Summary
Graham Hall qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and came to Australia after a variety of teaching hospital posts. He spent a year as a medical registrar at Prince Henry Hospital after which he qualified as a specialist physician by becoming a Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
He worked as a physician and research fellow in respiratory medicine for two years before joining the pharmaceutical industry. After several years in a managerial role
as a medical director, a post which involved much overseas travel, he did the full-time one-year MPH course in occupational health at the University of Sydney in 1981 and has since been in private practice as an occupational physician.
In 1975 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and in 1985 a Fellow of the Australasian College of Occupational Medicine (now the Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians). In 1989 the Master of Public Health degree was awarded on the basis of a thesis entitled ‘Repetition Strain Disorders in Mutton Slaughtermen’.
Special interests include: occupational epidemiology; musculoskeletal injuries and medical writing. He writes the World View column for Occupational Health News. Dr Hall has given many talks and presentations to a variety of audiences on occupational health topics.
Sessional work has involved meat and poultry works, foundries, light and heavy engineering, electrical appliance manufacture, aluminium extrusion, and pharmaceutical manufacture. Consulting clients have been even more diverse.
He now does mainly medico-legal work and is an accredited Injury Management Consultant for NSW WorkCover.