Derick Mitchell BSc, PhD

Dr. Derick Mitchell is the Chief Executive of IPPOSI. Derick has over ten years experience of management, advocacy, scientific communications and patient/public engagement, through previous positions at both the European and the national level and has a strong interest in the area of patient and public involvement in research. From 2011-2015, Derick was Communications Manager with the EU Joint Programe – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND), where he was responsible for developing external communications strategies and supporting stakeholder engagement activities with patient organisations, researchers and industry across Europe.

Derick is a member of a number of national and international boards including the Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI), the EHealth Ireland committee; the oversight committee for the National Rare Disease Plan; the Medical and Life Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, the International Advisory Board of the HRB-Trials Methodology Research Network; the HIQA Research Ethics & HTA Advisory Boards, among others. Derick graduated with a BSc. (Hons) in Biotechnology from NUI Galway (2000) followed by a PhD in Molecular Medicine from University College Dublin (2004). Outside of IPPOSI.