Category: Speakers

Lisa Greer (MSc, BA (Hons), DipOT) qualified as an occupational therapist in 1995 and has worked in England and Scotland, specialising in mental health and vocational rehabilitation for most of her career. Between 2010 and 2013 she was the Scottish Government National AHP Lead for Vocational Rehabilitation and Mental Health, responsible for driving forward the...

GARETH JONES – BIOGRAPHY Professor Gareth Jones is a non-clinical epidemiologist who has worked in the field of arthritis and musculoskeletal health for over 20yrs. He trained in epidemiology at the University of Manchester in the Arthritis Research Campaign (now Versus Arthritis) Epidemiology Unit.  Thereafter, he was appointed Lecturer in Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology, also in...

Dr Fiona Adshead, Chair, Sustainable Healthcare Coalition Fiona chairs the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition that inspires partnerships and action on sustainable healthcare. She also works as an independent expert advisor and board member for national and global organisations on wellbeing and sustainability. She is a high-profile wellbeing and public health leader with a track record of...

Dr Johanna Feary is an NHS Respiratory Consultant at Royal Brompton Hospital specialising in Occupational Lung Disease and Asthma and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. She is one of three consultants in the ‘Lungs At Work’ clinical service at the Brompton which sees over 300...

Surgeon Commander Dermot Gardiner Royal Navy Dermot Gardiner is a Consultant Occupational and Aviation Medicine Physician. He is based at the Institute of Naval Medicine in Alverstoke, Hamsphire, near the naval base in Portsmouth and is currently serving as the Head of Aviation Medicine for the Royal Navy. Dermot read medicine at Queens University of...

Alistair (he/him) is an ST4 in Medical Oncology at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre and a CRUK Clinical Research Fellow on the TRACC programme.

 Dr Alexis Paton an internationally recognised and respected academic and writer, with over a decade of experience researching the NHS. A medical sociologist and medical ethicist by training, she is Director of the Centre for Health and Society at Aston University. Outside of Aston, she is Chair of the Royal College of Physicians’ Committee on...