High Impact Research
In 2014, my research into the trajectory paths of blood clots through 3D printed models of ischaemic stroke patient vasculature won first prize in the New Researcher Category at the 20th Annual Conference of the Bioengineering Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. In 2018, I chaired sessions at this conference and won best presentation in the Cardiovascular Research category that year. My work has been published in high impact peer reviewed international engineering and medical journals, most notably in the journal of Stroke (impact factor 6), which was an influential publication for GMIT to see experimental engineering data and statistics to be included in a medical journal.
"Embolus analogue trajectory paths under physiological flowrates through patient specific aortic arch models”, published in the journal of Biomechanical Engineering (JBME impactor factor: 2.025), was selected as one of the JBME Editors' Choice papers for 2019. Only 10 papers out of over 100 were selected, representing those that the editorial board felt best exemplified high quality and impactful work. My work analysing bovine blood clots in conjunction with Materials Research Institute in Athlone Institute of Technology, and the National Centre for Advanced Medical Imaging, St. James’s Hospital/School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin was the first of its kind to analyse the behaviour of blood clots under different loading conditions (impact factor 1.8). |
My most recent paper, based on my work this year in collaboration with the Data Analytics group at Medical Engineering and Technology Centre (MET), was published in the journal of Statistical Methods in Medical Research (2.291).
Following my PhD, my R&D Research Fellowship involved working with Boston Scientific on an Enterprise Ireland innovation partnership through the MET Gateway at GMIT.
Following my PhD, my R&D Research Fellowship involved working with Boston Scientific on an Enterprise Ireland innovation partnership through the MET Gateway at GMIT.
Publication list:
Lyashevska O, Malone F, MacCarthy E, Fiehler J, Buhk J-H, Morris L. Class imbalance in gradient boosting classification algorithms: Application to experimental stroke data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. December 2021. doi:10.1177/0962280220980484
Malone F, McCarthy E, Delassus P, Buhk J-H, Fiehler J, Morris L. An in vitro assessment of atrial fibrillation flow types on cardiogenic emboli trajectory paths. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine. 2020;234(12):1421-1431. doi:10.1177/0954411920946873
Malone, F., McCarthy, E., Delassus, P., Buhk, JH., Fiehler, J., Morris L., Investigation of the Hemodynamics Influencing Emboli Trajectories Through a Patient-Specific Aortic Arch Model, Stroke, STROKEAHA. 118.023581.
Malone, F., McCarthy, E., Delassus, P., Buhk, JH., Fiehler, J., Morris L. Embolus Analog Trajectory Paths Under Physiological Flowrates Through Patient-Specific Aortic Arch Models, Journal of biomechanical engineering , 141 (10), 2019.
Malone, F., McCarthy E., Delassus, P., Fahy, P., Kennedy, J., Fagan, A.J., Morris, L., The mechanical characterisation of bovine embolus analogues under various loading conditions, Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, 9 (3), 489-502, 2018.
Fahy P, Malone F, McCarthy E, McCarthy P, Thornton J, Brennan P, O'Hare A, Looby S, Sultan S, Hynes N, Morris L. An In vitro Evaluation of Emboli Trajectories Within a Three-Dimensional Physical Model of the Circle of Willis Under Cerebral Blood Flow Conditions, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2015; 43(9):2265-78.
Lyashevska O, Malone F, MacCarthy E, Fiehler J, Buhk J-H, Morris L. Class imbalance in gradient boosting classification algorithms: Application to experimental stroke data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. December 2021. doi:10.1177/0962280220980484
Malone F, McCarthy E, Delassus P, Buhk J-H, Fiehler J, Morris L. An in vitro assessment of atrial fibrillation flow types on cardiogenic emboli trajectory paths. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine. 2020;234(12):1421-1431. doi:10.1177/0954411920946873
Malone, F., McCarthy, E., Delassus, P., Buhk, JH., Fiehler, J., Morris L., Investigation of the Hemodynamics Influencing Emboli Trajectories Through a Patient-Specific Aortic Arch Model, Stroke, STROKEAHA. 118.023581.
Malone, F., McCarthy, E., Delassus, P., Buhk, JH., Fiehler, J., Morris L. Embolus Analog Trajectory Paths Under Physiological Flowrates Through Patient-Specific Aortic Arch Models, Journal of biomechanical engineering , 141 (10), 2019.
Malone, F., McCarthy E., Delassus, P., Fahy, P., Kennedy, J., Fagan, A.J., Morris, L., The mechanical characterisation of bovine embolus analogues under various loading conditions, Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, 9 (3), 489-502, 2018.
Fahy P, Malone F, McCarthy E, McCarthy P, Thornton J, Brennan P, O'Hare A, Looby S, Sultan S, Hynes N, Morris L. An In vitro Evaluation of Emboli Trajectories Within a Three-Dimensional Physical Model of the Circle of Willis Under Cerebral Blood Flow Conditions, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2015; 43(9):2265-78.