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 Ms Emer Daly (Chairperson)
Ms Daly is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years experience in practice and industry. She is currently a non-executive director of EirGrid plc and Friends Provident International Limited, and is a member of the Audit Committee of the Department of Justice and Law Reform. She has previously served as a non-executive director for a number of companies in the public and private sector. From 1999 to 2006 she worked as a Director with AXA Insurance, responsible for Risk Management, Finance and Strategic Planning functions during her time there. Prior to that she worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers where she gained wide experience in audit, due diligence and consultancy work for a variety of clients including listed companies, public sector and private companies. Emer also works as a consultant and lectures part-time in the Michael Smurfit Business School in UCD. |
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 Dr. Terry McWade MB BCh BAO BA MBA MSc DCH Dip Corp Gov (Vice Chairperson)
Dr McWade is the Deputy CEO at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). The RCSI is an independent international healthcare institution which is focused on enhancing human health through endeavour, innovation and collaboration in education, research and service. The RCSI offers undergraduate programmes in medicine, physiotherapy and pharmacy while postgraduate faculties of Dentistry, Nursing, Radiology and Sports and Exercise Medicine provide post graduate training and professional qualifications. Prior to joining RCSI Terry worked as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group where he led the Healthcare Practice in the London Office. He has also worked in pharmaceutical medicine with senior appointments in Denmark and France. Terry received his medical degree from Trinity College Dublin, his MBA from INSEAD and MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law, and Diploma in Corporate Governance from NUI. He sits on the boards of Penang Medical College, the Medical University of Bahrain, the European Vaccine Institute and recently retired from the board of the Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre. |
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 Mr. Stephen McGovern (Chair Audit Committee)
Mr McGovern is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of audit and industry experience. He graduated from UCD’s BComm(International) programme in 1999 and then completed a Master of Accounting in the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in 2000 prior to joining KPMG as an External Auditor. He joined CRH plc’s Internal Audit Department in 2004 and subsequently moved to CRH’s Europe Materials Division in 2006 where he currently works as Risk and Compliance Manager. Stephen has been a member of the Dublin Dental Hospital Audit Committee since 2010 and he also sits on the Audit Committee of the Medical Council. |
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 Dr Marielle Blake
Dr Blake is Consultant Orthodontist, at St. James’ Hospital. She is a member of the Dental Council as the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland’s nominee. Marielle is a graduate of the University of Dublin, Trinity College and completed her post graduate degree in orthodontics at the University of Toronto. Marielle is a member of the Performance and Succession Committee. |
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 Ms Gabriel Burke
The Minister appointed Gabriel to the Board on 31st May 2007. Gabriel previously worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs. |
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 Professor Veronica Campbell
Professor Campbell was appointed to the Board in January 2011. Veronica is an Associate Professor in Physiology and Dean of Graduate Studies in Trinity College Dublin. She is a Fellow of Trinity College and a principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering. Veronica is a member of the Audit Committee. |
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 Dr Alex Creavin
Dr Creavin graduated as a dentist from the Dublin Dental University Hospital in 2006. As a student he participated in the Dent Ed project. He was a student representative on the Leadership & Partnership team for the Hospital’s accreditation in 2005/2006. He is a former Treasurer and President of the European Dental Students Association. Alex currently is working in general practice. He is also a member of the Audit Committee. |
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 Dr Dermot Fitzpatirck
Dr Fitzpatrick was appointed to the Board by the Minister for Health and Children in February 2011. He was educated at University College Dublin from where he graduated. He is a Family Doctor and Dentist. Dermot is a memebr of the Audit Committee. |
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 Dr. Philip Hardy
Having been a late vocation to dentistry, Dr Hardy qualified from Trinity College in 1991 , after a short career in engineering. He worked for one year in the Dublin Dental Hospital as a house officer and then a further three years as a part-time registrar/teacher in Oral Surgery. He spent 13 years in general practice in Wexford and returned to full-time teaching in 2005. Philip is currently Co-ordinator for Undergraduate Teaching in Restorative Dentistry in the DDUH. In 2012 Philip completed a MSc LHPE (Leadership in Health Professions Education). |
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 Professor June Nunn (Dean)
Prof. Nunn is Dean of Dental Science and Professor of Special Care Dentistry at Trinity College, University of Dublin. June graduated from Dundee University. Prior to coming to Dublin June worked in Paediatric Dentistry, Periodontology and Public Dental Health in Dental Schools in the UK. Her research focuses on intervention programmes in oral and dental management of children and adults with disabilities. June is a past president of the IADH, BSDH and the ISDH and is currently editor of the Journal of Disability and Oral Health and author of one of two textbooks in this discipline. |
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 Professor B. O’Connell B.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., F.T.C.D., F.F.D.R.C.S.I.
Prof. O’Connell received his undergraduate degree in dentistry at the National University of Ireland, Cork and postgraduate training in Prosthodontics and PhD at the Eastman Dental Center-University of Rochester, New York. He continued his work as a Principal Investigator at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Prof. O’Connell is currently Professor of Restorative Dentistry with a clinical emphasis on multidisciplinary care. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He has published and lectured widely on Prosthodontics and Implantology. |
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 Professor Colm O’Morain
Prof. O’Morain is Consultant Gastroenterologist. He is a member of the Dublin Molecular Medicine Group. Colm has been reappointed by the Minister for a second term on the Dublin Dental Hospital Board. Colm is a member of the Performance and Succession Committee. |
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 Ms Pat O’Boyle (Chief Executive Officer)
Ms O’Boyle joined the DDUH in May 2011. She was formally Secretary & General Manager of the National Maternity Hospital and previously Director of Human Resources & Operations at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital . Before joining the health sector she worked in various industries in the private sector for a number of years. She holds a double Masters in Industrial Relations and Human Resources Management. Ms. O’Boyle is Chairman of the Dublin Mid-Leinster Regional Forum of the Health Management Institute. |
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 Dr Michael O’Sullivan (Clinical Director)
Dr O’Sullivan was appointed as Senior Lecturer Consultant in Restorative Dentistry (Special Dental Needs) in the Hospital in 2001. This involves the treatment of patients with dental anomalies such as severe hypodontia, amelogenesis and detinogenesis imperfecta . Michael graduated from the Dental School at Trinity College Dublin in 1990. He completed his Masters Degree in 1994 in the University of London, Eastman Dental. He was awarded a Ph.D from Trinity College Dublin in 2000. He was appointed to the Board in September 2012. |
