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Board

Board members are elected for an initial period of three years with the board refreshed over this three year period.

President

Dr Sandy Fraser

Consultant Rheumatologist, General Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer
University Hospital, Limerick

Honorary Secretary

Dr Frances Stafford

Consultant Rheumatologist
Blackrock Clinic, Co. Dublin

Honorary Treasurer

Dr Sinéad Harney

Consultant Rheumatologist
Cork University Hospital, Cork

Board Member

Dr Suzanne Donnelly

Consultant Rheumatologist
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin

Board Member

Professor David Kane

Consultant Rheumatologist
Adelaide and Meath Hospital

Board Member

Dr Donough Howard

Consultant Rheumatologist
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9

Board Member

Dr Orla Killeen

Paediatric Consultant Rheumatologist
Crumlin Childrens Hospital, Dublin 12

Board Member

Dr Clare Matthews

Consultant Rheumatologist
Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Belfast

Board Member

Dr Eamonn Molloy

Consultant Rheumatologist
St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4

Board Member

Dr John Stack

SpR Representative

Board Member

Dr Adrian Pendleton

Consultant Rheumatologist
Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast

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PRESIDENT
Dr Sandy Fraser
Consultant Rheumatologist, General Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer | University Hospital, Limerick

Dr. Alexander Fraser graduated in medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1991. He began practicing Rheumatology in 1996 and the following year was appointed Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology at the Yorkshire Deanery. Training with Professor Emery’s group in Leeds he developed a research interest in clinical, immunological and therapeutic aspects of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and the Sero-negative Spondyloarthropathies. He was appointed Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, working at The Leeds General Infirmary and St. James’ University Hospital in October 2001, and working closely with Professor Emery and Professor Doug Veale he published in the area of Angiogenesis, Vascularity and Inflammation in early and established arthritis and Biomarkers of cartilage turnover. Dr Fraser took up his current appointment as Consultant Rheumatologist, General Physician and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University Hospitals Limerick in 2006. In conjunction with the University of Limerick Graduate Entry Medical School (GEMS) Dr. Fraser and his team have continued their strong academic interests while managing a busy clinical practice.

HONORARY SECRETARY
Dr Frances Stafford
Consultant Rheumatologist | Blackrock Clinic, Co. Dublin

Frances is a graduate of UCD, spent almost a decade in North America, training in Rheumatology first at University of Toronto, followed by a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School. She was awarded a 4 year Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I completed at the NIH, and then went on staff at the NIH. Frances is American Board Certified in Internal Medicine and in Rheumatology. She has been Consultant at Blackrock Clinic since 1995. 

HONORARY TREASURER
Dr Sinéad Harney
Consultant Rheumatologist | Cork University Hospital, Cork

Dr Sinéad Harney graduated from UCG in 1994 and did her specialist training in Rheumatology and General Medicine in Dublin. She completed her training in Oxford in 2005 and was awarded a DPhil by thesis titled “Major Histocompatibility Genetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis”. She was appointed to a Consultant Rheumatologist post in Cork University Hospital in 2005 and has worked there since. She completed a Masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine in UCC in 2007. Her research interests include – Genetics of inflammatory arthritis and occult cardiovascular disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis and she has over 90 publications. She is currently the treasurer of the Irish Society of Rheumatology and a board member of the TUE committee of the Irish Sports Council.

BOARD MEMBER
Dr Suzanne Donnelly
Consultant Rheumatologist | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin

Dr Suzanne Donnelly graduated from Trinity College Dublin, trained in Ireland and England and was appointed consultant rheumatologist at St. George's Hospital and Medical School, London in 2002. She returned to Ireland in 2005 to work part time as Consultant Rheumatologist in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Her clinical and educational research interests include systemic autoimmune disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Care in Medicine. Suzanne has held academic posts in medical education since 1996 including in Trinity College Dublin; the University of Oxford and in London, and joined UCD as Director of Clinical Education in 2008, to lead the development of early clinical education. She was responsible for a series of innovative educational strategies across all disciplines including the development of a patient educator programme in association with Arthritis Ireland. She led the first national undergraduate curriculum project in Ireland, published as the ISR Undergraduate Curriculum in Rheumatology in 2009, and is a contributing author to the textbooks Medicine at A Glance & The Rheumatology Handbook. She was ISR nominee to the board of Arthritis Ireland (2008-13), a board member of Raynauds and Scleroderma Ireland (2007-10) and is a medical patron of Lupus Group Ireland.

