Dr David Elder - Researcher Profile

Biography

David Elder is a Specialist Occupational Physician who also works in private practice. His interests include the rehabilitation of injured workers; chronic pain; assessment of chemically exposed workers and medicolegal assessments. He is Co-Coordinator with Dr David Goddard of 3rd year medical student teaching in Occupational Medicine, and lectures in postgraduate courses in the Masters of Public Health program. His research involves surveillance of occupational respiratory disease. In 1997 he was awarded the Deane Southgate Award by the Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine as the Dux exam candidate. He is also Medical Director of one of the VWA/TAC Network Pain Clinics.

Qualifications

GRAD DIP IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

PUBLIC HEALTH

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1999

Publications

Journal Articles

Hannaford-Turner, K., Elder, D.S., Sim, M.R., Abramson, M.J., Johnson, A., Yates, D.H., 2010, Surveillance of Australian workplace based respiratory events (SABRE) in New South Wales, Occupational Medicine-Oxford [P], vol 60, issue 5, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 376-382.

LaMontagne, A.D., Radi, S., Elder, D.S., Abramson, M.J., Sim, M.R., 2006, Primary prevention of latex related sensitisation and occupational asthma: a systematic review, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, vol 63, issue 5, B M J Publishing Group, London UK, pp. 359-364.

Elder, D.S., Abramson, M.J., Fish, D.G., Johnson, A., McKenzie, D.P., Sim, M.R., 2004, Surveillance of Australian workplace Based Respiratory Events (SABRE): notifications for the first 3.5 years and validation of occupational asthma cases, Occupational Medicine, vol 54, issue 6, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 395-399.

Conference Proceedings

Abramson, M.J., Elder, D., Sim, M.R., 1998, Surveillance of Australian workplace based respiratory events: A pilot study of the SABRE project, Respirology, Sydney, 9-12 October 1998, Blackwell Science ASIA, Carlton Vic Australia, p. A10.

Other

Sim, M.R., Abramson, M.J., LaMontagne, T., Aroni, R., Elder, D.S., Peeters, A., 2005, Final report, Occupational asthma- deection, surveillance and prevention of the disease burden, vol 1, issue 1, Cochrane database of systemic reviews, United Kingdom, pp. 1-99.

Elder, D., 1998, Surveillance of Australian workplace-based respiratory events (the SABRE project).