Dr Jonathan Moran
Jonathan is the HIHI Clinical Liaison for the Dublin office, having previously worked as a physiotherapist in an acute hospital. He completed a BSc. in Physiotherapy and graduated from Trinity College Dublin in June 2013. Immediately after Jonathan began a PhD in Physiotherapy entitled ‘Evaluating and optimising preoperative physical fitness to enhance postoperative recovery in major surgery’.
Following the completion of his PhD in 2017, Jonathan began working as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Julie Broderick. During this position, Jonathan helped develop physical activity guidelines to support mental health service users published by the Health Service Executive (https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/heal/heal-docs/lets-get-active-guidelines.pdf).
For his research Jonathan has obtained over €30,000 in funding from the Royal City of Dublin Hospital Trust and €2,500 from the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists for The PHIIT Trial (Clinictrials.gov: NCT02674815). In addition, Jonathan has a number of peer-reviewed publications in high-ranking publications such as the British Journal of Anaesthesia and Surgery.
In 2018, Jonathan began working as a Physiotherapist in St. James’s Hospital, Ireland’s largest hospital, quickly becoming a senior in inpatient orthopaedics. Jonathan is currently the Co-Editor in Chief of the peer-reviewed journal, Physiotherapy Practice & Research, and serves on the Tallaght/St. James’s Research Ethics Committee.