FIT TO WORK - ALAMA Belfast Conference
17-19 March 2010
Programme
Wednesday 17th March
16.30-18.30 Registration
18.30-20.30 Informal Dining in the Hotel Restaurant
20.30-not too late!! Enjoy St Patrick's Night in Belfast: We suggest
The John Hewitt, the Bar Red or The Crown
Thursday 18th March
08.00 Registration
09.00-09.10 Welcome
09.15-09.45 Clinical Presentation; From Potatoes to Rocket Science
09.45-10.15 Clinical Presentation; Fitness Levels/Sickness Absence in Police Officers
10.15-10.30 Coffee and Posters
10.30-12.30 Focus 1 - Fitness To Work:Psychological
Getting Better, Staying Better - Achieving and Maintaining Tangible Outcomes in Psychological Therapies
Alistair Black, Consultant Psychotherapist, Future NI
Managing People with Trauma
Dr Michael Patterson OBE, Clinical Psychologist, TMR Health Professionals
Evidence Based EMDR
Karen Lansing, Psychotherapist PSNI
12.30-13.15 Lunch Coffee Exhibition and Posters
13.20-15.20 Focus 2 - Fitness to Work: Musculoskeletal
Musculoskeletal Services in Occupational Health - Making it Comprehensive and Cost Effective
Catherine Burke, Chief Physiotherapist, OHW, PSNI
Educate, Activate and Empower -
Chronic pain programmes
Mary Jo Hart, Counselling Psychologist and Lorraine Maxwell, Musculoskeletal Specialist Physiotherapist, Future NI
Sports Injuries
Professor Michael Cullen, Consultant in Sports
Medicine
15.20-15.40 Coffee
15.45-17.15 Specialist Breakout Session
. Fire
. Police
. Local Authorities
17.20-17.45 AGM
19.00 Coach Transfer to Stormont
19.30-23.00 Conference Reception and Dinner, Stormont
23.15 Coach Transfer to Hotel
Friday 19th March
08.15-09.10 Legal Update over Coffee and Croissants
09.15-10.15 Three concurrent workshops
Physical Competence Assessment in PSNI
John Henderson, Director of Physical Health and
Education, PSNI
Designing Specialist Unit Police Fitness Tests
Victoria Richmond, Optimal Performance Ltd
Communicating Well-being Messages
Robert Kerr, University of Ulster
10.15-10.35 Coffee Exhibition and Posters
10.35-12.35 Focus 3 - Fitness To Work: Well-being - Happy Healthy and Here
Promoting Mental Health in the NI Civil Service
Dr Ken Addley, Director Occupational Health Service NI Civil Service
Using Audit to Deliver the Safer Workplace
John Orchin, Chief Health & Safety Adviser,
BelfastCity Council
Well-being from the Business Perspective
Orla King, Business Action on Health, Northern Bank
12.35-13.25 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Three concurrent workshops (as above)
14.30-14.50 Coffee Exhibition and Posters
14.50-15.50 Three concurrent workshops (as above)
16.00-16.45 The Future Direction of Occupational Medicine
Tony Stevens, President of the SOM
16.45-17.00 Closing Remarks
17.00 Close of Conference
Evening Free in Belfast for those who choose to stay on and enjoy this lively and fascinating city
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