Prof Ailish Hannigan
Ailish Hannigan is Associate Professor of Biomedical Statistics at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick. She started her research career as a Research Fellow in a WHO Collaborating Centre for Oral Health Services Research where she was involved in the design and analysis of population studies and clinical trials. She joined UL as a lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics before moving to the Graduate Entry Medical School in 2012.
Her research interests include population health, longitudinal data analysis and public and patient involvement in quantitative research. Current projects include data mining of clinical records for research in primary care, phase II clinical trials and Health Research Board funded projects on the analysis of cohort studies, disease surveillance and participatory research on ethnic minority health in Ireland. She is also a member of the Public and Patient Involvement Research group in UL http://www.ul.ie/gems/public-and-patient-involvement-ppi-research-group .
She is passionate about statistics education and has received an Excellence in Teaching Award (Special Commendation) from the University of Limerick. She is Education Officer for the Irish Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in the U.K.
BSc. (Applied Mathematics and Computing)
PhD (Biostatistics)
1994-1997: Research Fellow in Biostatistics, Oral Health Services Research Centre, University College Cork
2000-2001: Manager, Statistical Consulting Unit, University of Limerick
1997-2012: Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick
2012 to date: Associate Professor of Biomedical Statistics, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick
Executive member of the Irish Statistical Association
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, UK
Population health; longitudinal data analysis; classification techniques; cohort and registry studies; health informatics; statistics education; public and patient involvement
Recent Peer Reviewed Publications
Hannigan A, O'Donnell P, O'Keeffe M, MacFarlane A. How do Variations in Definitions of “Migrant” and their Application Influence the Access of Migrants to Health Care Services? Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2016. (Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report, No. 46.)
Healy D, Clarke‐Moloney M, Hannigan A, Walsh S. Wound drainage for lower limb arterial surgery. The Cochrane Library. 2016 Nov 11.
O’Neill A, Dowd K, O’Gorman C, Hannigan A, Walsh C, Purtill H. Activity Profiles and the Associations With Weight Status in Population Studies of Young Children: Are There Gender Differences?. Pediatric Exercise Science. 2016:1-35.
Margiotta F, Hannigan A, Imran A, Harmon DC. Pain, Perceived Injustice, and Pain Catastrophizing in Chronic Pain Patients in Ireland. Pain Practice. 2016 Oct 1.
Gallagher S, Sumner RC, Muldoon OT, Creaven AM, Hannigan A. Unemployment is associated with lower cortisol awakening and blunted dehydroepiandrosterone responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2016 Jul 31;69:41-9.
O'Sullivan K, Kennedy N, Purtill H, Hannigan A. Understanding pain among older persons: Part 1—the development of novel pain profiles and their association with disability and quality of life. Age and ageing. 2016 Jul 19.
Kennedy N, O'Sullivan K, Hannigan A, Purtill H. Understanding pain among older persons: Part 2—the association between pain profiles and healthcare utilisation. Age and Ageing. 2016 Jul 19.
Fitzmaurice O, Hannigan A, Leavy AM. An Investigation into the Statistics Education of Preservice Mathematics Teachers in an Irish University. In The Teaching and Learning of Statistics 2016 (pp. 327-328). Springer International Publishing.
Mac Donncha C, Cummins N, Hennelly D, Hannigan A, Ryan D. An observational study of the utility of continuous positive airway pressure ventilation for appropriate candidates in prehospital care in the Midwest region. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971-). 2016 Apr 18:1-6.
Dowd K, Hannigan A, Purtill H, Macken AP, Harrington D, Kelly SM, Moyna N, O'Gorman CS, Donnelly AE. The Development of Activity Profiles in Adolescent Females and their Association with Adiposity. Pediatric Exercise Science. 2016 Feb 1;28(1).
Given K, Hannigan A, McGrath D. Red, yellow and green: What does it mean? How the progress test informs and supports student progress. Medical teacher. 2016 Mar 14:1-8.
Faulkner F, Fitzmaurice O, Hannigan A. A comparison of the mathematical performance of mature students and traditional students over a 10-year period. Irish Educational Studies. 2016 Sep 13:1-23.
Roche E, Lyne JP, O'Donoghue B, Segurado R, Kinsella A, Hannigan A, Kelly BD, Malone K, Clarke M. The factor structure and clinical utility of formal thought disorder in first episode psychosis. Schizophrenia research. 2015 Oct 31;168(1):92-8.
Dixon M, O'Halloran J, Hannigan A, Keenan S, Cummins NM. Confirmation of suboptimal protocols in spinal immobilisation? Emergency Medicine Journal. 2015 Sep 11:emermed-2014.
Dowd KP, Kirwan RP, Hannigan A, Purtill H, O'Gorman CS. The association between maternal perceptions of own weight status and weight status of her child: results from a national cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2015 Sep 24:archdischild-2015.
Hughes A, Gallagher S, Hannigan A. A cluster analysis of reported sleeping patterns of 9-Month old infants and the association with maternal health: results from a population based cohort study. Maternal and child health journal. 2015 Aug 1;19(8):1881-9.
Gallagher S, Hannigan A. Child problem behaviours are associated with obesity in parents caring for children with developmental disabilities. Research in developmental disabilities. 2015 Jan 31;36:358-65.
McGrath D, Crowley L, Rao S, Toomey M, Hannigan A, Murphy L, Dunne CP. Outcomes of Irish graduate entry medical student engagement with self-directed learning of clinical skills. BMC medical education. 2015 Feb 19;15(1):1.
Quinn C, Deegan B, Cooke J, Carew S, Hannigan A, Dunne C, Lyons D. Therapeutic use of compression stockings for orthostatic hypotension: an assessment of patient and physician perspectives and practices. Age and ageing. 2015 Mar 1;44(2):339-42.
Hickey L, Hannigan A, O'Regan A, Khalil S, Meagher D, Cullen W. Psychological morbidity among young adults attending primary care: a retrospective study. Early intervention in psychiatry. 2015 Nov 1.
Foran E, Hannigan A, Glynn L. Prevalence of depression in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Irish primary care and the impact of depression on the control of diabetes. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971-). 2015 Jun 1;184(2):319-22.
Other publications: see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ailish_Hannigan/publications