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SPEAKERS
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Keynote speakers
The Hon Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE
The Honourable Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1987 and Chief Justice from 1987 to 1995. He was Commonwealth Solicitor General from 1964 to 1969 and a Judge of the NSW Court of Appeal from 1969 to 1972. Until recently, he was Chancellor of UNSW, National Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji and President of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal. In 1996-1997 he was Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University. Since 2001 he has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law. Sir Anthony has been a non-permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 1997. Sir Anthony holds Honorary Doctorates from the Australian National University and Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, Griffith and Deakin Universities, UNSW and the Universities of Oxford and Hong Kong.
Dr Gwendolen Jull
Dr Gwendolen Jull is Professor Physiotherapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and co-director of the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health at The University of Queensland. Her research and clinical interests are in understanding the sensory and sensorimotor disturbances in neck pain in both idiopathic and whiplash models as a basis for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of recurrence cervical musculoskeletal disorders. Professor Jull has published widely in this field of research. She is co-editor of the international journal, Manual Therapy, and president of the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
Dr Patrick Loisel
Dr. Patrick Loisel holds a Doctorate in medicine (MD), University of Paris VI, specialization in orthopedic surgery (FRCSC). He is a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Université de Sherbrooke (Department of Rehabilitation) and researcher at the Charles LeMoyne Teaching Hospital. He holds the Fondation J. Armand Bombardier- Pratt & Whitney Canada, Research Chair in Work Rehabilitation. He is the Director of the Centre for Action in Work Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (CAPRIT) and of the Work Disability Prevention CIHR Strategic Training Program.
Leader of a transdisciplinary team of researchers funded by the FRSQ, his work is dedicated to research and research transfer in the field of work disability prevention for musculoskeletal disorders. Dr. Loisel has developed, tested and applied in the community an evidence-based work disability management program, the Sherbrooke model, linking clinical and workplace interventions, demonstrating for the first time the specific effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of workplace interventions for back pain disability. He is the author of many publications and presentations in the work disability prevention field.
Dr Michael Sullivan
Dr. Michael Sullivan is currently Professor of Psychology and Medicine at McGill University, and Scientific Director of the University Centre for Research on Pain and Disability. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the social and behavioural determinants of pain-related disability. He is known primarily for his research on the relation between catastrophic thinking and pain experience, and for the development of community-based approaches to the management of pain-related disability. Dr. Sullivan developed the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PPCS) in 1995.The PCS has been used in more than 200 scientific studies; it is translated into 10 languages and is currently the most widely used measure of catastrophic thinking related to pain. Dr. Sullivan also developed the Pain-Disability Prevention (PPDP) Program and the Progressive Goal Attainment Program (PGAP); the first two community-based intervention programs designed specifically to target psychosocial risk factors for pain-related disability. Dr. Sullivan has published over 100 scientific papers, 12 chapters, and 4 books. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Behavioural Health. Dr. Sullivan obtained his undergraduate training at McGill University and his graduate training at Concordia University in Montreal.
Dr Linda Carroll
Dr. Linda Carroll is an associate professor in the epidemiology stream of the Department of Public Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta. Dr Carroll has had extensive clinical experience working with people with acute and chronic musculosketal disorders. Her main topic of current research is to explore the inter-relationships among coping, depression and other psychological factors after soft tissue injuries, and to tease out their impact on recovery.
Invited Speakers
John Walsh
Sarah Butler
John Walsh is a partner in the Financial Risk Management practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which he joined at the end of 1991. During the past 15 years he has worked in a variety of roles as a consulting actuary in general insurance, accident compensation and the health industry. He was named by The Institute of Actuaries of Australia as “Actuary of the Year” in 2001 in recognition of this work.
John’s experience in these industries has led to a great deal of both professional and committee work with government in discussing options for future health financing and delivery models. In particular, his current work is looking at options for fund pooling and resource allocation which take into account the expected demand (i.e. “risk”) of the target population. John has also been heavily involved in program evaluation, including major across-government reviews such as the Sharing Healthcare initiative and the National Evaluation of 2nd round Coordinated Care Trials.
