Presentations:

 Friday 17 August at 11.00 am "Illness Perception & Behaviour"
 Sunday 19 August at 10.00 am "Modern Health Worries"

Professor Keith Petrie initially trained in psychology in New Zealand and California.  He worked as a Clinical Psychologist at Waikato hospital for 6 years and over that time developed an interest in working with patients on the hospital’s medical wards.

In 1990 he joined the faculty of the Auckland University Medical School.  He has also been a consultant psychologist for Air New Zealand International Flight Operations where he has undertaking pilot selection work and been central to the development of the airline’s fatigue monitoring system. 

Over the past 10 years Keith Petrie has been a key figure in developing the field of health psychology in New Zealand.  In 2004 the University of Auckland awarded him a personal chair in recognition of his research work.  His research work involves how patients construct beliefs about their illness and how these influence coping and recovery from illness. Professor Petrie and his research group are known internationally for constructing new methods for measuring patients’ perceptions of illness and developing early intervention programmes designed to change patients’ illness perceptions. Keith Petrie has published two books, Perceptions of Health and Illness and The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and over 150 scientific publications.

Presentation: Thursday 16 August at 8.30 am “Understanding Adventure Sport and Outdoor Recreation Safety: The New Zealand Context”

Tim is a Senior Lecturer in Massey University’s Department of Management and International Business in Auckland, where he teaches Organisational Behaviour and Occupational Safety and Health Management.  Prior to this he was Director of the Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (COHFE), where he managed a government-funded programme of research in ergonomics and injury prevention across various New Zealand industries.  Tim’s doctoral studies in ergonomics were concerned with occupational slips, trips and falls in the UK postal industry, and he has continued this research interest since arriving in New Zealand in 1998.  Since 1999, much of Tim’s research has focused on injury monitoring and surveillance in the adventure tourism and outdoor recreation area, where he has sought to understand the extent of the adventure tourism injury problem for overseas visitors and New Zealand residents.  This work has also identified key risk factors for participant injuries in high-risk adventure sectors to assist risk management across the industry.  Tim is currently extending the scope of this research, through a number of collaborations with Australian and UK researchers, tourism organisations and outdoor recreation bodies.  Tim has a strong publication record in the areas of injury prevention, health and safety ergonomics and tourism safety, with many articles in ‘A’ ranked international journals, including Ergonomics, Applied Ergonomics, Safety Science, New Zealand Medical Journal, Tourism Management and Annals of Tourism Research.   He is married to Melanie and has three daughters.

Dr David McLean is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Health Research, based at the Massey University Wellington campus where he and several colleagues specialise in epidemiological research into occupational disease.

He has worked in the field of occupational health for more than 25 years, in a range of roles in government, trade unions, private industry, and more recently as a full time researcher. His initial training was in Occupational Hygiene, completing a postgraduate diploma in Safety Management (Occupational Hygiene) from Massey University in 1988 and an MSc in Occupational Health Sciences from McGill University in 1990. He then worked in the forestry and wood products sector as an Occupational Health Manager, responsible for the identification and control of exposures in this industry.  In February 1999 he began a training fellowship in occupational epidemiology, and in 2003 completed a PhD based on a cohort study of mortality and cancer incidence in meat workers. Subsequent research has been in the field of epidemiology, although he has maintained a strong interest in exposure assessment and its application to epidemiological research. Over the last eight years he has worked on a number of studies of both occupational exposure and disease in New Zealand, has held a post-doctoral fellowship at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, and is currently also working on several international collaborative studies.

Tom graduated MB ChB from Otago in 1989 after completing a 1st Class Honours degree in Molecular genetics. After practicing Aviation and Sports medicine for a number of years he became a best selling author and TV talk show host. He is currently a motivational speaker, training organizations like Microsoft, Hilton and Singapore Air Transport Security, on Attitude and Healthy Thinking.

