NREC-CT C Members

FREE IMAGE-NO REPRO FEE. ‘Creating Accessible Access to Justice: Recognising People with Disabilities as Victims of Crime’ is a conference being hosted by the School of Applied Social Studies, Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century and Centre for Criminal Justice in Human Rights, supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference, taking place on the 3-4th May, emerges out of a piece of work undertaken by Dr. Claire Edwards, Dr. Shane Kilcommins and Gillian Harold for the National Disability Authority which explored the barriers that people with disabilities face in accessing the criminal justice system in Ireland and internationally when they are victims of crime, and sought to compare policies and practices across international jurisdictions to bring points of learning to the Irish context. Speakers at the conference come from Ireland, Scotland and England, and are all engaged in working within people with disabilities and/or victims of crime, either on the frontline providing support to people with disabilities, or in developing and influencing law and policy around disabled people’s access to the criminal justice system. They include Raymond Byrne (Head of Research, Law Reform Commission); Elaine Mears (Rape Crisis Network Ireland); Deirdre Carroll (Inclusion Ireland); Pauline Conroy (independent researcher); Miriam Delahunt (Barrister); Geraldine Monaghan and Mark Pathak (Liverpool City Council, UK); Dr. Claire Edwards (School of Applied Social Studies, UCC) and Elspeth Molony (Capability Scotland). Participants at the conference include members of victim support organisations, barristers and the judiciary, disability organisations, representatives from agencies such as the HSE, HIQA and other social care organisations, academic staff and postgraduate students with an interest in the area. Photographed are was Dr. Mary Donnelly, Faculty of Law, UCC.
Photo by Tomas Tyner, UCC.

Prof. Mary Donnelly

Chair

Professor, School of Law, University College Cork, Cork

Professor Mary Donnelly is a lecturer at the School of Law, University College Cork (UCC). Mary has 30 years’ experience practicing, teaching, and conducting research in law, with a specialism in health law that includes informed consent and decision-making for children and adults lacking capacity, the intersections between legal and medical systems, and the consequences of legal involvement for medical practice. She has collaborated on projects funded by the European Commission, the Irish Research Council, the National Children's Office, the Wellcome Trust, and the Irish Hospice Foundation. Her publications include Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2010); and the jointly edited collection entitled Ethical and Legal Debates in Irish Healthcare: Confronting Complexities (Manchester University Press, 2016). Mary is currently joint-chair of the HSE National Consent Advisory Group and the HSE Assisted-Decision-Making Commencement Steering Committee, and a member of the Mental Health Commission Legislation Committee. She is former chair of the University Cork Ethics Committee (2014-19), and sat on the National Research Ethics Committee for COVID-19 during its tenure from April-August 2020. Among her memberships, she has participated in a range of advisory groups including the Multidisciplinary Working Group on Advance Healthcare Directives (2016-19); the Expert Technical Group on Codes of Practice for the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (2017-19); and the Expert Group to Review the Mental Health Act 2001 (2013-15). Throughout her career, she has been a visiting fellow to a number of universities, including Monash University, Melbourne (2002), the London School of Economics (2009), and University College London (2016). Mary is a strong believer in the importance of high-quality ethics oversight as a key element in scientific progress, and is pleased to be able to contribute to these efforts as Deputy Chairperson of NREC-CT A

