Meet the Team
Keith Morrissey - NIMIS Programme Lead GM, Technology and Transformation keith.morrissey@hse.ie
Keith is the current NIMIS Programme Lead. He has been involved with the NIMIS project since its early inception in September 2008 as Radiographer lead. He played a key role in the procurement and subsequent design phase of the project. He took on a Project Manager role from 2013 overseeing the successful implementation of the NIMIS system across many of the 40 sites currently operating the NIMIS solution.
Keith took on the challenge of NIMIS Programme lead in 2015 and has endeavoured to balance the requirement to continue and complete system implementations with that of optimising system performance and functionality, whilst seeking to deliver system enhancements where possible and practical to do so. He remains a passionate believer in the ability of NIMIS to significantly improve the imaging service provided to our patients.
In his pre NIMIS life, Keith qualified as a radiographer from UCD and worked for 10 years in St. James’s Hospital being involved in the implementation of the Cerner EPR/RIS/PACS on site as PACS Manager.
In his free time he is a self confessed bookworm and Sci Fi nerd. A passionate student of History and Politics he is always conscious of the lessons that History is looking to teach us if we are willing to listen and learn. He is a yearly Camino pilgrim and this year finished the last Camino section into Santiago. He is a “glass half full” type of person and adopts a positive attitude to life in general.
Keith is in the position of being a Kerry, Munster and Arsenal supporter.
Lisa Morrin - Senior Project Manager, NIMIS National Team lisa.morrin@hse.ie
Lisa has worked in Healthcare for over 19 years with 5 of these years spent working with the NIMIS National Team. In this role, Lisa has worked on the implementation of a national PACS/RIS solution into a large number of hospitals as Project Manager and National RIS lead and developed a variety of skills in this role including project delivery while working in complex environments, driving change processes while all the time striving to meet both the clinical and patient needs for same. She provides a national level of support and guidance to the 37 hospitals currently live with NIMIS and continue to organise ongoing follow up training workshops for Radiology administration staff in these hospitals.
Lisa recently became a member of the Council of Clinical information officers as she is passionate to explore better ways to make informatics or IT projects more efficient and more likely to improve outcomes for patients.
Before joining the NIMIS team Lisa worked for 14 years in the radiology department in Beaumont Hospital and was part of the local implementation team for NIMIS in Beaumont. Her role in Beaumont before she joined the NIMIS National Team was as Radiology Directorate Support Manager.
Work aside, Lisa is a busy mum of two beautiful children and knows all about working hard to make time for my family while still meeting my work targets and goals. She doesn't shy away from a challenge and has recently taking up running for various charity fund raising events.
Emily Ennis - Senior Project Manager, NIMIS National Team Emily.Ennis@hse.ie
Emily joined the team full-time in 2018, having assisted the team for the previous 3 years while working as PACS manager in University Hospital Waterford. Qualified as a diagnostic radiographer from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and originally working in the NHS, Emily moved to the sunny south east in 2005 and commenced work in Waterford Regional Hospital. Specialised in CT and nuclear medicine imaging, in 2006 Emily moved to private sector and established the PETCT scanning unit in UPMC Whitfield. Since Emily’s return to the public sector, she has completed a Masters in Science, Post Grad Diploma in Medical Physics and Post Grad Certificate in CT Imaging and most recently a Masters in Health Informatics with the University of Limerick.
Emily is a lifelong learner and peer educator, focused on the delivery of high quality patient care, driven by quality data from information systems. Give her dirty data or an excel spread sheet with an issue and she’s happy figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it. She is on a mission to keep NIMIS clean.
Outside of work Emily is busy with family life and the adventures that brings, always planning the next trip away usually with her camera close by. Emily also has been a scout leader in Waterford city for over 10 years having previously been a Girl Guide leader in Northern Ireland. If she does have time to be at home she loves music, gardening, painting and baking.
Sharon Flatley- Senior Project Manager, NIMIS National Team sharon.flatley@hse.ie
Sharon joined the NIMIS National Team in 2013. She qualified as a Radiographer from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and has over 20 years experience in Radiography and Healthcare Management. She developed a keen interest in RiS/PACS while working abroad in Bermuda and carried this knowledge back with her to Ireland. The NIMIS NT became a natural fit for her expertise and working with her inspirational team members, both past and present, has ignited a passion for eHealth and spurred her to become a champion for the future of digital healthcare in Ireland.
She has a number of Leadership and Management courses under her belt, along with the PRINCE2 qualification in Project Management.
She was a champion Irish dancer in her youth but has now traded in her dancing shoes for gardening gloves, becoming a reluctant gardener a few years ago, which she now thoroughly enjoys. She also enjoys globe trotting in her spare time, having visited many exotic countries. Next stop Galapagos Islands!
