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AEROSPACE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
LONDON / 22 - 23 MAY 2019
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: MARC ATHERTON MRAeS, Principal Occupational Psychologist, to further develop their CHARTERED PSYCHOLOGIST, ALLAXA. assessment processes for high consequence industries. Marc has worked across a wide range of areas encompassing Symbiotics specialize in the assessment of pilots and psychological assessment, training systems design, specialist units within the police, such as firearms officers. personnel selection, culture change and stress management. He is currently working on examining the potential for mobile 5) CAPTAIN HUGH WINDSOR, WELFARE LIAISON and cognitive technologies to provide an enhanced capability OFFICER, AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL PILOTS to monitor and support aviation professionals in maintaining ASSOCIATION. positive mental health and wellbeing as well as examining Hugh began his career in General Aviation and retired enhanced psychologically based selection approaches for in 2014 from Qantas as a B747 Captain after 30 years aviation in the 21C. with the airline. In the early 1990’s he held the position of Welfare Director at ‘The Australian and International Pilots SESSION CHAIRMAN: MICHAEL FREEMAN FRAeS, Association’ and in later years became involved in the Qantas HUMAN FACTORS GROUP CHAIRMAN. Special Assistance Team, Flight Operations Mentoring Information not available at time of print. Program and as a peer for the PAN network. Hugh holds a Bachelor of Aviation from Western Sydney University and 1) STUART MITCHELL FRAeS, HEAD OF AEROMEDICAL Diploma of Management from UTS. In 2016 Hugh joined the SAFETY SYSTEMS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, Welfare Team at AIPA where he provides welfare assistance CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY. to pilots in the Qantas group.
2) DR ROB HUNTER, HEAD OF FLIGHT SAFETY, BRITISH 6) CAPTAIN IAN LONG, AIRLINE PILOT, BRITISH AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION (BALPA). AIRWAYS. Rob is a qualified GP and consultant specialist in aviation Ian is an experienced airline pilot, serving as a captain in medicine. He has flown commercially and has held B757/67 the short-haul role, flying the A320 for British Airways. He and A320 type ratings. Alongside his BALPA role as head of is a former RAF pilot flying the Tornado Gr1 operationally, Flight Safety he is a Transport Safety Commissioner and a before completing his service as a trainer. Ian initially flew Visiting Professor of UCL. commercially for BMI and integrated into BA in 2012. He is one of the original members of Speedbirdpan. 3) PAUL REUTER, CHAIRMAN, EUROPEAN PILOT PEER SUPPORT INITIATIVE (EPPSI). 7) CAPTAIN DAVE FIELDING, A380 PILOT, BRITISH Paul is the Chairman of EPPSI. He is a Captain on Boeing AIRWAYS/BALPA. 737NGs with a European Flag Carrier and was Director, Dave Fielding studied Classics at Cambridge before Technical Affairs for the European Cockpit Association making the perfectly logical step and becoming an airline from 2014 until 2018. He has been a member of the pilot. He joined British Airways in 1993 on the Highlands “Germanwings Task Force” and been involved in efforts to and Islands Division, flying the BAe ATP. When Highlands promote Peer Support since 2015. Division closed he moved down to London on the B757 and achieved his command on the Airbus A320 in 2001, 4) KAREN MOORE, MD AND PRINCIPAL OCCUPATIONAL with perfect timing the day before 9/11. Since then he has PSYCHOLOGIST, SYMBIOTICS LTD. been a captain on the B767, B777 and the A380, which Karen Moore is a Chartered Occupational Pyschologist is his current type. Dave has been a union rep since 1996, with considerable experience of assessing individuals at specialising in disciplinaries which led to an interest in all levels from graduate to board directors and in a diverse alcohol and welfare cases, which in turn led to him creating range of industries from nuclear, through utilities to banking a BALPA peer intervention programme to identify problem and aviation. She is particularly concerned that personality individuals upstream and away from the airline operation. profiling should not be seen as the route to protecting The Germanwings crash of 2015 changed the game mental health, but as one indicator of the individual’s dramatically, and he worked with British Airways in the susceptibility. Karen joined Symbiotics in 2017 as MD and period following to adapt and improve the programme. In
