Celebrating Excellence: Annual Congress 2025 Award Winners
The College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland was proud to honour a number of outstanding contributors to our specialty at this year’s Annual Congress 2025.
We extend our sincere congratulations to all of our winners across a broad range of competitions and awards, and we thank our generous sponsors for their continued support.
STUDENT MEDICAL ESSAY COMPETITION
Essay Title: “The good catch. What a near-miss taught me about patient safety”
Winners:
- First place – Ellen Kinsella
- Second place – Joanna Sargent
- Third place – Aonghus Feeney
DELANEY MEDAL COMPETITION
Kindly sponsored by Critical Care Partners
Winner: Jamie Rice
Title: Peer Instruction: A Novel technique to achieve active learning in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Teaching among final year medical students
E-POSTER PRIZES
DR MARY LEHANE MEDAL
- 1st Place – “Time to talk rubbish- a waste management QI project” by
Sinead O’Brien. - 2nd Place – “Improving management of first diagnosed A.F. in Intensive Care” by
Nicola Duffy - 3rd Place – “Quality Improvement on dexamethasone use in diabetic patients”.
Sean O’Dea
ISRA RESEARCH GRANT Kindly sponsored by Pajunk
Winner: Dr. Cathy Maher
Poster: Ophthalmic Blocks in Anaesthesia: A Survey Examining Practice, Confidence, and Barriers
SUSTAINABILITY CURLEW PRIZE Kindly Sponsored by B-Braun
Winner: Dr. Sinead O’Brien
Poster: Time to Talk Rubbish – A Waste Management QI Project
PAIN MEDICINE JOHN COOPER MEDAL
Winner: Dr. Moustafa Moustafa
Poster: The Hidden Aspects of Pain Expression Across Two Different Cultures: cross-sectional survey study
SIM WARS
In first place and SimWars Champions 2025:
‘The Rebels’ – Caolan Abrahams, Laurens Minsart, Karen Donnelly.
In second place
‘Team Sux’ – Robert Lee, Nicola Duffy and Alison Bell
We are immensely proud of all our participants and their commitment to excellence in Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, and Pain Medicine.
Thank you for making Congress 2025 such a memorable and inspiring event.