Anne is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the Mid-West Region and President of the Irish Medical Organisation (2024-2025),
Anne studied medicine in Cork and interned in University Hospital Limerick. In the early years of her career she focussed on Emergency Medicine and spent time in Tralee, then Belfast, before returning to Limerick as EM Registrar and then to Liverpool and London for further training.
Anne then went to Nepal to work in a Leprosy Hospital for two years before returning to Ireland to work mainly in General Practice, and eventually as an Area Medical Officer (AMO). In 2006, she was accepted onto the Public Health Medicine Higher Specialist Training scheme.
Anne has a personal and professional interest in tackling health inequalities and believes that the biggest challenge to health in Ireland is poverty and inequality. Working with the office of the Mayor and many other stakeholders, she is leading on the establishment of a Health Equity Region, with the goal to improve the health outcomes for those from some of the most deprived communities in the area.