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"Occupational Safety and Health: Medicine and the Law"
5 CPD Points - ICGP, CPsychI, RCPI
8:45-9:15 Registration (Tea/coffee)
MORNING SESSION Chair: Mr Justice Peter Kelly, President of the High Court
9:15-9:30 Welcome: Ms Liz Doyle Fleming, President, Medico-Legal Society of Ireland
9:30-9:55 Leadership and Resilience in the Professions
Prof Ciaran O’Boyle, RCSI
9:55-10:20 Mental Health Issues in the Professions
Dr James Anderson, NHS Practitioner Programme, London
10:20-10:45 Health and Wellbeing Support in the Legal Profession
Ms Mary B Jackson, LawCare UK
10:45-11:10 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:10-11:35 Practical and Medico-Legal Aspects of Occupational Health Assessments
Dr Robert Ryan, Partner, Medmark
11:35-12:00 Actionable Injury in Employment Litigation
Ms Marguerite Bolger SC
12:00-12:25 Medical Expert Evidence in Employment Litigation – the Medical Perspective
Dr Damian Mohan, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist & Senior Lecturer, TCD
12:25-12:50 Medical Expert Evidence in Employment Litigation – the Legal Perspective
Mr Ian O’ Herlihy, Partner, Mason Hayes & Curran, Solicitors
12:50-1:00 Panel Discussion
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Prof Denis Cusack, Forensic and Legal Medicine
2:00-4.00 Workshop 1 Key Issues in Workplace Risk Assessment
Prof. Anne Drummond, UCD
Workshop 2 Red Flags for Burnout
Dr Blanaid Hayes, Beaumont Hospital
Workshop 3 Grievance in the Workplace: Pathways to Resolution
Eversheds Sutherland
Workshop 4 Practitioner Health Matters Programme -Doctors in Difficulty
Dr Íde Delargy, GP, Clinical Lead
4:00-4:15 Plenary Session and Close