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January 2017 the Pilots Assistance Network (PAN) became the first peer support programme in Europe to be launched 9) GERHARD FAHNENBRUCK, PILOT AND AVIATION post-Germanwings. PSYCHOLOGIST, LUFTHANSA CITYLINE/STIFTUNG MAYDAY. 8) NICK GOODWYN, PILOT PEER ASSISTANCE - Gerhard Fahnenbruck has been flying since he was 14. He BUSINESS LEAD, CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY. holds numerous licenses and is presently flying as a captain Nick Goodwyn is leading, on behalf of the Civil Aviation on CRJ900 for Lufthansa CityLine. He studied psychology Authority, the creation and implementation of a National at the University of Bonn, Vienna and Hamburg and worked Pilot Peer Assistance Network (P PAN) for all UK commercial for the German Aerospace Research Establishment as a pilots. The role of the P-PAN Lead is contracted to, but scientist, he has been involved in international research independent of, the regulator in developing a national including the Group-Interaction-in-High-Risk-Environment programme for the benefit of all UK commercial pilots in project . He has been member of JAA’s Human Factor promoting and supporting their wellbeing and health. Nick Steering Group and gives advice to EASA. He is a board has a 36-year career as a military and civilian Fast Jet Pilot, member of Stuftung Mayday organization as well as it’s Instructor and Examiner. Focused on Flight Operations Clinical Director. as well as learning and development, he is a qualified Aircrew, Executive and Business Coach specialising in pilot 10) SIAN BLANCHARD, AVIATION PSYCHOLOGIST, performance, welfare and personal growth. Additionally, AVIOR RISK CONSULTING. his expertise extends to Human Factors, Performance Sian Blanchard is an Aviation Psychologist with fifteen and Crew Resource Management. As a front-line fast jet years’ experience delivering Human Factors solutions in high military pilot, on operations and having flown over 4500 reliability sectors including commercial and military aviation. hours (including multi-engine and rotary experience), he Sian was formerly Head of Human Factors and Aviation was latterly responsible for the delivery of Ab-Initio Human Psychology at a major European Airline and led the company factors training to all Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Pilots. response to the new EASA rules on pilot mental fitness. She He was also responsible for the cognitive development is accredited with the European Association for Aviation and performance of military pilots and instructors through Psychology and is a Chartered Psychologist with the British a unique Performance Coaching Programme and Human Psychological Society. Performance for Instructors Course as well as a military and civilian Airmanship model. Additionally, he undertook 11) ROB BOR, CLINICAL & AVIATION PSYCHOLOGIST, bespoke flying training projects as an independent service CENTRE FOR AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY. consultant for defence senior officers. In January 2015, he Professor Robert Bor is a Director of the Centre for was seconded to work with the UK CAA and left the RAF in Aviation Psychology Ltd, an Honorary Fellow of the September 2016 to become Director of Elite Performance Royal Aeronautical Society, an HCPC Registered Clinical Training Ltd (Aviation Services), re-joining the CAA in Psychologist and EAAP Registered Aviation Psychologist. He October 2018 to undertake the P PAN project lead role. is a Consultant Lead Psychologist at the Royal Free Hospital, Nick has a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching Psychology London and Fellow of the British Psychological Society and recently was awarded a Masters Degree in Executive where he Chairs the Aerospace Psychology group. He is a and Business Coaching focusing on Pilot Peer Assistance Board Member of the European Association for Aviation and and mental wellbeing. Additionally, he is a court member Honorary Civilian Psychologist to the RAF. He has published and Warden of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots, and 35 books (most recently ‘Pilot Mental Health Assessment’ was founder Chairman of their Careers and Education and later this year a major textbook entitled ‘Pilot Selection’. Committee. He has been the Secretary of a NATO Human Factors working group as well as acting as Secretary for 12) DR RAE WEN CHANG, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Operations Group NATS. Committee, where he remains a consultant member. Dr Rae-Wen Chang is Chief Medical Officer, Consultant Occupational & Aviation Physician and Head of Aeromedical Centre for NATS. She leads the Occupational Health Service
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(OHS) with a dual qualified team covering over 20 air traffic sites across UK and Gibraltar, providing aeromedical advice 15) MARINELLA LEONE, PROJECT AND HUMAN for 1700 Air Traffic Controllers and occupational health FACTORS MANAGER, EUROCONTROL - MUAC. management for 4500 company staff. Relevant to the theme Marinella Leone is a project and human factors manager of mental health in aviation, NATS OHS works closely with at EUROCONTROL MUAC, where she conducts and ATCOs, medical specialists, the organisation and regulator to coordinates human factor assessments of changes to apply principles of risk management when assessing fitness the operational environment and provides human factors to control. competencies in the preparation of training of non-technical skills, including Team Resource Management. After a degree 13) GUNNAR STEINHARD, HUMAN FACTORS MANGER, in software engineering with an MSc in human machine CARGOLUX AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN interaction at the Department of