Dr Patricia Batchelor is a Specialist Occupational Physician with over 30 years of medical experience with expertise in occupational and environmental medicine and tropical medicine. She has been the Chief Medical Officer of two large Federal government organisations, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and spent four years as the Deputy Chief Health Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs. As well as providing medicolegal services she is currently engaged as a senior clinician providing clinical services and fitness for duty advice to the Australian Defence Force.