Ronan Glynn

Ronan Glynn is an Irish public health physician and physiotherapist who has served as Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Ireland since October 2018 and Head of the Health Protection Unit at the Department of Health. He previously served as Acting Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from July to October 2020.
Medical career.
Glynn graduated from University College Dublin, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, in 2002. He completed a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Aberdeen in 2007, a PhD in Surgical Oncology from NUI Galway in 2013 and a first-class honours Masters in Public Health (MPH) from University College Dublin in 2015.
Between 2008 and 2010, Glynn was Research Registrar at the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) in University College Hospital Galway. Between 2010 and 2014, he was Senior House Officer and Specialist Registrar at the Health Service Executive (Otolaryngology). Between 2014 and 2018, he was Specialist Registrar and Specialist in Public Health Medicine at the HSE.
Glynn holds a diploma in personal leadership and executive coaching. He has been a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland since 2012, a Fellow of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQUA) since 2013 and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Faculty of Public Health Medicine of Ireland, since 2017.
Glynn was appointed Deputy Chief Medical Officer in October 2018. He became a regular presence at the daily COVID-19 press conferences, along with the CMO, Dr Tony Holohan and gave media appearances following the COVID-19 pandemic's emergence and its subsequent arrival in Ireland. On 2 July 2020, Holohan made an announcement that he would be taking a hiatus from his position as Chief Medical Officer to care for his family as his wife entered palliative care with multiple myeloma; Glynn was subsequently appointed Acting Chief Medical Officer until 5 October 2020.
He gave a televised interview to "The Late Late Show" on 4 September 2020.
He was awarded Best Doctor of The Year by RTE Radio 1 in 2020.
Personal life.
In September 2013, Glynn married Carla O'Brien, newsreader for RTÉ News and Current Affairs, and they have two children.