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  • Monday 18th June
  • Tuesday 19th June
  • Wednesday 20th June
  • Thursday 21st June

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary ArtWELCOME RECEPTION at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,

from 7.30pm, with Registration.

9.50 am: OPENING AND WELCOME

SYMPOSIUM:

AGEING AND WORK

How and why do we age?
Tom Kirkwood, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Ageing, Newcastle University, UK

Managing an ageing workforce
Sue Conville, Director, Employment Services, NHS Employers, UK

Ageing and accidents
Alexandra Farrow, Reader, Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies, UK.


Assessing cognitive function
Daniel Collerton, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Ageing Joints - musculoskeletal problems
Nigel Brewster, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

SYMPOSIUM:

IMPROVING WORK OUTCOMES FOR WORKING AGE PEOPLE

Bill Gunnyeon, Chief Medical Adviser and Director for Health and Wellbeing, Department for Work and Pensions, UK
Malcolm Harrington, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Health, University of Birmingham, UK, author of 2011 Independent Review of the Work Capability Assessment
Dame Carol Black, past UK National Director for Health and Work, expert adviser on Health and Work

 

FREE PAPERS – oral presentations of
submitted abstracts

SYMPOSIUM:

INFECTION AND WORK:
SCIENCE & POLICY

TB and Quantiferon Testing
TBC

Hepatitis
Margaret Bassendine, Professor and Consultant Hepatologist, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , UK
Dr Elizabeth Murphy, Consultant Occuptional Phsyician, Honorary Senior lecturer NHS Grampian, University of Aberdeen, UK

HIV
Ed Ong, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Julia Smedley, Consultant Occupational Physician, University Hospital, Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, UK

16:00 2012
HUNTER LECTURE
Occupational Genomics
Professor Sir John Burn, Professor of Clinical Genetics, Newcastle University, UK
17:00 SOM
Annual General Meeting
SOM logo
17:50 Close  

9.00 am: OPENING

SYMPOSIUM:

SHIFTWORK AND HEALTH

Why do birds sing in the morning?
Steve Ball, Consultant Endocrinolgist and Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University, UK

Shiftwork and safety
Simon Folkard, Emeritus Professor, University of Swansea, UK and Professor Invité, Université Paris Descartes, France

Falling asleep on the job
Paul Reading,Consultant Neurologist, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Long term effects of shiftwork
Lesley Rushton OBE, Reader in Occupational Epidemiology, Imperial College London, UK

THE ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM – BALLOON DEBATE

A balloon debate to include important topics:

What qualification does it take to practice Occupational Health?

Can one train in Occupational Health solely in the NHS or in private industry?

Does Occupational Health need so many professional bodies?

Is Occupational Health a Medical or a Public Health specialty?

Speakers will include:

Olivia Carlton, Consultant Occuptional Physician at Transport for London, Past President of SOM and President of FOM, UK

Gordon Parker, Consultant Occupational Physician at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Lecturer in Occupational Medicine at Manchester University, Past President of the Society, UK

Richard Heron, Chief Medical Officer of BP, Honorary Professor of International Business and Health at the Institute of Work, Health and Organisations, Nottingham University, UK

CLINICAL GRAND ROUNDS

Respiratory Occupational Asthma

David Hendrick, Emeritus Professor of Occupational Respiratory Medicine, Newcastle University, UK, Editor of the textbook "Occupational Disorders of the Lung"

Psychiatry

Hamish McAllister-Williamss, Reader In Clinical Psychopharmacology & Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, UK

Musculoskeletal Upper Limb Disorders

Paul Stuart, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

 

 

2:00 pm WORKPLACE VISITS
Close: 5:10 pm

9.00 am: OPENING

SYMPOSIUM:

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Adult effects of childhood disease
Graham Devereux, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Child Health, University of Aberdeen, UK
Katherine Targett, Specialty Trainee, NHS Grampian, UK

Bioterrorism and the Occupational Physician
Bob Jefferson, Consultant in Environmental Medicine, Medical Toxicology Centre, Newcastle University, UK

New substances of abuse
Eilish Gilvarry, President, Northern Regional Drug and Alcohol Services, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2012 THACKRAH LECTURE
Occupational COPD: Lessons from the Industrial Past
Paul Cullinan, Professor in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, UK

Fatique - setting the scene

Steve Turley, Vice President, Faculty of Public Health, GP with special interest in Occupational Health, Roseworth Surgery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Fatigue - the physiology

Julia Newton, Professor of Ageing and Medicine, Newcastle University, UK

Fatigue - the psychology

Peter White, Professor of Psychological Medicine at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK






FREE PAPERS – oral presentations of submitted abstracts







THE FLETCHER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Communication in Occupational Medicine
Nerys Williams, Occupational Physician and former Deputy Director Occupational Health, Department for Work and Pensions, UK

Covert surveillance, fitness to attend disciplinary meetings and other things
Diana Kloss MBE, Barrister and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK

Revalidation : the way forward
Dr Elizabeth Murphy, Consultant Occuptional Phsyician, Honorary Senior lecturer NHS Grampian, University of Aberdeen, UK

Meeting Closes 3:30 pm