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DrMelanie Föcking

Senior Lecturer

Psychiatry

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  • Senior Lecturer
    Psychiatry
  • 01 809 3794 (Work)
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Psychiatry, Beaumont Hospital, DUBLIN, County Dublin, 9, Ireland

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION OVERVIEW

Dr Föcking is Year 4 Co-Lead for the Undergraduate Medicine programme at RCSI and plays a central role in curriculum design, coordination and delivery at clinical phase level. She is Director of the European Clinical Electives programme, supporting structured international clinical training experiences for medical students across Europe.

She is actively involved in undergraduate teaching in neuroscience and contributes to curriculum development, assessment and student mentorship. 

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Peripheral biomarkers predictive of psychosis
    1 Oct 2021
  • ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
    Neuroscience Module Lead
    2 Nov 2020
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    The identification of plasma protein markers of outcome in psychosis
    1 Oct 2019 - 30 Mar 2022
  • ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
    Co-lead for CNS module in THEP2
    28 Nov 2018
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Hypothesis-driven proteomic data-analysis of plasma from subjects in the AT Risk Mental State
    1 Oct 2016 - 30 Nov 2017
  • ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
    Neuroscience Module Facilitator
    1 Sep 2015 - 1 Nov 2020
  • ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
    Undergraduate teaching in Medicine and Physiotherapy
    1 Sep 2014
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Proteomic characterization of posttranslational modifications of histone proteins in the prenatally stressed mouse brain
    1 Aug 2013 - 30 Jun 2014
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Proteomic characterization of the postsynaptic density in the cortex of haloperidol treated rats
    1 Oct 2012 - 30 Apr 2013
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Myelin abnormalities in schizophrenia: Insights from proteomic investigation of post-mortem schiziophrenia and pre-clinical animal models
    1 Oct 2011 - 30 Jun 2014
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Prenatal stress and adult psychopathology - effectson hippocampal protein expression in C57/Bl6 mice with a depression-like phenotype
    2 Jan 2011 - 30 Aug 2011
  • THESIS SUPERVISION
    Effects of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and haloperidol on the hippocampus: a proteomic approach
    1 Jan 2011 - 15 Oct 2014