The Board and Advisory Committees
The Board
The role of the RPII Board is to provide strategic leadership, direction, support and guidance for the RPII and promote commitment to its core vision, objectives and values.
Advisory Committees
The work of the RPII is further supplemented by advisory committees which provide advice to the Board and Chief Executive. These are:
The Communications Advisory Committee
The communications advisory committee advises the Board and RPII on matters of public communications. This includes advice on the strategic direction of RPII communications activities,on the annual communications programme and on any other matter that my be referred to it by the Board.
Membership:
Mr James Fitzmaurice (Chair), Managing Director of the Bradan Group
Ms Fionnuala Barker, Principal Physicist in St Luke’s Hospital Dublin
The Ionising Radiation Advisory Committee
The Board has established a new high-level scientific advisory committee with a specific public health focus, the Ionising Radiation Advisory Committee (IRAC), to advise it on all matters concerning ionising radiation. The membership of IRAC is listed below and includes expertise across a broad range of fields relevant to the RPII. The first meeting of IRAC was held on Tuesday 11th May 2010.
The decision to establish the IRAC was arrived at following a review of the existing advisory committee structure comprising the Medical Radiation Advisory Committee (MRAC) and the Environmental Radiation Advisory Committee (ERAC). The review found that the existing structure had served the RPII very well over many years but that it needed to be reformed to reflect current needs and priorities and to take account of changes in the external environment.
Top row (from left to right): Dr Jane Renehan, Dr Dominique Crowley, Dr Michael Casey, Prof Ian McAulay, Dr Neil O'Donovan, Prof Brendan McClean. Bottom row (from left to right): Dr Jill Meara, Mr Sean Hogan, Dr Éamann Breatnach, Ms Nuala Ahern, Dr Ann McGarry, Prof Wil Van der Putten.
Membership:
Dr Éamann Breatnach (Chair), Consultant Radiologist, Mater Misericordiae Hospital Dublin
Ms Nuala Aherne (Vice-Chair), Environmentalist, policy analyst and writer on ecology and psychology
Dr Michael Casey, Chief Physicist, St Vincent's Hospital Dublin
Dr Harry Comber, Director of the National Cancer Registry Ireland
Dr Dominique Crowley, Specialist in Public Health, Health Services Executive
Dr Jean Luc Godet, Director of Ionising Radiation and Health Department, ASN, France
Mr Sean Hogan, Principal Fire and Emergency Management Advisor, DEHLG
Prof Ian McAulay, Professor Experimental Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Retired
Prof Brendan McClean, Chief Physicist, St Lukes Hospital Dublin
Dr James Mc Laughlin, Senior Lecturer, Natural Radioactivity, University College Dublin, Retired
Dr Jill Meara, Deputy Director of the HPA's Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, UK
Prof Peter Mitchell, Professor Radiation Physics, University College Dublin
Dr Neil O'Donovan, Consultant Radiologist, South Infirmary - Victoria University Hospital Cork
Dr Geraldine O'Reilly, Principal Physicist, St James's Hospital Dublin
Dr Jane Renehan, Principal Dental Surgeon, Health Service Executive
Prof Wil Van Der Putten, Chief Physicist, University Hospital Galway
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