Computer Science of the ASSOCIATION FOR AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY (EAAP). University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, and qualified as system Gunnar Steinhardt, Dipl-Psych., is an Aviation Psychologist safety engineer from York University, United Kingdom. and Human Factors Manager at Cargolux Airlines She has worked as safety culture assessor across Europe International. Gunnar focuses on pilot selection and before becoming human performance coach for energy and developing Pilot Support Programs. As a psychologist resilience management. he provides coaching and counselling for crews, works closely together with Crew Training and Aviation Safety 16) DR ANNE ISAAC, HEAD OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE, to support an effective integration of Human Factors SWANWICK OPERATIONS, NATS. Strategies into Flight Operations. Gunnar is a member of After working in the University system in New Zealand in the Human Factors Collaborative Analysis Group (HF CAG) human performance and accident/incident investigation, and chairs the Operations & Training Focus Group to support Anne moved back to Europe heading several human error Human Factors matters at EASA. Most recently he has and safety programmes in the European ATM headquarters been involved in the Rule Making Task (RMT) .0411 Crew in Brussels. For the last 16 years she has headed many Resource Management Training and RMT.0700 Aircrew human performance activities in NATS, specialising in the Medical Fitness, implementing the recommendations made development of Safety Survey methodology in both the ATM by the EASA-led Germanwings Task Force following the and flight-deck environments. Her present work is extending accident of the Germanwings Flight 9525. Gunnar is a board this focus to include the safety observations of crews and member and Secretary General of the European Association teams in highly automated environments.More recently for Aviation Psychology (EAAP) and holds a private pilot she has been developing both technical and non-technical license. resilience programmes for operational staff.
14) ADAM STAINCLIFFE, RAF REPRESENTATIVE, 17) PAUL CULLEN, ASSOCIATE RESEACHER, TRINITY DEFENCE MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK, DEFENCE COLLEGE DUBLIN. MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK. Paul is an A320 Captain, an accident investigator and an Adam has been a pilot in the RAF for over 10 years and has associate researcher with the School of Psychology in Trinity flown both manned and remotely piloted aircraft. During that College Dublin. time, he has worked on several mental health related projects for veterans and service personnel. Motivated by both first- 18) WENDY SANTILHANO, DIRECTOR, MAYDAY-SA. hand experience with MH issues and those of colleagues Wendy focusses her passion and energy on ensuring that and friends, he now acts as the RAF representative to the mental and emotional support is available all license holders Defence Mental Health Network. and especially to pilots. Her belief is that aviation license holders deserve a safe and supportive environment to be able to regain their resilience and sustain their wellbeing. In 2010, Wendy established the South African Aviation seer support programme, Mayday-SA and is committed to assisting and mentoring pilots in other countries in Africa
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19) THE LEGAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES SPEAKER: GERARD FORLIN QC, BARRISTER, CORNERSTONE BARRISTERS LONDON, MAXWELL CHAMBERS/ SINGAPORE DENMAN CHAMBERS. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, LSE and UCL. Called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn and appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2010 in both the Civil and Criminal law sections, Gerard Forlin QC’s broad practice covers civil, criminal and commercial litigation; enviornment; fire; corporate governance; major event planning & crowd safety; crisis management; health and safety; aviation; inquests and inquiries; local authority governance and services; and regulatory law. He has published more than 100 articles and is the author of Corporate Liability: work related deaths and criminal prosecutions (3rd edition) (Bloomsbury). The 4th edition will be publshed in 2019. He has been ranked in six separate areas by the leading directories. He has worked in over 65 countries. Gerard is currently instructed in relation to Grenfell Tower, the Shoreham Air Crash, a F1 case and many other matters both in the UK and all over the world
WORKSHOP SPEAKER: PAUL DICKENS FRAeS, AVIATION PSYCHOLOGIST, CORE AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY Paul Dickens is a Registered and Chartered Clinical Psychologist and an Accredited Aviation Psychologist. He specialises in aircrew psychological assessment, developing and providing aircrew support programmes, CRM, CISM and has specific expertise in working with rotary-wing operators. He works with clients in the UK, Europe and North America. Paul is also now a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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