Martina has over 30 years’ health service leadership experience with particular expertise in strategic change management in public services and integrated service delivery. Since 2015, as Chief Officer in HSE Community Healthcare East, she has led the planning and delivery of all community health services in the area (South Dublin and Wicklow), a range of national programmes with a combined HSE and voluntary workforce of nearly 4000 staff.
She has led a range of change, crisis and service transformation programmes, including the Area Crisis Management Team through the COVID-19 pandemic response and vaccination programme. In 2011 as Integrated Services Area Manager for Dublin South East Wicklow, she amalgamated three community health services and an acute hospital network In 2005 she led the establishment of the Local Health Office structure in Kildare and West Wicklow.
Martina trained as a Registered General Nurse before qualifying as a Midwife and Public Health Nurse. She graduated with an M.Sc. in Heath Services Management from Trinity College Dublin in 2002. Her graduate work focused on the development of strategic, integrated approaches to health promotion within the health system. Martina has completed further study in areas of quality and service improvement and is a qualified executive coach and mentor.
She commenced her role as REO in HSE Dublin and South East in January 2024. HSE Dublin and South East will serve the people of Carlow, Kilkenny, South Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, East Wicklow and parts of South Dublin.