Dr. Mike O’ Connor

National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead of Acute Operations, HSE

Dr. Mike O’Connor is a Consultant Geriatrician working at the Cork University Hospital and St Finbarr’s Hospital since 2001. He graduated of UCC from UCC in 1991 and completed his higher medical training in Geriatric Medicine and General Medicine in Ireland and London. His was Clinical Director for Medicine at CUH from 2013 to 2019. He is interests include Quality Improvement, Health Services reform, value based healthcare, Patient Safety and Medical Education.

In September 2021, Dr O’ Connor took up the post of National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead for Acute Operations. This role involves providing clinical advice and guidance to all aspects of acute hospital care including serious incident management, Quality and Safety and Process Improvement. He leads on 16 clinical programmes whose remit is to design models of care and patient pathways that are evidence-based, quality assured, feasible and pragmatic and to support their implementation within an effective governance arrangement.