Board
Board members are elected for an initial period of three years with the board refreshed over this three year period.
President
Dr John Ryan
Consultant Rheumatologist
Cork University Hospital, Cork
Honorary Secretary
Dr Claire Sheehy
Consultant Rheumatologist
University Hospital Waterford
Honorary Treasurer
Dr Shawn Chavrimootoo
Consultant Rheumatologist
Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan, Co Meath
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Nicola Ambrose
Consultant Rheumatologist
Blackrock Clinic, Co Dublin
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Elizabeth Ball
Consultant Rheumatologist
Musgrave Park Hospital/ Belfast City Hospital
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Andrew Cairns
Consultant Rheumatologist
Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Michele Doran
Consultant Rheumatology
St James’s Hospital, Dublin
BOARD MEMBER
Professor Ursula Fearon
Head of Molecular Rheumatology
School of Medicine, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin
BOARD MEMBER
Professor David Kane
Consultant Rheumatologist, TUH National Lead for Rheumatology, HSE Clinical Programme
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Emma Jane MacDermott
Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist
CHI Crumlin
BOARD MEMBER
Professor Geraldine McCarthy
Consultant Rheumatologist Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin and Full Clinical
Professor of Medicine University College Dublin, Ireland.
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Wan Lin Ng
Sp R Representative
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
BOARD MEMBER
Professor Barry O’Shea
Consultant Rheumatologist / Clinical Associate Professor
St James’s Hospital, Dublin / School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Bryan Whelan
Consultant Rheumatologist
Our Lady’s Hospital, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim
BOARD MEMBER
Dr Maria Wray,
Consultant Rheumatologist
Antrim Hospital, Northern Ireland