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, CSA	Expert
Dr Paul Boreland (Vice Chair)	Consultant Clinical Microbiologist	Expert
Dr Mary Hannon-Fletcher (Alternate Vice Chair)	Lecturer in Biomedical Science	Expert

Mr Michael Best	Managing Director	Lay
Dr Lisa Bunting	Senior Researcher	Lay
Miss Patricia Campbell	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Dr Catherine Hack	Lecturer in Bioinformatics	Lay
Ms Felicity Hasson	Senior Lecturer	Lay
Dr Grant Jordan	Lecturer, QUB Dept of Surgery	Expert
Mrs Toni McAloon	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Mr Ivan McCappin	Head of Professional Dental Services, CSA	Expert
Dr Sonja McIlfatrick	Lecturer in Nursing	Expert
Dr Diarmaid Murphy	Pharmacist	Expert
Mr Dermot O'Hara	Project Manager	Lay
Mr Michael Stevenson	Senior Statistician	Expert
Ms Christine Stoll	Equality Support Officer	Lay
Dr Laurence Taggart	Nurse Lecturer	Expert
Professor Mahendra Varma	Consultant Cardiologist	Expert

Mrs Rose Handley (Deputy Member)	IT Consultant	Lay
Mrs Joan Kirkpatrick (Deputy Member)	Hospice at Home Nurse	Expert
Mrs Paula Walls (Deputy Member)	PhD Student	Expert

HSC REC 2

REC Administrator: Ms Katrina Walls

REC Members

Member Name	Profession	Expert/Lay
Dr Theresa Donaldson (Chair)	Director of Policy & Social Development	Lay
Dr Ronald Atkinson (Vice Chair)	Consultant in Medical Oncology (Retired)	Expert
Dr Donna Fitzsimons (Alternate Vice Chair)	Senior Manager, Nursing Research	Expert

Mr Alan Cecil	Industry Manager (Retired)	Lay
Professor Wallace Dinsmore	Consultant Physician	Expert
Dr Clodagh Loughrey	Consultant Chemical Pathologist	Expert
Professor Tanya McCance	Nursing R&D Co-Director	Expert
Mr Aidan McDonnell	Executive Officer, NIPSA	Lay
Mrs Mary McMahon	Social Policy Researcher	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 Andrew Percy	Research Statistician Institute of Child Care Research	Lay
Dr Marian Traynor	Lecturer in Nursing	Expert
Ms Kathryn Turner	Head of Professional Pharmacy Services, CSA	Expert
Professor Robert Welch	Professor of Food Science and Nutrition	Expert
Mr Roger Woodward	Senior Lecturer in Psychology	Lay

Ms Sue Trouton (Deputy Member)	Community Midwifery Sister	Expert

HSC REC 3

REC Administrator: Ms Jan Daley

REC Members

Member Name	Profession	Expert/Lay
Dr John Trinder (Chair)	Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine	Expert
Dr Hilary Russell (Vice Chair)	Reader, School of Biomedical Sciences	Expert
Dr Stanley Hawkins (Alternate Vice Chair)	Consultant Neurologist	Expert

Dr Marilyn Armstrong	Senior Lecturer Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology	Expert
Mr Stephen Brown	Consultant Surgeon (Retired)	Expert
Mr Stephen Cairns	Company Director	Lay
Dr Avril Craig	Project Manager	Lay
Dr Gordon Cran	Medical Statistician (Retired)	Expert
Mr Paul Davidson	Lecturer	Lay
Ms Janice Flinn	Full-Time Carer	Lay
Ms Lynn Keenan	Pharmacist	Expert
Professor George Kernohan	Professor of Health Research	Expert
Professor Sheena Lewis	Professor of Reproductive Medicine	Expert
Dr Brian Liddy	Education Officer	Lay
Dr Patrick McCrystal	Psychologist, Institute of Child Care Research	Lay
Mrs Catherine Milhench	Registered Nurse	Expert
Dr Mark Reid	Consultant Paediatrician (Retired)	Expert

Ms Siobhan McCullough (Deputy Member)	Nurse/Lecturer	Expert

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