Dr Ann Monaghan
Dr Ann Monaghan is the Project Manager at TILDA. Ann oversees multiple projects across various teams, including data, bioengineering, administrative, and health assessment and nursing. She is responsible for managing all fieldwork during each core wave of data collection. Ann also manages ancillary TILDA projects, such as the TILDA Healthy Cognitive Ageing Project (TILDA-HCAP) and the recent replenishment of the TILDA cohort, which introduced over 2000 new participants aged 45-64 in 2022-2023.
Having joined the TILDA team in 2020, her first post with TILDA was as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Health and Project Manager for the Technology Assisted Solutions for the Recognition of Objective Physiological Indicators of post-COVID-19 Fatigue (TROPIC) study.
Ann completed her PhD in Physiotherapy in TCD in 2019. Her overall project was an evaluation of a broad array of parameters related to physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic health in people living with Hepatitis C. Prior to this, Ann obtained a Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy (TCD) in 2014 and a Post-graduate Certificate in Statistics (TCD) in 2015. Ann is also a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner.