Mr Leo Kearns is the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and has overall responsibility, along with the RCPI Executive Officers, for the development and delivery of the highest professional standards in postgraduate medical education and training across the six training bodies within the RCPI.
Mr Kearns has made a significant and lead contribution to a major programme of transformation resulting in the College, its Faculties and Institute adopting a highly proactive, outward-looking and progressive role in the Irish and international health sector.
He has overseen many positive developments, including significant curricula reform; major expansion of educational programmes; development of the masterclass and public meeting series; the introduction of the online education and resource centre; and reform of the membership and other examinations.
Mr Kearns is the Secretary of the Forum of Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies which represents all Irish postgraduate medical training bodies on a number of key educational and professional issues. He is also Secretary of the Professional Competence Assurance Steering Committee and a Member of the Clinical Directorates Steering Group, NCMET and Intern Working Group.
Mr Kearns was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, RCPI in recognition of the contribution he has made to the Faculty and College in the development of medical education and training, health related organisational improvement, clinical standards and patient safety since joining RCPI in 2006. The President of the RCPI, Dr. John Donohoe, at the ceremony, acknowledged that Mr Kearns had "brought the College into a new era".
Dr. Howard Frumkin is Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. Before joining the CDC in September, 2005, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School. He founded and directed Emory’s Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic and the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit.
Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Occupational Medicine training at Harvard. He is Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Collegium Ramazzini.
Dr. Frumkin was awarded his Honorary Fellowship to the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, RCPI in recognition of his expertise and significant contributions in the field of occupational medicine.