Breffni Martin was educated at St Micheal’s College Dublin and Cistercian College Roscrea. At University College Dublin he received his BSc specialising in biochemistry in 1983. Thereafter he worked for a number of major pharmaceutical companies in the area of late stage drug development, in both a scientific, regulatory and information technology context, as well as in environmental management. These include GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Laboratoire Guerbet and Fermenta (a Pharmacia spin-off).
In 1997 he joined IMS Health (IDRAC, a regulatory intelligence company) where he developed regulatory content covering North America, Japan, Australia and elsewhere, including a dedicated FDA Advisory Committee intelligence business. He subsequently set up and operated RegIntel and CanReg (Europe), regulatory intelligence and services companies.

Breffni Martin is a member of the Advisory Council of Europe for the Drug Information Association (the pharmaceutical industry’s largest professional association) and is a regular programme chair and speaker at their conferences.

• Speaker (Challenges in Regulatory Intelligence), Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2003.
• Session chair and speaker: Three Worlds – One Voice: eClinical, CDM, Validation, Amsterdam 2004.
• Programme committee, track chair, speaker (Validation methodology): Four Worlds - One Vision: Delivering Quality Data Effectively, Prague, 2005.
• Session Chair: Combination Products: A Primer, Annual Meeting Philadelphia 2006.
• Speaker (Challenges of Data Capture from Obese Patients), Euromeeting Vienna, March 2007.
• Session Chair (Risk-based Software Validation): Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2007.
• Programme committee, track chair, session chair, speaker: 2^nd Clinical Forum, Slovenia, October, 2007.
• Session Chair (Delivering Quality Validation): Annual Meeting, Boston, 2008.
• Programme committee, track chair, session chair, speaker: 3^nd Clinical Forum, Nice, October, 2008.
• Session Chair (Auditing), Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2009.
• Programme committee, track chair, session chair, speaker: 4^nd Clinical Forum, Monaco, October, 2009.
• Speaker (Impact of Climate Change on Pharma), Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2010.
• Programme advisor, session chair, speaker (Risk Assessment Methodology): 4^th Clinical Forum, Lisbon, 2010.
• Speaker (eClinical solutions for obesity epidemic) Applied Clinical Trials European Summit October 2007 Berlin
• Speaker (Regulatory Intelligence) Movida Annual Registration Summit Warsaw February 2011
  
  

In October 2010 Gower published a book entitled “Electronic Solutions for Patient-Reported Data” (editors Byrom/Tiplady) for which Breffni Martin contributed a chapter entitled “ePRO Applications and Personal Mobile Phone Use.”

He is also a member of the Louth Strategic Policy Committee (environment, water, emergency services) and the Louth Heritage Forum and Biodiversity Committee. He is a founder member and director of the Louth Nature Trust and the chairman for Birdwatch Ireland Louth. He has authored numerous Environmental Assessments as well as articles and papers on subjects varying from the obesity healthcare crisis, eclinical, global warming, risk management in drug development and natural history. He is bilingual French-English and a published wildlife photographer.

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