Mark Gilvarry - Senior Project Manager, NIMIS National Team mark.gilvarry@hse.ie
Mark joined the NIMIS team in 2015, having previously worked as PACS Manager in Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital. A Radiographer by background, he commenced working in Cappagh Hospital after graduation in 2007. During his time there he worked in MRI, Interventional Radiology, DEXA, Theatre and General Radiography. In advance of the NIMIS implementation he completed the first two modules of RIS/PACS Management in UCD, subsequently completing the Graduate Certificate after implementation in 2014. During the implementation of NIMIS in Cappagh Hospital in 2013 he was the PACS Lead on the local project team. He also gained a Professional Certificate in IV Cannulation & Administration in 2011, although these days sticks it to vendors rather than patients!
Outside of work he is a runner lamenting PBs and a long suffering Mayo football fan.
Thomasina Coyle- Senior Project Manager, NIMIS National Team Thomasina.coyle@hse.ie
Thomasina commenced employment with the HSE as a Senior IT Project Manager late 2017 and immediately joined the NIMIS national team. Having attained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Management and Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, Thomasina’s early career was spent exclusively working in US Tech Multinationals. Her experience is diverse from Quality Engineering, Lean Six Sigma, Project Management, Programme Management, Product Management and Advanced Analytics.
Thomasina became interested in pursuing a career in the Healthcare arena several years ago and this prompted her to undertake Postgraduate study in the Medical Devices field. This was the catalyst for her move to the HSE.
Working in NIMIS provides Thomasina with a myriad of opportunities which suit her diverse skillset. Although her NIMIS career is in its’ infancy, in less than 18months she had worked across challenging projects including IT Security Audit, NIMIS BI solution and national fleet PC upgrades. For Thomasina, being able to contribute in some way directly or indirectly to Patient care through NIMIS provides immense job satisfaction.
Outside of work, Thomasina is in her element as Mum to her wonderful young children!
Gary Monk - NIMIS National Team Gary.Monk@hse.ie
Gary worked closely with the NIMIS National Team as PACS Manager for Connolly Hospital for many years, this lead to his secondment to the NIMIS NT in May 2018, which he is greatly enjoying. Gary is currently working on the Children’s Health Ireland implementation project , the NIMIS2.0 RIS Upgrade project and has particular interest in departments outside Radiology such as Respiratory and Cardiology.
Gary qualified as a Radiographer from University College Dublin in 1995 and worked in the National Orthopaedic Hospital of Ireland; Letterkenny University Hospital; and Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown where he still performs radiographer duties. He became interested in RIS/PACS as wanted an alternative to the inefficient paper and film based system. Gary established “RUG”, the RIS user group between Connolly Hospital, Naas Hospital and St. Columcille’s in 1999, bringing together the hospitals, the local IT Departments and the vendor to improve the maintenance, performance and upgrades to the RIS application.
Gary was the PACS Manager for Connolly hospital for 6 years. This included the NIMIS “go live” in 2012. He loved the technical and user challenges of bringing Radiology, Cardiology, Vascular, DXA and Respiratory Departments live in NIMIS. He is an advocate for bringing all imaging departments outside Radiology into NIMIS as he believes this improves patient care.
It’s been a few years since Gary's own competitive sporting days on the badminton courts, but his busy family life keeps me in shape. He mentors St. Oliver Plunkett’s Eoghan Ruagh under 9’s Girls Gaelic teams and enjoy following rugby, football and golf.
Emma Donoghue- Senior Project Officer, NIMIS National Team emma.donoghue1@hse.ie
Emma is working with Technology and Transformation as a Senior Project Officer assigned to NIMIS (National Integrated Medical Imaging System) programme, to capture and store Radiology, Cardiology and other diagnostic images electronically and joined the NIMIS national team march 2019, previously Emma worked in Beaumont Hospital for 21 years mostly in the radiology department, her most recent role as the RIS manager looking after Beaumont Hospital, St Joseph’s Hospital Raheny and Clontarf Orthopaedic Hospital.
Emma is a RIS Lead over 71 public hospitals and imaging centres nationally, driving standardised workflows across NIMIS hospitals to improve patient care pathways. I provide RIS end-user support nationally for all sites live on NIMIS, maintaining a high level of user satisfaction and ensuring maximum potential is achieved from the NIMIS solution while driving standardised national workflows. I am an integral member of the multidisciplinary team required to successfully implement and maintain the NIMIS solution which includes local RIS/PACS team, hospital management, central and local ICT and the NIMIS vendor.
She is looking forward to continuing to support the current sites using the NIMIS system and to assist with any future upgrades / projects, and supporting future sites when the system is expanded to the other remaining hospitals throughout the country.
Stephen McGrath- Senior ICT Support Officer, NIMIS National Team Stephen.McGrath3@hse.ie
Garrett O'Gorman-Senior ICT Support Officer, NIMIS National Team Garrett.OGorman@hse.ie
Garrett joined the South Eastern Health Board in 2000 working as Systems Administrator at Lacken in Kilkenny. During this time, he completed a Masters in Health Informatics. Subsequently he moved to Wexford General Hospital providing IT support (application / hardware and software) for the Acute Hospital and Community services in Wexford County.
