Membership of the Council
The current Council was appointed on the 1st of September 2006 and its term runs until 31st August 2009. The Consultative Council consists of sixteen members appointed by the Minister, six of whom are appointed on nomination of the four groups representing those who contracted Hepatitis C through the administration within the State of blood and blood products.
- Mr. Ian Carter
- Mr. Carter is the Chief Executive at St James' Hospital. Prior to this he has held senior hospital management positions within Ireland – Deputy CEO, St. James's Hospital, General Manager, Acute Hospitals, Mid Western Health Board; England – Directory of Contracts and Business Administration, 1st Wave Hospital Trust – Regional Surgical Specialties Manager; Saudi Arabia – Assistant Hospital Manager. Mr. Carter also holds the post of Senior Lecturer in Trinity College (P/T) and Associate Lecturer, National College of Ireland, with specific areas of interest in Organisational Behaviour and Management Theory.
- Dr. Gary Courtney
- Dr Gary Courtney, Clinical Director, St Lukes Hospital, Kilkenny
- Ms. Anne Duffy
- Anne Duffy works with the Irish Haemophilia Society and provides counselling to members and their families.
- Ms. Antoinette Fitzgerald
Antoinette Fitzgerald is an executive member of Positive Action, a group providing support to women ( and their families ) who were infected with Hepatitis C through the administration of Anti-D.
- Ms Kate Frazer
- Dr Kate Frazer is a Lecturer at the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems; She previously worked as a Hepatitis C clinical nurse specialist in St Vincents Hospital Dublin (SVUH). Kate is a recipient of a HRB Fellowship award.
- Mr. Shay Keating
Dr. Shay Keating is an honours graduate in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin (TCD ), 1980. On completion of his PhD in 1983 he travelled to Berkeley Univeristy in California where he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Nutritional Department. In 1985 he returned to TCD to study Medicine. On graduation from medical school, Dr Keating was an intern, senior house officer and registrar in the Dublin federated hospitals, then the Meath, Adelaide and St. James's Hospitals.
Dr Keating currently works at The Drug Treatment Centre Board as a Medical Officer and Occupational Health Physician. His particular clinical and research interest is the medical consequences of intravenous drug use, particularly Hepatitis C infection. He has completed a pilot study into the on-site treatment of Hepatitis C in a speciailist drug treatment centre and has published a booklet titeld 'Hepatitis C; a guide for drug users and their families'. He is also a specialist general practitioner working in the areas if addiction and sexual health in the Eastern Region and in private practice.
- Mr. Mike Kelly
Mike Kelly is Co-ordinator of Counselling Services for the Irish Kidney Association. He represents those people with End Stage Kidney Disease who contracted Hepatitis C through State infection.
- Dr. Elizabeth Kenny
Dr. Elizabeth Kenny has chaired the Consultative Council on Hepatitis C for the past number of years. Dr. Kenny, Senior registrar, is based in the Hepatology Unit in Cork Universitry Hospital. Dr Kenny's research on women infected with Hepatitis C through Anti-D was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Her work has made a major contribution to our understanding of how infection with hepatitis C virus impacts on human health over a prolonged period of time. Dr Kenny, has won a RAMI awards for excellence in clinical research and also in the gastroenterology category.
- Mr. Michael Madigan
Michael Madigan is an executive member of Transfusion Positive, a group who supports men, women and children who were infected with Hepatitis C through the administration of blood and blood products within the State.
- Mr. John Murphy
John Murphy is Senior Technical Officer in the School of Science, Cork Institute Of Technology, with responsibility for the co-ordination and management of technical services to the Department of Biological Sciences. This Department offers honours degree programmes in Biomedical Science, Herbal Science, Applied Biosciences (Molecular and Cell Biology) together with a Postgraduate Research Programme leading to Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy Degrees.
- Ms. Laura O'Brien
- Laura O'Brien is an executive member of Transfusion Positive, a group who supports men, women and children who were infected with Hepatits C through the administration of blood and blood products within the State.
- Ms. Margaret Scarry
- Margaret is presently working as a clinical nurse specialist in the Hepatology Unit, University College Hospital Galway. Margaret also represents the Irish Hepatology Nurses Association on the Hepatitis C Consultative Council
- Ms. Michele Tait
- Michele is a Hepatitis C Liaison Officer in the HSE and her role is to co-ordinate, plan and manage Hepatitis C healthcare services at a national level under the terms of the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 . She is Chairperson of the National Hepatitis C Forum, National Hepatitis C Database Steering Group as well as other Hepatitis C related steering groups and committees. Michele holds a MSc in Biochemistry and Dip in Health Service Mgt and has worked in the health service for almost 20 years.
- Ms. Noleen White
Noleen White is an executive member of Positive Action, a group providing support to women ( and their families ) who were infected with Hepatitis C through the administration of Anti-D.