Dr Emer Sherry

Dr Emer Sherry is Senior Executive with Irish Medtech since May 2022 leading the quality, regulatory and sterility assurance workstreams. Through managing the Irish Medtech Regulatory Steering Committee (comprised of senior regulatory industry leaders), she leads Irish Medtech’s ongoing stakeholder engagement with the Irish Competent Authority HPRA, Notified Body NSAI, patient and clinician bodies, government departments’ officials together with national and European policymakers. She manages eight working groups ranging across a variety of regulatory topics providing practical support to member companies in navigating the complexity of medtech regulations.  She organises member forums for the Irish medtech industry promoting a collaborative and supportive medtech ecosystem in Ireland and is the conference director for the Irish Medtech’s bi-annual flagship regulatory conference Global Access, Ireland’s largest and most comprehensive medical technology industry QA/RA conference. Prior to joining Irish Medtech, she held senior positions in Telecommunications Industry Ireland and Audiovisual Ireland within Ibec overseeing the strategy, regulatory affairs and public policy, new technologies, cross-industry utility work streams. She represented industry on the Government’s Task Force on Mobile Phone and Broadband and the Joint Utility Local Authority Forum.  Emer is an active member of Medtech Europe’s Advocacy working group and Regulatory Affairs Committee. She holds a first-class honours degree in electronic engineering and a PhD in the same discipline from University College Dublin.