Lorna Ross is an internationally recognised leader in the area of healthcare innovation. Her career spans 30+ years of professional experience leading strategic design activity across a range of industry sectors from healthcare to government services. Her work at The Mayo Clinic established the first and largest activity of design-led innovation in an academic medical institution and became recognised internationally as the benchmark in patient centric healthcare transformation.

Nationally, Lorna sat on the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment’s Expert Group on Future Skills Needs and The Dept. Public Expenditure & Reform Design In Government; Design Our Public Services. She was a member of the expert committee charged with developing a report and recommendations from the Creating Our Future citizen engagement initiative in 2021.

In 2018, while at Accenture's Global Innovation Centre, The Dock, she founded the Human Insights Lab, in partnership with Trinity College School of Humanities, exploring the ethical and philosophical implications of disruptive, emerging technologies. As part of her role on the RTE/ Science Foundation Ireland documentary, Big Life Fix, Lorna became a nationally recognized spokesperson for Irish Design in innovation and an advocate for design acting at a human scale, on social issues.

As Innovation leadership for VHI Healthcare, Lorna led the strategies for Women’s Health, Digital Health and Care Ecosystem Integration. She sits on the Research & Innovation Board of Tallaght University Hospital and hold an adjunct faculty position with the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.

In October, she assumed the role of Head of Department, Design & Creative Media at ATU Donegal. Her focus at ATU will be to enriching the creative economy in the North West region, including cross border collaboration.