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Dr Robert Cunney
Consultant Microbiologist
Tel: +353-1-8765-300
Fax: +353-1-8765-384
robert.cunney@hse.ieDr Robert Cunney is a Consultant Microbiologist at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) and at the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, in Dublin, Ireland. He is Secretary of the Strategy for the control of Antimicrobial Resistance in Ireland (SARI), is a member of the Irish Health Services Executive's Healthcare-Associated Infection Taskforce and is also a member of a number of international committees dealing with antimicrobial resistance and healthcare associated infection. His main responsibilities at HPSC are coordinating national surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial consumption. He was closely involved in the development of national guidelines on hand hygiene in the healthcare setting, updated national guidelines on the control of MRSA and national recommendations on hospital antibiotic stewardship. He is also a member of the SARI subcommittee that is developing national antibiotic prescribing guidelines for general practitioners.
Dr Robert Cunney
Consultant Microbiologist
Tel: +353-1-8765-300
Fax: +353-1-8765-384
robert.cunney@hse.ieDr Robert Cunney is a Consultant Microbiologist at the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) and at the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, in Dublin, Ireland. He is Secretary of the Strategy for the control of Antimicrobial Resistance in Ireland (SARI), is a member of the Irish Health Services Executive's Healthcare-Associated Infection Taskforce and is also a member of a number of international committees dealing with antimicrobial resistance and healthcare associated infection. His main responsibilities at HPSC are coordinating national surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial consumption. He was closely involved in the development of national guidelines on hand hygiene in the healthcare setting, updated national guidelines on the control of MRSA and national recommendations on hospital antibiotic stewardship. He is also a member of the SARI subcommittee that is developing national antibiotic prescribing guidelines for general practitioners.
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- Murchan S, Cunney R; Irish EARSS Steering Group. Rise in antimicrobial resistance in invasive isolates of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecium in Ireland. Euro Surveill. 2006 Apr 13;11(4):E060413.3.
- Grigoryan L, Haaijer-Rysjamp FM, Burgerhof JG, Mechtler R, Deschepper R, Tambic-Andrasevic A, Andrajati R, Monnet DL, Cunney R, Di Matteo A, Edelsein H, Valinteliene R, Alkerwi A, Scicluna E, Grzesiowski P, Bara AC, Tesar T, Cizman M, Campos J, Lundborg CS, Birkin J. Self-medication with antimicrobial drugs in Europe. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar;12(3):452-9.
- Murphy OM, Murchan S, Whyte D, Humphreys H, Rossney A, Clarke P, Cunney R, Keane C, Fenelon LE, O'Flanagan D. Impact of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System on the development of a national programme to monitor resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in Ireland, 1999-2003. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2005 Jul;24(7):480-3.
- Cunney RJ, Smyth EG. The impact of laboratory reporting practice on antibiotic utilisation. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2000 Feb;14(1):13-9. Review.
- Cunney R, Smyth E. Controlling antibiotic use: protecting an endangered medical resource. Ir Med J. 1998 Jan-Feb;91(1):14-5.
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