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Patricia M. Kearney, MPH, PhD Clinical Research Fellow Medical Gerontology Trinity College Dublin Dr. Patricia Kearney is a clinical research fellow in the Department of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently working on the first cohort study of aging in Ireland, The Irish longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Dr Kearney will use data collected by TILDA to determine the prevalence of known cardiovascular risk factors in the aging Irish population, including hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, smoking, and lack of physical activity. She will assess the extent to which these factors are clustered together in the population to quantify the burden posed by different risk factors, as well as to assess the potential benefits of strategies to prevent and treat such risk factors. In addition, she will investigate the role of psycho-social factors in cardiovascular disease, with a goal of revealing the causes and underlying mechanisms linking economic and social disadvantage to cardiovascular disease. Dr. Kearney attended medical school at University College Cork in Ireland and received her medical degree in 1998. She completed her postgraduate work at Tulane University in New Orleans, earning a master’s degree in public health in 2002 and a PhD in epidemiology in 2006.

Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Biopsychosocial Factors and Vascular Disease in an Ageing Cohort of Irish Adults