Ronan Glynn

Ronan Glynn is an Irish public health physician and physiotherapist who served as Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from October 2018 to May 2022. He previously served as Acting Chief Medical Officer of Ireland from July to October 2020, and was Head of the Health Protection Unit at the Department of Health.

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. He became a regular presence at the daily COVID-19 press conferences, along with the CMO, Dr Tony Holohan, and made multiple 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.

Aside from the frequent pandemic press conferences, he gave a televised interview to The Late Late Show on 4 September 2020.

He was awarded Best Doctor of The Year by RTÉ Radio 1 in 2020.

On 10 May 2022, the Department of Health announced that Glynn would resign at the end of the month to take up a role with consultancy firm EY which commenced in September.

In November 2022, he was appointed as Adjunct Full Professor at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Personal life In September 2013, Glynn married Carla O'Brien, newsreader for RTÉ News, and they have two children.