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Eilis McGovern (born 1957 or 1958) is an Irish surgeon.

Background
McGovern was born in Mountcharles, County Donegal. She attended secondary school at St. Louis Convent in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, and went on to study medicine at University College Dublin (UCD), where she won the gold medal in surgery and silver medal in medicine. She graduated from UCD in 1978.

Surgical career
McGovern obtained Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982, achieving first place in the examination.

In 1985, she was awarded a Council of Europe Fellowship to study in Paris. She then undertook a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. In 1987, McGovern was appointed consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. In 1999 she established a new cardiac surgery unit at St. James's Hospital, Dublin. She is an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
In 2010, McGovern was elected the first female President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). She was the 168th president in RCSI's 226 year history.