Category: Speakers

Christina Butterworth, RN SCPHN Hon. FFOM Christina is a senior occupational health nurse, with over 30 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 and wellbeing of the workforce. With...

Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones Co-Founder & CEO of OccHavn Abeyna is a trailblazing entrepreneur, Consultant Occupational Health Physician, LinkedIn Top Voice, Serial Entrepreneur and Podcast Host OccHavn is a specialist multidisciplinary consultancy which helps companies get stressed senior leaders back to work.

Prof van Tongeren is an occupational and environmental health epidemiologist with nearly 35 years of experience in areas such as exposure and risk assessment and occupational disease epidemiology.  He leads an interdisciplinary team at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester, to provide MSc level training for Occupational Physicians and...

Dr McKeagney is a Consultant Respiratory Physician in the Belfast Trust. His subspecialty interests include Occupational Lung Disease and COPD. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine RCPI, a member of the NI Occupational Health Practitioners Group and a member of the UK Group of Occupational Respiratory Disease Specialists.  

Dr Martin Hogan in a full time Occupational Physician since 1994 working full time in industry. He is a Director Corporate Health Ireland (CHI) which is part of the PAM group. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and a Fellow of Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College...

Hamish Courtney has been a Consultant Endocrinologist in the Belfast Trust since 2005 having received both his medical education and MD at Queen’s University, Belfast and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Diego. His recent leadership roles include Clinical Director of the Northern Ireland Regional Diabetes Network, NI Diabetes Foot Lead...

Dr Dipti Patel MBBS FRCP FFOM FFTM RCPS (Glasg) LLM OBE Dr Dipti Patel is a consultant in occupational medicine and in travel medicine. She is Director of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), and the Chief Medical Officer at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). She is also an honorary lecturer...

Dr David McLoughlin CBE FRCP FFOM FFOM(I) David McLoughlin went to medical school at Queen’s University Belfast. After qualifying in 1990, he initially trained as a General Practitioner before completing training in Occupational Medicine and leadership. McLoughlin is a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians....

Prof Sir Michael McBride Prof Sir Michael McBride was appointed to the post of Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health, in September 2006. Prior to joining the department he had been Medical Director at the Royal Group of Hospitals from August 2002. Prof Sir Michael McBride graduated with Distinction from Queen’s University Belfast...

Dr Louise Hancock MBChB MRCP(UK) MFOM MSc (Occ Med) PGDip Oncology DOccMed Dr Louise Hancock works as a Consultant Occupational Health Physician at Medigold Health. She is the Lead Medical Review Officer at Hampton Knight and was appointed as the Chief Medical Officer for two large public listed companies in 2020. Her daily practice involves...