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WDPI 2012
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Keynote Speakers
Prof. Paul Schnabel
Director of The Netherlands Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands
Dr. Tom Shakespeare
Technical Officer, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Paul Watson
Professor of Pain Management and Rehabilitation, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Prof. Dame Carol Black
National Director for Health and Work Professional Services, Health and Well-being Directorate, Department for Work and Pensions, London, United Kingdom
Dr. Glenn Pransky
Director of the Liberty Mutual Research Institute’s Center for Disability Research, Hopkinton, MA, United States
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| Prof. Paul Schnabel
Paul Schnabel, Ph.D. (1948), sociologist, is General Director of the Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP (Social and Cultural Planning Office), the social science research unit and social policy advisory agency of the Dutch cabinet.
Paul Schnabel is also one of 10 ‘university professors’ at Utrecht University and a columnist to the leading Dutch newspapers ‘NRC-Handelsblad’ and ‘Het Financiële Dagblad’. He is a.o. non-executive member on the board of Shell Nederland, treasurer of the board of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, member of the board of Praemium Erasmianum, Museum Bredius, Museum Catharijneconvent, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Netherlands Open Air Museum.
In the ‘top 200’ list of Erasmus University and ‘De Volkskrant’ he is listed among the twenty most influential persons in Dutch society.
In 2010 he received the ‘Academy Medal’ award of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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| Dr. Tom Shakespeare
Tom Shakespeare is a sociologist and bioethicist, who specialises in disability studies. He had conducted research projects on disability and sexuality, on childhood disability, on restricted growth, and on various aspects of ethics. His books include The Sexual Politics of Disability, Genetic Politics, and Disability Rights and Wrongs. Between 1993-2008, Tom worked at various UK Universities, and since 2008, he has been a technical officer in the Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability at the World Health Organization, Geneva. He was an author and editor of the WHO/World Bank World report on disability (2011). He is a WHO observer on the International Advisory Board of the UK Employers Forum on Disability.
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Prof. Paul J Watson
Qualified as a physiotherapist in 1979. He was appointed as the UK’s first Consultant Physiotherapist in Pain Management in 2002 and still works as a clinician in chronic pain. He was appointed Professor of Pain Management and Rehabilitation in 2007. He has authored/co-authored over 150 publications. His current research interests are work rehabilitation in patients with chronic pain; sleep and chronic pain; Pain, culture and ethnicity.
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| Prof. Dame Carol Black
Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, MD, FRCP, MACP, FMedSci, is the UK National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, Chairman of the Governance Board of the new Centre for Workforce Intelligence, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bristol. She is currently co-chairing an independent review of sickness absence on behalf of the government.
She is a past-President of the Royal College of Physicians, and has recently stepped down as Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. The Centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital, London is internationally renowned in the field of connective tissue diseases. Since the early-1990s, she has worked at board level in a number of organisations, including the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust, the Health Foundation, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, and the Imperial College Healthcare Charity, and recently chaired the U.K. Health Honours Committee.
She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, a member of the Committee for the Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service, and is on several national committees aiming to improve healthcare. She is a foreign affiliate of the U.S. Institute of Medicine and has been awarded many honorary degrees and fellowships.
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Dr. Glenn Pransky
Glenn Pransky has been the director of the Liberty Mutual Research Institute’s Center for Disability Research since 1999. He is responsible for program direction, research development, establishing collaborative relationships, and overseeing the internal and external communication of research findings. With interests in the prevention and prognosis of disability in work-related musculoskeletal disorders, his research focuses on effective methods to achieve safe and sustained return to work, and ways to prevent work disability. In several projects, he has examined methods to measure the quality and outcomes for workers with work-related conditions. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a visiting lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts / Lowell. An editorial reviewer for publications including the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the American Journal of Public Health, Dr. Pransky has produced more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, authored numerous book chapters, and frequently presents at international scientific conferences and seminars. He is the current chairman of the Work Fitness and Disability Section of the ICOH.
Dr. Pransky holds a medical license in Massachusetts. Board-certified in both occupational medicine and internal medicine, he received his M.D. from the Tufts University School of Medicine and a Master’s degree in occupational health from the Harvard School of Public Health. |
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