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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 7208
Email
david.mcbride@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine
Qualifications
PhD MB BCh BAO
Research summary
Occupational epidemiology and military medicine: chemical physical and environmental risk factors
Teaching

Teaching of 2nd and 3rd year medical students and occupational and environmental medicine to medical practitioners.

I have a special interest in case based clinical teaching, especially using 'ill structured' clinical problems. I am myself trying to learn how students learn as a team.

Memberships

A Member of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Committee, Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Clinical

A special interest in complex clinical problems, with expertise musculoskeletal disorders; the effects of chemical agents including dioxins and the impact of physical agents, especially noise and vibration, on health. I try to apply this knowledge to military medicine.

Research

My professional scope of practice lies in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a clinical discipline of which Military Medicine is a sub-specialty. A strong interest in the 'evidence base' for practice has led to a research career in Occupational Epidemiology and biostatistics. I try to put theory into practice by identifying, through 'dose response' relationships, harmful levels of occupational exposure. My belief is that such knowledge is the starting point for multifactorial approaches preventing occupational and environmental ill health.

Publications

McBride, D. (2023, August). Occupational medicine: How does that work? University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output

McBride, D. I., Richardson, A., Gardner, D., Wyeth, E., Shepherd, D., Derrett, S., & Cameron, C. (2023). Multiple symptom illness in New Zealand contemporary veterans. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 136(1580), 62-67. Retrieved from https://journal.nzma.org.nz/ Journal - Research Article

Hall, A. L., Batchelor, T., Bogaert, L., Buckland, R., Cowieson, A. B., Drew, M., … McBride, D. I., … Taylor, K. (2023). International perspective on military exposure data sources, applications, and opportunities for collaboration. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1154595. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1154595 Journal - Research Other

Mitchell, C., Rolston, M., McBride, D., Emery, T., & Hamerton, H. (2022). When Ngāti Tūmatauenga come home: Stories from a couple of army vets about military to civilian transition in Aotearoa New Zealand. In J. L. Savage & S. Bodkin-Allen (Eds.), Proceedings of the New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) Research Symposium. (pp. 69). Invercargill, New Zealand: Southern Institute of Technology / Te Pūkenga. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Emery, T., McBride, D., Hamerton, H. R., Mitchell, C., & Rolston, M. (2022). Te Kai a te rangatira he Kōrero: Storytelling as a pathway to care for military veterans. In J. L. Savage & S. Bodkin-Allen (Eds.), Proceedings of the New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) Research Symposium. (pp. 68). Invercargill, New Zealand: Southern Institute of Technology / Te Pūkenga. [Abstract] Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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