Board Member Paddy Broe
Bon Secours Health System CLG, Registered in Ireland No. 198596. Registered Office - Block 1, The Lee Clinic, Lee Road, Cork, T23 KV2K, Cork.
Board Member
Professor Patrick Broe is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Surgery and Past President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of the American College of Surgeons. He is currently Group Clinical Director for the RCSI Hospital Group and is retired from clinical practice.
He graduated from UCD Medical School in 1974 and trained as a General Surgeon in Dublin, Guy’s Hospital (London) and Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). He was appointed to the Irish Higher Surgical Training Programme in General Surgery in 1982 and was appointed a Consultant Surgeon to the Richmond Hospital and later Beaumont Hospital in 1986/87. He practised as a General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon in Beaumont Hospital from 1987 to 2015.
As a result of his time at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore he took over the administration of the Beaumont/Johns Hopkins Residency Exchange Programme which had been started in 1977. During his time as supervisor from 1987 - 2008, 42 residents worked as Registrars on his service. Many of these young men and women are now in major surgical leadership roles in the United States and maintain strong links with Professor Broe.
Professor Broe was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991 and during his tenure served as Chair of many of the key committees. He was elected President of the College in 2012 and during his term the Surgical Training Committee totally revamped the scope and duration of Irish surgical training.
In his current role as Group Clinical Director in the RCSI Hospital Group he has a continued medical leadership role with important emphasis on quality and safety and reconfiguration of surgical and medical services. In September 2015 he joined the Board of the Bon Secours Hospital System. He recently retired as a Board Member of the Kimmage Development Education Centre, an organisation that supports postgraduate education in overseas developing countries.