He has a passion for extreme sports, has survived a tsunami in Java, organized a medical relief mission to Nias in the Boxing Day tsunami. He has just completed a speaking tour of India where his books are on the best seller list. He lives in Taranaki with his wife and 2 children and holds a number of appointed and elected positions on the Taranaki District Health Board. He still finds time to work part time in the Emergency Department of Taranaki Base Hospital when not snowboarding in Siberia or doing stand up comedy with Mike King.

Professor Charles Watson is a public health physician and researcher in the fields of communicable disease and neurobiology. He is currently a professorial research fellow at Curtin University. After graduating in medicine and medical science, he taught anatomy for 14 years at UWA and UNSW.  He then turned to a career in public health in the Health Department of Western Australia, and became Chief Health Officer in 1993.  During his 11 years in the Health Department, he set up the Quit campaign, led the WA fight against HIV/AIDS, established breast cancer screening, and became a national leader in immunisation policy. He was a Chair of the Coalition for Gun Control that secured new legal restrictions on gun ownership after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. He has been a member of many national committees in the health area, and was chair of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Alcohol for seven years. He has published over 50 journal articles and 10 books. One of these books, a brain atlas, is ranked by Thomson Web of Science in the fifty most cited publications of all time. He and Aileen Plant have written two volumes on the control of communicable disease in Australia, the first of which will be published in 2007. In 2004 he was made a member of the Order of Australia for his work in brain research and in public health.

Spent early life in Taranaki. Joined the Taranaki Alpine Club in 1969. New Zealand Alpine Club member for about 30 years.

Left taranaki in 1976 graduated with Diploma in Parks and Recreation (3 academic years) from Lincoln College in 1980.
In the summer of 1979/80 SAR mountaineer Mount Cook National Park.
1980 to 1984 ranger Fox Glacier Westland National Park, general field duties.
1984 to present ranger Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park.
1980 to present volunteer ambulance officer Fox Glacier and Mount Cook.
Practising paramedic from 1997 to present.
Completed a graduate Diploma in Emergency Services Mgt extramurally from Massey University 2000

Over last six years Mackenzie District Council appointee to Mackenzie Medical Trust
First aid instructor for Mountain Safety Council and the Search and Rescue Institute of New Zealand
Part time ski patroller Dobson Skifield in winter
Been involved in in alpine search and rescue since the early 1970s as a volunteer intially in Taranaki and professionally as a ranger at Fox Glacier and Mount Cook.

Have specialised in pre hospital emergency care in the alpine rescue setting. 
Currently Programme Manager for Emergency Services for Dept of Conservation at Aoraki/Mount Cook. Also SAR medic and have currency on the fixed strop anf Westpac winch.

Appointed Director of Land SAR NZ in December 2006 following a review and restructure.
Travelled/trekked and climbed in Pakistan, Nepal, China, Tibet at altitudes up to 6000m over several years.
Pastimes: climbing, skiing, ski touring, tramping, mountain biking.

Tim Gilmore started his career in environmental health with the State of Alaska after receiving undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineeringfrom M.I.T. and a master's in civil engineering from the University of Washington.  He worked in Juneau for 6 years and then started medical school, completing his training in 1984 in family practice in Seattle. 

He has worked for Group Health of Puget Sound for the last twenty years, helping to develop the occupational medicine program, serving the last 10 years as director of that department. 
 
Tim worked with Dr. McBride in Otago during a sabbatical year in 1998-9, and has returned for ANSZOM conferences and collegial discussions on several occasions since then.  He is planning another sabbatical return to NZ in 2008-9.

Tim has published articles (including 6 columns for the NZ Doctor during his sabbatical) and given presentations on several subjects in environmental engineering and medicine.  Most recently he has been working on prevention of chronic disability syndrome in injured workers.

Tim always looks forward to visits to NZ.  He is an active outdoor sportsman and masters swimmer (the NZ South Island 1999 200 m backstroke champ...) and he was a hooker for 15 years and he keeps loose tabs on the Highlanders (he professes no understanding whatsover of cricket, however).