Geraldine Foley

Background

About Geraldine Foley

I have a BSc.OT, MSc, MA, and PhD from Trinity College Dublin (TCD). I am an Associate Professor (Occupational Therapy) in the School of Medicine at TCD. I am also a Fellow of TCD. I am a past recipient of a prestigious PI-based HRB Research Fellowship and I have been a HRB Research Fellow at the School of Social Work & Social Policy, TCD (2011-2014). I worked as a clinical specialist occupational therapist (2006-2011) and senior occupational therapist (2001-2006) in neurology. My research interest is in life-limiting illness focused primarily on stakeholder need, care preferences and decision-making in palliative and supportive care; end-of-life care; neuro-palliative care; cancer palliative care; neuro-rehabilitative care; and neurodegenerative disease. I have secured just over 1 million euros funding for my research from multiple research funding streams including HRB, Irish Research Council, Trinity St. James's Cancer Institute, and Trinity College Dublin. I am a recent recipient as lead PI of an interdisciplinary Trinity Research Doctorate Group-based Award funding 4 fulltime PhD doctoral students on a project focused on decision-making for people with advanced illness in palliative care. Some of the leading journals that I have published in include, Social Science & Medicine, Health Services Research, Palliative Medicine, Journal of Pain & Symptom Management, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, and Qualitative Health Research. 75% of my journal publications have been published in quartile 1 journals and 15% of my journal publications have been published in quartile 2 journals (Scientific Journal Rankings [SJR]. I have also been a co-investigator on a large HRB award which has mapped out care needs and delivery of care to people with Parkinson's Disease in Ireland. I am an editorial Board member of BMC Palliative Care. I supervise PhD and Masters students and I have been a PhD external examiner on multiple occasions. I teach and coordinate multiple modules in the Discipline of Occupational Therapy, School of Medicine including all research modules in the discipline's programme. I am also a coordinator of the MSc Cancer Survivorship at TCD, the first taught postgraduate programme to focus specifically on cancer survivorship, and I teach the qualitative research methods module on this programme. I am a member of the European Association for Palliative Care, and Vice Chair of the Palliative Care Research Network Strategic Scientific Committee of the All-Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care.