DSSG meetings
There are individual meetings per DSSG 3 times per year (spring, summer, winter). The meetings are run by a chair and up to 4 co-chairs. The Role & Responsibilities for the chair and the co-chairs are available here.
The names of the current DSSG chairs/co-chairs and contacts are listed in the table below. To contact the Operational Lead of a DSSG please email info@cancertrials.ie for their attention.
DSSG Contacts
Key personnel for each Disease Specific Sub Group (DSSG).
| DSSG | Chair | Co-Chair | Translational Co-Chair | Operations Lead |
| Breast | Prof. Patrick Morris (Med Onc), Beaumont |
Prof. Fran Duane (Radiation), SLRON Prof Aoife Lowery (Surgical), UHG Prof Michael Boland (Surgical), SVUH |
Prof. Leonie Young | Ausra Teiserskiene |
| Lung | Prof. Jarushka Naidoo (Med Onc), Beaumont | Professor Gerry Hanna, (Radiation) TCD | Prof. Stephen Finn (Trans) | Eithne Nicol |
| GU | Prof. Ray McDermott (Med Onc), TUH |
Dr Paul Kelly (Radiation), BonS UPMC Dr Lynda Corrigan (Med Onc) TUH
Ms Louise McLoughlin (Surgical)
|
Prof. Bill Watson | Anne-Marie Howe |
| GI | Dr Gráinne O’Kane (Med Onc), TCD / SJH |
Prof. Aisling Barry (Radiation), CUH; Mr Michael Kelly (Surgical), SJH; Dr Darren Cowzer (colorectal), Mater |
Prof. Jochen Prehn |
Anna Shevlin Amy Mullin |
| L&H | Dr Anne Fortune, Mater | Prof. Ruth Clifford, (Haem) UHL | Kevin Culligan | |
| Gynaecology | Dr Dearbhaile Collins (Med Onc), CUH | Prof. Karen Cadoo (Med Onc), SJH | Dr Sharon O’Toole | Lucy Murphy |
| Melanoma | Prof. Fergal Kelleher (Med Onc), TUH | Prof. Shirley Potter (Surgical), Mater | N/A | Anna Walsh |
| H&N | Prof. Sinead Brennan (Rad Onc), SLRON | N/A | N/A | Sinead Ryan |
| CNS | Mr Stephen MacNally (Surgeon), Beaumont |
Jack Gleeson (Med Onc), CUH David Fitzpatrick (Radiation), SLRON |
N/A | Deepti Sharma |
| Paediatric | Dr Cormac Owens, CHI Crumlin | N/A | Dr Maureen O’Sullivan, CHI Crumlin | Amy McNeill |