Category: Speakers

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...

Dr Karen DeSalvo is a physician executive working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology whose career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities. She leads a team of health professionals at Google who provide guidance for the development of inclusive research, products and services. She has been part of the...

Malcolm Sim is an Occupational and Environmental Physician who leads a team of about 25 research and teaching staff in the Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH). His main research interests include the risk of chronic diseases, such as cancer and respiratory diseases from chemical and other exposures in the workplace and community,...

Dr Sheetal Chavda is a Consultant in Occupational Medicine. She is currently an Associate Medical Director for HML/Maximus and Chief Medical Officer for London Fire Brigade. She is also the Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion taskforce for SOM whose mission is to promote diversity and inclusion within Occupational Health.

Kathy is an experienced Occupational Health Physiotherapist and Director of Working Health Consulting Ltd.   As well as running a successful Occupational Health Consultancy Practice she is actively involved in postgraduate education in Occupational Health and Ergonomics to multi professional teams, with current Associate Lecturing positions at the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University.     She...