Queensland
2026 Meetings
Educational meetings for this year are TBC - watch this space!
In case you missed it....
Recordings from previous presentations can be accessed below
QLD Branch Council Members
Co-Chair: Dr Clare Wood and Dr Helena Hurst
Secretary: Helen Truscott
Treasurer: Dr Andrew Lingwood
Nurse Representative: Helen Truscott
AFOEM Trainee Representative: Dr Kris McQuaid
UPCOMING MEETING
Details of the 2026 CPD program will be available shortly.
PREVIOUS PRESENTATION RECORDINGS
Interesting cases in drug and alcohol testing
Dr Charles Appleton
Date: Thursday 27 November 2025
Meeting sponsor:
Worker health and safety in an era of extreme heat
Dr Brett Shannon
Date: Thursday 25 September 2025
The interface of mental health and work
Dr Rob McCartney
Date: Thursday 24 July 2025
The occupational health continuum and the role of occupational hygiene
Micheal Lewis
Date: Thursday 27 March 2025
Matters of the heart: A laboratory perspective of biomarkers of cardiac disease
Dr Yashna Rampursat
Date: Thursday 28 November 2024
Meeting sponsor:
Work hazards for rideshare drivers
Dr Brett Shannon
Date: Thursday 26 September 2024
Mastering clinical assessment and medical reporting
Dr Chris Cunneen
Date: Thursday 23 May 2024
Update on Medicinal Cannabis and the Workplace
Dr Sid O'Toole
Date: Thursday 29 February 2024
Indigenous occupational health: Return to work statistics in Indigenous Australians
presented by Dr Brett Shannon
Date: Thursday 30 November 2023
Towards better work injury schemes, including early psychosocial triage and intervention for practitioners
presented by Dr Mary Wyatt and a panel of experts
Date: Thursday 13 July 2023
Deficiencies and toxicities of metals and minerals on the full blood count
Dr Aarya Murali
Date: Thursday 2 June 2022
Meeting sponsor:
A virologist's perspective of living under COVID
Dr David Seibert, Infectious Diseases Specialist & Pathologist (Microbiologist & Virologist)
Date: Thursday 2 December 2021
PTSD: Are we making progress in treatment and prevention?
Dr Greg Apel, consultant in Occupational Psychiatry
Date: Thursday 7 October 2021
COVID Vaccination and Point of Care Testing – What’s Legal?
Danny Clifford, Director of Clifford Gouldson Lawyers
Date: Thursday 3 June 2021
COVID-19 Update
Professor Peter Collignon and Dr Sally Appleton
Date: Thursday 25 March 2021
Meeting sponsor:
Dust sampling in the field
Micheal Lewis, Principal Occupational Hygienist, Simtars
Date: Thursday 4 February 2021