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Faculty of Occupational Medicine Autumn Conference


Occupational Health & the Changing Workplace –

Meeting the Contemporary Needs in the Workplace

Approved for 6 CPD Credits Friday 4th October 2019

Approved for 6 CPD credits

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Friday 4th October 2019

Time Title Speaker

08.30 – 09.20 Registration

09.20 – 09.30 Opening address by Dr Lynda Sisson, Dean, Faculty of Occupational

Medicine, RCPI

Session 1

09.30 – 10.05 Occupational Medicine in the face

of New and Emerging Risks in the

workplace

Professor Lode

Godderis,

University of

Leuven,

Belgium

10.05 – 10.15 Q & A

10.15 – 10.45 Healthy Ireland - Men Finian Murray,

Men's Health

Development

Officer, HSE HP&I

Dublin North

East

10.45 – 10.55 Q & A

10.55- 11:15 Comfort Break

11.15– 11.45 Implementing supportive

interventions for men's mental

health in the workplace - practical

tips

Ms. Anne Farrell,

Health

Promotion

Officer,

CIE Dublin

11.45 -11.55 Q & A

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Time Title Speaker

11.55 – 12.25 Mental Health 1st Aid - protecting

and supporting mental health at

work for all

Donal Scanlan,

CEO

Mental Health

1st Aid Ireland

12.25 – 12.35 Q & A

12.35 – 13.00 The RCPI Health & Wellbeing

Initiative

Professor Gaye

Cunnane,

RCPI Director of

Health &

Wellbeing

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Session 2

14.00 – 14.35 The changing face of the

workplace – Ergonomics now and

into the Future

Ms. Lisa Thomas

& Mr. Conor

Lyons,

Ergonomic

Specialists,

USafety Ireland

14.35 – 14.45 Q & A

14.45 – 15.15 Implementing a Global Employee

Assistance Programme -

supporting employee wellbeing in

a diverse working population

Dr. Lali Japaridze,

Senior Health

Director, Eastern

Hemisphere, BP

International Plc.

15.15 – 15.25 Q & A

15.25 – 15.55 Short cases blitz – learning from Various Speakers

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Time Title Speaker

Occupational Medicine in practice

15.55 – 16.15 Panel discussion

16.15 - 16.20 Overview and Close of meeting Dr Lynda Sisson,

Dean of the

Faculty of

Occupational

Medicine

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Guest speaker biographies

Professor Lode Godderis Prof. Dr. Lode Godderis is professor occupational medicine

at the Centre for Environment and Health of the University

of Leuven. He investigates the impact work on health by

unravelling the underlying epigenetic mechanism and also

the reverse how health can affect work (dis)ability. He

leads the division of the Laboratory of Occupational and

Environmental Hygiene. The lab analyses air samples and

biological samples of workers. He is also director

Knowledge, Information and Research at IDEWE (External

Service for Prevention and Protection at Work) where he

leads a team specialized in questionnaire studies on

psycho-social risks and analysis of medical data for

companies and sectors. He is the current chair of

Modernet; an international network for development of

techniques for discovering trends in work-related diseases

and tracing new and emerging risks.

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Finian Murray

Finian Murray is the Men’s Health Development Officer

with Health Promotion & Improvement, Health Service

Executive, Dublin North East and Advisory Group member

of both Healthy Ireland – Men and Men’s Health Forum in

Ireland. His role involves the continuation of men’s health

work which first begun during the lifetime of the National

Men’s Health Policy 2008 -2013 and continues through the

action plan Healthy Ireland – Men 2017-21. He is one of the

authors of Engage - National Men’s Health Training, which

includes Engage Unit 6 - Connecting with Young Men on

Mental Health and Wellbeing and Engage Unit 7- Middle

Age Men and Mental Health. He co-ordinates, mentors and

delivers the Engage programme.

He has a number of peer-reviewed and other publications

in men’s health. Prior to his current position, Finian worked

as Project Leader for the North Eastern Health Board and

as Community Development Officer for the Irish

Wheelchair Association. He has a Master’s Degree in Adult

and Community Education from NUI Maynooth.

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Anne Farrell

Anne is the Executive Workplace Health Promotion Officer

with the CIE transport group (Bus Eireann, Dublin Bus and

Irish Rail), Advanced facilitator in promoting health and

wellness, Health/Life/NLP coach, and a member of

Workplace Wellness Ireland.

