Our Steering and Working Groups

Professor Desmond O'Neill

Programme Director, National Office for Traffic Medicine

Tel: +353 1 863 9788

Professor Desmond O'Neill is the Programme Director of the National Office for Traffic Medicine, which was established jointly by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Road Safety Authority in 2011. He is also a Senior Fellow on RCPI Council. He works as a Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine at Tallaght Hospital Dublin and is Professor of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin.

Steering Group on Traffic Medicine

We are governed by a Steering Group on Traffic Medicine, which essentially acts as our board of management.

The Steering Group on Traffic Medicine is jointly chaired by Dr Ann O'Shaughnessy, Head of Professional Affairs, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Mr Declan Naughton, Director of Driver Testing and Licensing, Road Safety Authority.

Together with the Director, Professor Desmond O’Neill, the Steering Group is responsible for ensuring the National Office for Traffic Medicine’s aims and functions are fulfilled on behalf of RCPI and the Road Safety Authority.

Dr Declan Bedford

Chair, RCPI Working Group on Traffic Medicine

Institution	representative
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland	Dr Ann O'Shaughnessy
Working Group on Traffic Medicine	Dr Declan Bedford
Road Safety Authority	Mr Declan Naughton
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Prof Desmond O’Neill
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Dr Margaret Ryan
An Garda Síochána	Chief Superintendent Finbarr Murphy
Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport	Lorraine McGurk

INSTITUTION	Representative
Chair	Dr Declan Bedford
AA Ireland	Mr Conor Faughnan
Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland	Asst Prof Tadhg Stapleton
Faculty of Occupational Therapy, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland	Dr Declan Whelan
Association of Optometrists Ireland	Mr Martin O'Brien
Clinical Pharmacology, RCSI	Prof David Williams
College of Psychiatry of Ireland	Dr Paul Fearon
Coroners Society and Forensic and Legal Medicine Medical Bureau of Road Safety	Prof Denis Cusack
Faculty of Occupational Medicine	Dr Paul Guéret
Garda National Roads Policing Bureau	Chief Superintendent Paul Cleary
Health and Safety Authority	Ms Deirdre Sinnott
Health Products Regulatory Authority	Dr Doreen Fagan
Hermitage Medical Centre	Mr Steven Young
Irish Association of Rehab Medicine	Dr Eugene Wallace
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine	Dr Gerry Lane
Irish Association of Orthoptists	Ms Emma Goodall
Irish Cardiac Society	Dr Edward Keelan
Irish College of General Practitioners	Dr Gerry Cummins
Irish College of General Practitioners	Dr Ide Delargy
Irish College of Ophthalmologists	Mr Sean Chen
Irish Endocrine Society	Dr Graham Roberts
Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience	Dr Norman Delanty
Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery	Mr Derek Bennett
Irish Patients' Association	Mr Stephen McMahon
Irish Society of Community & Faculty of Public Health Medicine	Dr Declan Bedford
Irish Thoracic Society	Prof Walter McNicholas
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland	Mr Connor O'Leary
Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport	Ms Helen O'Reilly
Road Safety Authority	Mr Martin McNulty
Road Safety Authority	Ms Miriam Scott
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Dr Margaret Ryan
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Ms Lily Roche