2021 Online Conference: "End of Life Matters"

Dr Sarah McLean
- Consultant in palliative medicine consultant at the Blackrock Clinic and St Vincent’s Hospital

Baroness Finlay
- Leading European palliative care consultant
- Patron of the Motor Neuron Disease Association
- Crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords

Joan Freeman
- Psychlologist, activist and mental health champion
- Founder of Pieta House: the Centre for the Prevention of Self-harm or Suicide
- Former Senator

Elma Walsh
- Co-founder of the Donal Walsh #LiveLife Foundation
- Mother of the late Donal Walsh, the Kerry teenager who inspired the nation with his uplifting anti-suicide message

Dr Faith Cranfield
- Palliative care consultant Connolly Hospital & St Francis Hospice Blanchardstown
- MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law, with dissertation on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Dr Miriam Colleran
- Palliative Care Consultant in Naas General Hospital

Alex Schadenberg
- Chair of the International Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Conor Lynott
- Disability rights advocate
- History and philosophy graduate UCD
- MSc Library and Information Studies
2020 Webinar: "A conversation about Euthansia & Assisted Suicide"

Professor Des O’Neill
- Professor of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin
- First Medical Director of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland
- First chair of the Irish Government Working Group on Elder Abuse

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
- 11 Time Gold Medal Paralympic Athletics Champion
- Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords
- Disability Rights Advocate

Dr Sinéad Donnelly
- Palliative Care Consultant based in New Zealand and formerly of Milford Hospice, Limerick
- Senior Lecturer, Otago University NZ
Inaugural Conference in the RDS

Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE (RIP)
- Celebrated Disability Rights Advocate
- Academic
- Founding Director, Hope Ireland
- UK Disability Rights Commission, Commissioner for Wales 2000-07

Professor Des O’Neill
- Professor of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin
- First Medical Director of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland
- First chair of the Irish Government Working Group on Elder Abuse

Alex Schadenberg
- Chair of the International Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Amy Hasbrouck
- Canadian Disability Rights Activist

Henk Reitsma
- Dutch Commentator
- Anti-Euthanasia Advocate

Tom Mortier
- Belgian citizen
- Has a case pending before the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the Euthanasia of his mother without the family’s knowledge