Anne has developed effective health promotion strategies and programs to all 3 companies. She has delivered a few programs in Dublin Bus called Gut Busters and a one year program called Life Fit to 500 Irish rail and Bus Eireann employees. She also works with employees as a health/life coach using neuro linguistic programming and life coaching techniques.

• Human factors and its influence on the health of a worker is an area she would like to develop more within the companies. Has in the past lectured with the Aviation Authority on their wellness component of their Human Factor course.

• She works closely with the Men’s Development Unit and HSE in delivering Men’s Health 1 day training course called ENGAGE to all 3 companies and to other men’s groups within the community.

• She continues to work with management and key stakeholders in developing wellness policies to support staff. She also offers masterclass workshops in wellness and a variety of others workshops under various topics such as sleep and recovery, nutrition, mindset, unplugging from technology and health, managing shift work and exercise etc

Prior to her present role, she has worked as an Occupational Health and Safety Advisor for IBM, Toyota and Intel. In 2018 she completed a masters (Hons) in Advanced Facilitation Skills in Promoting Health and Wellness from Waterford Institute of Technology.

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Donal Scanlan

The Mental Health First Aid Ireland Manager has been

working and studying as a professional in the area of

mental health and well-being for 20 years. He leads the

team at MHFA Ireland to who bring mental health training

all over Ireland. Their aim is to create more supportive and

informed communities and workplaces. An occasional

contributor to digital, television and print media, often

speaking publicly on mental health at conferences, schools,

colleges and the corporate world and has guest lectured at

the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and University

College Ireland. Most recently he was a guest speaker at

the Oireachtas Forum on Mental Health and the Garda

Commissioners Conference. He has regularly worked with

fellow thought leaders supporting and contributing to See

Change (National Partnership on Stigma Reduction), Green

Ribbon mental health campaign, Cycle Against Suicide and

Spunout.ie.

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Prof Gaye Cunnane, PhD, MB, FRCPI

Prof Gaye Cunnane, PhD, MB, FRCPI, is a Clinical Professor

of Medicine and Rheumatology at Trinity College Dublin

and a Consultant Rheumatologist at St James’s Hospital.

After graduation from TCD, she completed her basic

specialist training at St James’s and its affiliated hospitals

before moving to St Vincent’s Hospital and UCD to do her

higher speciality training and her PhD studies. She then

undertook a 3 year clinical and research fellowship at the

University of California, San Francisco. An 18-month

sojourn as consultant and senior lecturer at the University

of Leeds was followed by her appointment to St James’s

Hospital Dublin. Additionally, she has held the roles of

National Speciality Director for Rheumatology, Programme

Director for Basic Specialist Training for the TCD scheme,

Post-graduate Director for Education at St James’s Hospital,

and is a past-president of the Irish Society for

Rheumatology. She has recently been appointed Director

for Health and Wellbeing at the Royal College of Physicians

of Ireland. Her current research interests are focused on

lifestyle risks in the rheumatic diseases.

Ms Lisa Thomas

Ergonomic Specialists, USafety Ireland

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Mr Conor Lyons

Ergonomic Specialists, USafety Ireland

Dr. Lali Japaridze

Dr Japaridze trained as a physician at the Tbilisi State

Medical University in Georgia (then USSR), she holds an

MSc in Occupational Health from the Institute of

Occupational and Environmental Medicine of the University

of Birmingham (UK). After practicing internal medicine in

Georgia, she joined the oil and gas industry in 1997. In her

earlier years, Dr Japaridze worked as Health manager for

BP in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia. In these roles she

established and managed health provision in often remote

and challenging environments, including the Caspian

offshore, for major export pipeline projects from

Azerbaijan to Turkey, and advising TNK-BP in Russia. In

subsequent years, Dr Japaridze oversaw health provisions

for BP in Europe and Southern Africa, and worked in

company’s Executive office where she gained broad

business experience. In her current role, Dr Japaridze is

responsible for occupational, public and environmental

health matters for BP in the Eastern Hemisphere. Her

current areas of focus are mental health and employee

wellbeing, and travel health. She has recently been

appointed to the role of Honorary clinical advisor for the

Society of Occupational Medicine.

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