Whist a member of the Hospital IT support team, he was first introduced to NIMIS and all of its intricacies at the initial implementation locally in 2013.
Garrett later joined the NIMIS Programme National Team in September 2020. He enjoys the challenge of being part of such a dynamic IT environment and being part of a multidisciplinary team. Every day is a new adventure.
Gareth Purcell - ICT Senior Project Officer, NIMIS National Team Garrett.Purcell@hse.ie
Martina Wearen - ICT Project Manager, NIMIS National Team Martinam.Wearen@hse.ie
Ciara Lynch - ICT Project Manager, NIMIS National Team Ciara.Lynch7@hse.ie
Eoin Mc Carthy - Business Analyst, NIMIS National Team Eoin.Mccarthy@hse.ie
Cian Maher - Business Analyst, NIMIS National Team Cian.Maher@hse.ie
Cian joined the NIMIS National Team in 2023. He originally joined the South Eastern Health Board Ambulance Service in 1999 working as an EMT before undertaking a Radiography Degree in UCD in 2003. Upon graduation in 2007, he commenced working in Wexford General Hospital and gained extensive experience in all modalities including RIS & PACS Management before later specialising in Ultrasound, completing a Masters in same in UCD in 2017.
A particular career highlight was being involved with the NIMIS implementation in Wexford General Hospital which he witnessed the transition from paper and film to a digital environment. A keen interest in the role technology can play in the practical delivery of healthcare has led to his current role and Cian is looking forward to being part of the NIMIS programme.
Avril Healy - Business Analyst, NIMIS National Team Avril.Healy@hse.ie
Emma Fitzpatrick - Business Analyst, NIMIS National Team Emma.Fitzpatrick7@hse.ie
Emma joined the National NIMIS Team in September 2023 as a Business Analyst, contributing to the delivery of various Radiology initiatives.
With eight years of experience as a Radiographer at Beaumont Hospital, Emma also has experience working in a private hospital in Dublin and a major trauma centre in Melbourne. She holds a Master’s degree in MRI and a Certificate in Leadership and Supervisory Skills, and has extensive expertise in MRI, Interventional Radiology, Theatre, and General Radiology. At Beaumont Hospital, Emma served as the Quality Clinical Specialist Radiographer, focusing on improving patient service quality and safety through quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, and the development and maintenance of relevant policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines. She managed mandatory training records, co-chaired the Quality Improvement Team, and was a member of the Radiation Protection Unit.
Emma's interests include Breast, Neuro and Cardiology Imaging, as well as applications aimed at Radiology Quality Improvement. She is looking forward to supporting the continued development of the NIMIS system and implementation of new Radiology applications. Other interests include cycling, travelling and interior design.
Aine Brennan - Business Analyst, NIMIS National Team Aine.Brennan6@hse.ie
Áine joined the NIMIS National team in 2022, bringing with her 14 years of clinical experience from the acute hospital sector. Her extensive background includes roles such as Clinical Specialist Radiographer in MRI and Project Manager for RIS PACS. Áine has pursued postgraduate qualifications from UCD in MRI, RIS/PACS Management, Leadership, and Healthcare Informatics.
Her recent studies in Healthcare Informatics have fuelled Áine’s enthusiasm for eHealth projects, aiming to develop a paperless, patient-centric healthcare system. She is dedicated to enhancing current practices by implementing cutting-edge IT solutions that benefit staff in demanding clinical environments. Áine is eager to contribute to the successful rollout, upgrade, and optimization of the NIMIS system.
Outside of her professional commitments, Áine's young family keeps her busy. She enjoys running and planning her next adventure abroad.
Carmel Reid - Junior Business Analyst, NIMIS National Team CarmelM.Reid@hse.ie
Carmel joined the NIMIS Programme National Team in June 2023 as a Junior Business Analyst. Carmel has over 21 years’ experience in the Acute Hospital sector, the last 15 of those in the Radiology Department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, most recent role was RIS Manager for Louth Hospitals (Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Louth County Hospital) and was responsible for all aspects of the Radiology Information System (RIS) and its users. Carmel is currently working on the CRIS Solution, which is the upgrade to the current NIMIS RIS System.
As RIS Lead on the NIMIS Programme National Team she is continuously innovating and contributing to new initiatives and new ways of working that benefit NIMIS sites and therefore the patient.
Carmel is committed to ongoing education and recently completed Prince2® Certification in Projection Management and have just started the Professional Diploma in Healthcare in Management in conjunction with University College Cork and Health Services Leadership Academy.
Jackie Tobin - NIMIS National Team Jackie.Tobin@hse.ie
Linda Mitchell - NIMIS National Team Linda.Mitchell4@hse.ie