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Dr Denise Koh has been the Chief Occupational Medical Officer (COMO) for Manitoba since late 2014. Over the last few years, she has helped steer the province’s pandemic response and ensure workers are as healthy and safe as possible. She first discovered workplace health and safety during her residency, saying occupational health was “one of my favourite and most fun rotations.” When the COMO position became available, she “jumped at the chance.” Eight years later, she is distinguished as one of the Top Women in Safety in Canada. “I feel honoured and humbled to receive this award, but it feels great to have my work recognized.”
The pandemic has certainly been top of mind to Dr Koh. “We’re seeing the fallout in mental health — from burnt out frontline workers to those who’ve lost work, had to drastically change how they work, or suddenly had to return to the workplace amid difficult circumstances and years of changing public health requirements and workplace policies.”
She notes other challenges as a safety professional. “While the pandemic has certainly been very challenging in terms of workload under time pressure, overall one of the biggest challenges has been dealing with tragic cases of preventable illness and death related to work.”
Dr Koh says that she is passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation in the workplace. As a Filipina-Canadian woman, she has “promoted these ideals as a model, advocate, public servant creating and influencing policy, trainee, and therapist.” She has been quite active in the ethnocultural community, having served as Chairperson for the Manitoba Ethnocultural Advisory and Advocacy Council, Board member of the Philippine Canadian Centre of Manitoba, and undertaken a medical mission in Catanduanes, Philippines. She was also a long-time columnist for several ethnocultural and work-related publications, such as The Filipino Journal, Safe Work Matters, and Urban NDN.
Dr Koh has also mentored young workers at every level from high school to university, and has joined or led numerous job fairs, community meetings, panels, interviews, workshops, and presentations discussing the BIPOC worker experience, particularly during the pandemic.
She continues to take part in the province’s Newcomer Vaccine Awareness Working Group and work closely with the food processing sector, Temporary Foreign Workers, newcomer organizations, and ethnocultural communities “to push for more accessible resources for racialized workers, including testing, vaccines, treatments, and educational tools.”
“I was quite vocal about how the ethnocultural experience affects work and health during my training,” she says, having researched the experience of Filipino doctors and caregivers in Canada. She has also started a Canadian physician Facebook Group dedicated to supporting medical learners and created a Canadian Physician Suicide Log in response to the lack of a formal surveillance system on this hidden occupational problem.
She has dedicated much of her therapy practice to helping patients deal with burnout, moral injury, harassment and intimidation, and performance in the workplace. “Hypnotherapy gets quick impressive results. My patients are enjoying massive gains in their function and wellbeing they hadn’t seen after years to decades under the traditional medical model. This stuff works.” Dr Koh is launching an app to make her extremely successful practice more accessible to the public via hypnotherapy recordings and programs on occupational and non-work-related issues.
Dr Koh also uses her occupational medicine and public health expertise to perform workplace health risk assessments, recommending measures to minimize risk and optimize wellness at work. Due to this work, she is known as “The Workplace MD,” which aligns with her vision of “workplace wellness for all.”
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Dr Denise Koh
Chief Occupational Medical Officer (Workplace Safety and Health)
Medical Officer of Health (Population and Public Health)
Hypnotherapist and Life Coach, MedResRx
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Dr Denise Koh has been the Chief Occupational Medical Officer (COMO) for Manitoba since late 2014. Over the last few years, she has helped steer the province’s pandemic response and ensure workers are as healthy and safe as possible. She first discovered workplace health and safety during her residency, saying occupational health was “one of my favourite and most fun rotations.” When the COMO position became available, she “jumped at the chance.” Eight years later, she is distinguished as one of the Top Women in Safety in Canada. “I feel honoured and humbled to receive this award, but it feels great to have my work recognized.”
The pandemic has certainly been top of mind to Dr Koh. “We’re seeing the fallout in mental health — from burnt out frontline workers to those who’ve lost work, had to drastically change how they work, or suddenly had to return to the workplace amid difficult circumstances and years of changing public health requirements and workplace policies.”
She notes other challenges as a safety professional. “While the pandemic has certainly been very challenging in terms of workload under time pressure, overall one of the biggest challenges has been dealing with tragic cases of preventable illness and death related to work.”
