Job Title: Minister for Health
Company: Department of Health
Minister Reilly comes from a medical family going back three generations. His father, Dr Noel Reilly, was Secretary General of the Irish Medical Association. There are seven doctors in his family. A GP in north Dublinfor many years and a fourth generation native of Lusk, James Reilly is married with five children.
Prior to entering national politics, he had a major involvement in medical politics, having served as President of the Irish Medical Organisation (
Dr Reilly has, however said that the will not shirk from taking on vested interests in implementing reforms. He has already promised to negotiate new contracts for GPs and consultants and cut their earnings.
Job Title: Managing Director
Company: Biomnis Ireland
John Mark O’Sullivan is the Managing Director of Biomnis Ireland, the leading independent provider of medical laboratory testing services in Ireland. John has over 20 years experience in medical laboratory sciences in both the public and private sector and has worked extensively in hospital medical laboratories in both the UK and Ireland. In recent years John has held a number of roles in the corporate diagnostic healthcare sector, including leading roles in sales, marketing, business development and employment law. He has worked as a consultant in the area of employment law and has acted as an advisor in the area of drugs of abuse testing to both public and private sector companies.
John holds a M.Sc. in Biomedical Science and is a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (FIBMS). He holds a Barrister at Law degree and diploma’s in employment law and arbitration law from UCD.
Job Title: CEO and Founder
Company: Iheed Institute
Tom is a Founder and Clinical Director of Livinghealth Clinic Ireland’s first and award winning advanced Primary Care Centre. Livinghealth Clinic is situated in Mitchelstown at the crossroads of Munster serving counties Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Tipperary.
Tom is a practicing GP of 17 years experience and is a graduate of Royal College of Surgeons 1991 (Hons) and graduate of Specialist GP training at University College Cork. He holds membership of the Irish and Royal College of General Practitioners. He is a senior Lecturer in General Practice at University of Limerick Graduate Medical School and lectures in General Practice and Sports Medicine at University College, Cork.
Tom has held Board positions in the Irish College of General Practitioners and was a representative to the Board of Southdoc GP Out of Hours Service.
Tom has a special interest and training in global health expedition and high altitude medicine. He has held leadership positions in reconfiguration of the HSE and is interested in practice management systems, professional training, task shifting, health promotion and mobile health.
Tom is Founder and CEO of Iheed Institute an all Irish collaborative Institute dedicated to innovation in global community health worker training using mobile technology. The objective of Iheed is to use the explosion in mobile technology to train the one million community health workers needed to reach the burden of disease that continues to kill 9 million children and 350,000 mothers per year.
A native of Mitchelstown Tom is married to Liz and has three children.
Job Title: Chief Executuve / Registrar
Company: Health Insurance Authority
Job Title: Chairman
Company: Independent Hospitals association of Ireland
Job Title: Managing Partner
Company: Circle Health
Job Title: Director of Healthcare
Company: Ernst & Young
Job Title: Director
Company: Health Care Informed
John is the Director of Health Care Informed (HCI), which provides regulatory compliance, risk management and quality improvement services in Ireland and Australia. As Director, his roles have included Technical Advisor to the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) on external evaluation, representing Ireland on the EU External Peer Review Techniques (ExPeRT) Project, and sitting on the Advisory Committee of the European Forum for Quality in Healthcare. In addition HCI are the Strategic Partners of the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation body in Ireland.
Prior to establishing Health Care Informed (HCI), John held the position of Director of Research and Development with the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board (IHSAB), the precursor to the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). Former roles included being the first Director of the Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare (ISQSH). He is a graduate of NUI, Galway where he focused on the impact of regulation within the Irish health system. As Quality Co-ordinator in University Hospital Galway he achieved the first ISO 9000 certification for acute care in Ireland.
Job Title: Senior Advisor to the Special Delivery Unit
Company: Department of Health
Job Title: Prof. of Health Policy,
Company: Imperial College London
Peter C. Smith is Professor of Health Policy at Imperial College London, where he is also co-director of the Centre for Health Policy and has a joint appointment with the College’s Institute of Global Health Innovation. He is a mathematics graduate from the University of Oxford and started his academic career in the public health department at the University of Cambridge. He has worked and published in a number of disciplinary settings, including statistics, operational research, and accountancy, and he was founding editor-in-chief of the journal Health Care Management Science. However, Professor Smith’s main work has been in the economics of health and broader public services, most recently as the Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. He has held honorary professorships at the University of St Andrews and Monash University and is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Smith has acted in numerous governmental advisory capacities, has been a board member of the Audit Commission, and is currently a member of the NHS Cooperation and Competition Panel. He has also advised many overseas governments and international agencies, including the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Professor Smith’s current research interests include: health system performance assessment, with a particular focus on international comparison (he is currently involved with studies for the World Health Organization, the European Commission, and the Economic and Social Research Council); economic aspects of the social determinants of health (current studies for the World Health Organization and the Department of Health); measuring and improving health system productivity; and health care payment mechanisms.
Job Title: Chief Executive
Company: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Frances took up post as Chief Executive of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland in June 2009 and has subsequently been appointed as Chief Executive of Healthcare Improvement Scotland from April 2011.
She was previously Medical Director in NHS Fife, providing leadership for the medical profession within Fife, working closely with the Operational Medical and Clinical Directors and the Chairs of the Professional Advisory Committees, and with lead responsibility for service redesign, cancer and prescribing issues. Frances’ clinical background is in generalpractice. She was a partner in the Methilhaven Road GP Practice in Methil from 1987–1998.
Frances moved into medical management as Medical Director of Fife Healthcare NHS Trust in November 1997 and was then appointed to Fife Primary Care NHS Trust in April 1999. A period as Interim Chief Executive of Fife Primary Care NHS Trust preceded her appointment as Medical Director of NHS Fife Board in October 2004.
Job Title: Director, CEO
Company: TRAG PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE GROUP
TRAG PERFORMANCE INTELLIGENCE GROUP, Zeist, Netherlands, 2009 - present
A global company employing 40 consultants with healthcare performance measurement services.
Director, CEO, Responsible for company strategy, global sales and key account projects.
Example key account projects involved in:
Government of Netherlands Antilles, 2009-2010
Setting up new tariff structure for individual healthcare providers (medical specialists, family doctors, physiotherapists etc)
Dubai Ports World, Dubai, UAE, 2009
Building of costing system and revenue allocation for Container Terminal One and Two at Jebel Ali
University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2009
Setting up new quality measurement system and DRG cost accounting method for the entire hospital, the largest in the Netherlands (10.000+ employees)
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