Alan Doran appointed interim Chief Executive of HFEA
13 September 2007
Alan Doran will be joining the HFEA as interim Chief Executive from 1 October 2007, while Angela McNab is on a six-month secondment at the Department of Health.
Alan is a very experienced health service manager, having spent more than 30 years working within the NHS and the Department of Health. He is currently Director General, Departmental Management at the Department of Health and a member of the DH Management Board.
Alan said:
"I always knew that I would only leave the Department of Health to take up an exciting and worthwhile challenge – and that opportunity has arisen with the HFEA. I couldn't have had a better team of colleagues than I have at the DH and, difficult though it will be to move on, I am looking forward to being part of an organisation that handles matters of such deep social importance."
Commenting on the appointment, Shirley Harrison, Chair of the HFEA, said:
"We are delighted to have someone with as much experience as Alan to come and lead the HFEA team and look forward to the insight and expertise that he will bring to the role.
"Alan joins the HFEA at a time of strength and we look forward to him building on our national and international reputation as a regulator working in a contentious and often controversial area of medicine and science.
"We are sorry to be losing Angela, albeit for only six months, but her secondment to work with the Chief Medical Officer on this priority area of government policy recognises the skills she has demonstrated as Chief Executive of the Authority. Over the past 5 years, Angela has steered the HFEA through a number of major developments in assisted reproduction and human embryo research policy, and helped to deliver solutions to the challenges that these changes pose for the sector."
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Notes to editors
The HFEA is the independent regulator for IVF treatment and embryo research. Our role is to protect patients and the public interest, to drive improvement in the treatment and research sectors and to provide information to the public and policymakers about treatment and research.
The HFEA was set up in August 1991 as part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The HFEA's principal tasks are to license and monitor clinics that carry out in vitro fertilisation (IVF), donor insemination (DI) and human embryo research. The HFEA also regulates the storage of gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos.
HFEA Chief Executive Angela McNab will be seconded to the Department of Health for six months from 1 October 2007 as Director of Public Health Performance and Delivery. Read the DH press release.
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