John h. silliker LECTUrE WEDNESday, July 15 4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Dr. Patrick Wall University College Dublin School of Public Health and Population Sciences Belfield, Ireland D r. Patrick Wall is Associate Professor of Public Health in University College Dublin’s School of Public Health and Population Sciences which hosts the National Nutrition Surveillance Centre. His research interests include food safety, foodborne diseases, lifestyle-related diseases and health damaging consumer behaviour. He is a co-director of the UCD Centre for Behaviour and Health. Dr. Wall was the first Chief Executive of the Irish Food Safety Authority (FSAI) and contributed to the setting up of this science-based consumer protection agency created partly in response to the BSE crisis. He has just completed a term as the Chairperson of the European Food Safety Authority, a pan EU Agency with a remit in risk assessment and communication. Dr. Wall was one of seven non-Chinese nationals on the committee advising on food safety arrangements for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He was a member of the crisis management team convened to deal with the recent Irish dioxin contamination incident. He is a member of the Ireland’s Healthy Eating Guidelines Steering Committee and is the Chairperson of the Irish Government’s CJD Advisory Committee. Dr. Wall is the Chairperson of the UK Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Advisory Body for the Delivery of Official Controls which is currently overseeing the transformation of the UK Meat Hygiene Service. In addition to qualification in veterinary and medicine from University College Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Wall has an MSc in Infectious Diseases from the University of London and an MBA. He is a Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Public Health and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health Medicine. APRIL 2009 | FOOD PROTECTION TRENDS 237