Occupational health

Resources Medical Advisory Committee

• Dr Matthew Brandt - Occupational Physician and Committee Chair 

  Dr Brandt is a fellow of the Australian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine with a Master of Occupational Health and Safety and Master of Public Health.

  With over 16 years’ experience as a consultant Occupational Physician, he has contributed to the review of the Mine dust lung disease clinical pathways guideline and was involved in development of guidelines to support safe return to work for mine workers diagnosed with mine dust lung disease for the Office of Industrial Relations (OIR).

• Professor Bob Cohen - Respiratory Physician and International Expert

  Professor Cohen is a Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Chicago, Clinical Professor at the University of Illinois and Honorary Professor of the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre at the University of Queensland.

  Professor Cohen is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, American Board of Internal Medicine Certified specialist in pulmonary disease and certified National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) B-reader, with extensive expertise in occupational lung disease.

• Professor Catherine Jones – Radiologist

  Professor Jones is a fellow and board director for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, an executive member and occupational lung disease expert for Australia and New Zealand Society of Thoracic Radiology and co-chair of the Occupational Lung Disease steering committee for Lung Foundation Australia.

  She is a NIOSH certified B-reader and consultant radiologist with extensive experience reporting occupational lung disease in Australia and internationally.

• Mr Knott - Occupational Hygienist and Epidemiologist

  Mr Knott is a Certified Occupational Hygienist and fellow of the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists, with a Master of Clinical Epidemiology.

  Mr Knott has over 30 years of experience within Australia and internationally providing occupational hygiene services in mining operations in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia.

• Professor Deborah Yates - Respiratory Physician

  Professor Yates is a director for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Board and Global Advisor for the Royal College of Physicians of London.

  Professor Yates co-chaired the advisory group on Queensland’s response to MDLD and is currently Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand’s lead in occupational lung disease strategy. She has a Master of Occupational Medicine with significant experience in treatment and research of occupational lung disease in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Professor Yates is not a member on any other government bodies.

• Dr Alan Michael Donoghue - Occupational Physician

  Dr Donoghue is a fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Royal College of Physicians in London and Ireland.

  Dr Donoghue completed a PhD on heat illness in underground mining, a higher Doctor of Medicine on occupational and environmental medicine in mining and metallurgy and has twenty-five years’ experience consulting in the mining industry.