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Full NameProfessor Christopher Thompson
Medicine
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Webpage:beaumont.ie
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- physiology and non-communicable disease
- neuroscience and mental health
- Other
Endocrinology
- Medicine
- Surgery
- Anaesthetics
- Emergency Medicine
- Sports and Exercise Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Nephrology
- Neurophysiology
- Physiology
1. Salt and water physiology. Epidemiology and mortality associated with hyponatraemia, including differential mortality according to aetiology, contribution of hypoadrenalism to hyponatraemia, effects of treatment modalities on hyponatremia.
Current fellows Dr M Cuesta; Hyponatreamia and mortality MD candidate,
Dr A Garrahy; Effects of treatment on hyponatraemia MD candidate.
2. Setting up a National Pituitary Database. This has the active participation of 6 major centres in Ireland. Initial inputting has been confined to acromegaly (see below), isolated ACTH deficiency and TSH secreting pituitary adenomas.
3. Acromegaly. A national database has been constructed, which will be the basis for epidemiological, health care and outcomes research. In addition, a prospective study of the effects of discrepant elevation of IGF-1 concentrations on patients treated to GH targets has been commenced. Collaboration with St Barts Hospital, London, on genetic variants of acromegaly has been commenced and studies on the predictive value of tumour receptor subtypes on clinical responses to somatostatin analogues and dopamine agonists is ongoing.
Current fellow Dr AM Hannon Morbidity and mortality in acromegaly PhD candidate.
4. Predictive value of thirst, copeptin and AVP responses to water deprivation to distinguish central diabetes insipidus from primary polydipsia.
Candidate to commence in 2017 Dr Zhia.