In this webinar you will hear from Lung Foundation Australia’s very own Social Worker Lilanie Dagg, as well as Dr Boris Fedoric, a rehabilitation counsellor. This webinar will cover information on managing your mental health whilst living with silicosis, as well as how to approach returning to work.
A little more about our expert speakers:
Lilanie Dagg is the Social Worker for Lung Foundation Australia, based at the Milton office, offering nation-wide services to people living with Occupational Lung Disease and Lung Cancer. She is passionate about providing a service that offers support to navigate and adjust to the practical and emotional impacts of living with a life limiting lung condition. In her spare time, Lilanie is a wife and mum of 2 high school boys and 2 dogs who all keep her on her toes when she’s not speaking to consumers.
Dr Boris Fedoric is a Professional Member, National President and the Chair of Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors. He is also a Professional Member of Career Development Association of Australia and a Senior Visiting Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. His professional goal is to improve vocational rehabilitation through provision of best practice service, innovation and technology. As such, Boris designed numerous unique services and products to improve RTW outcomes, namely WorkGain and software application TaskAlyser. His areas of specialisation are complex physical and psychological injuries with medico-legal barriers and mediation needs. Boris is a researcher with the University of Adelaide, and regularly contributes to peer publications, grant funded research and has been an invited speaker on injury management principles, vocational assessments, early intervention, biopsychosocial rehabilitation and psychosocial factors. He always strives to give back to the profession and as such Boris regularly supervises students from various Allied Health areas of practice. He also practices in Serbian/Croatian languages.
Boris’ qualifications include a Masters of Human Services (Rehabilitation Counselling) through Griffith University; a PhD in Transplantation Immunology (Medicine) and a Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) through the School of Medicine, University of Adelaide; and a Bachelor of Biotechnology through University of Adelaide. He is also a nationally qualified Mediator and Pain Educator.
Boris has been a Director of Career Bug Pty Ltd since 2015, WorkGain since 2017 and TaskAlyser since 2019. Prior to starting at Career Bug, he was a General Manager at a National Rehabilitation firm in Adelaide from 2012-2015 and also worked at EML in case management and team leader functions.
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