Dr Jerome Coffey was appointed Chairperson of the Board of the National Cancer Registry in May 2017.
Dr Coffey is the former Director of the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP). A graduate of TCD he completed internal medicine and radiation oncology training in Ireland. Following higher training in major academic oncology centres in Canada and the UK he was appointed as a Consultant Radiation Oncologist to the staff of the St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in 2006. Before taking up his current role he was Clinical Director of the St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Chairman of the Radiation Oncology Committee in the Faculty of Radiologists (RCSI) and Radiation Oncology Advisor to the NCCP.