Deputy Chief Medical Officer of
Ireland and Head of the Health Protection Unit at the Department of Health
Ronan qualified as a physiotherapist in 2002 and as a medical doctor in 2007. He completed a laboratory based PhD in surgical oncology in 2012 and worked as a Specialist Registrar in ENT before transferring to the Higher Specialist Training Programme in Public Health Medicine in 2014, completing his Masters of Public Health in 2015. In 2018, Ronan was appointed Head of the Health Protection Unit and as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health. He was appointed Acting Chief Medical Officer from July to October 2020 and again from February to April 2021.