Scientific Knowledge on Pathways to Work;the UK ExampleThe first conference of the Social Council of Sweden;The Ministry of Health and Social AffairsSociala rdet, SocialdepartementetTime: 10.00 17.00, December 1st 2008Site: Rosenbad Conference Centre, Drottninggatan 1, StockholmRegistration: meeting@aexp.seRegistration is binding; the number ofparticipants is limited; first come, first served.PROGRAM09.20 !Registration, coffee/tea10.00 !WelcomeCristina Husmark Pehrsson, Minister of Social Insurance10.10 !Introducing the theme and programKristina Alexanderson, Professor, Chair of the Social Council of Sweden10.20 !Pathways to work; call on scientific approachesMansel Aylward, Professor, Director11.00 !The sickness certification consultation in general practice; anintervention studyDebbie Cohen, Occupational health physician & M.D.11.30 !Pathways to Work - turning scientific knowledge and theory intopracticeBob Grove, Professor12.00 Lunch13.00 !Working for a healthier tomorrowDame Carol Black, Professor, Department of Work and Pension13.40 !What helps occupational rehabilitation when the doctor cannotexplain the symptoms?Peter White, Professor14.10 !Vocational Rehabilitation: what works, for whom, and when?Gordon Waddell, Professor14.40 Coffee/tea break15.05 !Panel: How can governmental interventions be designed so thatscientific knowledge can be gained from them? What research isneeded at this stage? What conclusion can be drawn?Professor Mansel Aylward, Professor Dame Carol Black, MD Debbie Cohen,Professor Bob Grove, Professor Gordon Waddell, Professor Peter WhiteChair: Kristina Alexanderson16.50 -17.00Closing remarksTres Theorell, ProfessorShort bibliographies of the UK researchersProfessor Mansel Aylward CB is Director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Researchat Cardiff University. He is also Chair of the Wales Centre for Health, an Assembly GovernmentSponsored Body that has a leading role in developing strategies to improve the health of the peoplein Wales. From 1996 to 2005 he was Chief Medical Advisor, Medical Director and Chief Scientistat the UK Department for Work and Pensions, and Chief Medical Adviser and Head of Professionat the Veterans Agency, Ministry of Defence. He has been engaged in research and policy regardingworklessness in the last decades.Professor Dame Carol M. Black is National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of theAcademy of Medical Royal Colleges, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, and immediate past Presidentof the Royal College of Physicians. She is a member of many national committees aiming toimprove health and healthcare. She is also a Foreign Affiliate of the Institute of Medicine, USA.Dr Debbie Cohen MBBS MD DRCOG AFOM MRCGPSenior Medical Research Fellow at the Unum Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research atCardiff University, Wales. She is an occupational health physician who previously worked 15 yearsin general practice. Recently she completed her MD thesis in about fitness for work consultation inGeneral Practice. Teaches behaviour change and managing difficult consultations. She isspecifically interested in how e-learning and blended learning programmes can be used to bringabout practitioner change.Professor Bob Grove PhDBob Grove joined the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health in 2003 to lead the EmploymentProgramme, which offers independent advice to government, providers and employers on policyand service development aimed at improving the employment prospects of people with mentalhealth problems.Previously he worked in the non-profit sector, developing many different employment schemesincluding supported employment agencies, social enterprises, social firms and vocational training.From 2002-6 he was on secondment to the Department of Health to work on the Pathways to WorkPilots and for the last 5 years has convened the National Employment & Health InnovationsNetwork. He has written widely on disability and employment issues.Professor Gordon Waddell CBE, DSc, MD, FRCS, FFOM, FAADEP, FBCAProfessor Waddell was originally an orthopaedic surgeon with a long-standing clinical and researchinterest in back pain and other common health problems. His research has ranged through clinicalassessment, nonorganic signs, clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, clinical andoccupational health guidelines, disability evaluation and medicolegal assessment, health and socialpolicy. He has held honorary professorial appointments in Orthopaedic Surgery in GlasgowUniversity, Behavioural Medicine in Manchester University, and currently in the Centre forPsychosocial and Disability Research in Cardiff University. Since 1994, he has been a consultant tovarious government departments and research bodies in UK, US, Canada and Sweden.Professor Peter D White MD FRCP FRCPsychProfessor of Psychological Medicine at Barts and the London School of Medicine. His clinicalwork involves general hospital psychiatry at St Bartholomews hospital, London, and he also jointlyleads a specialist service for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME)(www.bartscfsme.org). He does consultation work for a re-insurance company and the UKDepartment for Work and Pensions, particularly advising on mental health and symptom baseddiagnoses. His research interests include the nosology, causes and treatments of CFS/ME,particularly establishing the aetiological role of viral infections, and the efficacy of graded exercisetherapy as a treatment. He is currently the lead co-principal investigator of the PACE trial(www.pacetrial.org), which is a multi-centre trial that compares four different rehabilitationapproaches for 600 patients with CFS/ME.