NREC-CT D Members

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NREC-CT D Members

Prof. David Brayden

Chairperson

Professor, Advanced Drug Delivery, University College Dublin, Dublin

Bio

Professor David Brayden lectures in Advanced Drug Delivery at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin (UCD), and is a Senior Fellow of the UCD Conway Institute of Biotechnology where he teaches professional ethics material and coordinates a module on drug discovery and development. David joined UCD as a lecturer in veterinary pharmacology in 2001, was later appointed Head of the Veterinary Biosciences Section (2013-17), and promoted to Full Professor in 2014. From 2005-07 he chaired the UCD Animal Research Ethics Committee and from 2006-11 he sat on UCD’s Research Ethics Committee. David has over 35 years’ experience working on drug delivery formulations as a pharmacologist in both industry and academia. Having earned a PhD in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge (1989) and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University (1991), he went on to set up the pharmacology laboratory at Elan Corporation in Dublin, where he conducted research collaborations with US biotech companies. He is also former director of The Irish Drug Delivery Network (2007), funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) for drug delivery research in Ireland, and is currently a Principal Investigator at CÚRAM, SFI’s Research Centre for Medical Devices. At EU level, David has acted as an ethics advisor to the FP7 consortium under the PEARLL European Training Network (2016-19). He was elected as Fellow of the Controlled Release Society in 2012 and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2017, and was recently appointed Chief Editor of a new journal entitled Frontiers in Drug Delivery. David was motivated to join the National Research Ethics Committee for Clinical Trials to build upon his existing ethics committee experience within UCD and at an European level.

Pictured at the Irish Council for Bio-ethics was Dr. David Smith. Picture Jason Clarke Photography

Prof. David Smith

Deputy Chairperson

Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics in RCSI and Director of the MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law in RCSI.

Bio

Professor David Smith is Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), where he is also Director of the MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law. In addition to his current roles, he lectures on research ethics at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland, and at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. David serves on a wide range of research ethics committees, both nationally and at a European level, to review ethical applications for clinical trials and human subject research. He is Ethics Consultant to the Bon Secours Health System and the Ethics Committee of the Daughters of Charity Family Services, and is a member of the Research Ethics Committee at Beaumont University Hospital. David is also a member of the National Advisory Committee on Bioethics; the Ethics Working Group of the Irish Association of Palliative Care Consultants; and the Advisory Committee on Research Ethics Committees in Ireland. As part of his involvement in the European Vaccine Initiative, David has experience overseeing the ethical conduct of research across Europe and internationally. He is ethical advisor to Atomium Culture; sits on the Scientific and Ethics Advisory Committee for a number of EU-funded projects; and is a member of both the Ethics Working Party of the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice and the European Network for Research Ethics Committees. At a national level, he also sits on the Medicinal Cannabis Expert Reference Group; the Domestic Violence Service Team; and the Irish National Commission for UNESCO. As committee member, David looks forward to bringing his broad depth of experience to help address the ethical questions that frequently arise in health research.

Dr Christina Skourou

Deputy Chairperson

Senior Medical Physicist, St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network, Dublin

Bio

Dr Christina Skourou was born in Cyprus and has studied and worked in Canada, USA, UK and Ireland. She holds a Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering (Dartmouth College, US) and a Masters Degree in Medical Ethics and Law (Queens University Belfast). She has a senior appointment in radiotherapy physics at St Luke’s Radiotherapy Centre in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin where she is also a member of the Research Ethics Committee. She has 15+ years’ experience of lecturing on the topics of professionalism and ethics at the graduate and postgraduate level in both Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway. She is a co-author of a book on the ethics of radiation protection in medicine, and has been an invited expert at conferences on ethics surrounding the use of radiation in medicine. In recent years she has served as an ethics consultant for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and as the Chair of the ethics committee of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. She is the author of multiple scientific manuscripts and is involved in the design and quality assurance of clinical trials involving radiation therapy.

Mr Gerry Daly

Member

Retired Civil Servant, Laois

Prof. Andrew Green

Member

Consultant in Medical Genetics, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin and Temple Street, Professor of Medical Genetics, University College Dublin and Principal Investigator, Conway Institute University College Dublin, Dublin