Dr Jean Saunders

Deputy Chairperson

Director, CSCS Statistical Consulting, Clare

Bio

Chartered Statistician Dr Jean Saunders is the founder of Claddagh Statistical Consultancy Services (CSCS). Jean set up CSCS following her retirement from the Statistical Consulting Unit at the University of Limerick (UL) which she established in 2001. At UL, Jean was responsible for providing biostatistical consultancy and training services within the university and to the Health Service Executive (HSE), and chaired several research ethics committees. She has collaborated on many successful grant bids and was Director of the Limerick Centre for Statistical Training in Analysis and Research (Cstar), funded by the Health Research Board in collaboration with UCD. Prior to joining UL, Jean was CEO at CSCS UK, and before this, was Principal Statistician/Manager of the statistics group at ASRU, which offered statistical consultancy services to pharma, universities and the NHS. She was also a Senior Research Fellow at the universities of Kent and Greenwich. Among her many memberships, Jean is Vice-Chair of the University of Limerick Hospital REC, and sits on the HSE REC Reform and the HSE Consent Policy working groups for health research. She was also a member of the National Research Ethics Committee for COVID-19 during its tenure from April to August 2020, in addition to the CT ethics committees’ National Working Group that worked towards a single ethics application process for all health research in Ireland. More broadly, Jean is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a member of the International Biometric Society; the European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry; and Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry. With extensive experience advising on phase I–IV clinical trials, she joins the committee as Deputy Chairperson with a particular interest in research ethics in the context of older adults and Public & Patient Involvement (PPI) in clinical trials.

Prof. John Faul

Deputy Chairperson

Consultant Respiratory Physician, Connolly Hospital, Dublin

Bio

Professor John Faul is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Connolly Hospital, Dublin and Clinical Lead for Asthma Care in the HSE Northeast. John is also a Clinical Associate Professor at University College Dublin and at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Prior to his current role, John was Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Stanford University, where he also held the role of Associate Director of the Heart and Lung Transplantation team. John is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and the American College of Chest Physicians, and serves on a number of international committees as part of his membership with the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Lung Association, and the European Respiratory Society. Throughout his distinguished career, John has been recognised for both his teaching and medical research. He is the recipient of the Cecil Lehman Mayer Research Award, the Walter Research Award, and the Alfred Soffer Research Award. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, John completed a postdoctoral fellowship in immunology at The Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London; followed by postdoctoral fellowships in both Sleep Medicine, and Pulmonary and Critical Care at Stanford University. In 2003 he founded Rox Medical, a medical device company that researches new therapies for patients with severe hypertension. As NREC-CT B Deputy Chairperson, John looks forward to sharing his international medical research expertise and advancing medical knowledge and healthcare excellence for all.

Mr Philip Berman

Member

Retired, Hospital Services Policy & Management, Dublin

Prof. Fionnuala Breathnach

Member

Consultant Obstetrician Gynaecologist, Associate Professor Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Maternal Foetal Medicine Specialist)

Prof. Austin Duffy

Member

Consultant Medical Oncologist Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin and Associate Professor of Translational Oncology Medicine and Medical Specialities, University College Dublin, Dublin

Mr Gerry Eastwood

Member

Retired, Member of Fighting Blindness, Engineer and academic lecturer, Dublin

Dr Susan Finnerty

Member

Former Inspector of Mental Health Services, retired

Dr Dervla Kelly

Member

Community Pharmacist & Lecturer, Medical Education, University of Limerick, Limerick

Ms Susan Kelly

Member

National Maternal and Newborn-Clinical Management System Training Manager, Health System Executive

Prof. Anne Matthews

Member

School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, DCU

Dr Steve Meaney

Member

Head of Research Ethics and Integrity, Technological University Dublin

Ms Paula Prendeville

Member

Senior Educational Psychologist, Cork

Prof. Andrew Smyth

Member

Professor Clinical Epidemiology, University of Galway; Consultant Physician (Nephrologist), Saolta

Dr Deborah Wallace

Member

Assistant Professor in Clinical Research, Director, Graduate Programme in Clinical and Translational Research, Clinical Research Centre, School of Medicine, University College Dublin

NREC-CT C Members

Prof. Mary Donnelly

Dr Jean Saunders

Prof. John Faul

Mr Philip Berman

Prof. Fionnuala Breathnach

Prof. Austin Duffy

Mr Gerry Eastwood

Dr Susan Finnerty

Dr Dervla Kelly

Ms Susan Kelly

Prof. Anne Matthews

Dr Steve Meaney

Ms Paula Prendeville

Prof. Andrew Smyth

Dr Deborah Wallace

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