Date: Thursday 8 september
Time: 12:15
Location: Gold Hall
Dr. Tine Molendijk is an interdisciplinary-minded cultural anthropologist specialized in violence, military culture, ethics and mental health, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and moral injury. In 2020 she obtained her PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen with a study on the role of political practices and public perceptions in moral injury in Bosnia and Afghanistan veterans.
Currently, she works as assistant professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) and as research fellow affiliated to the Radboud University. She is project leader of a large research project on contextual dimensions of moral injury, including the development of interventions, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), the most important science funding body in the Netherlands. Also, she is editorial board member of Impact, research task group member of NATO HFM329 and project advisor for several projects on military dilemmas and trauma.
Among her publications in academic, professional and popular fora is the award-winning book Moral Injury and Soldiers in Conflict: Political Practices and Public Perceptions (Routledge, 2021). See for more information and publications:
www.tinemolendijk.nl.
Date: Thursday 8 september
Time: 11:15
Location: Gold Hall
Professor Neil Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist based at King’s College London. Neil served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years and has deployed, as a psychiatrist and researcher, to a number of hostile environments including Afghanistan and Iraq. At King’s Neil leads on a number of military mental health projects and is a principal investigator within a nationally funded Health Protection Research unit.
He also chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) Special Interest Group in Occupational Psychiatry and is leading the World Psychiatric Association position statement on mental health in the workplace. Neil has published more than 300 scientific papers and book chapters and has been the Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee. During the COVID19 pandemic, Neil has worked closely with various government organisations and published widely on psychological support for healthcare, and other key workers.
Date: Thursday 8 september
Time: 11:45
Location: Gold Hall
Professor Dominic Murphy is an academic clinical psychologist and has worked within the field of PTSD and military mental health since 2003. In 2013, Professor Murphy established a research department at Combat Stress (
combatstress.org.uk/about-us/our-research/). His primary interest are understanding how best support traumatised individuals who do not respond to current gold-standard treatments. In addition, to his role at Combat Stress, Dominic is the President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS), board member of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ETSSS), Trustee and Director of Research at The Forces in Mind Trust, a member of the King’s Centre for Military Health department at King’s College London and a member of the scientific advisory board for Chronic Pain Centre for Canadian veterans. He is widely published with over 150 publications.
Date: Tuesday 6 september
Time: 16:20
Location: Silver Hall
Christian Willy is a professor of surgery and the clinical director of Clinic of Trauma and Orthopedic & Septic and Reconstructive Surgery, Research Center of Reconstruction of Severe Combat Injuries, Wound Center Berlin (ICW) and the Military Academic Hospital Berlin.
He was approbated as a medical doctor in 1987 from the University of Ulm and later completed a PhD at the University of Zurich. He continued to hone his surgical technique at institutions such as the University of Munich, Germany, the University of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tuesday 6 september
Time: 15:00
Location: Silver Hall
Dominique Grandjean (DVM, PhD, HDR, Dipl ECVSMR) is a Professor at the national veterinary school of Alfort (France), where he works as Head of the small animals and equine clinical sciences department, and of the canine breeding and sport medicine unit. As a faculty in Alfort he has been focussing most of his work on dog’s nutrition and working dogs’ performance for the last 30 years, with a special attention to oxidative stress prevention and consequences. He was also a colonel veterinarian for the Paris Fire Brigade (military unit, 9500 firefighters) from 1993 to 2021, in charge, among other tasks, of the canine search and rescue teams, of the management of dangerous animals, and of biological hazards. Dominique is also national and regional technical advisor of the civilian security for both cynotechnics and biological hazards, and advisor for civilian security working dogs (Ministry of the Interior). He is Head of the Nosaïs COVID-19 detection dogs program since march 2020. This program also works on high risk prostate cancers, colon and pancreas cancers.
He created in 1999 and then developed a national post-graduated diploma on disaster and environment veterinary medicine, and is also Professor at the national superior school for firefighters officers. He is the former President for the National Association of Firefighters Veterinarians.
His unit at the vet school works on a daily base with national police, gendarmerie and army canine units, and now mainly on medical detection dogs.
As a researcher his works are focussed on the consequences of stress and hostile environments (warm, cold, altitude) in the working dog, with a deep involvement in sled dog long distance races since 1980, and in search and rescue dogs since 1990. His unit (Unite de Medecine de l’Elevage et du Sport –UMES-) also includes a physiotherapy service (including a specialization diploma on the subject) and a dedicated sub-unit for canine collectivities veterinary problems. Dominique already published more than 170 scientific peer-reviewed papers on working dog physiology, nutrition and medicine, and a total of 29 books all related to this area.
He now focuses his research on cancers and degenerative diseases detection by canine olfaction.
He has been a board member for the International Working Dog Breeding Association and is a member of the International Sled Dog Veterinary Medical Association since…the dark ages.
He is Race Director for Lekkarod international Sled dog race, has been an Iditarod veterinarian from 1983 to 1995, as well as chief vet for the late Scandream, Nenana Come Back, Alpirod and numerous European and World championships.
He and his team have been training handlers and veterinarians of Canine Police, Army and Civilian Security Units in a lot of countries, including Canada, Argentina, Chile, UAE, Romania, Mexico, Brasil, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Tunisia, Algeria, Poland, Vietnam, China, Iceland, Malta, etc…
Dominique is among the group of international specialists who founded in 2018 the European College of Veterinary Sport Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Date: Tuesday 6 september
Time: 11:45
Location: Gold Hall
Patricia Schlagenhauf-Lawlor is a Professor (Travel Medicine) at the University of Zürich, Switzerland and Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health.
She is active in research and is a Scientific Group Leader with a large portfolio of grant-driven projects on malaria, infection epidemiology and surveillance, gender issues in pharmacology, vectorborne infections, emerging infections, long-COVID and military medicine. She is the Zürich GeoSentinel Site Director and since 2021 holds the EuroTravNet leadership position “EuroTravNet Lead and Liaison”. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers (h-index = 42) on infection, travel medicine and epidemiology and 3 books Travellers Malaria, (BC Decker 2001, 2008), Infectious Disease – a Geographic Guide (Wiley 2011, 2017) and “PDQ Handbook- Travellers’ Malaria” (BC Decker 2005).
In parallel to research, teaching and travel clinic services, Patricia has held several editor roles including European Senior Editor for “The Lancet”, Bulletin WHO and Editor-in-Chief positions at Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease and since 2022 at New Microbes New Infections. After work, she is a passionate golfer.
Date: Wednesday 7 september
Time: 12:25
Location: Silver Hall
Tara’s responsibilities as Senior Scientific Officer with the Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Organization, Human Performance division include physical employment standard development and collaborative research programs demonstrating musculoskeletal injury reduction with evidence based physical training. Tara is responsible for research with the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force working closely with Canadian Forces Health Services and Defense Research and Development Canada. Tara recently co-authored the Womens and Diversity Health and Wellness Treasury Board submission which has resulted in funding for 28 new positions and a virtual performance platform responsible for the delivery and program evaluation of women’s specific programs to reduce MSKi.
