Suzanne Crowe

Suzanne Crowe is an Irish anaesthesiologist, intensivist, and current president of the Medical Council of Ireland.

Background and education Crowe is from Bray, County Wicklow. She obtained her medical degree from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1995. She completed specialist training in anaesthesia and intensive care through the College of Anaesthesiologists of Ireland (CAI), followed by a fellowship at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She became a Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FFARCSI) in 1999 and a Fellow of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine of Ireland in 2006. She has a postgraduate diploma in Healthcare Management from the Institute of Public Administration/RCSI, and in Bereavement Studies from the Irish Hospice Foundation/RCSI. She is the youngest person to have held the role. She has also served as Medical Council representative on the Medical Intern Board of National Doctors Training and Planning and is a former Chair of the Medical Council Ethics Committee. She chaired the council's Ethics Working Group for the termination of pregnancy, speaking before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health on the matter. She is an advocate for patients, healthcare improvement and children's health and social services. Prof. Crowe is Chair of the National Screening Advisory Committee, which advises the Minister for Health on Population Screening. Crowe is a member of the National Women's Council of Ireland and a member of the Children's Rights Alliance. She is a director and trustee of Cheshire Ireland, LGBT Ireland and the Down Syndrome Centre.

Personal life Professor Crowe has four children. Her husband of twenty years, Barry Henry, an investment banker, died suddenly in 2019.