Re-appointments to the Advisory Committee for Medical Devices (ACMD) of the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).

On the nomination of Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) the Minster for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD, has reappointed three members to the Advisory Committee for Medical Devices (ACMD) with effect from 1 January 2026 until 31 December 2028.

Dr Vida Hamilton

Dr Vida Hamilton Graduate UCD Batchelor of Chemical Engineering 1986, graduate College of Surgeons MB, BAO, BCh LRCP &SI Dip Trop Med 1995, Fellow College of Anaesthesia, Fellow Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive care, University Hospital Waterford 2007 to date.

Career highlights: National Clinical Lead Sepsis, 2014 - 2019; National Clinical Advisor and Group Lead, Acute Operations 2019 – 2022; Regional Clinical Director Dublin and South East Health Area 2024 to date; Chair of the Working Group on the implementation of recommendations 2 and 3 from the HIQA Independent review of governance at Children’s Health Ireland in the use of implantable medical devices, including the use of non-CE marked springs in spinal surgery at CHI at Temple Street, 2025.

Prof Robert Byrne

Prof Robert Byrnes current contribution to medicine in Ireland is made through his joint roles as Professor of Cardiovascular Research at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Director of Cardiology at Mater Private Hospital, both in Dublin.

Richards career development includes graduation from University College Dublin (2000) and completion of my PhD in Medical Life Science and Technology at the Technical University Munich, Germany (2011). Richard has gained considerable experience in the areas of his main research interests in interventional cardiology (including antithrombotic therapy, drug-eluting stent and drug-coated balloon technology, optical coherence tomography imaging, coronary restenosis/stent thrombosis, and edge-to-edge mitral valve repair). Research awards received include the European Society of Cardiology Atherothrombosis Research Fellowship (2008), the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Thomas J. Linnemeier Young Investigator Award (2009), the Andreas Grüntzig Research Prize of the German Cardiac Society (2016), the RCSI Vice Chancellor Innovation Award (2024), and the European Cardiovascular Research Centre (CERC) Principal Investigator of the Year (2025). Richard has a Scopus h-index of 86 (as of March 2025) and have published more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Richards international leadership roles include Deputy Editor at EuroIntervention, past Secretary of the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Chair of its Patient Initiatives Committee, and member of the European Society of Cardiology Advocacy

Committees and Regulatory Affairs Committee. He represented the European Society of Cardiology in meetings of the CIE Working Group of the European Commission and in the past also served as representative of European Society of Cardiology to the European Medicines Agency. In 2025 he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the PCR-EAPCI Textbook: Percutaneous Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine. Richard served as Chair of the 2023 and 2027 ESC Guidelines on Acute Coronary Syndrome.

Dr Tanya Mulcahy

Dr Tanya Mulcahy is Director of Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI) and founder of Ireland’s first FemTech Ecosystem. She graduated from University College Cork with an honours degree in Biochemistry before completing a PhD in Cancer Genetics followed by postdoctoral research in Trinity College Dublin, in the field of Neuropsychiatric Genetics. She has over 30 years’ experience in the start-up, pharma, product development and research industry in Ireland and the US.

In 2024 she was appointed as Technical Advisor to the WHO Advisory Group on Healthcare Innovation. In 2021 she was appointed by the Minister for Health to the HPRA Medical Device Advisory Committee and has served on the National Clinical Trials Office Advisory Group and the CRF-C Advisory Committee. Tanya has previously held positions with Science Foundation Ireland and is currently based at University College Cork -the headquarters of Health Innovation Hub Ireland.