ALAMA Annual Conference 2025
Professor Joanna Szram will be speaking at the ALAMA Annual Conference this year, on a topic titled "Occupational Lung Disease in the 21st Century".
Taken from the conference website: The ALAMA Annual Conferences are unmissable events for Occupational Health physicians to polish their skills, network with others and earn valuable CPD. The Conferences are open to ALAMA members.
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Click here to register (external link)Association of Aviation Medical Examiners - 45th Annual Conference
Professor Joanna Szram will be speaking at the 45th Annual Conference for the Association of Aviation Medical Examiners on 16th May 2025 in Jersey. Their talk is titled "Lungs at Work - Occupational Lung Disease".
Click here to register (external link)EOPH 2025 conference
Fri, 14 Feb 2025
Professor Jo Szram spoke at the EOPH conference this year titled ‘Putting Health back into Health Surveillance’ on 14th February 2025 in Birmingham. They outlined the common contemporary issues in occupational lung disease, focusing on the conditions and presentations that a modern day occupational health practitioner is likely to encounter.
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Occupational lung disease: what the general physician needs to know
Occupational exposures are a common and preventable cause of lung disease. About one in six cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma worldwide are related to work.
Professor Joanna Szram
Consultant in Occupational Lung Disease
Professor Jo Szram trained and worked in Cambridge, Peterborough, Leicester, Nottingham and London.
She is a consultant respiratory physician specialising in occupational lung disease at Royal Brompton Hospital and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. She has been Postgraduate Dean for Kent, Surrey and Sussex since July 2022 and is currently co-chair of the UK’s Medical and Dental Recruitment Service (MDRS) Recruitment Group. She previously worked as a clinical advisor for the national NHS medical education reform programme, leading on the enhance (Enhancing Generalist Skills) and Flexible Portfolio Training (FPT) programmes. Jo was Chair of Medical Education Leaders UK from 2020-22 and was at the forefront of the rebranding initiative from NACT UK.
Jo was Royal College of Physicians’ Linacre Fellow from 2020-22, a role focused on the development and leadership of the RCP’s network of college tutors and associate college tutors, linking their work to that of the Medical Students and Foundation Doctors network, Trainees and New Consultants Committees.
Her work on the editorial board of the RCP’s Future Healthcare Journal provided the opportunity to influence the evolution of the publication as a way to empower all, particularly early career healthcare professionals, to demonstrate what they have learnt, and spread and share their knowledge widely.
Qualifications: MB, ChB (Cantab), MA, FRCP, MSc, FHEA, PhD, PGDipULT (Medicine)
See a list of recent publications by Professor Joanna Szram.
