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University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Breda Smyth is an Irish public health specialist who served as Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from November 2022 until May 2024, having previously held the position on an interim basis. [1][2] She was the first woman to hold the post. [3] She previously was professor for public health medicine ...
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) (Irish: An Príomh-Oifigeach Míochaine) for Ireland is the most senior government advisor on health -related matters. It is a government post as the lead medical expert in the Department of Health. The key responsibilities of the CMO include providing expert medical evidence, especially in public health matters ...
Ronan Glynn is an Irish public health physician and physiotherapist who served as Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from October 2018 to May 2022. He previously served as Acting Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from July to October 2020, and was Head of the Health Protection Unit at the Department of Health.
Shielding should be seen as a reserve public health measure in any future pandemic, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer (CMO) has said. Prof Sir Michael McBride was giving evidence at the UK ...
Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said he wishes they could have done more for staff working during the pandemic. Sir Michael McBride said the pandemic “took a heavy toll” on ...
William Gerard Anthony Holohan is an Irish public health physician who served as Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from May 2008 to 1 July 2022. [1][2][3][4][5] Fergal Bowers described him as being "as familiar as Dr Anthony Fauci in the US and arguably as influential".
Mary Horgan is an Irish physician in infectious diseases and president of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She is a member of NPHET, a consultant at Cork University Hospital and the dean of the University College Cork School of Medicine. In June 2024 she was appointed on an interim basis as the Chief Medical Officer of Ireland. [1]
Michael McBride (doctor) Professor Sir Michael Oliver McBride is a consultant physician who has served as the Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland since September 2006. [1] McBride attended St. Malachy's College in North Belfast. [2] He then attended Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a MB BCh BAO medical degree, with ...