Dr Koh says that she is passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation in the workplace. As a Filipina-Canadian woman, she has “promoted these ideals as a model, advocate, public servant creating and influencing policy, trainee, and therapist.” She has been quite active in the ethnocultural community, having served as Chairperson for the Manitoba Ethnocultural Advisory and Advocacy Council, Board member of the Philippine Canadian Centre of Manitoba, and undertaken a medical mission in Catanduanes, Philippines. She was also a long-time columnist for several ethnocultural and work-related publications, such as The Filipino Journal, Safe Work Matters, and Urban NDN.
Dr Koh has also mentored young workers at every level from high school to university, and has joined or led numerous job fairs, community meetings, panels, interviews, workshops, and presentations discussing the BIPOC worker experience, particularly during the pandemic.
She continues to take part in the province’s Newcomer Vaccine Awareness Working Group and work closely with the food processing sector, Temporary Foreign Workers, newcomer organizations, and ethnocultural communities “to push for more accessible resources for racialized workers, including testing, vaccines, treatments, and educational tools.”
“I was quite vocal about how the ethnocultural experience affects work and health during my training,” she says, having researched the experience of Filipino doctors and caregivers in Canada. She has also started a Canadian physician Facebook Group dedicated to supporting medical learners and created a Canadian Physician Suicide Log in response to the lack of a formal surveillance system on this hidden occupational problem.
She has dedicated much of her therapy practice to helping patients deal with burnout, moral injury, harassment and intimidation, and performance in the workplace. “Hypnotherapy gets quick impressive results. My patients are enjoying massive gains in their function and wellbeing they hadn’t seen after years to decades under the traditional medical model. This stuff works.” Dr Koh is launching an app to make her extremely successful practice more accessible to the public via hypnotherapy recordings and programs on occupational and non-work-related issues.
Dr Koh also uses her occupational medicine and public health expertise to perform workplace health risk assessments, recommending measures to minimize risk and optimize wellness at work. Due to this work, she is known as “The Workplace MD,” which aligns with her vision of “workplace wellness for all.”
Milestones
2020–present
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Unified Public Health Operations Project Team Lead for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health/Workplaces, Government of Manitoba’s Pandemic Response
2020–present
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2019–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Founder of MedResRx, Hypnotherapy/Psychotherapy/Coaching Practice
2019–present
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2014–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Chief Occupational Medical Officer, Workplace Safety and Health, Government of Manitoba. Training and Certificate, Associate in the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine (ACBOM)
2014–present
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2009–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Medical Officer of Health, Population and Public Health, Government of Manitoba (Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management, Environmental Health, Communicable Disease Control, Brandon and Assiniboine RHAs)
2009–present
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2003–2009
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Training and Certificate in Family Medicine (CCFP)
Master of Public Health (MPH)
TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (FRCPC)
2003–2009
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2003–2009
2009–present
2014–present
2019–present
2020–present
Dr Denise Koh
Chief Occupational Medical Officer (Workplace Safety and Health)
Medical Officer of Health (Population and Public Health)
Hypnotherapist and Life Coach, MedResRx
Read on
Special Report
Home
Bio
Milestones
Profile
Dr Denise Koh has been the Chief Occupational Medical Officer (COMO) for Manitoba since late 2014. Over the last few years, she has helped steer the province’s pandemic response and ensure workers are as healthy and safe as possible. She first discovered workplace health and safety during her residency, saying occupational health was “one of my favourite and most fun rotations.” When the COMO position became available, she “jumped at the chance.” Eight years later, she is distinguished as one of the Top Women in Safety in Canada. “I feel honoured and humbled to receive this award, but it feels great to have my work recognized.”
The pandemic has certainly been top of mind to Dr Koh. “We’re seeing the fallout in mental health — from burnt out frontline workers to those who’ve lost work, had to drastically change how they work, or suddenly had to return to the workplace amid difficult circumstances and years of changing public health requirements and workplace policies.”
She notes other challenges as a safety professional. “While the pandemic has certainly been very challenging in terms of workload under a time pressure, overall one of the biggest challenges has been dealing with tragic cases of preventable illness and death related to work.”
