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Pat O’Brien has been a Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College London Hospitals since 1999. He is currently the Divisional Clinical Director for Women's Health. He specialises in Maternal Medicine and high-risk obstetrics, and at UCLH jointly runs a multi-disciplinary antenatal clinic involving consultants in Fetal Medicine, Cardiology, Haematology, Diabetes, Anaesthesia, and an Obstetric Physician. He has a particular interest in medical complications of pregnancy. He lectures widely in the UK and abroad, and runs courses on fetal monitoring, medical problems on the delivery suite, psychiatric problems and cardiac disorders in pregnancy.

He is the Chair of the International Division of the Institute for Women’s Health in London and a media spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. He is a reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration and several medical journals. He sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and the BJM. He examines for the DRCOG examination. He has been a member of the obstetric guideline development group of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK. He also works regularly with BBC Television (British Broadcasting Corporation) as an obstetric advisor.

Since graduating in Medicine in 1985, Mike has become one of the leading and most influential sports medics in the UK. In addition to his work at 76 Harley Street, his current post includes Lead Sports Physician (South of England) for the English Institute of Sport based at University College London (UCL) where he treats elite athletes from a wide range of sports, and he is currently the team doctor to the British Boxing, Fencing, and Bobsleigh Team. He has travelled extensively with national squads, accompanying teams to Olympic and Commonwealth Games, World and European Championships.

He is the Chief Medical Officer for the Commonwealth Games. Mike is active in various fields of sport and exercise medicine research and has published work on various aspects of SEM. He is interested in the education of future SEM doctors and helps run the training programme for new consultants in London.