Professor Hilary Hoey is Director of Professional Competence at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She is Chair of the Forum of National Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies and Colleges Professional Competence Committee, and also Chair of Diabetes Ireland. She is Vice-President of the European Paediatric Association UNEPSA and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board and Programs of EPA–UNEPSA.
Professor Hoey is Chair of the International Paediatric Association Committee (IPA) on Mental Health in Children and Adolescents (2025–2027) and an IPA representative on the WHO GCM/NCD Working Group. She is a current Lecturer and Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD), a former Board Member and Director of Clinical Studies at TCD, and the first woman in Ireland to be appointed to a Clinical Chair.
Professor Hoey graduated from University College and Trinity College Dublin, completed postgraduate training at the National Children’s Hospital Dublin, the Children’s Hospital Great Ormond Street London, the University of San Francisco, and the Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh, and studied medical education at the University of Dundee.
She is an elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Society of Medicine London, the Royal College of Physicians London, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine in Ireland. Professor Hoey was the first female clinical professor in Ireland.
Professor Hoey serves on many national and international councils, committees, working parties, and editorial boards, including as past President of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) 2013–2014, former Dean of the Faculty of Paediatrics RCPI, and past President of the Irish Paediatric Association. She is a current member of the Directors of CPD Committee at the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges UK, the European Accreditation Council for CME, the International Academy for CPD Accreditation, and the European CPD Forum. Professor Hoey is also a Board Member of the Faculty of Paediatrics RCPI, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Irish Childhood National Diabetes Register and the North European Small for Gestational Age Study Group (2008 to date).
She is the recipient of the ESPE Outstanding Clinician Award in 2016, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Healthcare Awards in 2017, the EPA/UNEPSA Educator Award for significant contributions to European education and leadership training in Paediatrics (Belgrade, 2023), the International Collaboration Award from the Croatian Medical Association (2021), the Irish Endocrine Society McKenna Medal (2021), the Kathleen Lynn Medal from RCPI (2024), and Lifetime Achievement Awards from Down Syndrome Ireland and the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association.
Professor Hoey has served as an external examiner in Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, the University of Galway, the University of Limerick, the University of Kuwait, and the University of Cairo. She has also served as Paediatric Lead for international appraisal and revalidation of senior clinical staff at Hamad Medical Centre, Qatar.
Her research interests include CPD, diabetes, growth disorders, obesity, and Down Syndrome. Professor Hoey has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is a specialist reviewer for many international academic journals and editorial boards.
Contact: directorofprofessionalcompetence@rcpi.ie