Dr Koh says that she is passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation in the workplace. As a Filipina-Canadian woman, she has “promoted these ideals as a model, advocate, public servant creating and influencing policy, trainee, and therapist.” She has been quite active in the ethnocultural community, having served as Chairperson for the Manitoba Ethnocultural Advisory and Advocacy Council, Board member of the Philippine Canadian Centre of Manitoba, and undertaken a medical mission in Catanduanes, Philippines. She was also a long-time columnist for several ethnocultural and work-related publications, such as The Filipino Journal, Safe Work Matters, and Urban NDN.
Dr Koh has also mentored young workers at every level from high school to university, and has joined or led numerous job fairs, community meetings, panels, interviews, workshops, and presentations discussing the BIPOC worker experience, particularly during the pandemic.
She continues to take part in the province’s Newcomer Vaccine Awareness Working Group and work closely with the food processing sector, Temporary Foreign Workers, newcomer organizations, and ethnocultural communities “to push for more accessible resources for racialized workers, including testing, vaccines, treatments, and educational tools.”
“I was quite vocal about how the ethnocultural experience affects work and health during my training,” she says, having researched the experience of Filipino doctors and caregivers in Canada. Dr Koh has also started a Canadian physician Facebook Group dedicated to supporting medical learners and created a Canadian Physician Suicide Log in response to the lack of a formal surveillance system on this hidden occupational problem.
She has dedicated much of her therapy practice to helping patients deal with burnout, moral injury, harassment and intimidation, and performance in the workplace. “Hypnotherapy gets quick impressive results. My patients are enjoying massive gains in their function and wellbeing they hadn’t seen after years to decades under the traditional medical model. This stuff works.” Dr Koh is launching an app to make her extremely successful practice more accessible to the public via hypnotherapy recordings and programs on occupational and non-work-related issues.
Dr Koh also uses her occupational medicine and public health expertise to perform workplace health risk assessments, recommending measures to minimize risk and optimize wellness at work. Due to this work, she is known as “The Workplace MD,” which aligns with her vision of “workplace wellness for all.”
Milestones
2020–present
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Unified Public Health Operations Project Team Lead for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health/Workplaces, Government of Manitoba’s Pandemic Response
2020–present
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. A volutpat laoreet suscipit duis. Diam aliquam sed ut massa viverra a, eget libero.
2019–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Founder of MedResRx, Hypnotherapy/Psychotherapy/Coaching Practice
2019–present
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2014–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Chief Occupational Medical Officer, Workplace Safety and Health, Government of Manitoba. Training and Certificate, Associate in the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine (ACBOM)
2014–present
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2009–present
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Medical Officer of Health, Population and Public Health, Government of Manitoba (Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management, Environmental Health, Communicable Disease Control, Brandon and Assiniboine RHAs)
2009–present
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2003–2009
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Training and Certificate in Family Medicine (CCFP)
Master of Public Health (MPH)
TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (FRCPC)
2003–2009
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2003–2009
2009–present
2014–present
2019–present
2020–present
Dr Denise Koh
Chief Occupational Medical Officer (Workplace Safety and Health)
Medical Officer of Health (Population and Public Health)
Hypnotherapist and Life Coach, MedResRx
Read on
Special Report
Home
Bio
Milestones
2020–present
2019–present
2014–present
2009–present
2003–2009
2020–present
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Unified Public Health Operations Project Team Lead for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health/Workplaces, Government of Manitoba’s Pandemic Response
2020–present
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2019–present
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Founder of MedResRx, Hypnotherapy/Psychotherapy/Coaching Practice
2019–present
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2014–present
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Chief Occupational Medical Officer, Workplace Safety and Health, Government of Manitoba. Training and Certificate, Associate in the Canadian Board of Occupational Medicine (ACBOM)
2014–present
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2009–present
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Medical Officer of Health, Population and Public Health, Government of Manitoba (Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management, Environmental Health, Communicable Disease Control, Brandon and Assiniboine RHAs)
2009–present
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2003–2009
human resources | key media
Training and Certificate in Family Medicine (CCFP)
Master of Public Health (MPH)
TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (FRCPC)
2003–2009
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Milestones
2003–2009
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