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Professor
Robert Thurer, CAO, HMSDC
Dr.
Robert Thurer is Chief Academic Officer of the Harvard Medical School
Dubai Center Institute for Postgraduate Education and Research (HMSDC),
the educational and research component of Dubai Healthcare City
(DHCC). He is also Executive Director of the Dubai Harvard Foundation
for Medical Research. Dr. Thurer brings extensive experience in
clinical care, medical education and research to Harvard’s
collaboration with DHCC.
HMSDC,
the first Harvard Medical School facility of its kind to be established
outside of the United States, will focus primarily on postgraduate
specialty training and continuing medical education. This postgraduate
focus will help alleviate the limited availability of training
opportunities currently available in the region and will position Dubai
as a unique medical education center in the region.
Before
coming to Dubai, Dr. Thurer practiced cardiothoracic surgery at Harvard
Medical School in Boston where he was Associate Chief of Thoracic
Surgery and Head of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center. He was educated at Dartmouth College and
Medical School and received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School.
He did his surgical training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in
Boston and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland and is
currently an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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Dr
Robin Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, NZ
Dr Griffiths 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
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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Nick
Kendall, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, London
Dr
Nicholas Kendall trained as a clinical psychologist and now works as a
health service consultant based in London. He works in evidence-based
healthcare, and psychosocial contributions to musculoskeletal pain
problems. He has research interests in occupational rehabilitation,
musculoskeletal medicine, and spine surgery. He served previously as
manager for evidence-based healthcare with the Accident Compensation
Corporation in NZ, as a senior lecturer in orthopaedics &
musculoskeletal medicine, and as clinical director of a large
multidisciplinary pain service. While serving as chairman of the NZ low
back pain project he coined the term “yellow flags” to describe risk
factors for work loss and wrote a guideline on this topic.
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Dr Aparna Hegde, Emirates Airline
Dr Aparna Hegde currently holds the position of Vice President of
Aviation and Occupational Medicine for Emirates Airlines. She is an
Australian graduate who specialised in Aviation Medicine in
the UK after completion of her General Practice training. She worked
for the Australian Airforce for 11 years prior to joining Emirates. She
has also done her Masters in Public Health and is actively involved the
Australian Occ Med training program.
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Dr
John Schneider, UAE University, El Ain
After practicing in family medicine in north Queensland he completed
postgraduate studies in Occupational Health and Safety at Curtin
University in Western Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australasian
Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal Australasian College of
Physicians, Chartered Professional Member of the Safety Institute of
Australia, and Member of the Australian College of Tropical Medicine.
For ten years, he practiced as a consultant in occupational medicine in
Northern Australia. During this period much of his work was in the
mining and agricultural sectors and their associated service
industries.
His main areas of interest are occupation rehabilitation, the
organisation and planning of occupational health services in rural and
remote worksites, work in hot environments, and impairment assessment
at the workplace.
He commenced work in the Department of Community Medicine, at the UAE University in September, 2005.
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Dr
Chris Stewart-Patterson, Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Vancouver
Dr. Stewart-Patterson works as a consultant in disability evaluation
and occupational medicine to insurers, legal firms, unions and number
of companies, including the Workers Compensation Board of British
Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and both Provincial and
Federal Government Occupational Health Programs. He has extensive
experience and expertise in the facilitation of early return to work
and specializes in return to work evaluations for safety
critical/sensitive occupations such as police, correction officers,
fire fighters, coast guard and railway personnel. He frequently
lectures both locally and internationally on medical disability
evaluation.
He is certified by the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners
and is a past instructor for the American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine lecturing on assessment of psychiatric
disability in workers. In addition, Dr Stewart-Patterson is a
clinical instructor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of British
Columbia and a senior lecturer in disability evaluation at Wellington
School of Medicine, University of Otago.
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Dr
Tony Hochberg, Prime Health, Contracting Perth, West Australia
Dr Hochberg has worked full time in Occupational Medicine since 1992
and has held in excess of 30 consultative positions with various
industries and organizations including Park Shipping Services, New
Zealand; Telecom International; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Medical
Waste Ltd; Life Flight Trust – Air Rescue and Air Ambulance
Services; Aviation Security Service New Zealand; Air
Chatham’s; DHL; Wellington City Council; Ministry of
Justice; Body Shop New Zealand and Accident Compensation Commission.
Dr Tony Hochberg is Senior lecturer in Aviation Medicine and
Occupational Medicine at Edith Cowan University and Medical Director of
Prime Health Group (Australia’s largest provider of private
specialist Occupational Medical care). In addition, Dr Hochberg has
received training in underwriting from a Lloyds of London affiliate and
remains their medical advisor for the last 16 years.
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