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AMBER Researcher discusses PPI on ‘Not Just Patients! Live Podcast

16 October 2025

AMBER Researcher and Deputy Director Professor Fergal O’Brien of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) participated in the first in-person recorded episode of Not Just Patients! a podcast by Clarinda Cerejo and Caitlin Rich at the National PPI Festival Launch at the Royal College of Surgeons.

Fergal’s team partnered with AMBER and the IRFU Charitable Trust to co-design a novel spinal cord injury implant alongside a PPI advisory group of clinicians, researchers, and individuals living with spinal cord injury.

The National PPI (Patient and Public Involvement) Festival in Dublin was organised by the PPI Ignite Network RCSI.

Fergal’s contribution starting at 30:45

 

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