Category: Speakers

Jo is a Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist, co-Managing Partner at Affinity Health at Work, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and co-Director of the London Centre for Work and Health. Her work focuses on preventing avoidable harm and promoting worker and organisational health, through systemic, evidence-based approaches that equip workers, managers,...

The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms was appointed Minister of State in the Department for Work and Pensions, and the Department for Education, on 8 July 2024. He currently holds the Government post of Minister for Social Security and Disability. He was previously the Work and Pensions Select Committee Chair. Sir Stephen Timms has been...

Dr Simon Sheard is medical director at Health Partners Group. After a career in OH in the Royal Navy, he has spent over 25 years working in the outsourced occupational health service environment. He has provided medical advice to a number of significant public sector pension schemes including PCSPS and SPPA (Scottish NHS, Teachers and...

Dr Alice Rutter is an ST5 Resident Doctor working in Occupational Medicine, based in NHS Lanarkshire. She is currently on maternity leave after welcoming her son, Miles, on New Year’s Day 2025, following a hectic 2024 getting through the MFOM Part 2. Alice moved to Edinburgh in 2014 after leaving medical school, and has since...

Rupali Das, MD, MPH, FACOEM Dr. Rupali Das is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Senior Vice President and Medical Director at Zenith Insurance Company. At Zenith she provides guidance for appropriate delivery of medical care to workers while balancing business process...

Dr Shairana Naleem, MFOM, MSc Medical Education, FHEA, FRCP Dr Shairana Naleem is a Medical Director at Health Partners Group Ltd since 2023; she is dually accredited as a Consultant in Acute/General Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. She originally completed her medical training at UCL where she also gained a Masters in Medical Education and...

Mark Landon is an Employment Partner and the national Head of Client Training at Weightmans LLP Solicitors, a top 50 national law firm. Mark has over 30 years’  experience as an Employment specialist, working both in private practice and in-house, and provides advice and training to a wide range of public and private sector clients...

Professor Diana Kloss MBE is a barrister, retired employment tribunal judge and Hon Senior Lecturer in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Manchester. She is Hon FFOM and Hon President, Council for Work and Health. Diana is the author of Occupational Health Law, 6th edition, and writes a regular column in Occupational...

Dr Antonia Karus-McElvogue BSc (Hons) MBBS DLM, Medico-legal adviser Antonia graduated from GKT School of Medicine, King’s College London in 2019 where she also obtained an intercalated BSc in Medical Ethics and Law. She began her medical career in Edinburgh alongside teaching the university’s medical ethics curriculum before working in Emergency Medicine in Scotland and...

Dr Bobby Joseph is Vice Dean, Community Outreach and Distance Education; Professor, Community Health and Head, Occupational Health Services, St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore 560034, Karnataka, India.