Dr Emer Sherry is Senior Executive with Irish Medtech since May 2022 leading the regulatory affairs workstreams including the QA/RA forums and the Task Forces. Prior to joining IMA, she held senior positions in Telecommunications Industry Ireland and Audiovisual Ireland within Ibec overseeing the regulatory affairs and public policy work streams. She represented industry on the Government’s Task Force on Mobile Phone and Broadband. She continues to lead the 5G work stream within Ibec. Emer is an active member of Medtech Europe’s MD and IVD Regulatory Affairs Committee. She holds a first-class honours degree in electronic engineering and a PhD in the same discipline from University College Dublin.
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Leader within Merit, responsible for sites in Ireland and France.
Responsible for US and EU device regulations including implementation of MDR.
Member of the Irish MedTech RA Steering Committee.
Qualifications include a Masters in bioengineering.
Previous roles with industry in Ireland, UK and Germany including a Notified Body.
Toma has experience in the medical device industry, digital health technologies, regulatory affairs, and quality, including a bachelor’s degree in Business from University College Dublin and an MSc in Medical Device Regulatory Affairs from South East Technological University.
Toma most recently worked with Ocumetra as a Regulatory Affairs and Market Access Officer, before joining Irish Medtech as an Executive. Other than that, Toma has nursing background and experience working in variety of healthcare settings both in Ireland and abroad.
Toma has experience in the medical device industry, digital health technologies, regulatory affairs, and quality, including a bachelor’s degree in Business from University College Dublin and an MSc in Medical Device Regulatory Affairs from South East Technological University.
Toma most recently worked with Ocumetra as a Regulatory Affairs and Market Access Officer, before joining Irish Medtech as an Executive. Other than that, Toma has nursing background and experience working in variety of healthcare settings both in Ireland and abroad.
I worked in the medical device industry for a few different companies from 2003 to 2018, when I decided that it was time for a change and I moved into the Notified Body world. I worked for a competitor NB from 2018 to 2025 in their UK medical division and I am now solely responsible for all certification & testing sales in the UK & Ireland on behalf of TUV Rheinland medical division.
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Bernadette works for Mylan Teoranta a Viatris company located in Inverin, Co. Galway coming up on 20 years. Bernadette has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry, having previously worked for Abbott Diagnostics. In her current role within Regulatory Affairs her primary responsibility is for the medical devices manufactured at the Galway site, and she supports Viatris drug shortage reporting to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
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As Chief Regulatory Officer for Medtronic,
YARMELA PAVLOVIC leads regulatory affairs, working to ensure millions of Medtronic patients have access to safe and effective medical devices around the world.
In this critical role, Yarmela closely collaborates with the regulatory leaders of Medtronic Operating Units and Global Region to guide the overall direction of Regulatory Affairs for the company.
Yarmela and her team also guide the development of efficient regulatory strategies for the company’s most innovative products, such as AI-enabled technology and connected devices. Additionally, she leads Medtronic’s external global regulatory policy development work and provides her deep expertise on regulatory policy, strategy, education, and navigating key initiatives to the broader Medtronic community.
Prior to joining Medtronic, she was a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and previously Hogan Lovells where she provided strategic regulatory counsel to medical device, diagnostic, digital health, and health technology companies seeking FDA marketing authorization for new products and innovations. Her practice focused on premarket strategy, FDA jurisdictional and post-market compliance issues, advertising and promotion compliance, evidence development strategy, and advisory panel preparation. She has extensive experience in product development and product marketing authorization submissions, as well as a variety of other device-related regulatory issues such as the regulation of AI-enabled products.
I’ve spent 20 years building companies in EdTech, MedTech, and consultancy, with the last 15 focused on AI and machine learning. My career has taken me from Singapore to Spain and Germany to Ireland, showing me how the right technology can transform organizations and outcomes. As Head of Innovation at Trinzo, I help life science companies make AI practical — whether that means training teams, redesigning processes, or driving system change.
Before Trinzo, I was COO at Adaptemy, where we used machine learning to personalize learning for students, teachers, and ministries of education, and VP of Operations at WHYZE Health, leading AI projects that matched patients with the care they need. With an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and further studies in AI (MIT), Blockchain (Oxford Saïd), and Digital Business (UCD), I bring a mix of education, technology, and innovation to every project — making AI accessible and impactful.
Dr Ann O’Connell PhD is a visionary leader, a dynamic collaborator. As Head of Funded projects for Medtech and Engineering Skills with Ibec, Ann is responsible for funding, development and delivery of over 100 professional upskilling programmes ranging from 1-day webinars, to 2-year Masters programmes. Ann’s course list is wide ranging and comprehensive, covering Research & Development, Manufacturing & Digitalisation, Quality & Regulatory, Sustainability, and Management & Leadership, and she specialises in piloting and launching new programmes to meet emerging needs.
