Neil Johnson is Chief Executive of Croí, the Irish Heart & Stroke Charity and the Irish National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health. He is a founder and Executive Director of the Global Heart Hub, the international alliance of heart patient organisations. The Global Heart Hub aims to provide a voice for those living with or affected cardiovascular disease.
He has over 30 years leadership, management and development experience in the ‘not-for-profit’ sector in the field of cardiovascular health – working across service development; prevention, rehabilitation; education and training; research; patient engagement and patient advocacy. He is a founder of Ireland’s first Heart & Stroke Centre dedicated to cardiovascular health and wellbeing which is recognised by the European Society of Cardiology as a European Centre of Excellence in CVD prevention.
He is an Honorary Clinical Fellow of the School of Medicine at the National University of Ireland, Galway and a Fellow of the National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychology from the NUI, Galway.