About Us

Return To Work Matters is a social enterprise which serves Return To Work Professionals.  The people whose responsibility it is to facilitate injured or ill employees to recover their health and get back to their jobs.

Many people play a part in this work and Return To Work Matters supports all of them.  Our focus begins with Return To Work Coordinators (site navigation and terminology is designed around this primary group), but it includes employees, their co-workers, HR & OH&S staff, medical and rehabilitation practitioners and claims managers.

In addition to confronting the day to day, face to face, issues that Return To Work Professionals must deal with, Return To Work Matters is an advocacy body.  We take a critical approach to governmental policy, legislation and systems administration.  We are not fans of system processes that frustrate relationships, or bureaucracies that impose authority, when goodwill and growing partnerships are proven to result in the best outcomes.

Return To Work Matters is directed by individuals who have for decades been in leadership roles in Occupational Medicine, return to work facilitation, policy development and support for professional networks.  We do this work in order to make a difference.

Who we are

Editor - Dr Mary Wyatt

Mary is a specialist Occupational Physician.  She knows enough about medicine to see it as less important that a person's beliefs, workplace attitude, and how systems work when it comes to return to work.

Mary's passion is to see better care of employees with health conditions, and provide access to the research that shows us how we can do better.  

She has been involved with many activities in the field; research, teaching, doctoring, mediating, and working to get research into practice. View CV

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Writer - Anna Kelsey Sugg

Feature writer A K Sugg also supervises the Events database and the weekly review of News.

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Writer - Gabrielle Lis

Feature writer, Gabrielle also edits Research reviews and Resources.

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General Manager - Cheryl Griffiths

Cheryl is responsible for marketing, partnership development and membership services.

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Site Development - Zhen (Peter) Zhang

Responsible for the development of the RTWMatters site Peter is a specialist in PHP programming and loves a good cup of coffee. 

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Unnikrishnan M.L.

Senior Web Developer - Unnikrishnan (Unni) M.L.

Responsible for the development of RTWMatters websites.
Unni has 9 years programming experience in PHP/MySQL and ASP.NET/SQL Server.

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Publisher - Robert Hughes

Has 30 years experience developing and leading non-profit organisations principally in the arts sector. Robert's focus is the development of operational systems, governance and strategic matters. View CV

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Publisher US - Mary Harris

Mary is the Executive Director of Ability Advocates Inc.  Mary is a disability specialist and spends part of her time working as an expert witness.

Return To Work Matters is published under license in the United States by Ability Advocates Inc as www.rtwmatters.com 


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