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Appointment to the Voluntary Health Insurance Board - 17 January 2025
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Following a Public Jobs campaign and with the approval of the Central Bank of Ireland, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has appointed Dr Catherine Motherway as a member of the Voluntary Health Insurance Board with effect from 2 December 2024 to 1 December 2029.
Dr. Motherway has worked in the healthcare sector for over thirty years, specialising in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine. She currently works part time with Organ Donation Transplant Ireland, supporting and promoting organ donation. She also serves on the National ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) Committee and represents the Intensive Care Society of Ireland (ICSI) on the National Organ and Transplant Advisory Board and the National Office of Clinical Audit’s ICU Audit Committee.
She qualified from University College Cork in 1985 and completed training in anaesthesiology in 1996. Subsequently, she travelled to Australia to complete further training in intensive care medicine, becoming a Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine Australia.
She returned to Ireland in 1999 as a consultant anaesthesiologist with an interest in intensive care medicine in University Hospital Limerick (UHL). She was Clinical Lead in Organ Donation at UHL and has a special interest in intensive care medicine, ophthalmic anaesthesia, transfusion medicine, and training. She served on the College Council of the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland and is a past Chair of the National Training Committee. She previously served as President of the ICSI and, in that role, was involved at national level with the intensive care response to the COVID-19 pandemic.