Key Personnel
Head of ORECNI: Dr Siobhan McGrath
REC A Manager: Mrs Tamla Ervine
REC B Manager: Mrs Denise Nesbitt (Mr Matthew Mills)
Proportionate Review Manager: Mrs Melissa Stewart
Ethics Administrator: Fiona McNally
Please note that all communications and enquiries to the Committee Chairpersons or other Committee members must be made directly to the ORECNI Office at Info.Orecni@hscni.net
Members of HSC Research Ethics Committees have been appointed through a public appointment process. The responsibility for this process is now with the Business Services Organisation (BSO). The BSO is now the Appointing Authority for all HSC RECs.
HSC REC A
REC Manager: Mrs Tamla Ervine
Proportionate Review Manager: Mrs Melissa Stewart
REC Members
Member Name |
Profession |
Expert/Lay |
Dr Alastair Walker (Chair) |
Retired Head of Education Services, CCEA | Lay |
Dr Mary Murphy (Vice Chair) |
Registered Nurse | Expert |
Mr Barry Mimnagh (Alternate Vice-Chair) |
Pharmacist | Expert |
Dr Charles Mullan |
Consultant Radiologist | Expert |
Dr Helen Harty |
Clinical Facilitator/ Trainer | Lay |
Dr Toni McAloon |
Nurse Lecturer | Expert |
Professor Mahendra Varma |
Consultant Cardiologist (Retired) | Expert |
Mrs Margaret Brady |
Deputy Chief Education Welfare Officer Operations, NEELB | Export |
Ms Rejina Mariam Verghis |
Junior Biostatistician | Expert |
Dr Lorna Lawther |
Registered Midwife | Expert |
Mrs Julie Howse |
Barrister | Lay |
Ms Marie Fenton |
Social Worker | Expert |
Dr Andrew Moriarty |
Research Cardiologist | Expert |
Ms Rosemary Kelly |
Registered Nurse | Expert |
Mr James Cooke |
Student | Lay |
Dr Sinead Watson |
Research Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast | Expert |
Ms Rebecca Davidson |
Independent Advocate, Alzheimer’s Society | Lay |
Ms Karen Mooney |
Volunteer | Lay |
Dr Danielle Logan |
Biostatistician | Expert (deputy for Ms Rejina Mariam Verghis) |
Ms Dawn Harbinson |
Volunteer | Lay (deputy for Mrs Julie Howse) |
Mr Eamonn Toner |
General Dental Practice Principal and Practice Owner | Expert (deputy for Dr Toni McAloon) |
HSC REC B
REC Manager: Mrs Denise Nesbitt
Proportionate Review Manager: Mrs Melissa Stewart
REC Members
Member Name |
Profession |
Expert/Lay |
Professor Patrick Murphy (Chair) |
Advisor in Political, Social and Economic Policy | Lay |
Dr Anne Moorhead (Vice Chair) |
Senior Lecturer in Health and Communication | Lay |
Ms Sue Trouton (Alternate Vice Chair) |
Maternity Peripatetic Assessor | Expert |
Dr Seamus O'Brien |
Nurse Manager | Expert |
Mr John Mone |
Former Executive Director of Nursing | Lay |
Mrs Marilyn Trimble |
Lecturer in Law and Ethics and Business Law | Lay |
Ms Aine Morrison |
Service Manager | Expert |
Mrs Cliona McDowell |
Biostatistician | Expert |
Dr Ronald Atkinson |
Retired Consultant in Oncology | Expert |
Dr Mark Reid |
Retired Consultant Paediatrician | Expert |
Ms Mary McMahon |
Retired | Lay |
Mr Martin Fisher |
Legal and Regulatory Officer | Lay |
Dr Donna Kernaghan |
Research and Policy Officer | Lay |
Mrs Evelyn Melanophy |
Solicitor | Lay |
Mr Glenn Phair |
Health Economist | Lay |
Dr Samantha Stewart |
NI Civil Servant | Lay |
Mrs Kerrie McLarnon |
Nurse | Expert |
Dr Helen Baron |
Project Officer | Lay (Deputy for Mr Glenn Phair) |
Ms Julia Linden |
Nurse | Expert (Deputy for Ms Aine Morrison) |
Mr Nikolay Peev |
Consultant Neurosurgeon | Expert (Deputy for Ms Sue Trouton) |
Please note that the classification of 'Expert' and 'Lay' Members is as defined by the UK Clinical Trials Regulation (2004).