Dr. Bob Orford is one of the leaders in Occupational Health and Safety in the western hemisphere.

Currently a practicing physician in the Executive Health Program at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Dr. Orford has attained leadership positions both in the United States and in his native Canada. He has served as Deputy Minister of Community and Occupational Health, Alberta, Canada; U.S. National Secretary for the International Occupational Health Commission; Senior Aviation Medical Examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration and for the Civil Aviation Medicine Branch of Transport Canada.

He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo School of Medicine.

Dr. Orford received his medical degree from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served his residency in Internal Medicine at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and in Occupational Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health at University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

Dr. Orford lives with his wife in Scottsdale and has three grown children including one set of twins who all live in Seattle. He enjoys working out at the health club and walking in the evenings.

Dr. Orford recommends the following books:

Douglas M. Moore, Jr. 

Mr. Moore is the Editor and Associate Publisher of the California Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Reporter since it inception in September 1999. This is a twice monthly publication that summarizes all current workers’ compensation appellate court decisions.

He was a trial lawyer for 30 years with Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold in San Francisco specializing in the defense of litigation ranging from products liability and professional negligence to insurance coverage issue. He tried cases in 32 of the 58 counties in California including both urban counties  (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento) and rural counties (Alpine, Colusa, Modoc and Shasta) as well as in the Federal District Courts in the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts. He briefed and argued appeals in the California Courts of Appeal. California Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.  

He left the practice of law to become a Superior Court Judge in San Francisco involved in the trial of complex civil cases including personal injury and wrongful death cases involving products liability, environmental, medical malpractice, employment law matters including sexual harassment, employment discrimination and wrongful termination issues and over 500 settlement conference as a settlement judge. At the request of California Governor Pete Wilson he accepted an assignment as Chairman and commissioner of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board participating in 2,574 opinions and decisions involving the full panoply of issues involved in the workers’ compensation system as the first level appeal.

He served in the United States Navy and Naval Reserve from 1961 to 1997 attaining the rank of Rear Admiral (0-8).

His education includes: University of California (Berkeley) B.S. (Business Administration) 1961; University of California (Hastings College of the Law) 1966; Harvard University (John F. Kennedy School of Government) Executive Internship in National and International Terrorism 1994.