Our Steering and Working Groups

Professor Desmond O'Neill

Senior Fellow on Council and Programme Director, National Programme 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. Professor O'Neill was elected to the RCPI Council as a Senior Fellow in October 2014 and will serve a two year term. He is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine at Tallaght Hospital Dublin and 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 Ms Joanna Holly, Deputy CEO of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Mr Declan Naughton, Director, 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	Mr Leo Kearns
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland	Ms Joanna Holly and Ms Leah O’Toole
Working Group on Traffic Medicine	Dr Declan Bedford
Road Safety Authority	Mr Declan Naughton
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Prof Desmond O’Neill
An Garda Síochána	Chief Superintendent Aidan Reid

INSTITUTION	Representative
Chair	Dr Declan Bedford
AA Ireland	Mr Conor Faughnan
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland	Ms Ruth Hoban
An Garda Síochána	Superintendent Pat McCabe
Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland	Mr Tadhg Stapleton
Association of Optometrists Ireland	Mr Martin O’Brien
Clinical Pharmacology, RCSI	Prof David Williams
College of Psychiatry of Ireland	Dr Paul Fearon
Coroners Society of Ireland	Dr Brian Farrell
Coroners Society and Forensic and Legal Medicine 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 Patricia Fitzpatrick
Health and Safety Authority	Mr Kieran Sludds
Irish Association for Emergency Medicine	Dr Gerry Lane
Irish Association of Rehabilitation Medicine	Dr Eugene Wallace and Dr Paul Carroll
Irish Cardiac Society	Dr Edward Keelan
Irish College of General Practitioners	Dr Gerry Cummins, Dr Ide Delargy and Dr Sean O'Callaghan
Irish College of Nephrology	Dr George Mellotte
Irish College of Ophthalmologists	Ms Patricia Logan and Mr Sean Chen
Irish Endocrine Society	Dr Graham Roberts
Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience	Prof Norman Delanty
Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery	Dr Derek Bennett
Irish Association of Orthoptists	Ms Caroline Byrne
Irish Patients Association	Mr Stephen McMahon
Irish Society of Community and Public Health Medicine and HSE Principal Medical Officers Group	Dr Joanna Joyce Cooney
Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine	Dr David Robinson
Irish Society of Rheumatology	Dr Ronan Mullan
Irish Thoracic Society	Prof Walter McNicholas
National Office for Traffic Medicine	Prof Desmond O’Neill – Director of NOTM
Neurosurgeons	Mr Steven Young
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland	Ms Irene Patterson
Psychological Society of Ireland	Prof Michael Gormley
ADI Chief Examiner	Mr Michael Dolan
Road Safety Authority	Mr Michael Dolan, Mr Liam Keane, Ms Deirdre Finnerty
Health Products Regulatory Authority	Dr Doreen Fagan

Margaret Ryan

Manager

Tel: +353 1 8639788

Margaret Ryan is the Manager of the National Office for Traffic Medicine.