About Us
IHC offers a specialised service in selling highly technical, highly specialised needs products and/or therapies into the Irish market. This may be a single product or portfolio range and may include new product launches or growth in market penetration for established products. IHC represent a number of Irish, European and US based multinationals.
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To date, we have successfully launched dozens of new products into the Irish market since our inception in 2013.
Building on our experience and with our current Portfolio, IHC personnel provide product awareness information and support for clinical personnel
The Team
Mark Woods
Managing Director
Mark worked for over 12 years with Synapse Medical and St. Jude Medical® as Business Development Manager in the island of Ireland. Mark also represented Abbott Vascular® (Vessel Closure), Asahi Intec, Orbus, Microvention®, AngioDynamics®, BALT®, Angiotech® and Arthrocare® whilst with Synapse and then spent 3 years building up St. Jude’s business across their Interventional Radiology (IR) and Interventional Cardiology (IC) portfolio. Predominantly focusing on IC products such as Femoseal, Pressurewire™ (FFR) and OCT™ (Intravascular Imaging), Mark was also responsible for driving sales in structural products such as Amplatzer™ Vascular Plugs, PFO, ASD as well as driving new emerging technologies in Renal Denervation and LAA closure.
Jason Quinn
Director of Clinical Services
Jason is a trained Cardio-Thoracic nurse (Harefield Hospital, London) and has worked in medical devices sales/training/education for over 14 years with Synapse and Bard specializing in Intervention Cardiology, Radiology and Vascular specialities. Jason represented companies such as Abbott Vascular® (Vessel Closure), Asahi Intec, Orbus, Microvention®, AngioDynamics®, BALT®, Angiotech® and Arthrocare®. Jason has worked with BARD® Ireland as their clinical specialist for 4 years before co-founding Infusion and has developed its range of Vascular Access products such as PICCs and Ports.
Vincent Prone
General Manager
Vincent has 40 years experience in the Medical Device distribution business in Ireland and has held senior managerial roles throughout his career and latterly was General Manager for MED Surgical who are now part of the Uniphar Group.
Vincent has huge experience in successfully scaling businesses and is adept at delivering consistent performances for partners across a wide clinical area such as Boston Scientific, Applied Medical, Halyard, Owens & Minor, De Royal, Teleflex but to name a few.
Company restructuring is another area of expertise that has enabled Vincent to maximise the resources to hand and improve the bottom line year on year, driving both performances and profitability.
Colin Ruth
Sales Director Surgical Division
Colin has worked for over 12 years to date in the medical devices industry with Aquilant Medical (part of United Drug Group PLC) and Stryker Neurovascular as Senior Territory Manager in both roles.
With Aquilant, Colin worked in Endoscopy, Interventional Radiology, Cardiology along with General & Gynaecology forums. In these areas, he represented Opti-Med®, Cooper Surgical and Gore Medical supplying products for paediatric cardiac shunts, chest wall recon, sleeve gastrectomies, incisional and Hiatal hernia implants. These Gore products included Bio-A Dualmesh and Seamguard.
With Stryker Neurovascular, Colin worked in Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke areas with ground-breaking Neuro products such as Guidewires, access catheters, coils, intravascular, stent retrievers and flow diverter devices. These innovative products manufactured and supplied to the market by Stryker were purposefully innovated to provide meaningful outcomes for patients and ultimately driven to make healthcare better.
Pauline McNamara
Compliance & Regulatory Manager
Pauline joined Infusion Healthcare in 2017 and is a qualified Solicitor with over 12 years experience working in the legal profession. Her background includes working in private practice and in –house roles as well as working for the leading quality/risk management service provider in the country to the legal profession, where her role included carrying out quality audits in law firms throughout the country.
In her role at Infusion Healthcare, Pauline is responsible for ensuring compliance with all aspects of regulation governing the distribution of medical devices in the Irish market, in particular, the implementation of MDR. Further, Pauline’s focus is on ensuring a culture of quality and compliance within Infusion Healthcare and implementing Quality Management System, ISO 9001:2015. As part of her role, Pauline also interacts with suppliers on distribution and agency agreements.
Ruth Maguire
Customer Service Administrator
Ruth joined Infusion Healthcare in 2021. Ruth has 15 years’ experience in sales, customer service and administration roles and has worked with companies such as Cemac Consulting, Eircom and Flogas Energy. She has over 5 years’ experience in logistics administration having worked with The Retail Marketing Hub and TradeWins.
Ruth has a Diploma in IT Training which she attained in the Cyber Academy. Ruth worked as their Business Development Manager and became an IT Trainer once she completed her Diploma.
Ruth is responsible for all customer inquiries relating to all our products and ranges as well as stock control and orders from our distribution centre in Drogheda.