Appointment of Chair of the Advisory Committee for Medical Devices of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA)
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The Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD, has appointed the following person as Chair of the Advisory Committee for Medical Devices of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA). This appointment is for the period 26 May 2020 to 31 December 2024:
Professor Reilly is Professor of Neural Engineering at Trinity College, The University of Dublin.
This post is a joint position between the School of Medicine and School of Engineering. He a
Principal Investigator of the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering (TCBE) and also a
Principal Investigator at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN). His research
interests are in clinical neural engineering based on signal processing of
electrophysiological, neuroimaging and bioacoustic data for the development of quantitative
methods to understand neural function and the underlying pathophysiology of sensory and
cognitive processing.
He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical
and Biological Engineering & Science and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in
Ireland. He was awarded the Haughton Medal from the Royal Academy of Medicine of
Ireland in 2013. In 2004 he was awarded a US Fulbright Award for research collaboration
into multisensory integration with the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New
York. Professor Reilly received his BE degree in Electronic Engineering, a MEngSc and a
PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University College Dublin.