Chief Medical Officer
Department of Health Ireland
Dublin 07, Ireland
Mary Horgan MD FRCPI FRCP
Professor Mary Horgan is interim Chief Medical Officer and Professor of Infectious Diseases at UCD and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. She is the immediate past President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and former Dean of the School of Medicine at UCC.
She is a graduate of UCD School of Medicine in 1986. She undertook a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases in Washington University Medical School, St Louis, USA and was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine in 1995. She returned to Ireland in 1997 to take up the position of Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Cork University Hospital.
Professor Horgan was the first woman to be appointed as Dean of the Medical School in UCC, serving a 4-year term. She has a research interest in the fields of medical education and Infectious Diseases. She is a Director of Education of the European Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (ESCMID).
Professor Horgan has been a Ministerial appointment of number of Health service-related National Boards including HPRA and IBTS. During the pandemic, as well as working on the frontline, she was appointed of Chair of the Ireland’s first National Research Ethics Committee, was a member of the National Public Health Emergency Team and the COVID Advisory Group, was Chair of the Expert Group on Rapid Testing, and Chair of the Expert Steering Group on Emerging Health Threats Preparedness.
She was awarded the UCD Alumni award for health in 2019.
Professor Horgan was elected as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland for two terms and is the first women to hold this position since the College’s foundation in 1654.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Friday, October 18, 2024
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM US PT