pictured here, is highly committed and determined to achieve his goal. The challenge commenced in August 2012 with a 100km cycle and resulted in an immediate weight loss of 6lbs! The Reason – Baby Jack was born 10 weeks premature in the Rotunda, in November 2011, after an emergency C-section on Colin’s Partner, Siobhan. The family were so happy to finally be able to take baby Jack home, just in time for Christmas. However, on New Year’s Day, baby Jack became critically ill and was rushed to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. 24 hours later, he was moved to the Intensive Care Ward at Temple Street until he stabilised and was then transferred to the High Dependency Unit where he remained until he recovered. Colin and Siobhan were both completely overwhelmed by the incredible care and support that both Hospitals gave them in looking after baby Jack. The family could not begin to quantify the level of care that all children received from the doctors and nurses and they could not believe the amount of sick babies and small children who depended upon such care. They decided that they should try and help both hospitals by fundraising. In turn, both Temple Street and the Friends of the Rotunda hope to play an active role in helping Colin achieve his challenge and will follow his progress. The website www.100-10000.com goes live shortly and will be regularly updated as Colin’s Challenge enters its next stages. We wish Colin much success and the best of luck! Fundraiser, Colin McGuirk Recent Fundraising Events Golf Classic Milltown Gold The Friends of the Rotunda would like to sincerely thank the Browne Family and friends for raising €1,000 for the Rotunda’s NICU. Fundraisers, Sarah Grogan and Kathleen O’Neill discovered who had green fingers at their recent fundraiser. The Friends of the Rotunda Charity was chosen by Kathleen O’Neill of the Viscount Pub, in support of the work of the Rotunda Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where Sarah’s son Carl, was born in May 2009 at 26 weeks, weighing only 2lbs 4oz. Carl is now a very strong and healthy 3 year old and is about to start playschool this September. The Grogan family are very grateful to the incredible staff of the NICU and hope that their fundraising effort helps to support the unit and its work. Sarah and Kathleen held a Growing Tomatoes Judging Competition in the Viscount Pub on the 31st August to raise funds for the Friends of the Rotunda. The Rotunda Golf Classic - The Masters’ Cup took place at Milltown Golf Club on Thursday, 30th August. Congratulations to Dr Michael Geary and his team with a winning score of 89 points. A special thank you to all of our teams, sponsors and to those who supported the event. Offspring of the Browne family who were all born at the Rotunda Dr Michael Geary with the Masters’ Cup 4
Focus On HARI Building By Ray Skelly, Chief Executive, HARI On Success T here has been lots of change in the Master’s House in the grounds of the Rotunda in recent months. With some interesting plans in the pipeline, we thought it would be timely to give our readers an update on what’s happening at HARI – The National Fertility Centre. “HARI has always been the leader in Irish fertility treatment, achieving the best success rates in a safe, evidence based setting with a genuine multi-disciplinary approach to patient care,” says Dr Edgar Mocanu, Consultant in Charge at HARI. “We have a new independent board in place for HARI. They’ve given us a mandate to take “ HARI has always been the leader in Irish fertility treatment ” our light from under the bushel and to get out and tell both the medical referral base and patients facing fertility challenges that HARI offers them the best chance of starting or extending their families” says Ray Skelly, the newly appointed Chief Executive of HARI. “We have a really strong team of highly skilled and passionate practitioners across each of the four key disciplines; clinical, counselling, nursing and embryology. When you combine this with our reputation for leading Irish research and developments into Assisted Reproductive Techniques, patients and their referring doctors are assured that they have come to the right place by entrusting their care to HARI”. Recent Recruits to HARI L to R Rebecca Rice, Dr Conor Harrity and Fiona Sutton Since his arrival Mr Skelly has done a benchmarking of the clinic’s pregnancy rates and says “it is very reassuring to know that HARI achieves world class success rates and certainly the best in Ireland.” Dr Mocanu said that recent international recognition of HARI’s research came in July at the ESHRE (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) 2012 Conference in Istanbul. Attended by over 9,000 participants, a poster from HARI on AMH Levels in Female Oncology Patients attending for Cryopreservation presented by Dr Mashour Naasan, won the Best Clinical Poster Award at this highly prestigious conference. This success came hot on the heels of HARI reporting the first pregnancy in Ireland from embryos thawed following vitrification. This technique involves the rapid freezing of eggs or embryos in liquid nitrogen at minus 196°C and offers considerably enhanced survival rates after thawing. We understand you will be able to read about this and other developments in the Master’s House, when HARI launches its new website shortly and we also hope to feature future developments in HARI in upcoming editions of Rotunda Delivery. You will notice that HARI has changed its name and adopted a smarter, fresher logo. “Our full name is now ‘HARI – The National Fertility Centre’. This explains who we are, it reflects our leading role in Irish fertility and identifies us as the ‘go to people’ for our international colleagues” explains Chief Executive Ray Skelly. In the shorter version it will be known as “HARI”; without any cumbersome “the”. In future you will hear “Welcome to HARI” and references to “HARI’s world class success rates”. 5
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