January 2024: Register of members' interests: Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)
Updated 2 February 2024
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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 Dr Lesley Rushton
Role: Chair, and independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Member, UK Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
- Member, HSE Science, Engineering and Environmental Assurance Committee (SEEAC)
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
0.2 Professor Raymond Agius
Role: Independent scientist and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Member of the Occupational Medicine Committee, British Medical Association
- Member of the Council, British Medical Association
- Currently involved in medico-legal civil cases related to COVID-19
Political activity: none
0.3 Professor John Cherrie
Role: Independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member, Workplace Health Expert Committee (Health and Safety Executive)
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness or short-term consultancy work
Political activity: none
0.4 Lesley Francois
Role: Independent legal expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Magistrate, Ministry of Justice
- Justice of Peace, Family Panel
- Adoption Panel Member, Adopt London West, London Borough of Ealing
- Case examiner, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
0.5 Dr Sally Hemming
Role: Representative of employers
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Member, National Health and Wellbeing at Work Forum
- Occasional wellbeing work as an independent practitioner
- Involved with academic research at the University of Loughborough and University of Derby.
Political activity: none
0.6 Professor Max Henderson
Role: Independent scientist and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member, Occupational Health and Mental Health Expert Advisory Groups, Joint DH Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Health and Work Unit
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity: none
0.7 Dr Richard Heron
Role: Independent medical expert
Other public appointments held at present:
- Member, NHSE/NHSI Health and Wellbeing Expert Advisory Group
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years:
- Member, NHS England Staff Health Advisory Board
Personal and business interests:
- Co-chair for International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative
- Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe
- Part-time health and work consultancy including:
- Expert Advisor (Health and Work) to the World Economic Forum
- Advisor at Lloyds Register Foundation
Political activity: none
0.8 Dr Jennifer Hoyle
Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseases
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Clinical Lead for the Strategic Clinical Network for Respiratory and Long Covid in Greater Manchester
- Occasional expert witness in medico-legal cases on occupational lung disease
Political activity: none
0.9 Dr Ian Lawson
Role: Representative of employers
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Chair, Society of Occupational Medicine Special Interest Group on Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome
Political activity: none
0.10 Professor Damien McElvenny
Role: Independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Involved in COVID related roles within his employment with the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) and the University of Manchester.
- Currently working on the Council’s commissioned review of respiratory diseases at the IOM where he is employed as its principal scientist.
- Assistant Editor, Occupational Medicine Journal.
- Received funding and working on a study into mortality in footballers.
Political activity: none
0.11 Steven Mitchell
Role: Representative of employed earners
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests: none
Political activity:
- Member, Labour Party
0.12 Daniel Shears
Role: Representative of employed earners
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Chair, Joint HSE/Trade Unions Operational Gas Forum
- Vice Chair, Joint Union Asbestos in Schools Campaign
- Member, Health and Safety Executive Industry Advisory Committees including CONIAC and PABIAC
- Member, TUC Union Health and Safety Specialists Committee
Political activity:
- Member, Labour Party
0.13 Dr Chris Stenton
Role: Independent scientist and medical expert
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Currently involved in medico-legal civil cases relating to COVID-19 and pneumoconiosis
Political activity: none
0.14 Dr Sharon Stevelink
Role: Independent scientist
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Investigator on a study on occupations and long-covid
Political activity: none
0.15 Dr Gareth Walters
Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseases
Other public appointments held at present: none
Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none
Personal and business interests:
- Member of British Thoracic Society specialist advisory group on occupational and environmental lung diseases
Political activity: none