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January 2025: Register of members' interests: Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)

Updated 6 January 2025

Members of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) are required to declare any personal, political or business interests that could (or could be seen to) influence their judgement.

0.1 D°ù L±ð²õ±ô±ð²â ¸é³Ü²õ³ó³Ù´Ç²ÔÌý

Role: Chair, and independent scientistÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:Ìý

  • Member, UK Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the EnvironmentÌý

  • Member, HSE Science, Engineering and Environmental Assurance Committee (SEEAC)Ìý

Personal and business interests: noneÌý

Political activity: none

0.2 P°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ù J´Ç³ó²Ô °ä³ó±ð°ù°ù¾±±ðÌý

Role: Independent scientistÌý

Other public appointments held at present:Ìý

  • Member, Workplace Health Expert Committee (Health and Safety Executive)Ìý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness or short-term consultancy workÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.3 L±ð²õ±ô±ð²â F°ù²¹²Ô³¦´Ç¾±²õÌý

Role: Independent legal expertÌý

Other public appointments held at present:Ìý

  • Magistrate, Ministry of JusticeÌý

  • Justice of Peace, Family PanelÌý

  • Adoption Panel Member, Adopt London West, London Borough of EalingÌý

  • Case examiner, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery CouncilÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests: noneÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.4 D°ù S²¹±ô±ô²â ±á±ð³¾³¾¾±²Ô²µÌý

Role: Representative of employersÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Member, National Health and Wellbeing at Work ForumÌý

  • occasional wellbeing work as an independent practitionerÌý

  • involved with academic research at the University of Loughborough and University of DerbyÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.5 P°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ù Max HendersonÌý

Role: Independent scientist and medical expertÌý

Other public appointments held at present:Ìý

  • Member, Occupational Health and Mental Health Expert Advisory Groups, Jointâ€�DHâ€�DWP Health and Work UnitÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests: noneÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.6 D°ù Richard HeronÌý

Role: Independent medical expertÌýÌý

Other public appointments held at present:Ìý

  • Member, NHSE/NHSI Health and Wellbeing Expert Advisory GroupÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:Ìý

  • Member, NHS England Staff Health Advisory BoardÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • co-chair for International Occupational Medicine Society CollaborativeÌý

  • Senior Research Fellow at RAND EuropeÌý

  • part-time health and work consultancy including:Ìý

    • Expert Advisor (Health and Work) to the World Economic ForumÌý

    • Advisor at Lloyds Register FoundationÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.7 D°ù J±ð²Ô²Ô¾±´Ú±ð°ù ±á´Ç²â±ô±ðÌý

Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseasesÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Clinical Lead for the Strategic Clinical network for Respiratory and Long COVID in Greater ManchesterÌý

  • occasional expert witness in Medico-legal cases on occupational lung diseaseÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.8 D°ù Ian LawsonÌý

Role: Representative of employersÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Chair, Society of Occupational Medicine Special Interest Group on Hand Arm Vibration SyndromeÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.9 P°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ù D²¹³¾¾±±ð²Ô ²Ñ³¦·¡±ô±¹±ð²Ô²Ô²âÌý

Role: Independent scientistÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Principal Epidemiologist, Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)Ìý

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester (UoM)Ìý

  • Freelance Researcher, University Medical Centre, Amsterdam (UMCA)Ìý

  • Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Occupational Medicine.Ìý

  • Honorary Member, Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM)Ìý

  • Chair, SOM’s Workplace Health Intelligence Advisory GroupÌý

  • involved in studies on COVID-19 and former professional footballers related roles within his employments with the IOM and the UoM.Ìý

  • currently working on the Council’s commissioned review of women and health at the IOMÌýÌý

  • occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness or short-term or longer-term consultancy workÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.10 S³Ù±ð±¹±ð²Ô ²Ñ¾±³Ù³¦³ó±ð±ô±ôÌý

Role: Representative of employed earnersÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests: noneÌý

Political activity:Ìý

  • Member, Labour PartyÌý

0.11 D²¹²Ô¾±±ð±ô S³ó±ð²¹°ù²õÌý

Role: Representative of employed earnersÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Chair, Joint HSE/Trade Unions Operational Gas ForumÌý

  • Vice Chair, Joint Union Asbestos in Schools CampaignÌý

  • Member, Health and Safety Executive Industry Advisory Committees includingâ€�CONIAC a²Ô»åâ€�PABIACÌý

  • Member, TUC Union Health and Safety Specialists CommitteeÌý

Political activity:Ìý

  • Member, Labour PartyÌý

0.12 D°ù Chris StentonÌý

Role: Independent scientist and medical expertÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • currently involved in medico-legal civil cases relating to COVID-19 and pneumoconiosisÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

Role: Independent scientistÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:Ìý

  • Investigator on a study on occupations and long COVIDÌý

Political activity: noneÌý

0.14 D°ù G²¹°ù±ð³Ù³ó WaltersÌý

Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseasesÌý

Other public appointments held at present: noneÌý

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: noneÌý

Personal and business interests:ÌýÌý

  • Member of British Thoracic Society specialist advisory group on occupational and environmental lung diseasesÌý

  • Co-investigator on a research project at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust called DETER-ILD; aims to describe the natural history all cases of lung fibrosis seen at hospital within the Trust. Funded by a project grant from Boehringer IngelheimÌý

Political activity: none