Appointment to the Medical Council - 6 August 2024

Appointment to the Medical Council:

The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, has on the nomination of Medical Schools, appointed Mr Richard Greene to the Medical Council with effect from 6th August 2024 until 31st May 2026.

Richard Greene is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He gained much of his clinical experience in the Coombe Womens' Hospital, Dublin followed by a Fellowship in Maternal-Foetal Medicine in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA. On his return to Ireland in 2001, he joined UCC as Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: and took up his current posts as Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (NPEC) and Professor of Clinical Obstetrics, UCC, in 2007. Richard was centrally involved in commissioning and establishing the new maternity services at CUMH and continues to maintain a senior management position there.

Richard has been a mentor and supervisor to many students, medical trainees and research students. He is the HSE’s CCIO working across the Chief Information Officer and the Chief Clinical officer functions, assisting the multidisciplinary working for a digital health future. He believes digital data and information flow between patients/service users and healthcare staff is the key enabler for healthcare transformation in Ireland.