As Director, Professor O’Neill is responsible for leading the development and implementation of a national framework for standards in traffic medicine in Ireland.
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.
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 |
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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 |
The Working Group on Traffic Medicine is chaired by Dr Declan Bedford.
This Working Group advises the National Office for Traffic Medicine on the standards to be set, implemented and maintained in Sláinte agus Tiomáint: Medical Fitness to Drive Guidelines for Drivers in Ireland.
Institution | representative |
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AA Ireland | Mr Conor Faughnan |
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 | Prof Paul Fearon |
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 | Dr Declan Bedford |
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 | Prof Ted Keelan |
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 Community & Public Health Medicine | Dr Declan Bedford |
Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine | Dr David Robinson |
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 Lily Roche |
Neurosurgeons | Mr Steven Young |
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland | |
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland | Mr Connor O’Leary |
Psychological Society of Ireland | Dr Michael Gormley |
Road Safety Authority | Mr Martin McNulty and Ms Miriam Scott |
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland | Dr Declan Bedford (Chair) |
We have eight sub groups on Traffic Medicine that act as specialist advisors to the Working Group. They deal with the following areas:
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