Category: Speakers

Kamal Mahawar is a Consultant General/ Bariatric Surgeon, lead for Upper GI Surgery and corporate lead for invasive procedures safety at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has an H index of 37. He is the...

Paul Grime Consultant Occupational Physician and Deputy Editor for Occupational Medicine Writing a paper for publication in Occupational Medicine Academic Forum Thursday 15 June 2023 Paul has been an NHS consultant occupational physician since 2001.  Paul has worked with NHS and independent OH providers in a range of contexts including the University of Cambridge and...

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...