About
Videodoc

Dr. Brian McManus

Dr. McManus studied Medicine in UCD and qualified with an MB BCh BAO in 1996. He has worked in numerous Dublin hospitals and has particular experience in emergency medicine, general medicine, surgery, paediatrics, palliative care and anaesthetics. In 2002 he completed his specialist training in general practice and has worked as a doctor for 13 years in Ireland and the UK. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and has certificates in geriatric medicine and minor surgery. In 2015 he started working as a Medical Advisor in Vhi Healthcare and working in the Medical Division and then moving into a role within the Strategy Division. During his time in Vhi he completed a Masters in Pharmaceutical Medicine and a Certificate of Professional Medical Insurance. In 2017, he was appointed Medical Director of VideoDoc.

“My primary goal as Medical Director of VideoDoc is to provide a safe, efficient service that can compliment General Practice in Ireland. I am particularly interested in developing guidelines and protocols to ensure the doctors working on the platform are practicing safe, evidence-based medicine. I am also interested in developing chronic disease management programmes via telemedicine that may alleviate some of the pressure on primary care and hospital outpatients.”

Medical Director for videoDoc
IMC No. 020384

Dr. Conor O'Hanlon

Graduating from UCD in 1975 with a Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery, Conor qualified as a doctor in 1980. He is a founding member of the Irish Council of General Practitioners, playing a pivotal role in making it the institution it is today. He was also co-founder of DubDoc, the out-of-hours doctor service based in St. James’ Hospital in Dublin. Conor has over 40 years’ experience in General Practice and ran his own practice in Palmerstown for 37 years. Conor’s areas of special interest are paediatrics and surgery.

As the Medical Director of VideoDoc, Conor oversees the recruitment and training of all our doctors. He also manages VideoDoc’s clinical governance.

Clinical Director for videoDoc
IMC No. 008009

Dr. Niroshini Naidoo

Dr Niroshini Naidoo, who is originally from Durban, South Africa qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2003 with a MB BCH BaO. She completed her specialist training in the UK with a MRCGP and is on the Specialist Register for General Practice in Ireland. Her additional qualifications include a Diploma in Child Health, Diploma in Clinical Psychiatry and Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists as well as completing courses in Crisis Prevention Intervention,  Equal Opportunities and Diversity Training and Travel Medicine. She is a registered smeartaker and her special interests include Paediatrics and Women’s Health. One of her most interesting roles to date was the female clinical lead doctor for the Google Wellness Centre at the Google Headquarters in Dublin when the clinic was initially set up back in 2013, the only of it’s kind outside the U.S.

Niroshini enjoys spending time with her young family, foreign travel, linguistics, music, latin dancing, yoga and pilates and is keen on both promoting and living a healthy lifestyle.

Doctor
IMC No. 180339

Dr. Zara Quail

Dr Zara Quail graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2002 and has since worked in primary health care, with some in-hospital and acute care unit work, in South Africa, United Kingdom and Ireland. In addition to her clinical work as a general practitioner, she has enjoyed in-depth involvement in the publication of regional and global online, evidence-based, point-of-care decision-support resources and guidelines for doctors. She has a particular interest in non-communicable disease management and prevention and the use of eHealth and mHealth to support patients.

Doctor
IMC No. 342280

Mary Harney

With a long political career characterised by a passion for reform, innovation, and enterprise, Mary was in government for 17 years and served as Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) for nine years. She was the first woman to lead a political party in Ireland and the longest serving female TD (Member of Parliament) in the state’s history. During her time in government, Mary held responsibility for Industrial Development and promoting Irish businesses abroad for seven years. She was also Minister for Health for seven years, initiating reforms in areas such as cancer services, care of the elderly and regulation of health professionals.

Mary has a deep knowledge of the interactions between business and government at National and European levels. Having retired from politics in 2011, she now puts her Economics qualification from Trinity College, Dublin to use focusing on private business interests.

Former Politician & Government Minister

James Hummer

Jim Hummer founded and led Whole Health Management, an innovative provider of direct contract, work-site employee health services to Fortune 500 companies, until it was merged into Walgreen Company in May of 2008. Upon the sale of Whole Health, Jim founded Luxemburg Capital, his family investment firm, and Redrock Ventures, his personal investment firm. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Endotronix and is a board member or advisor to several healthcare companies.

Before Whole Health, Jim co-founded and was President of the Ivy Medical Group, a pioneer in the urgent care field. Previously, he was Director of Planning and Human Resources at Martin Marietta Corporation’s Chemical Group. Earlier, Jim was with Deloitte & Touché, San Francisco, where he obtained his CPA. Jim has served on the Harvard Business School Alumni Board, the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association Board and currently serves on the Harvard University Healthcare Initiative Advisory Board, the Harvard School of Public Health Executive Leadership Council, the Qualcomm Life Advisory Board, and the Nanovic Institute Board at the University of Notre Dame.

Managing Partner, Redrock Ventures. President, Luxemburg Capital

Dr John Hillery

President of the College of
Psychiatrists Ireland