Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority

Brian McEnery, Chairperson

Brian McEnery is a Partner in BDO Accountants and Business Advisors and operates out of the firm's offices in Dublin and Limerick. Brian is one of the
firm's corporate restructuring and recovery partners and is also one of the firm's healthcare consulting partners.

Brian has been an advisor in the older person care sector for the last 17 years and for many years has edited the Nursing Home Ireland annual nursing home survey. Brian previously produced the report "A Fair Price for Care - Ireland" onbehalf of Age Action Ireland. Brian previously worked as a care assistant in a UK older person dementia care home, while studying to be an accountant.

Brian has acted as advisor to primary care centres, acute care facilities and older person care centres throughout Ireland, and has a broad range of healthcare experience from both a financial and operational perspective.

Brian is a former President of ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Ireland and is an ACCA Global Council member. Brian is a memberof the Board of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA).
 

Philip Caffrey

Former Director, United Drug PLC and former Director with Irish Aviation Authority.

He was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in May 2010.

Professor Samuel J. McConkey

Professor Samuel J. McConkey is Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at RCSI and leads the clinical Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine service at Beaumont Hospital.

In the past, he worked as Head of Viral Disease Research Section in MRC Laboratories in The Gambia and previous to that in Oxford University and in Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are in vaccine development, HIV2, hepatitis B, HIV1, HTLV1, malaria and tuberculosis.

He was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in May 2010.

Gráinne Tuke

Gráinne Tuke is a solicitor by profession. She has been in legal practice in both rural and urban areas in Ireland for 25 years, and has substantial experience in negotiating contracts and contract work, in a wide range of areas including construction and engineering, corporate, employment, technology and intellectual property, telecommunications, media and entertainment, medical, fisheries and forestry projects, transport, retail and regulatory and commercial matters.

During the past 15 years she has specialised and been involved in projects relating to existing and new hospital centres in Louth, Dublin and Galway and advising and providing legal services to hospital operators and promoters on an ongoing basis.

Gráinne holds a law degree from University College, Dublin and is a practising member of the Law Society.

She was appointed to the Board of the Authority in May 2009.

Cillian Twomey

Cillian Twomey is a retired consultant physician in geriatric medicine at Cork University Hospital and St. Finbarr’s Hospitals, Cork, since 1979. In his earlier career, he practiced and trained in Cork, London and Liverpool.

He is Intern Network Coordinator, UCC - South Intern Network. He is Chairman of the Board of St Patrick’s Hospital, Marymount Hospice, Cork and Chairperson of the Irish Hospice Foundation. He was Chairman of the Ninth and final Comhairle na nOspidéal Board from February 2001 to December 2005.

He was a member of the Steering Group of the National Task Force for Medical Staffing (Hanly) that reviewed the organisation and staffing of Ireland’s acute hospital sector. He was President of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) from 1999 to 2002, the first Irish person to hold this position, and is a former President of the Irish Medical Organisation and former Chairman of its Consultant Committee.

He was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in May 2010.

Darragh O'Loughlin

Darragh O’Loughlin is a pharmacist. He operates a retail pharmacy business in Tuam Co Galway, having previously worked in a number of positions in both hospital and community pharmacy.

Darragh served on the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) from 2004 until 2010. The PSI is a statutory body which is charged with regulating both the profession and the business of pharmacy to ensure patient safety and public welfare. During his time on the PSI Council, Darragh sat on both the Administration, Finance & Corporate Governance Committee and the Inspection & Enforcement Committee. Darragh is also a former President of the Irish Pharmacy Union, a position he held from 2010 to 2012.

In addition, Darragh holds a Diploma in Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations from the Institute of Commercial Management (UK) and is currently studying for an MBA with Henley Business School.

He was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in September 2012.

Sheila O'Malley

Sheila O' Malley recently retired as Chief Nursing Officer in the Department of Health. She has served on a number of national committees promoting the development and enhancement of nursing and midwifery roles, in line with service need and national policy direction. She was a member of the Implementation Steering Group (ISG) which was set up to oversee the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance. Prior to her role as Chief Nursing Officer she was Director of the Nursing and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit, HSE, Eastern Region (formerly ERHA).

In her earlier career Sheila worked in Public Health Nursing. She was President of An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimseachais na hÉireann/ Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland from 1997 -2002. Sheila is a Registered General Nurse, Registered Midwife and Registered Public Health Nurse and has an MSc in Health Services Management from Trinity College, Dublin.

