Consortium Leadership

Board of Directors

Dr. Tony Holohan (Chair 2009)
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Children, Dublin

Dr. Michael McBride
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Belfast

Dr. John Niederhuber
Director, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda

Strategic Advisory Group

REPRESENTATIVES OF PARTICIPATING JURISDICTIONS

Dr. Joe Harford (Chair)
Director, Office of International Affairs, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda

Mr. Enda Connolly
Chief Executive, Health Research Board, Dublin

Professor Bernadette Hannigan
Director, Health and Social Care Research & Development Office, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Belfast

WORKING GROUP CHAIRS

Cancer Registries

Dr. Harry Comber
Director, Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Belfast

Clinical Trials

Dr. Anne Cody
Head of Unit Research Infrastructure and Special Initiatives, Health Research Board, Dublin

Information Technology

Professor Donal Hollywood
Professor of Clinical Oncology, Head of the Academic Unit of Clinical and Molecular Oncology, Trinity College, Dublin

Nursing

Mr. Martin Bradley
Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Belfast

Prevention

Dr. Fenton Howell
Director of Public Health, HSE Population Health Directorate, Navan

Scholar Exchange & Training

Professor Mark Lawler
Director of Post Graduate Teaching and Learning, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin

OTHER STRATEGIC ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERS

Dr. Lee J. Helman
Scientific Director for Clinical Research, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda

Professor Judith Hill
Chief Executive Officer, Northern Ireland Hospice Care, Newtownabbey

Dr. Mary Hynes
Manager, Cancer Network West, National Cancer Control Programme, Dublin

Professor Richard Kaplan
Associate Director, National Cancer Research Network U.K., Leeds and London

Professor Elaine Kay
Consultant Histopathologist, Beaumont Hospital, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin

Professor Michael Kerin
Professor/Head of the Department of Surgery, National University of Ireland, Galway

Professor Dennis McCance
Director, Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast

Dr. Richard Wilson
Director, Northern Ireland Cancer Clinical Trials Unit, Belfast