The elections for the President and Council members (now referred to as Ordinary Councillors) will take place within a shorter timeline.
The next election for the President-Designate will commence in March 2020 with a call for nominations. Ballots will open in May 2020 and will close in July. This will reduce the President-Designate term from 10 months to three months before they become President in October 2020.
The same timeline will apply for Ordinary Councillor elections.
In March next year, a call will be made for 12 Ordinary Councillors representing all Faculties/Institutes within the College. All Fellows in good standing will be able to vote for candidates in all categories, regardless of their specialty. To ensure good succession planning, for the 2020 election only a third of elected Ordinary Councillors will serve for two years, a third will serve for three years and the final third will serve for four years and this will be determined by a draw after the election. This is to ensure that by 2022 (and every year thereafter) there will be an election for four seats every year.
In order to be eligible to run for election, all candidates must hold FRCPI.
If you are a Fellow of a Faculty (or Member of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists) and don’t already hold FRCPI but are interested in becoming a Fellow or running for Council, we invite you to apply for Fellowship.
Anyone approved for Fellowship by March 2020 will be eligible to be included on the ballot, provided all other required criteria have been met.
A new committee structure has been agreed.
Previously, there were 38 committees, working groups and policy groups all reporting directly to Council.
Under our new By-Laws, any committees with a financial or operational remit have been realigned under the Executive Board.
Committees reporting to directly to Council are either in place or in development and will include:
There will be further updates on the new committee structures later this year.
Professor Donal Reddan currently serves as Treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians and elected Fellow on Council. He was appointed to the Treasurer role at the Annual Stated meeting in October 2017, and was elected to Council in October 2016. Prior to this, Dr Reddan held the positions of Junior Fellow, and Vice-President (2011-2012) on Council. Dr Reddan is a Consultant Nephrologist, General Physician and clinical lecturer at Galway University Hospital. He is also group Clinical Director for medicine at the SAOLTA (WNWHG) group. A graduate of UCD he completed post-graduate training in Dublin, a residency in General Medicine at AGH Pittsburgh and a fellowship in Nephrology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham North Carolina. He also completed a masters in health sciences at Duke University Medical Center, and served on faculty as an Assistant Professor in the division of Nephrology and at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of important clinical trials in chronic kidney disease. He has over 80 peer reviewed publications and has published extensively in the area of CKD associated anemia, CKD associated cardiovascular risk and contrast induced acute kidney injury.
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