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Dr Rob Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago
Rob
is the Academic Coordinator of occupational medicine and aviation
medicine courses at the Wellington School of Medicine, University of
Otago, New Zealand which enrolls students around the world in its
distance learning programme. Rob holds consultancies to the Airways
Corporation of NZ, the Transport Accident Commission, the Accident
Compensation Corporation, Emirates and Etihad Airlines and other
agencies around the world. He was previously Chief Medical Officer of
the NZ Ministry of Transport and a lecturer in aviation medicine in the
Royal Air Force, UK.
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Dr Zarqa S. Taimur. MBBS, FCPS, MRCP, DipOcMed., Lecturer, University of Otago
Dr.
Taimur started her career in Acute Medicine before taking up
Occupational Medicine as her passion. She trained in Occupational
Medicine at the Institute of Occupational Health, Birmingham UK and is
a member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine. Dr. Taimur is an accredited Medical Review Officer registered
with the American Association of Medical Review Officers.
As
Regional Manager for Occupational Health at ConocoPhillips, covering
Middle East and North Africa she was actively involved in the company’s
Substance Abuse Policy implementation. She understands the unique
challenges of the region in this context.
She is now working as the Team Lead for the Occupational Health Services at Dubai
Petroleum, the flagship oil company for the state of Dubai
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Dr
Mark Newson-Smith, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, UAE
Dr Newson-Smith was trained at the Welsh National School of Medicine,
Cardiff winning a prize and scholarship award for projects on
respiratory hazards to coal miners. He spent 11 years in the Royal Navy
as an Occupational Physician working in ships and submarines and
dockyards gaining a wide range of experience in occupational medicine
finishing his time in the Navy as Senior Medical Officer (Submarines)
at the Institute of Naval Medicine. He then worked in the private
sector in the United Kingdom providing occupational health advice to
government agencies such as the Environment Agency, the Ministry of
Agriculture Fisheries and Food and the National Health Service Pensions
Agency along with a range of private companies such as banks,
manufacturing and transport companies and a zoo. He joined the Faculty
of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain in 2001 working
on teaching and research for over two years before joining ADMA-OPCO,
an offshore oil and gas company in Abu Dhabi for a further two years as
Senior Medical Officer (Occupational Health), He is currently the Chief
Medical Officer for ENOC responsible for running their range of
occupational health services. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of
Occupational Medicine London and both the Australian and American
Colleges of Legal Medicine. He has a Masters Degree in Occupational
Health (Birmingham) and one in Legal Medicine (Cardiff). He has
published an number of academic papers and continues to lecture at both
undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Dr Rebecca Taylor, Director Consulting Services, ACS
Rebecca
has a 1st Class Honours degree and PhD in Chemistry from
Nottingham University in the UK and did post Doctorate work in Russia
& Romania. Her PhD was on the chemistry of transition metals in
fuming red Nitric Acid. She started her career in Research &
Development, before moving to Technical Service and into Production,
where she spent over 10 years before being seconded to McKinsey to
learn about Manufacturing improvement & Lean Manufacturing.
She
then spent several years working in Manufacturing Improvement
(including Reliability Centred Maintenance) and as part of this process
implemented the BS 5750 (ISO 9001:1994) Quality Management Standard. In
1998 she retrained in Health & Safety completing NEBOSH Diploma 1
&2 as well as Lead Auditor qualifications for Quality,
Environmental and Health & Safety.
She was corporate QHSE
Manager from 2000 and implemented OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health
& Safety Management Standard) and ISO 14001 (Environmental
Management Standard) across many sites in Europe and US.
She
came to Dubai in 2003 and was corporate Manufacturing / QHSE Manager
for a Construction Chemicals Company, before forming her own
Consultancy “Action Consultancy Services” in 2005. While in the UAE she
has implemented ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, OHSAS 18001:2007 and ISO
15189 (Medical Laboratory Standard) across a wide range of industries,
Oil & Gas, Retail, Recruiting, Chemicals , Medical Laboratories and
Construction.
She is a Member of IOSH and teaches the NEBOSH Diploma locally in Dubai |
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