Self effacing, warm, always positive Mary Wyatt is a consummate professional dedicated to return to work.

She graduated from Monash University Medicine with Honours winning the Carnation Award for Paediatrics in 1979.

For the following six years she enjoyed postings in a variety of exotic locations.  Beginning with Darwin then Abu Dhabi, UAE and KwaZulu.  Mary still has a preference for hot weather, very hot weather.

Returning to Australia to General Practice in 1986 Mary undertook further study gaining a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health in 1995 and a Masters in Public Health in 1998, followed by a Graduate Certificate in Musculoskeletal Medicine in 2002. She became an Occupational Physician in 1997.

In the area of return to work Mary has worn many hats:  treater physician, assessing physician, reviewing workplaces for return to work, conciliator in dispute resolution, and as a manager involved with the development of effective return to work systems.

She teaches at Monash and was ...

Enjoys seeing people have the opportunity to contribute to others (and fishing and Gran Turismo, and..). 

His particular interest is workplace culture. 

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Kevin Jones is an OHS consultant, commentator and freelance writer.  He writes the SafetyAtWorkBlog and provides content for various OHS publications and websites and has been involved with workplace safety for almost twenty years. Kevin resides in Melbourne and recently was Letter-Of-The-Month in Choice magazine when he wrote about the benefits of having chickens in his backyard.

His blog can be found at http://safetyatworkblog.wordpress.com

Bronwyn Thompson originally trained as an occupational therapist, graduating from CIT in 1984.  She later completed her MSc in Psychology in 1999 at Canterbury University, and is currently enrolled as a part-time PhD student in the Department of Health Sciences at Canterbury University.

She has worked in pain management for 18 years, with a main focus on pain management at work.  Her work has ranged from interdisciplinary pain management programmes, private practice, case management both for private organizations, and ACC, primary prevention and secondary prevention, and since 2002, teaching postgraduate papers in pain and pain management at Otago University, and Otago Polytechnic.

Her main interest areas include the factors that complicate return to work, pain and anxiety, exposure therapy for pain-related anxiety and avoidance, importance and confidence in motivation for self management, and resilience.  

The effect of her occupational therapy training has never fully left Bronwyn’s aims in pain management.  Occupational therapy ...