Our Steering and Working Groups

Professor Desmond O'Neill

Programme Director, National Office for Traffic Medicine

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 Elected Fellow on RCPI Council and Censor. 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.

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 Raymond McMahon
Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport	Lorraine McGurk
Road Safety Authority	Mr Pat Travers

Dr Declan Bedford

Chair, RCPI Working Group on Traffic Medicine

Institution	representative
AA Ireland
An Garda Síochána	Chief Superintendent Raymond McMahon
Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland	Dr Tadhg Stapleton
Association of Optometrists Ireland	Mr Martin O’Brien
Clinical Pharmacology, RCSI	Prof David Williams
College of Psychiatry of Ireland
Coroners Society of Ireland & Forensic and Legal Medicine & the Medical Bureau of Road Safety	Prof Denis Cusack
Faculty of Occupational Medicine	Dr Paul Guéret and Dr Declan Whelan
Faculty of Public Health Medicine Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI)	Dr Declan Bedford (Chair)
Health and Safety Authority	Ms Deirdre Sinnott
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine	Dr Gerry Lane
Irish Association of Rehabilitation Medicine	Dr Eugene Wallace and Dr Paul Carroll
Irish Cardiac Society	Dr Derek Crinion
Irish College of General Practitioners	Dr Ide Delargy and Dr Sean O’Callaghan
Irish College of Nephrology
Irish College of Ophthalmologists	Mr Sean Chen and Ms Fiona Kearns
Irish Endocrine Society	Dr Graham Roberts
Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience	Prof Norman Delanty
Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery	Mr Derek Bennett
Irish Patients Association	Mr Stephen McMahon
Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine
Irish Society of Rheumatology
Irish Thoracic Society	Prof Walter McNicholas
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Prof Desmond O’Neill (Director)
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Dr Margaret Ryan
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Ms Donna Noonan
Neurosurgeons	Mr Steven Young
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
Psychological Society of Ireland	Dr Michael Gormley
Road Safety Authority	Mr Stephen Murphy and Ms Miriam Scott