Reappointment of Chairperson to the Health Information Quality Authority - 22 November 2023

The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has reappointed Professor Pat O’Mahony to the Board of the Health Information Quality Authority with effect from 3 October 2023 until 2 October 2026.

Dr Pat O’Mahony, MVM, MBA, C Dir, is Chief Executive at Mapat Management Consultants where he provides strategic management consultancy to selected clients across various sectors including Biopharmaceuticals, Med Tech and Health Care Systems. Particular interests at present include Value Based Healthcare, Clinical Research and Genomics.

Pat is also Chairman of the Board of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) and Chairman of the Board of the Irish Medicines Verification Organisation (IMVO).

Pat previously served as CEO at Clinical Research Development Ireland, the clinical and translational research partnership of the universities in Ireland from 2017 to 2019, Deputy Secretary General and Head of Governance and Performance at the Department of Health in Dublin for 15 months, prior to which Pat was Chief Executive of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) from 2002 to 2015.

Having spent a number of years in private clinical practice and as technical manager in the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland and the UK, Pat worked in public health and was Director of Consumer Protection at the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.

Pat has previously served on a variety of public and private sector boards including the European Medicines Agency (EMA), where he served as Chairman from 2007 to 2011, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, the National Patient Safety Advisory Group and was vice Chair of the International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities. Pat was appointed Adjunct Professor at the School of Health Sciences at UCD in 2017.