She was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in September 2012.
 

Dr David Molony

Dr David Molony (RCSI 1978) is a GP in Mallow, Co. Cork. He is a member of the National IMO GP committee since 1996, a representative of the National Association of Trainers in General Practice, current chair of the Racecourse Medical Officers Association and a founder member of the Association of Irish Primary Care (AIPC).

He is a GP Trainer with the South West GP Training Scheme and is involved in undergraduate training with both UCC and UL medical schools. He is a development partner in Mallow Primary Healthcare Centre (MPHC) and Medical Director of the software company CompleteGP.

His medical interests include occupational health provision and the implementation of standards in primary care as well as the development of audited chronic disease management modules, particularly in diabetes, cardiac disease, Warfarin therapy and care of the elderly.

He was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in September 2012.
 

The following people were appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in February 2013. 

Mo Flynn

Mo Flynn is Chief Executive Officer of Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services in Dublin, which incorporates Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross and Blackrock Hospice. She took up her position as Chief Executive in April 2006, having previously been National Manager for Older People in the Health Service Executive (HSE). Mo has had an extensive career in health and social services in Australia, the UK and Ireland. She has worked in child protection, mental health and disability services with a substantial part of her career focused on services for older people. In the UK she worked for the Health Advisory Service, an independent body which conducted comprehensive service reviews of NHS health authorities and trusts throughout England and Wales.

Mo holds a BSc in Social Administration & Social Work from the University of Ulster, a CQSW from CCETSW (Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work) in London and an MSc in Gerontology from Kings College, University of London.

Mo is a board member of the Carers Association and the All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care. She is Honorary Secretary of the Irish Gerontological Society. She was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in February 2013.

Dr Una Geary

Dr Una Geary is a consultant in emergency medicine at St James’s Hospital, Dublin, and an honorary lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is a graduate of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, and trained in emergency medicine in Ireland, Australia, the US and the UK. She was a consultant in emergency medicine at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, UK, before returning to St James’s Hospital in 2003. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the College of Emergency Medicine, London. Una is also a member of the Irish Committee for Emergency Medicine Training and is currently Clinical Lead for the National Emergency Medicine Programme. She was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in February 2013.

Linda O’Shea Farren

After graduating from University College Cork with a BCL (Hons.) degree and qualifying as a solicitor, Linda O’Shea Farren qualified as a New York attorney-at-law. For the best part of a decade, she worked as an international corporate lawyer in the New York and London offices of Debevoise & Plimpton and founded the Irish American Bar Association of New York. Returning to Ireland in 1993, she worked as an investment banker with Kredietbank in Dublin, and Programme Manager and Adviser to the then Minister for Justice, Nora Owen. Following a period working in the area of disability, Linda set up her own solicitor’s practice and, after the banking crisis, she was nominated by EBS Building Society members and elected an independent non-executive director of EBS in the summer of 2009. She was also elected a Governor of University College Cork in 2011 and serves as Chair of its Audit Committee and is a member of its Strategy and Innovation Committee. Linda was elected a Senator of the National University of Ireland in 2002 and serves as Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee and a member of its Finance Committee. She also serves on the Boards of Mary Immaculate College Foundation and Great Music in Irish Houses. She was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in February 2013.

Anne Carrigy

Anne Carrigy, RGN, H Dip Healthcare Risk Management, M MED SC (Nursing), has held a number of nursing and leadership roles in the healthcare sector. She retired as National Lead of Acute Hospital Services, Health Service Executive (HSE) in December 2010 and was twice President of An Bord Altranais. She has also held a number of advisory and director roles over the years.

In 2004 /2005, she was seconded from her post as Director of Nursing, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, to the interim HSE as a member of the Change Management Team. She was Director of Nursing and Head of Corporate Affairs at the Mater Hospital from 1998 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010, Anne was Director, Serious Incident Management Team, in the HSE.

She has held numerous other appointments including to the Medical Council of Ireland, Board of the Mater Foundation, and with the former Irish Health Services Accreditation Board. In 2010, she was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nursing Studies in UCD. In 2011, Anne was appointed a member of the Governing Body for Letterkenny Institute of Technology. She has also advised the interim CEO of Whitfield Clinic and has been President of FEPI (European Council of Nursing Regulators). She was appointed to the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority in February 2013.