Professor Patrick James Broe is Chair of the Bon Secours Health System Ireland Board and as of 2025 serves as the Irish representative on the BSMH Board. Prof. Broe was elected to the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Council in 1991 and during his tenure served as Chair of many of the key committees. He was elected President of the College in 2012 and during his term oversaw the reorganization of the scope and duration of surgical training in Ireland.
In 2015 following retirement from clinical surgery he was Clinical Director of the RCSI Hospitals Group. In that post he continued a medical leadership role with important emphasis on quality and safety and reconfiguration of surgical services.
Professor Broe graduated from University College Dublin (1974) and trained as a general surgeon in Dublin, Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) and Guy’s Hospital (London). On his return to Ireland he completed Irish Higher Surgical Training Programme in 1985 and was subsequently appointed Senior lecturer in the Department of Surgery in RCSI. In 1987 he was appointed Consultant Surgeon to the Richmond Hospital which later that year transferred to Beaumont Hospital. He was appointed Honorary Clinical Professor of Surgery in 2010 and he retired from the hospital in 2015. He practiced as a General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon in Beaumont Hospital from 1987 to 2015. Prof. Broe is an Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh and of the American College of Surgeons.