Office for Research Ethics Committees Key Personnel

Key Personnel

Head of ORECNI: Dr Siobhan McGrath

Clerical Officer: Mrs Christine Fawcett

Please note that all communications and enquiries to the Committee Chairpersons or other Committee members must be made directly to the ORECNI Office - 028 92 603107

HSC REC 1

REC Administrator: Ms Kathryn Taylor

REC Members

Member Name	Profession	Expert/Lay
Mr Mark Nelson (Chair)	Senior Pharmaceutical Officer	Expert
Dr Paul Boreland (Vice Chair)	Consultant Clinical Microbiologist	Expert
Dr Mary Hannon-Fletcher (Alternate Vice Chair)	Lecturer in Biomedical Science	Expert

Mr Tom Bratton	Managing Inspector (Retired)	Lay
Dr Lisa Bunting	Senior Researcher	Lay
Miss Patricia Campbell	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Dr Patricia Connolly	Lecturer in Health Communications	Lay
Dr Catherine Hack	Lecturer in Bioinformatics	Lay
Ms Felicity Hasson	Senior Lecturer	Lay
Dr Grant Jordan	Lecturer, QUB Dept of Surgery	Expert
Mrs Joan Kirkpatrick	Palliative Care Nurse	Expert
Mrs Toni McAloon	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Dr Sonja McIlfatrick	Lecturer in Nursing	Expert
Mr Dermot O'Hara	Project Manager	Lay
Mr Michael Stevenson	Senior Statistician	Expert
Dr Laurence Taggart	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Professor Mahendra Varma	Consultant Cardiologist	Expert
Mrs Paula Walls	PhD Student	Expert

HSC REC 2

REC Administrator: Mrs Katrina Greer

REC Members

Member Name	Profession	Expert/Lay
Dr Ronald Atkinson (Chair)	Consultant in Medical Oncology (Retired)	Expert
Mr Roger Woodward (Vice Chair)	Senior Lecturer in Psychology (Retired)	Lay
Dr Donna Fitzsimons (Alternate Vice Chair)	Senior Manager, Nursing Research	Expert

Dr Kathryn Burnett	Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy	Expert
Mr Alan Cecil	Industry Manager (Retired)	Lay
Ms Siobhan McCullough	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Dr Colin Harper	Manager	Lay
Dr Clodagh Loughrey	Consultant Chemical Pathologist	Expert
Professor Tanya McCance	Nursing R&D Co-Director	Expert
Mr Aidan McDonnell	Executive Officer, NIPSA	Lay
Dr Joe McVeigh	Lecturer in Physiotherapy	Expert
Mr John Mone	Former Executive Director of Nursing (Retired)	Expert
Professor Patrick Murphy	Adviser on Political, Social and Economic Policy	Lay
Dr Seamus O'Brien	Nurse Manager	Expert
Dr Marian Traynor	Lecturer in Nursing	Expert
Ms Marilyn Trimble		Lay
Ms Sue Trouton	Community Midwifery Sister	Expert
Professor Robert Welch	Professor of Food Science and Nutrition	Expert

HSC REC 3

REC Administrator: Ms Jan Daley

REC Members

Member Name	Profession	Expert/Lay
Dr Hilary Russell (Chair)	Reader, School of Biomedical Sciences	Expert
Dr Stanley Hawkins (Vice Chair)	Consultant Neurologist	Expert
Mr Stephen Brown (Alternate Vice Chair)	Consultant Surgeon (Retired)	Expert

Dr Marilyn Armstrong	Senior Lecturer Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology	Expert
Mrs Deirdre Brown	Head of Education - Ulster Folk & Transport Museum (Retired)	Lay
Mr Stephen Cairns	Company Director	Lay
Dr Avril Craig	Project Manager	Lay
Dr Gordon Cran	Medical Statistician (Retired)	Expert
Mr Paul Davidson	Lecturer	Lay
Professor George Kernohan	Professor of Health Research	Expert
Professor Sheena Lewis	Professor of Reproductive Medicine	Expert
Dr Brian Liddy	Education Officer	Lay
Ms Maria McCann	Director - Public Relations Company	Lay
Mrs Catherine Milhench	Registered Nurse	Expert
Dr Mark Reid	Consultant Paediatrician (Retired)	Expert

Please note that the classification of 'Expert' and 'Lay' Members is as defined by the UK Clinical Trials Regulation (2004).