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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.

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June 12, 2026

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 episode of Aussie Med Ed, host and Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Gavin Nimon sits down with Dr Mary Obele, specialist occupational and environmental physician with expertise in work capacity, causation and medicolegal reporting, and Dr Berni Cameron, occupational health nurse practitione...