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Appointment to the Dietitians Registration Board
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The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, T.D., has appointed/reappointed the following persons as members of the Dietitians Registration Board, on their election by the registrants of the designated profession, with effect from 14 February 2021 to 13 February 2025:
Ms Fiona Dunlevy
Ms Dunlevy graduated with BSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Ulster Coleraine in 2002. She completed a postgraduate diploma in Statistics (in 2009) and an MSc with distinction in Health Service management (in 2010), both from Trinity College Dublin. In 2017, she completed the future leaders HSCP development programme with The Royal College of Surgeons Leadership institute.
Fiona began her career in St. James’s Hospital, covering a range of clinical areas, before moving to the position of manager from 2014 to 2017. She now works as dietitian manager in the Coombe Women and Infant’s University Hospital, with both a clinical and managerial remit.
Fiona has a keen interest in national guideline development, local implementation and quality improvement to ensure optimal patient care.
Professor Mary Ann Therese Flynn
Professor Mary A. T. Flynn is a registered dietitian and a public health nutritionist. She has worked for many years in public health, clinical nutrition and academia in Ireland, Canada and the Middle East. Currently she leads work on nutrient reference standards for infants and young children at Codex Alimentarius (WHO and FAO of the UN). Other international nutrition/ Dietetic activities include Membership of Expert Advisory Panels guiding Health Canada’s development of revisions to the national Canadian Food Guide to Healthy Eating (2019 and 2006). Throughout her career she has led multidisciplinary teams in tackling some of the biggest challenges posed by obesity and related chronic diseases - particularly interventions targeting children. She has implemented innovative prevention and treatment programs reducing risk of heart disease and diabetes for people of all ages.
Mary has over 100 scientific publications and her work on childhood obesity has been recognized by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In 2014, she was awarded the inaugural medal for excellence in Public Health Nutrition by the Nutrition Society in the UK. She was appointed as a member of the first Healthy Ireland Council by the Minister for Health and has been a Visiting Professor at the Ulster University, Northern Ireland since 2012.
Mary was a Registered Dietitian in Canada from 2000 to 2004. She is honoured to be a member of the Dietitian’s Registration Board of CORU.