Dr Mary Obele
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Dr Mary Obele is a Specialist Occupational and Environmental Physician with extensive experience in occupational medicine, workplace injury management and functional recovery. She works across the interface of clinical medicine, workplace health and workers’ compensation systems, supporting injured workers, employers and treating teams to achieve safe, sustainable return-to-work outcomes.
Dr Obele’s clinical interests include occupational injury and illness, work capacity assessment, impairment evaluation, biopsychosocial rehabilitation and the practical application of occupational medicine principles in everyday clinical practice. Dr Obele has experience advising on complex workplace health matters, including causation analysis, functional assessment and medico-legal reporting within Australian compensation frameworks.
Drawing on both frontline clinical experience and systems-based occupational medicine practice, Dr Obele is passionate about helping clinicians better understand the relationship between health, work and recovery, and about improving communication between patients, healthcare providers and workplaces.
What If The Workplace Is The Diagnosis: Occupational Medicine
Occupational and environmental medicine sits in a strange blind spot in medical training, even though work-related presentations turn up almost daily in general practice, emergency departments and on the wards. In this episod...