The Faculty's 34th Annual General Meeting and the 24th Annual Smiley Lecture will take place in RCPI, No.6 Kildare Street on Friday 2 December 2011.

The evening programme includes the Faculty Admission Ceremony
and Annual Dinner.  

Faculty Presentations

Speakers include

Occupational Health in Ireland – A History 1976-2010
Dr John M Malone, Past Dean and Faculty Archivist

Blood and Body Fluid Exposures in a Healthcare Setting in Ireland
Dr Sharon Lim, Specialist Registrar, Civil Service Occupational Health Department

Joined-up Thinking: Changing Injury Risk in Garda Mountain Bike Training
Dr Richard Quigley, Occupational Health Department, an Garda Siochana

Update on the Professional Competence Schemes
Dr Lynda Sisson, Chair, Professional Competence Committee, Faculty of Occupational Medicine

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24th Annual Smiley Lecture

“Occupational and Environmental Medicine – the Australasian perspective”

The Faculty of Occupational Medicine is pleased to announce that Dr Robin Chase, President of the Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, will deliver the 24th Annual James Smiley Lecture at 2.00pm on Friday 2 December 2011 in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, No. 6 Kildare Street, Dublin. 

 Dr Robin Chase has been the President of the Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, RACP, since 2010. Notable achievements in that time have been the development of the Realising the Health Benefits of Work policy statement and the successful consensus statement encompassing a very broad church of stakeholders in Australia and New Zealand. In 2011 he was the principle author of the College’s submission to the Australian government’s Asbestos Management Review. He has successfully fostered greater links with other organisations, both inside and outside the college, spanning both of those countries. He has spoken widely in Australia, New Zealand and at international conferences. In the meantime he continues to remain in clinical and advisory work in Adelaide and in Sydney as well as working as a Presiding Member of Medical Panels South Australia. His clinical practice focuses on occupational rehabilitation, pain management, musculoskeletal conditions and medico-legal work.

The Faculty of Occupational Medicine is the recognised training body for doctors practising in the specialty of occupational medicine in Ireland. It is a constituent body within the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Its aim is to promote the highest standard of health and wellbeing for those of working age; to advocate that occupational illness and disease be eliminated from workplaces; and, to speak as the authoritative voice for all issues relating to occupational medicine within the country.
 

Dr James Smiley was a founder Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine in 1976. He was a renowned occupational physician practising in Belfast. On his death, the Smiley family endowed an annual lecture named after him. Each year the Faculty of Occupational Medicine invite an eminent scholar to deliver the lecture. This year's lecture is the 24th in the series of
the Smiley Lecture is open to all medical and other interested professionals;

Please note that booking is required
 
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