Main Conference Programme Day 2

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Main Conference programme Day 2, 18th June 2025

 

8.15–9.00 Registration, Coffee and Poster Viewing
9.00-9:45

 

Eponymous Lecture: Jameson Parkinson

Professor Dame Jenny Harries , Chief Executive, UK Health Security Agency

 

9:45-10:30

 

Parallel [10&13 – 90 mins]

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

 

Parallel 11

Oral Presentations Session 2

 

Parallel 12

Workplace Health Intelligence

 

Professor Martie van Tongeren, Professor of Occupational & Environmental Health, University of Manchester

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

Dr Nikki Cordell, CEO Cordell Health

Professor Chris Warhurst, Director, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick

 

10.30-11.15

 

Parallel 14

Clinical update: Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome

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

 

Parallel 15

Workplace Mental Health Panel

 

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

 

Professor Gail Kinman, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London and the University of Nottingham

 

Rachel Suff, Senior Policy & Practice Adviser Employee Relations, CIPD

 

11.15-11.45

 

Refreshments, Exhibition and Posters
11.45-12.15

 

Plenary Lecture

Dr Gail Allsopp, Chief Medical Adviser, DWP

12.15-13.00

 

Parallel 16

Clinical Update: Voice and Work

Mrs Victoria Burnay, Voice Specialist, Speech and Language Therapist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London

 

Parallel 17

Oral Presentations Session 3

 

 

Parallel 18

OH MDT session – Functional Capacity Evaluation in Occupational Health: Global Evidence, Future Impact

Dr Jain Holmes, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham

Mandy Kelly, Occupational Therapist, Crest Health Group Limited

 

13.00-14:00

60 mins

Lunch and Exhibition
14.00-14.45 Panel Discussion: Neurodiversity

 

14.45-15.00

 

Prize Giving

 

15.00-15.30

 

Plenary Lecture

Artificial intelligence:  Data, Ethics and Practical Implications

Dr Lara Shemtob, Occupational Health Physician, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, School of Public Health - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

 

15.30-1600

 

Plenary Lecture

State of the Nation

Prof Dame Carol Black GBE

 

16.00 Closing Remarks – SOM/FOM joint messages to take home

SOM and FOM Presidents