Rob Guthrie
Rob Guthrie is the Professor of Workers Compensation and Workplace Law at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia. He was admitted to practice as Barrister and Solicitor in 1982 and practiced in the area of workers compensation for approximately 10 years before turning to academic research into the area. He was the author of reports to the WA Government on workers compensation in 1991, 1999 and 2001. He has been an advocate for injured workers for 25 years and a consultant to WorkCover WA and various Ministers responsible for workers compensation legislation. He holds B Juris, LLB LLM MCom and PhD. He is the author of LexisNexis Workers Compensation Western Australia.
Sarah Butler is a Director with Booz Allen Hamilton, based in Sydney. She specialises in Financial Services and has 17 years consulting experience helping clients to improve performance through new strategic direction, operations improvement and organisation change. She leads our Insurance business in Australia/NZ and focuses on strategy-based organisation transformation. Examples of recent assignments include:
4 Led a review of the Claims Operating Model for a leading Australian CTP insurer, based on a review of global best practices, internal baselining of the business and understanding staff perspectives, customer research and understanding provider and other stakeholder needs. Developed the business case for Workflow IT implementation for another Australian CTP insurer including reviewing other options such as imaging
4 Led a range of studies in strategy, operations, organisation, post-merger integration for Australia’s largest general insurance company over the last eight years, during which time share price has doubled.
4 Managed a range of studies for Australian mutual insurer/road-side services company
Sarah was a scholar at Christ’s College, Cambridge and received an BA Honours and MA Degree in Natural Sciences (Chemistry).
Lynda Matthews
Lynda R. Matthews, Ph.D., MRCAA, is a qualified rehabilitation counselor who specializes in psychiatric and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with posttraumatic mental health conditions. She is the Manager of the Bachelor of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney, a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Mental Health and Occupational Performance Research Teams, and a member of the International Disability Management Research Network. Dr. Matthews has been appointed to a number of State and National government bodies responsible for the development and review of mental health and rehabilitation policies and guidelines. She is Immediate Past President of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and is Secretary of the Rehabilitation Counselling Association of Australasia.
Dr Pierre Côté DC, PhD
Dr. Pierre Côté is Senior Scientist, Rehabilitation Solutions, Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis Program, Toronto Western Hospital. He graduated as a chiropractor from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1989. In 1996 he obtained a Master's Degree in Surgery from the University of Saskatchewan where he studied neck and back pain in the general population. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 2002. In 2003, he was awarded a 5-year New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. His primary research interests include the causes and prevention of disability related to neck and low back pain. Dr. Côté is currently involved in several national and international projects such as the Arizona State University Healthy Back Study; a cohort study of occupational neck pain in Ontario WSIB claimants; the Center of Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcome (CREIDO) and the 2000-2010 Bone and Joint Decade International Task Force on Neck Pain. Dr. Côté has published extensively in the biomedical literature including in the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Pain and Spine.
Peter Harcourt
Peter Harcourt is a sports physician who has worked in elite sport at the Victorian Institute of Sport, AFL, Olympic and Commonwealth games, basketball and Australian cricket. He developed an interest in exploring opportunities to push sports medicine approaches to other health areas such as compensation medicine. He joined the TAC and later WorkSafe and is now the Head of the Health Services Group, a formal collaboration of the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and the Victorian WorkCover Authority (VWA). Peter also sits on the Board of Directors for the VWA and the Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative (VNI). His direct research interests have involved tendon pathology and its management, the AFL research board and health research in the compensation environment.
Professor Niki Ellis
Professor Niki Ellis came back from London to Australia to take up the position of Director,CMVH, in April 2005. As well as managing the networked organisation which is the Centre, quite a task given it comprises three universities, relates to two major funding departments and is keen to work in collaboration with five other Defence centres; she runs her own research programs through the Director's research initiative. Her research interests include occupational stress, the contribution of psycho-social factors to physical health outcomes and improving role design in health services.
In London Niki worked on health workforce innovation for London South Bank University and other aspects of health modernisation for the Department of Health. She also had an honorary appointment at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. In Australia she has been Director, Health Risk Management for PricewaterhouseCoopers; developed and run her own public and occupational health consultancy; Head, Preventive Strategies Branch, and Director, RSI National Strategy, National Occupational Health and Safety Commission; and medical officer Tasmanian Division of Public Health.
Niki was the Inaugural President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine, has been a member of the World Health Organisation's Expert Panel on occupational health and was commissioned to write a text book by Oxford University Press: Work and health: management in Australia and New Zealand.
Professor Niki Ellis has research interests in occupational stress, the contribution of psycho-social factors to physical health outcomes and improving role design in health services.
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