
Mark Moran
Area of interest: Psoriatic arthritis, access to medicines, access to medical devices, clinical research, clinical trials, rare diseases, service improvement, patient education. PPI experience: Long-term psoriatic arthritis patient with a strong interest in patient care and medication availability and development.
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate

Mark Byrne
Areas of interest: Access to medicines, clinical trials, service improvement, health policy, patient education, treatment plans, administrative, interactions, breast cancer
- Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme
- Affiliated with Marie Keating Foundation Positive Living Group

Rupia Begum
Areas of interest: Access to Medicines, access to medical devices, clinical trials, digital health, arthritis, cancer
- Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme
- Patient organisation member
- Affiliated with the Irish Cancer Society

Margaret Critchley
Areas of interest: Ocular conditions, clinical research, clinical trials, service improvement, health policy, health information, patient education. PPI Experience: International Patient Advisory Panel Ambassador for Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Fighting Blindness Annual Retina Conference, PPI Advisory Board for a university research group.
- Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme
- Volunteer for Fighting Blindness/Visually Impaired Persons Network

Terry Brannigan
Areas of interest: Crohn's disease, access to medicines, access to medical devices, clinical trials, rare diseases, integrated care, service improvement, health policy, digital health, health information, biobanking, patient education. PPI Experience: Participants advisory board with Genetics Medicine Ireland
- Individual Patient Advocate and Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme

Ciara O’Meara
Areas of interest: MS, access to medicines, clinical research, clinical trials, integrated care, service improvement, health policy, digital health, patient education.
- Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme
- MS Ireland ('MS & Me Blog' , 'Kiss Goodbye to MS Ambassador', and Organizational and People sub committee member), All Ireland Multiple Sclerosis Research Network

Fiona Waters
Areas of interest: Clinical trials, rare diseases, health policy, health information, patient education, Retinal Degenerative Diseases. PPI experience: RI Global IRD Genetic Testing Taskforce.
- Education and Engagement Manager for Retina International
- Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme

Caoimhe O’Neil
Areas of interest: Access to medicines, clinical research, clinical trials, rare diseases, service improvement, patient education, shorter public waiting lists, Lupus, Sjögrens Syndrome, Arthritis.
- Individual patient advocate and Graduate of IPPOSI Patient Education Programme
- iCAN Youth Panel
- HarmonicsS

Yvonne Calahane
Area of interest: Rare diseases, access to medicines, medical cannabis clinical trials. clinical research, integrated care, digital health. PPI experience: Patient representative on various committees and working groups for ehealth, digital health, informed consent, and cervical check.
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate
- Family member and carer

Melody Buckley
Area of interest: Ocular melanoma, access to medicines, access to medical devices, clinical research, clinical trials, rare diseases, service improvement, health policy, digital health, health information, patient education, rare cancer research. PPI experience: Member of the University of Limerick Hospital Group Patient Council, and a public member of the University Hospital Limerick Clinical Ethics Committee and the University Hospital Limerick Paediatric End of Life Committee. Involved in various research projects as a family caregiver and member of the patient support and advocacy group ‘Ocular Melanoma Ireland’. Lectured on Public Patient Involvement in ocular melanoma research.

Jane Whelan
Area of Interest: Migraine, access to medicines, access to medical devices, clinical research, clinical trials, integrated care, service improvement, health policy, digital health, health information, patient education. PPI experience: Patient reviewer for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Media ambassador for the Migraine Association of Ireland, Participant in IPPOSI Dragon's Den with the HSE/UL MSc in Digital Health Transformation.

Alma O’Reilly
Area of interest: PPI in clinical studies, access to medicines, access to medical devices, clinical research, clinical trials, service improvement, health policy, digital health, health information, patient education. PPI experience: 6+ years of involvement with research and clinical trials, professional experience with ICON Plc, RCSI and the Rotunda hospital.
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate

Wendy Costello
Area of interest: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), clinical research, service improvement, patient education. PPI experience: Chair of Steering Committee with UCD Centre for Arthritis Research, Member of the (National Children’s Research Centre) NCRC Scientific committee.
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate
- Member of patient organisation
- Family member and carer

Siobhan Freeney
Area of interest: Lobular breast cancer. breast cancer research, mammographic breast density, breast cancer screening, cancer trials, public and patient involvement. PPI experience: Patient Advocate with European Lobular Breast Cancer Consortium, HPRA Patient Forum member, Irish Health Research Forum Steering Committee, and Irish Cancer Society PPI patient review panel.

Bernadette Gilroy
Area of interest: Rare diseases, Inborn errors of protein metabolism, Phenylketonuria, access to medicines, access to medical devices, clincial research, clinical trials, integrated care, service improvement, healht policy, digital helaht, health information, patient education. PPI experience: Member of National Rare Disease Taskforce, Member of the UCD PPI Ignite Executive Committee, co-researcher with UCD PPI Ignite Raindrop Rare Disease partnership project, lead researcher with DCU PPI Ignite, co-applicant and PPI advisory on HRB Collaborative Doctoral Award to build research capacity for rare diseases, co-design of care pathway with National Rare Disease Office, representative for patient submission to the NCPE, undergrad and postgrad research supervisor, conference speaker.

