DrNoreen O'Leary

Dr Noreen O'Leary is a lecturer and researcher with extensive experience spanning higher education, clinical practice, doctoral training, and educational leadership. She currently serves as Lecturer in the Health Professions Education Centre where she leads postgraduate programme development, educational research, faculty development, and academic partnerships across clinical setting, patient and community partners and higher education sectors. Previously, she held academic leadership roles within the School of Population Health and the SPHeRE doctoral training programme, where she was responsible for doctoral student support, curriculum development, and the coordination of doctoral education and research training.

Dr O'Leary is the founder and co-chair of the Irish Special Interest Group in Interprofessional Education, a national network established to advance collaboration, scholarship, and innovation in interprofessional education across Ireland. She is an active member of the Irish Network of Healthcare Educators and regularly collaborates with academic, healthcare, regulatory, and professional stakeholders to promote evidence-informed educational practice.

In addition to her educational leadership, Dr O'Leary contributes to policy and professional discourse through engagement with national committees and stakeholder groups. Her expertise in disability services and healthcare workforce development informed an invited presentation to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the implementation of Progressing Disability Services in Ireland. She is also a CORU-registered speech and language therapist, bringing over a decade of clinical experience across primary care and disability services to her academic work.

Throughout her career, Dr O'Leary has demonstrated a commitment to building capacity in health professions education through teaching, mentorship, faculty development, research leadership, and the creation of collaborative networks that bridge education, research, policy, and clinical practice.