Áine Carroll
@ainemcarroll
Mum of 2, Prof @UCD, #PM&R Consultant @NRH, Chair @IFIC, Director #IFICIreland Passionate about person centred #integratedcare #complexity & #learninghealthsystems Views mine
We’re hiring! 🚨 Join our @INSPIRE programme @UCD & @NRH, working on embedded health services research and Learning Health Systems; research designed to improve real-world rehabilitation care. 📅 Apply by 19 Aug 2026 🔎 Ref 019925 Please share! #LearningHealthSystems #HealthServicesResearch
I’ve been experimenting with graphic abstracts as a way of communicating research more accessibly. The response has encouraged me to make this a weekly series. I’m going back to the beginning, revisiting my work broadly chronologically & tracing how the questions, methods and ideas evolved.
We’re hiring! Join a fantastic team @inspirenrh.bsky.social as a Research Administrator supporting #embeddedresearch at @ucddublin.bsky.social and the @NRH €38,000 | 12 months | Apply by 31 July www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... #JobFairy
Voting closes today at 12 noon in the @RCPI Presidential election. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with me during this campaign. My commitment is simple: to serve RCPI with inclusion, integrity and impact. If you have not yet voted, I would be grateful for your support.
Medicine is always held in trust. We inherit it, serve it for a time and hand it on. A College holds standards, memory and routes into the profession. Its task is to protect what matters, renew what needs renewing and change what must change.
The best part of this campaign has been listening. Fellows value #RCPI standards and history, but they also want a College that feels closer to their daily working lives. That is the work ahead: protect what matters, and make the College more connected, responsive and useful.
#Inclusion is not only goodwill. It requires deliberate leadership: attention to culture, representation, communication, access and voice. A College that represents physicians must understand the diversity of physicians’ lives, reflect that diversity and act to support it.
#Medicine has a public voice, and how we use it matters. A strong College should be thoughtful, credible and independent. It should support doctors while keeping patients, public trust and the common good at the centre.
#Medicine depends on #trust. That trust is built not only through expertise, but through listening, honesty, humility and respect. Patient partnership strengthens professional expertise. It brings lived experience, evidence and judgement together and is a core principle of #integratedcare
Academic medicine teaches us to question assumptions, examine evidence and be honest about uncertainty. It is not only about publications or grants. At its best, it connects inquiry with practice and helps make care better.
Fragmentation is one of the defining problems of modern healthcare. Patients and families often experience the gaps more than the services. #Integratedcare is not peripheral to medical #leadership. It is central to it. @ificinfo.bsky.social 9 pillars help us to understand and to act
Serving RCPI has been one of the great privileges of my professional life. College service is often quiet work: education, exams, governance, standards and support. I've also got to meet some really interesting people! But it matters because it holds trust across generations of doctors.
No medical career is built alone. I have been shaped by mentors who taught judgement, challenged assumptions, opened doors and modelled integrity. #Mentorship is one of the quiet infrastructures of #medicine. We should value it, protect it and pass it on.
A very special day celebrating the @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Medicine Class of 2026, made even more meaningful as my daughter graduated and I joined the academic procession. A proud parent and academic moment. #UCDMedicine #ClassOf2026
Energising day @rcpi.bsky.social National Education Day 2026 on Friday. The event captured something important: medical careers are changing, but judgement, curiosity, compassion and service still matter. Great to see trainees’ research, QI and leadership so strongly showcased.
Vision without delivery is not enough. @rcpi.bsky.social can help shape better training, better working lives, better policy and better care. That is the impact I want us to pursue together. #RCPI #Healthcare #Impact
A College should feel relevant whether you are a trainee, a consultant, an academic physician, a retired Fellow, or practising outside Ireland. Inclusion is not a slogan. It is how institutions remain alive. @rcphysicians.bsky.social #Medicine
Presenting today @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Medicine Research Retreat on LH Systems for #IntegratedCare. How do we help health systems learn continuously from data, evidence, experience and practice? Looking forward to the conversations. #LearningHealthSystems #IntegratedCare #UCDMedicine
Paper published The word “context” is used constantly in #integratedcare, #implementation & #improvement. But what do we mean by it? Our paper in #JournalofIntegratedCare compares key frameworks & argues that context is not background. It is dynamic, relational & often decisive. shorturl.at/H89N8
Honoured to be nominated for President-Designate of the @rcpi.bsky.social I care deeply about the future of our profession, the importance of collegiality and connection, and ensuring #RCPI remains a strong voice for physicians and patients. Looking forward to the conversations ahead.
Irish healthcare doesn’t lack goodwill. The challenge is building the leadership, governance, relationships & systems needed to make #integratedcare actually work. That’s why #AICIC26 matters @ificinfo.bsky.social . Great line-up! Programme and Register here: shorturl.at/2Yllh 📍UCD 📅12 May 2026
A week of finals, PhD stage transfers, teaching & clinical discussion; very different spaces, same thread: transition. We’re often present at moments where others are crossing a threshold. How we show up in those moments matters. #FridayReflection #HappyMayDay
Lovely news to share: congratulations to Dr Rini Bhatnagar @ucddublin.bsky.social @NRH on securing an #EPUAP Starting Grant. A well-deserved recognition of her work and a great example of what early career researchers bring to our system. Looking forward to seeing the impact of this project.
Health Tech Spring Belfast on Friday: diagnostics, neighbourhood care, prevention & community trust. The challenge is not innovation, it is integration. Best line from @Tamsin Holland Brown: “We will dance with you until everyone is standing up.” Very much the spirit of @ificinfo.bsky.social .
Bags packed and on my way to #ICIC26 @ificinfo.bsky.social Looking forward to thoughtful conversations, shared learning, and reconnecting with colleagues across the #integratedcare family. See you there!
#ICIC26 next week @ificinfo.bsky.social Presenting at 4 sessions over the 3 days Take homes: #integratedcare works when #workforce, relationships and systems align in practice. See you there.
Yesterday in 2 separate meetings work I’d been involved in >10 yrs ago came back into the room. I’d thought it was finished. It wasn’t. It had just… waited Thinking of John O’Donohue’s line about seeds wakening even in winter Not everything that pauses is over A gentle Easter to those marking it