Main Conference Programme Day 1

Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability)

Occupational Health; the forgotten solution to our Healthcare Crisis?
Dr Alasdair Emslie, past president of SOM, CMO of Health Partners

Specialist training in Occupational Medicine: averting a doom cycle
Dr Alice Rutter, Salus Occupational Health, NHS Lanarkshire

Follow the yellow brick road: navigating pathways from practice to evidence-based policy

Dr Jo Daniels, UKRI Policy Fellow, Science, Research and Evidence Directorate, Department of Health and Social Care and University of Bath

Clinical Update: Ill Health Retirement Workshop – New Guidance Update by the SOM Pensions Specialist Interest Group

Dr Shairana Naleem, Medical Director, Health Partners

Dr Simon Sheard, Medical Director, Health Partners

Dr Clare Piper, Medical Director: Clinical Lead Pensions, Health Partners

Pre-booking required: please book when you register or modify your registration to include this.
Kindly supported by Health Partners

Oral Presentations Session 1

Confidentiality, consent and disclosure in the public interest

Dr Antonia Karus-McElvogue, Medico-Legal Adviser, MDDUS

Session kindly supported by MDDUS

Clinical update: Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome

Dr Roger Cooke, Consultant Occupational Health Physician, leading expert in the field of HAVS,

OH MDT panel discussion

Our role as workplace advisors

Professor Diana Kloss MBE, Professor and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Manchester

Dr Ali Hashtroudi, Senior Medical Director, Optima Health and Head of National School of Occupational Health, NHS E

Amanda Hinkley, Head of Occupational Health, Safeguarding Lead, Associate Caldicott Guardian, Fellow of Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing,

Division of Workplace, and Health and Safety, People and Workplace Directorate,

UK Health Security Agency

Jo Vallom- Smith, Occupational Therapist specialising in Occupational Health

Clinical Update: Vision and Work

Dr Marisa Rodriguez Carmona, Lecturer in Optics, School of Health Sciences,  City, University of London

Oral Poster Session

SOM International Group Session

Dr Bobby Joseph- Occupational Health in India - challenges and successes

Dr Dominic Yong – ANZSOM - Occupational Health issues in Australia

Dr Richard Heron – IOMSC update

Dr Rupali Das - Climate change and OH

Local Oncology Update - Systemic Anti-cancer Treatments and Their Impact on Work

Dr Louise Hancock, Honorary Specialty Doctor in Medical Oncology, Royal Sussex County Hospital and Consultant Occupational Physician, Medigold Health

How Occupational Health professionals can influence manager behaviour to improve Health and Wellbeing

Professor Jo Yarker, Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Professor in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London

Employment legislation update, including the Employment Rights Bill

Mr Mark Landon, Partner, Employment, Pensions and Immigration Team, Weightmans, London