MrEric O'Flynn

Eric O’Flynn is Programme Director for Education, Training and Advocacy in the Institute of Global Surgery in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Coming from an education background, he has worked on a wide range of education programmes in Ireland, Africa and elsewhere.

He has worked on global surgery education programmes with RCSI since 2011, heading up the collaboration programme between the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa and RCSI for much of this time as well as working with partners such as CANECSA, KidsOR and the World Health Organisation and working on the Global Surgical Training Challenge. He has managed a variety of global surgery projects in e-learning, operating theatre process improvement, surgical simulation innovation, anaesthesiology training and training data collection, and leads global surgery teaching activities in RCSI.