Ann completed her PhD in 2014 with the Centre for BioNano Interactions (CBNI) at University College Dublin and is a longtime advocate for lifelong learning amongst industry professionals. She joined Ibec in 2019 from Irish Manufacturing Research Centre, where as the European Programme Manager, she refocused strategy and investment and led the successful application of a proposal to coordinate a H2020 funded project under the ECSEL JU Program. Prior to that, Ann served as Senior Integration Engineer with Intel Corporation for almost two decades, supporting multiple business
Eileen is a Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager with Abbott Vascular and is responsible for developing and implementing regulatory strategies and global submissions for medical devices with a particular emphasis on class III drug eluting stent products. Prior to joining Abbott Vascular, Eileen worked in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs with Acorn Regulatory Consultancy Services and Roche Product Ireland Limited. She worked in technical services in Abbott Diagnostics. Eileen holds a B.Sc in Biotechnology from DCU and a PhD in Cellular Biology from Trinity College Dublin.
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As Associate Director RA I lead the Regulatory Affairs Team in BD Enniscorthy. Currently supporting numerous projects across EU Medical Device Regulation remediation & implementation, International Registration, New Product Development & UDI activities.
I have over 18 years’ experience in Regulatory Affairs, working in the medical device field for the last 11 years.
Maciej Ściera is Global Scheme Manager for ISO 13485 & MDR at TÜV Rheinland, overseeing ISO 13485 certification bodies, MDR notified bodies, and the UK MDR approved body within the TÜV Rheinland group. Prior to joining TÜV Rheinland, he gained extensive experience in the development of active medical devices and regulatory affairs. Nearly 20 years he was involved in the development of standards for electrical medical devices at the Polish Committee for Standardization. Since 2009, he has been a lead auditor, product specialist, and certifier for active medical devices, specializing in auditing, regulatory compliance, and certification processes. As Global Scheme Manager he is responsible for development and improvement of conformity assessment and certification processes of TÜV Rheinland certification bodies. He is actively involved in the NBCG-Med and Team-NB working groups.
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Mairead Twomey is a Senior Director Regulatory Affairs for Stryker (based in Cork, Ireland). In Mairead’s role, she leads regulatory affairs for the Instruments Division across a broad product range and portfolio of products across all product classifications.
Mairead joined Stryker in 2005 and has had multiple roles across Operations, Quality and Regulatory. In her current role, Mairead is responsible for leading the global regulatory affairs team in developing and implementing regulatory strategies and global submissions for various medical devices. As part of her role, she interfaces with various global regulatory bodies, including FDA, Notified Bodies and multiple Competent Authorities.
Mairead earned her BSc in Physics and Physics Technology from D.I.T, Dublin and is a member of RAPs. Mairead is an active member of the Irish MedTech Association Regulatory Steering Committee, is also involved in the European MedTech Association and guest lectures on the topic of regulatory affairs at UCC.
30-year's experience in Life Science Industry, Pharma, IVD and Medical Devices. Engineering, Quality and Regulatory hands-on experience and leadership of strategic regulatory pathway to market for SaMD/SiMD and AI-enabled Medical Devices. Leader and author of regulatory requirements including IEC 62304 and IEC 63450. Chair of TC10 Medical Equipment, Systems and Software for Ireland. Member of IEC SNAIG and EU's CEN-CENELEC Task 2 AI advisory committees. Part-time lecturer of Medical Device Software Validation and Embedded Systems.
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Tommy McDonagh is an Associate Director of Regulatory Affairs, IVDR at Abbott Core Diagnostics (based in Sligo Ireland).
Tommy joined Abbott in April 2005 and has held multiple roles across Quality, Technical Operations and Regulatory. In his current role he leads the IVDR transition Program for the European Manufacturing sites across a broad portfolio of products across all IVDR product classifications.
As part of his role, he interfaces with various regulatory bodies, including Notified Bodies and multiple Competent Authorities. Tommy is an active member of the Irish Medtech Association (IMA) IVD Task Force supporting the IMA QARA Forum and a member of the IMA Regulatory Steering Committee.
Tommy holds a Master’s degree in Biomedical Science from the University of Ulster – Coleraine in Northern Ireland and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Galway, Ireland. He also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Peter Bischoff Everding is senior expert in the Medical Device unit in the European Commission‘s Directorate-General Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE). He is in charge of legal and regulatory aspects related to the EU regulatory framework for medical devices and in vitro diagnostics. Before that, he was working in the fields of EU consumer law, consumer product safety and free movement of goods. Peter is a lawyer by training and holds a PhD from Hamburg law school in competition law.
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Liam Turley is the CEO and Quality Expert at Trinzo and is based in Galway, Ireland. Liam has worked in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry for over 25 years at global leadership positions, including companies such as Tyco Healthcare, Mallinckrodt, Covidien and Medtronic. With experience spanning the United States and the EU, Liam has led global initiatives in the area of medical device and combination products.
Liam is particularly skilled in quality remediation, and successfully leading companies in resolving notified body major/critical findings, 483s, warning letters and consent decrees. With extensive MDR expertise and a strong understanding of the changes and increased requirements that it brings, he has liaised with multiple notified bodies, competent authorities, the FDA, and ministries of health around the globe.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in microbiology and a master’s degree in biotechnology, in addition to a postgraduate diploma in pharmaceutical manufacturing.