Category: Speakers

Christina is a senior occupational health nurse, with over 25 years experience of working in national and international organisations. She has led the occupational function in a number of high profile organisations putting into place systems and programmes that continuously improve the health of the workforce. With a special interest of quality and leadership in...

Dr Stephen J. Bourke MD, FRCP, FRCPI, DCH is a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine, based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. He is director of the Newcastle Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre which provides care for people with cystic fibrosis across the Northeast, Cumbria and Teesside. He undertakes research on clinical...

Elaine Wainwright is a Lecturer in the Epidemiology Group, University of Aberdeen, and has a particular interest in the impact of pain on work across the lifespan. Elaine is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychology Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has served as a Scientific Advisor to the Colt Foundation...

Lt Col Matt Yates is a Consultant Occupational Physician in the British Army. He is currently clinical lead for a team providing specialist occupational health services to soldiers in SE England and remote worldwide locations. A former Army GP, he has planned and delivered medical care on operations and training exercises on five continents. Prior...

Brief CV of Dr Ian Aston, BSc (Hons), FRCP, FFOM   Practising occupational physician for 38 years. Specialist Trained at, and worked for Boots Company PLC in Nottingham for 7 years. Then Head of Occupational Health at Glaxo Manufacturing Services for 5 years. Appointed as Consultant Occupational Physician at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust from 1995...

Dr Robin Cordell MBA FRCP FFOM Robin is in day to day practice as an accredited specialist in occupational medicine, and Chairman of Cordell Health, a social enterprise delivering occupational health services across a range of organisations in the public, private and charitable sectors.   He  previously served more than 20 years in clinical and leadership...

David Lain is Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Ageing and Inequalities at Newcastle University. He is also Co-Investigator on the research project Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work (SHAW), funded by the UKRI Healthy Ageing Challenge initiative. David has been researching issues related to older workers for the last two...

Title: Professor  First name: Alastair  Surname: Greystoke Institution: Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust Short Biography: Professor Greystoke joined Newcastle University and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care in 2014 after 8 years spent at the University of Manchester/ Christie NHS Trust.  He is one of 4 consultants that run the Sir...

Dr Georgina Burke is a Consultant Neurologist at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. She obtained her MBBS and intercalated BSc from King’s College, London, in 1997. Dr Burke first came to Wessex in 1998 as a trainee, and returned in 2006 after obtaining a DPhil at Oxford University. Dr Burke’s interest in education started with...

Rodger Duffin BSc., PhD, MRCPath, FRSB Dr Duffin is a Reader in Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Particle and Fibre Research Laboratory within the Centre for Inflammation Research at the University of Edinburgh.  His research interests are focused on the mechanisms controlling the  processes of inflammation, from initiation to resolution and also understanding the...