Kay Curtin
Area of interest: Melanoma, cancer, access to medicines, clinical research, clinical trials, health policy. PPI experience: Founding member of Melanoma Support Ireland, day to day moderation of group, networking in view of new research partners, patient group submissions to NCPE, public speaking Ireland/Europe in relation to patient issues, research grant reviews, lay language reviews, co-author on published paper, media representation TV, radio and print.
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate
- Affiliated with Cancer Trials Ireland, Breakthrough Cancer Research, Irish Cancer Society, RCSI, IACR, Irish Melanoma Forum, MPNE

Ann Cullen
Area of interest: Cancer and cancer survivorship, health policy, digital health, health information, biobanking, patient education. PPI experience: Cancer Patient Advisory Committee Member for the Department of Health National Cancer Strategy 2017-2026, HSE Research & Development PPI member participated in the development of the HSE National Policy for Consent in Health Research, and Member of the National Biobank Working Group contributed to the development of Patient Information Leaflet and Informed Consent Form for Biobanking human tissue samples for research purposes.
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate
- Member of patient organisation
- Family member and carer

Julie Power
Area of interest: Vasculitis, rare diseases, service improvement, health policy, digital health, health information, biobanking, patient education. PPI experience: Northern Ireland Rare Disease Partnership Board of Directors, Board of Vasculitis International, Patient representative in Irish Rare Kidney Disease Biobank and Registry Steering Committee, European Research Network (ERN) RITA , HELICAL Project, FAIRVASC project, Collaborative work with Queens University Belfast and University College Dublin, Collaborative work with Vifor in creating ‘See Me, Hear Me’ and ‘Understanding AAV’ sites for patients and healthcare professionals respectively

Sarah McLoughlin
Area of interest: Cancer, clinical research, integrated care, health policy, digital health, health information and patient education. PPI experience: Health Service Executive (HSE) Board Member, Member of the Performance and Delivery Committee of the HSE, Member of the People and Culture Committee of the HSE, National Research Ethics Committee Expert Group, Member of the Patient Voice in Cancer Research steering committee of UCD, Member of the Education Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute of TCD and St James’s Hospital.

Ann Twomey
Area of interest: Dementia, clinical research, clinical trials, integrated care, service improvement, health policy, patient education. PPI experience: National Research Ethics Office Committee on Clinical Trials (NREC-CT-A), HPRA Patient Forum, DRNI (Dementia Research Network Ireland) Member Advocacy Advisory Board, DRNI – Outreach in UCC, The Alzheimer Society Ireland (Director) and member ASI - Dementia Carers Campaign Network (DCCN), GENIO Dementia Programme 2012-2016, National Dementia Office (HSE) Member Advisory Group, HSE CHO4 (Cork/Kerry) Dementia Advisory Group

Sheila Fitzgerald
Area of interest: Multiple Sclerosis, Access to medical devices, Digital health, Health information. PPI Experience: Experienced patient advocate covering a range of grassroots activism,digital health education, HIQA advisory groups and Department of Health patient consultation

Mandy Daly
Area of interest: Premature birth, clinical research, clinical trials, integrated care, service improvement, health policy, health information, biobanking, researcher education, patient education. PPI experience: https://www.inha.ie/policy_action/
- IPPOSI Patient Education Graduate
- EUPATI Patient Training Student
- Founder of Patient Organisation
- Website: https://www.inha.ie/policy_action/

Brian Lynch
Area of interest: Arthritis, Health policy, Health information, Health promotion, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Education. PPI experience: HPRA Patient Forum member; National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology patient advisor; Irish National Orthopaedic Register (INOR) governance committee member; HRCI Board Member.

Marian O’Mahony
Area of interest: Cancer, palliative care. PPI experience: Patient representative on the HSE National Palliative Care Clinical Programme Working Group, a member of Voices4Care, patient representative with the All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care, patient reviewer for Our Lady’s Hospice website, patient contributor Delphi Study, patient mentor to PHD students on projects relating to Palliative Care.

Robert Joyce
Area of interest: Multiple Sclerosis, Access to medicines, Access to medical devices, Clinical research, Clinical trials, Service Improvement, Health policy, Digital health, Health information, Patient education. PPI Experience: IPPOSI Citizens' Jury Oversight Panel Member, co-collaborator on several grant applications, patient researcher on COB-MS trial www.cob-ms.com.
- EUPATI Patient Training Graduate
- Website: https://www.a30minutelife.com/

Nuala Ryan
Area of interest: cancer, rare disease, clinical research, clinical trials, digital health, health information, biobanking. PPI experience: Member of numerous Steering committees including HIQA, HSE and HPRA. Board Member NCBRS, Chair Participant advisory board, Genuity Science. Involvement in numerous discussion panels regarding patient involvement. EUPATI Patient expert for digital health project as well as ‘Patient Dragon’ assignment for an MSC group in Digital Health.