Speakers for the 16th International Conference on Medical Regulation
Hosted by the Medical Council of Ireland, in Dublin, from September 3rd - 6th 2025.
The 16th International Conference on Medical Regulation (IAMRA 2025) is being hosted by the Medical Council of Ireland in Dublin, from 3rd – 6th September 2025.
Final Registrations now available on the IAMRA website: www.iamradublin2025.org/registration.
The conference is organised by IAMRA (International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities) and includes attendees involved in medical regulation and regulation of other health professions, medical education across the continuum, assessment and remediation, health care policy and medical workforce planning.
Attendees will share their lessons learned, as well as opportunities to address challenges we now face. The Conference includes plenty of opportunities for networking.
The conference includes a broad range of keynote speakers, engaging panel discussions, with the ultimate advantage of engagement, learning and sharing ideas with stakeholders and colleagues in medical regulation from around the world.
Below you will find an overview of the keynote speakers throughout the conference.
Dr Bourgeault is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa, is the University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions and she leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network. Inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in September 2016, Dr Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on the health workforce, particularly from a gender lens. Past projects have examined the migration and integration of health workers and on health professional regulation from a comparative perspective. She has been a consultant to various provincial Ministries of Health in Canada, to Health Canada, the pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the OECD and to the World Health Organization.
Adjunct Professor (Dr) Raymond Chua is the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Sciences Authority responsible for safeguarding and advancing public health through securing the national blood supply, administering national justice through its forensic medicine and scientific testing capabilities and regulating the health products. He concurrently serves as Deputy Director-General of Health (Health Regulation) at the Ministry of Health, overseeing the regulations of healthcare services and information. With these 2 concurrent positions, he will better synergize regulatory policies, operations and enforcement across healthcare services, information and products in Singapore. He has extensive regulatory, management and operational experience in both the public healthcare and private pharmaceutical sectors in the past 25 years, contributing to the advancing developments of the healthcare landscape.
Adjunct Professor (Dr) Raymond Chua holds adjunct professorships at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and the Centre of Regulatory Excellence in Duke-NUS. He also holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, a Master of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Nottingham.
Dr Rachelle Love is the Chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Dr Love is of Ngāpuhi and Te Arawa descent, and lives in Christchurch. Dr Love was appointed to Council in August 2020 and was elected Chair in February 2024.
An otolaryngologist, head and neck surgeon, Dr Love is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Māori Health Advisory Group. Dr Love is also an elected member of the National Board of RACS, the executive of the NZ branch of the Australasian Sleep Association, the Urutā National Māori Pandemic Group, and is a Trustee of the Hearing Research Foundation. She is a cultural advisor to the ORL Training Board.
Dr Love’s research interests are in Māori health, particularly cultural competency and cultural safety in surgical education, and in sleep surgery, where she is part of a multinational research group.
Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen has been a member of the General Medical Council since January 2021 and served as Acting Chair from August 2021 to May 2022.
Carrie is a consultant ophthalmologist for NHS Tayside and Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. She served as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2020 and is Past-President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
Carrie has served on several committees in support of education, training and assessment of healthcare professionals and NHS committees regarding service re-design for medical services. She is a trustee of the Moorfields Eye Charity. She chaired the Trustee Board of the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership until the end of 2023, and she was a member of the council of the University of Exeter.
Carrie was specialty ophthalmology advisor to the Scottish Chief Medical Officer for over a decade and led the Scottish Eyecare Workstream, ceasing this role in June 2022. She was the clinical co-lead for the ophthalmology ‘Getting It Right First Time’ programme and the Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme for NHS England/Improvement. She was also chair of the multiprofessional subcommittee of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and was Associate Dean for Less than Full Time Training for East Scotland between 2007 and 2022.
Dr Austin O Carroll is a GP working in inner-city Dublin since 1997. The focus of his career has been improving access for communities affected by marginalisation or deprivation to quality primary healthcare.
He founded several initiatives:
- Safetynet (2007) which provides GP services to over 6000 marginalised patients annually throughout Ireland. He initiated specialised services in several food halls/drop-ins/hostels; GP services for Roma community in two medical centres; a Mobile Health Unit for rough sleepers; a Mobile Health Screening Unit; He was Medical Director from 2007-2017.
- GMQ, a primary care programme for homeless people which also specialises in addiction services (including methadone treatment and alcohol and benzodiazepine detoxes.
- Partnership for Health Equity, a research, education, policy and service delivery collaboration.
- GPCareforAll, a new social enterprise that creates new GP practices in areas of deprivation.
- North Dublin City GP Training programme, the first programme internationally that trains GP’s to work in communities affected by deprivation or marginalisation.
- He set up the GP service for the McVerry Stabilisation Centre in Barrymore House.
He was Dublin HSE Covid Lead for the Homeless Population between 2020 and 2022. He completed a Doctorate in ethnographic research into the health service usage behaviours of homeless people. He was a co-founding member of Northdoc. He is Chair of North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force.
He received the Fiona Bradley Award; the Time & Tide Award for his work with migrants; the Healthcare professional of the Year Award 2015 and was awarded an Honorary membership of the RCPI the Doolin Award 2019; and Gertrude Ronan Award 2019. He was awarded the 5 Star Doctor Award from Wonca Europe in 2020. He participated in 2016 Paralympics in sailing.
Tiberius Pereira is a co-founder of Patients for Patient Safety Ireland (PFPSI), formed over 12 years ago under a World Health Organisation (WHO) programme. As defined by the WHO, PFPSI aims to engage and empower patients and families to be active partners and advocates in their own care. PFPSI members work in partnership and collaboration with health professionals and policymakers to make health services safer in Ireland and enable the patient voice to be heard fully.
Its framework for action is the WHO Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 and the WHO Patient Safety Rights Charter. It is also one of the five strategies of the WHO global strategy on people-centred and integrated health services (PCIHS) and a key element of quality universal healthcare.
The Patient Empowerment Programme is supported and endorsed by the largest advocacy groups in Ireland as well as the WHO, ISQua and other national and international groups.
Dr Leo Varadkar served as the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024. Since then, he has been appointed as a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership in the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard and he is a Board Member of Brussels based Care4Everybody which advocates for equal access to healthcare for women. Dr Varadkar is a medical doctor and a qualified GP, having graduated from Trinity College Dublin.
The full programme of keynote presentations, breakout sessions, social and networking events, tours and excursions can be found on the IAMRA 2025 website here: View Conference Programme