Dr. Linn Holness is the Director of the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease (CREOD).  She is an occupational medicine physician, a Professor Emerita at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, a staff physician in the Division of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital and a scientist with MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions. Her research interests in occupational health are broad; covering a variety of topics including occupational disease and its identification, occupational health services and occupational health and safety in the context of specific populations such as vulnerable workers. Her main research has focused on prevention, health care utilization, diagnosis, return to work and outcomes related to occupational skin disease.