Professor Sir Michael Oliver McBride is a consultant physician who has served as the Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland since September 2006.
[2] He then attended Queen's University Belfast, where he graduated with a MB BCh BAO medical degree, with distinction in Medicine and Surgery, in 1986.
From 1994 to 2006 he worked as an HIV Consultant within the Genitourinary Medicine service at the Royal Group Hospitals Trust.
In September 2006, the Department of Health appointed him as Northern Ireland's Chief Medical officer.
[6] McBride was knighted in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to public health in Northern Ireland.