BOARD MEMBER
Professor David Kane
Consultant Rheumatologist | Adelaide and Meath Hospital

Prof David Kane attended medical school at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and was conferred MB BCh BAO BA in 1991, PhD in 2002 and FRCPI in 2006. He has trained in rheumatology with Prof. Barry Bresnihan and Prof. Oliver FitzGerald at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and with Prof Roger Sturrock, Prof Iain McInnes and Dr Peter Balint at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Rheumatology at the University of Newcastle (2003-2005) and is currently working as Consultant Rheumatologist at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital and Clinical Professor in Rheumatology at Trinity College Dublin. His special interests are musculoskeletal ultrasound, spondyloarthopathy and synovial inflammation. He is a member of the European Working Party on Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and the OMERACT special interest group on musculoskeletal ultrasound, previous organiser of the BSR Musculoskeletal Ultrasound course and is Faculty member of the EULAR Musculoskeletal ultrasound course. He has served as a Board member of the Irish Osteoporosis Society, as Treasurer of the Irish Society for Rheumatology and is currently a Board member of Arthritis Ireland.

BOARD MEMBER
Dr Donough Howard
Consultant Rheumatologist | Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9

Donough Howard is a Consultant Rheumatologist at St James’s Hospital and Hermitage Medical Clinic. Dr Howard is the national specialty director for rheumatology. He graduated from RCSI and completed postgraduate training both in Ireland and the US. He previously worked in Lahey Clinic Medical Centre, with academic appointments to both Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools. Dr Howard has published in the fields of vasculitis and also has subspecialty interests in the fields of scleroderma.

BOARD MEMBER
Dr Orla Killeen
Paediatric Consultant Rheumatologist | Crumlin Childrens Hospital, Dublin 12

Dr Orla Killeen qualified from UCG (NUI) Galway in 1996. She trained in General Paediatrics in Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin and in Temple Street University Hospital, Dublin before subspecialising in Paediatric Rheumatology. She undertook her paediatric rheumatology training at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London and went on to complete a Barbara Ansell Fellowship in Paediatric Rheumatology in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. She was appointed as Ireland’s first Paediatric Rheumatologist in 2004, and is based at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin since July 2006. She is the Clinical lead for the National Centre for Paediatric Rheumatology (NCPR), providing care for patients both on a local and national level up to 18 years of age. Her areas of interest include Adolescent Rheumatology Transition Care as well as JIA, Down’s arthropathy and Auto- Inflammatory syndromes.

BOARD MEMBER
Dr Eamonn Molloy
Consultant Rheumatologist | St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4

Eamonn Molloy graduated from University College Dublin (1997) and completed rheumatology and internal medicine training in Ireland. He obtained an MD at RCSI (2006), which focused on calcium crystal induced inflammation. From 2005, he underwent subspecialty fellowship training in vasculitis at the Cleveland Clinic, completed a MS (Clinical Research) at Case Western Reserve University and then joined the staff at the Vasculitis Center and RJ Fasenmeyer Center for Clinical Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic. In 2010, he was appointed as a consultant rheumatologist at St Vincent’s University Hospital and is a UCD Senior Clinical Lecturer. He is the author of approximately 50 publications largely pertaining to vasculitis, complications of biologic therapy and crystal induced arthritis. Currently, his primary research focus is giant cell arteritis.

BOARD MEMBER
Dr John Stack
SpR Representative |

John Stack is this years SpR representative on the ISR committee. He is a 4th year rheumatology SpR currently based at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown and has previously worked at St James Hospital, Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar and Cork University Hospital. He is a graduate of University College Cork.