Main Conference Programme Day 1
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Pre-Conference Day – 16th June 2025
| SOM Council/Exec meeting | |
| Workplace Visits | |
| 19.00 – 21.00 | Welcome Reception with Registration at The Royal Pavilion |
Main Conference programme Day 1, 17th June 2025
| Main Hall and Parallel 1
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Parallel 2
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Parallel 3
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| 8.00–9.00 | Registration, Coffee and Poster Installation | |||||||
| 9.00 | Welcome from the SOM President and FOM President | |||||||
| 9.10 | Welcome Address
Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability)
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| 9.25 -10:10
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Eponymous Lecture: Thackrah Lecture
Dr Alasdair Emslie, past president of SOM, CMO of Health Partners |
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| 10.10
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Peter Taylor Award Winner Trainee Presentations and Awards
Dr Alice Rutter, Salus Occupational Health, NHS Lanarkshire
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| 10.40–11.10
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Plenary Lecture
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
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| 11:10-11:40
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Refreshments, Exhibition and Posters | |||||||
| 11:40-12:25
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Parallel [1&4 – 90 mins]
Clinical Update: IHR workshop Dr Shairana Naleem, Medical Director, Health Partners
Dr Simon Sheard, Medical Director, Health Partners
Dr Clare Piper, Medical Director: Clinical Lead Pensions, Health Partners
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Parallel 2
Oral Presentations Session 1
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Parallel 3
Confidentiality, consent and disclosure in the public interest MDDUS
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| 12.25-13.10
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Parallel 5
Clinical Update: Addictions: Drug, alcohol, gambling Annika Lindberg, Chartered Counselling Psychologist, London
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Parallel 6
OH MDT panel discussion Our role as workplace advisors
Professor Diana Kloss MBE, Professor and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Manchester
Dr Ali Hashtroudi, Clinical Director of Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London
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
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| 13:10-14:10
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Lunch, Exhibition and Posters | Academic Forum (13:30 start) | ||||||
| 14:10-14.55
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Parallel 7
Clinical Update: Vision and Work Dr Marisa Rodriguez Carmona, Lecturer in Optics, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London
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Parallel 8
Oral Poster Session
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Parallel 9
SOM International Group Session Dr Bobby Joseph- Occupational Health in India - challenges and successes
Dr Dominic Young – ANZSOM - Occupational Health issues in Australia
Dr Richard Heron – IOMSC update
Dr Rupali Das - Climate change and OH
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| 14:55-15.25
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Lecture
Oncology; a changing world of systemic treatments and their impact on fitness to work Dr Louise Hancock, Consultant Occupational Physician Medigold Health and Speciality Doctor in Medical Oncology, Royal Sussex County Hospital
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| 15.25-15:55
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Refreshments, Exhibition and Posters | |||||||
| 15:55-16.25
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The Colt Foundation Lecture
Professor Jo Yarker, Registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Professor in Occupational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London |
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| 16.25-16:55
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Plenary Lecture
The legal perspective and the, new employment rights bill Mr Mark Landon, Partner, Employment, Pensions and Immigration Team, Weightmans, London
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| 17.15-18.15 | SOM AGM | |||||||
| 19.30 | Gala Dinner and Dance (dress code: Black Tie optional) at The Grand Hotel, Brighton
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